American high school gym...

Mickk

I was looking at different gym suppliers in the states and one of them had a picture of a high school gym they recently fitted. It makes you sick, what must the college gyms be like?

kwalsh000

:mad: lucky lil...
And as you point out, thats only high school. My college gym was probably a quarter the size of that! madness...
How goes the hunt for a good supplier?

Gillo

Smart move Mr Bush, get them fit now so you can ship them off to Iraq quicker and still have a reserve for North Korea.

On a less political note. In fairness, I'm sure it's one pf those top class fee paying schools, something like Blackrock or Clongoes (yeah I know I spelt it wrong, sorry I went to a normal school).

spurious

I work in an inner-city vocational school (CDVEC), and while size-wise that gym would be much bigger, our students have access to much better quality equipment.

We also have a large gym hall, a climbing wall (full width of the gym) and an astro-turf pitch.

Mickk

That is the best quality equipment you can get, it looks simple but nothing will make you grow more. It makes my mouth water just looking at it. People think that fancy brand name expensive compressed air computerised machines make a better gym, stick with the basics, free weight squat, deadlift and bench. It will make you grow more than anything else out there.

Mickk

kwalsh000 wrote:

:mad: lucky lil...
And as you point out, thats only high school. My college gym was probably a quarter the size of that! madness...
How goes the hunt for a good supplier?

Very well, found some proper quality stuff, all the really hard to find stuff aswell. I am getting a sample rack and a few bits flown over should be here thurs or fri and then once everything is ok I'm gona order a container of it.
Give me your email address and I will send you some pictures.

Rogueish

I worked with college athletes for a while in the US a few years ago and simply their collegiate sports and indeed some of their high school sports are the equivalent to our 'Professional' sports over here. It is not just in the equipment but in the whole outlook and attitude towards training and sports.

My business partner is going over to the US on Tuesday next for a 10 day intensive workshop on the role that strength and conditioning has in sports. Over there they teach six and seven year olds correct techniques on power lifting (with broom handles) so that by the time they are in their early teens they can actually teach professional athletes correct technique!!

Over here we are only starting to get to grips on the importance of this type of training in any sport.

fatal

**** and i thought that my secondary schools gym was good.....
that gym looks awesome..........crunch fitness in UCD is a joke compared to that high school gym.If only they took fitness over here as serious as they do on the other side of the atlantic..........

fatal

Mickk wrote:

That is the best quality equipment you can get, it looks simple but nothing will make you grow more. It makes my mouth water just looking at it. People think that fancy brand name expensive compressed air computerised machines make a better gym, stick with the basics, free weight squat, deadlift and bench. It will make you grow more than anything else out there.

co-sign and i tend to like using the "basics" alot more than the new computerised things that are said to do x,y and z

Sangre

You can't compare the situations tbh. Remember most high schools have are much, much larger than any of our schools.

There is also the fact that football in College brings huge money into the system. The gyms pay for them themselves. Any college with a decent football team will have a 60,000 seater stadium! Not to mention you have to go through college before you can be drafted in the NFL.

daveirl

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maxi-twist

Well like theres probably that much stuff cos theres so many ppl in the high school.Its not that much different to the one in my old school except that ours was a lot smaller with around 100 ppl going tops.That prob has a ****loads more ppl going so they need it to be that big!

Kinetic^

daveirl wrote:

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Wasn't aware of that rule. I know they put a minimum age in though.

Sangre

But in reality its nearly impossible to be drafted without playing for a top college team

walt0r

This is unbelievable. Look at all those benches. Most gyms in this country you have to pay a whopping 500-600 euro annual fee just to get the privelege to queue for ONE bench. My college gym (Galway) is an absolute joke compared to this.