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DCU Gym
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01-10-2007 08:44PM#1
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I joined it there on Tuesday. Its not great, small free weights area and has fairly limited equiptment from what I remember, good cardio set up though! The elite gym has excellent gear and a much broader range of stuff, most students arnt allowed use it though (myself included, slightly frustrating
). Have to play on an Eircom league of Ireland team, Senior county team, and so on. Example of elligeble people for the gym I was given by the guy who gave me the tour was the players of the Dublin Senior Football team.
Just some attempt by DCU to look 'prestigious' or make a name for themselves or something "our gym is so excellent and exclusive, we dont even let the vast majority of our own students use it!!!!
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Flex wrote:I joined it there on Tuesday. Its not great, small free weights area and has fairly limited equiptment from what I remember, good cardio set up though! The elite gym has excellent gear and a much broader range of stuff, most students arnt allowed use it though (myself included, slightly frustrating ). Have to play on an Eircom league of Ireland team, Senior county team, and so on. Example of elligeble people for the gym I was given by the guy who gave me the tour was the players of the Dublin Senior Football team.
Just some attempt by DCU to look 'prestigious' or make a name for themselves or something "our gym is so excellent and exclusive, we dont even let the vast majority of our own students use it!!!!"
Not really. Some DCU sports clubs have access aswell. You can't really give everybody access to that part and then call it elite. If you get involved in one of the clubs in DCU (depending on the club), you might get access. I'm nowhere near the standards of a senior intercounty player but I still managed to get access.
The Elite gym only just has a broader range of free weights and a few more machines. It's usually fairly quiet aswell which means that you're not waiting to use anything. The normal gym is grand though.0 -
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The pool has been close to empty the last 2 days I was in and I had a lane to myself. It seems most people just use it as a cool down are after the gym or just to go and relax, which suits me down to the ground for getting a few lengths in
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which club did you join that you got the opportunity to use the advanced gym? i heard talk of a weightlifting club being formed but all that was was talk?
Any of the GAA clubs, as long as you're a playing member. And no, you don't have to be an intercounty star! Soccer club may have access but I've been on an extended holiday from DCU for over a year now, so things could be different. There's been talk of a weightlifting club since the new gym opened and people realised there weren't many free weights. Still hasn't happened and I doubt it ever will tbh. AFAIK, the sports club just see it as an excuse for people trying to get into the elite gym. 0 -
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Malteaser! wrote: »hahah, I don't train in hercs...
Mebbe I was in the wrong room or something but I didn't see all those plates!!
The benches aren't the flat type but are made up of like 3 different bits and because there's lots of breaks in the pad means they're not going to be good for everybody. You can't set up well because invariably you'll end up with a break in the pad somewhere uncomfortable. They're not uniform width, and you can't set up tight on them because they're too narrow
I didn't see any Olympic bars lying around, other than the two on the bench rack, which when you consider how many members the gym has really isn't enough. I'd imagine at peak times there's a lot of waiting around for bars/plates/ benches and stuff.
There's no squat rack and a smith machine really isn't a good substitute.
AS for the dumbbells, I deffo couldn't lift anymore than that but I'm sure for a lot of the lads going there they feel limited by them.
As Leixlip Red already said, the room is TIINNYYY...so yeah, thats pretty much what I don't like about it. if I were using cardio machines all the time I'd think it were a class gym!!
You know what? Your absolutely right! Some valid points there that I never really thought about, especially the bench width.
The lack of a squat rack is what bothers me the most. It feels so weird squatting on a smith machine because of the angle you need to take. I was talking to an instructor and was told that the reason is that they are afraid some guy will walk in, use improper technique and get a serious injury - the same logic applies as to why there is no leg press. But surely this could happen in any gym! It's just not right :mad:.
As for it being busy, I refuse to go in at peak times because I cant take the heat of the wight room when it's packed. It turns into a sweatbox. On the upside, most days I get in there for about 9 or 10 and the weight room is totally empty. The room ain't so small when you're the only one in it
In summation, thanks Malteaser for getting a rant off my chest that I didn't really know was there!
Oh and to answer your question on the elite gym - its a weightlifter's dream come true and has everything you can think off...still not a patch on Hercs though - now that is truly an elite gym;)0 -
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Hugh Mongus wrote: »You know what? Your absolutely right! Some valid points there that I never really thought about, especially the bench width.
The lack of a squat rack is what bothers me the most. It feels so weird squatting on a smith machine because of the angle you need to take. I was talking to an instructor and was told that the reason is that they are afraid some guy will walk in, use improper technique and get a serious injury - the same logic applies as to why there is no leg press. But surely this could happen in any gym! It's just not right :mad:.
As for it being busy, I refuse to go in at peak times because I cant take the heat of the wight room when it's packed. It turns into a sweatbox. On the upside, most days I get in there for about 9 or 10 and the weight room is totally empty. The room ain't so small when you're the only one in it
In summation, thanks Malteaser for getting a rant off my chest that I didn't really know was there!
Oh and to answer your question on the elite gym - its a weightlifter's dream come true and has everything you can think off...still not a patch on Hercs though - now that is truly an elite gym;)
haha I wasn't trying to turn ya off it!!
Tbh the thing that annoyed me the most was the lack of Squat rack, i would have made do with everything else but a smith machine is a really really bad substitute. I actually thought that was the reason they didn' have them but it seemed too silly to be true!
And I've only been in Hercs a handful of times, never training, but you're right...it's class!!0 -
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