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New machines in Citywest

  • 14-12-2007 10:42am
    #1
    WHIP IT!
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    Anyone else here a Citywest member?

    They've a loada new weights machines in - most of them look to me like they're fancy looking for the sake of being fancy looking!

    I don't use em much, prefer free weights, just wondering what anyone else thinks of them...

    There seems a bit too much goin on in most of them for me, as opposed to the simpler machines they had before that...


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  • #2
    olaola
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    I haven't been in since Weds - but they were all lined up.
    I've only seen the cardio machines - new Precor ones. They didn't have the weights ones up there at the time.
    Will pop round after work or tomw and give them a shot.
    Apparently the old machines were shipped off to Finnstown house (as I overheard in the changing room)


  • #3
    rubadub
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    WHIP IT! wrote: »
    They've a loada new weights machines in - most of them look to me like they're fancy looking for the sake of being fancy looking!
    I reckon it is to impress the ignorant few who want to think their membership fee is money well spent. I suppose many feel they should use them to get value for money. Free weights could be got cheap and some people love gadgets or "the latest thing", and might presume these must be better than a chinup or pullup could possibly be.

    Some people have more money than sense, and are ignorant about what things do and what their real goals are. So you get these business men buying highend racers, sometimes structurally weak due to low weight and intended for pros where a 0.5% increase in efficiency can earn 1000's. They have all the gear, shaving their legs & the lot, when they are in competition with nobody and only want to burn calories and cannot go past 20mph. As I said in another thread, like putting a spoiler on a tractor.


  • #4
    olaola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,140 ✭✭✭olaola


    rubadub wrote: »
    I reckon it is to impress the ignorant few who want to think their membership fee is money well spent.

    To be fair to them - they are totally doing up the whole gym, the changing rooms, extentions etc. Everything is being replaced. Some of the machines were old and a few were permanently out of order. I don't think they would have got another year out of a majority of them. I dunno who chooses the new stuff... prob some 'consultant'. As long as the free weights are there, I'm happy.


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