The January Rush????

Biff11

Well i certainly haven't noticed any difference in my gym(Total Fitness Blanch) since the start of January. Usually you get a 3 week surge. Have any of your gyms become busy or is the recession really hitting them that bad??

kevpants

Youe weren't there tonight?

celestial

can safely say that no matter how bad a recession gyms will always be busy busy in Jan!

WolfForager

My gym was absolutly packed tonight. Only time i've ever seen the car park full.

I'm just waiting for them all to quit so i can get back to my regular work out.

mikemac

WolfForager wrote: »

Only time i've ever seen the car park full.

Another thing you can gurantee is people fight over parking spaces by the door in gym car parks.

If you know Westwood Fairview, people are queing out of the main car park but won't use the overflow car park a mere 200 metres away.
Or double park by the door when there are plently of spaces around
Dunno why, especially for a gym?

Hanley

Biff11 wrote: »

Well i certainly haven't noticed any difference in my gym(Total Fitness Blanch) since the start of January. Usually you get a 3 week surge. Have any of your gyms become busy or is the recession really hitting them that bad??

Are you serious??

Have you not been in the weightroom recently?

WolfForager

mikemac wrote: »

Another thing you can gurantee is people fight over parking spaces by the door in gym car parks.

If you know Westwood Fairview, people are queing out of the main car park but won't use the overflow car park a mere 200 metres away.
Or double park by the door when there are plently of spaces around
Dunno why, especially for a gym?

Tis the testosterone flying around. "That's my place and by god i'm going to park there!!!!!"

It's amazing that we never hear of the several january-gym car park related injuries every year.

davyjose

mikemac wrote: »

Another thing you can gurantee is people fight over parking spaces by the door in gym car parks.

If you know Westwood Fairview, people are queing out of the main car park but won't use the overflow car park a mere 200 metres away.
Or double park by the door when there are plently of spaces around
Dunno why, especially for a gym?

Well, they wouldn't want to work up too much of a sweat now would they? :rolleyes::pac:

dioltas

Been cat in my gym. Starting to get a bit better now though. Last monday night was the most packed i'd seen the place ever at that time. It was depressing!

WHIP IT!

Not sure about evenings/weekends, but daytime in Citywest has been a bit brisker alright. Place is fairly large though so still plenty of room...

03mcgs0

kevpants wrote: »

Youe weren't there tonight?

Yeah I was, in the weights room. Bloody hell it was busy....

But Monday nights are always bad down there, think I'm going to avoid them in future.... and head down 4.30 or 5 on a Monday

Apart from that great gym!!!!!

Degsy

The newbies are in TF all right..soccer-shirt wearing,walking around in packs and bicep curling a go-go.

WHIP IT!

Degsy wrote: »

The newbies are in TF all right..soccer-shirt wearing,walking around in packs and bicep curling a go-go.

Not sure why, but the phrase "a go-go" here cracks me up...

qt9ukbg60ivjrn

Degsy wrote: »

The newbies are in TF all right..soccer-shirt wearing,walking around in packs and bicep curling a go-go.

haha, i like it


west wood leopardstown is full of senior cup kids training for rugby, might complain cause clearly they're not 18

i want my gym back!

i feel old:(

Gillo

Crunch (Temple bar) hasn't been much busier, that said I go in the morning so there's a good chance it's busier in the evening's.

WithCheesePlease

Have noticed the last couple of weeks there's practically traffic jams and near collisions on the footpaths with all the people back out running. Funny.

bman

I have to say GCG is not all the much busier than before Christmas. Which is great for me. Not so much for the gym!

Oryx

gearoid_healy wrote: »

Have noticed the last couple of weeks there's practically traffic jams and near collisions on the footpaths with all the people back out running. Funny.

Thank god for being a culchie. Quiet roads.

Tho I did see two guys out jogging on a really quiet country road near me last night wearing headlamps. I thought that was real dedication.

hunnymonster

I've noticed a big increase in runners also. Mostly men, whereas I usually associate this time of year with the power-walking-blue-rinse brigade.

The Mardyke gym in Cork has been busy but as it's a college gym, the busy periods seem to fit in around the academic calendar so it's to be expected that things get busy after the christmas break.

BossArky

At weekends the gym seems a bit busies alright.

My weekday resolution to get there first thing in the morning is paying dividens though.... usually just a handful in the free weights section. Often I've had the place to myself for 30 minutes at time: squat rack and oly bars free for deadlifting.

... so get up earlier if your gym is packed.

jack90210

Kellan Mango Yacht wrote: »

haha, i like it


west wood leopardstown is full of senior cup kids training for rugby, might complain cause clearly they're not 18

i want my gym back!

i feel old:(

Don't have to be 18 in Clontarf anyway. The Senior Cup is a very very serious competition and most of the guys playing for the big teams could lift a lot more than the average joe so if there showing you up just deal with it.

Also, as a rule of thumb avoid gyms on Mondays and Tuesday evenings throughout the year, your asking for problems.

sunnyjim

Altough I did post here only yesterday saying my gym is usually empty, it is getting a little more packed by

Women in groups of 3 walking on treadmills, doing sit-ups on those ab-roller frame-yokes.
Gangs of guys spotting each others 30kg bench presses (thats the bench busy for at least 45 mins)
And the groups that degsy described - bicep curls boys. I can't complain though, the bastards can bicep curl more than me :mad:

Oryx

sunnyjim wrote:

Women in groups of 3 walking on treadmills, doing sit-ups on those ab-roller frame-yokes.

Im sure the gyms love those people and the go go-ing bicep curlers. Pay for a year, turn up for just 3 weeks.

sunnyjim

As Rob_Burke said in one thread (his own blog I think) these people joining and not turning up are keeping my membership fee low... Keep em coming, maybe we'll get more plates

But these are the same folks who leave their benchs covered in sweat, empty bottles of lucozade hanging around and weights everywhere. Grrrrr.

qt9ukbg60ivjrn

jack90210 wrote: »

Don't have to be 18 in Clontarf anyway. The Senior Cup is a very very serious competition and most of the guys playing for the big teams could lift a lot more than the average joe so if there showing you up just deal with it.

Also, as a rule of thumb avoid gyms on Mondays and Tuesday evenings throughout the year, your asking for problems.

i agree with you about the mondays and tuesday, its a nightmare,

i know how serious senior cup is, went through it myself for 3 years but its ridiculous when you have a group of 5 16 year olds standing around a bench for 30 mins

and i kept myself in shape since my teens so i'm not being shown up:P

but thanks for the off-hand comment

Degsy

There also seems to a lot more of the naked,dirty old men hanging round the changing rooms lately..a sort of "Oldies Newbies".
They're obviously motivated enough to join the gym and then hang around with no clothes on for hours at a stretch eeeeuuurgh.

AARRRGH

Jackie Skelly in Clarendon Street doesn't seem to have many newbies at all (well, after 8pm when I arrive, at least.)

They even have a sign at the door saying €100 off or something like that.

Oryx

sunnyjim wrote: »

But these are the same folks who leave their benchs covered in sweat, empty bottles of lucozade hanging around and weights everywhere. Grrrrr.

But the regulars leave heavy weights on the smith machine so the noobs cant lift em off. I think yere even.

bman

sunnyjim wrote: »

Gangs of guys spotting each others 30kg bench presses (thats the bench busy for at least 45 mins)

Is the issue that they're all standing around the bench? Or that they're not lifting big weights?

qt9ukbg60ivjrn

bman wrote: »

Is the issue that they're all standing around the bench? Or that they're not lifting big weights?

what the hell is up with some people on this site? obviously its nothing to do with the weight!

liamo

Jackie Skelly in ParkWest is quieter than usual in the mornings. I don't know about the evenings.

There are a few new faces and a few regulars missing but in general the numbers appears to be down compared to pre-Xmas. This time last year I was tripping over new members in the mornings.

brianthebard

Oryx wrote: »

But the regulars leave heavy weights on the smith machine so the noobs cant lift em off. I think yere even.

Bah the college gym has put up signs telling people to put their plates back, but guess what nobody passes any heed.

Definitely seems busier than I remember it last semester, and you're getting all the stereotypes of poor lifting...I saw a guy doing curls in the rack today, I thought that was just a myth!!! *cries*

sunnyjim

The worst is someone doing curls on the rack, using the bloody oly bar - my gym is short a bar, it's so frustrating.

Is the issue that they're all standing around the bench? Or that they're not lifting big weights?

It's the ridiculus amount of time they spend talking in between sets. Then the amount of time between people changing over. And they don't even need to be spotted half the time either, they seem fine

billyhead

I agree with everything said. In the gym I use I can't stand people just doing bicep curls in the weights area or working on thier shoulders only and these people are not ven well build. Like why are they wasting thier time. Also can't stand people spending 5 minutes between sets or just going to the weights area to chat to their buddys. Also can't stand shpaers posing in the mirror every 5 mins. Rant over:)

WHIP IT!

billyhead wrote: »

I agree with everything said. In the gym I use I can't stand people just doing bicep curls in the weights area or working on thier shoulders only and these people are not ven well build. Like why are they wasting thier time. Also can't stand people spending 5 minutes between sets or just going to the weights area to chat to their buddys. Also can't stand shpaers posing in the mirror every 5 mins. Rant over:)

Can't see why this would bother anybody quite this much tbh. If it don't directly effect me I ain't worried.

Relevant

WHIP IT! wrote: »

Can't see why this would bother anybody quite this much tbh. If it don't directly effect me I ain't worried.

If they aren't directly affecting me let them do what they want. Although if i'm trying to get on a bench or a rack i've been known to give out a little

dave80

ive do biceps curls in a squat rack cause its just handy, in my gym if someone needs to squat in the rack all is needed to be said is 'can i use the rack to squat', its wat i say wen i want to squat in it

billyhead

I just think its stupid thats all like its a waste of money and time. Its like members who jojn a gym just to walk on the threadmill for an hour. Why don't they just walk outside for an hour instaed of wasting thier money?

liamo

billyhead wrote: »

I just think its stupid thats all like its a waste of money and time. Its like members who jojn a gym just to walk on the threadmill for an hour. Why don't they just walk outside for an hour instaed of wasting thier money?

Maybe they need to be in a gym to get motivated. Maybe it's just part of their routine. Maybe they have a walk and then go down to the pool for a swim. Maybe, maybe, maybe ......

I'm too busy doing my own thing to be affected by (or, most of the time, even notice) what others are doing. Let it go ...... breathe .......

bman

Kellan Mango Yacht wrote: »

what the hell is up with some people on this site? obviously its nothing to do with the weight!

Nothing up with me, cheers for asking.

If it's nothing got to do with the weight then why mention it?

Degsy

I didnt get to the gym till 7.30 last night so i thought it would be comparativley quiet.
I counted eight people hanging around the poxy cable station and another four farting around on the bench,by farting around i mean sitting on it sideways and talking or doing windmill-style arm movements between two rep sets.
On the plus side i noticed a newbie bloke with a newbie girl doing some pretty decent squatting the other day,better than a lot of the non-noobs too!

qt9ukbg60ivjrn

bman wrote: »

Nothing up with me, cheers for asking.

If it's nothing got to do with the weight then why mention it?

see sunnyjim's response

sunnyjim

bman, the weights I lift are paltry to be honest. I didn't intend to put across the "30kg bench bench press? :rolleyes:" thing. My bench is fairly pathetic.

Degsy

sunnyjim wrote: »

bman, the weights I lift are paltry to be honest. I didn't intend to put across the "30kg bench bench press? :rolleyes:" thing. My bench is fairly pathetic.

Mine isnt any big deal either..ya'll gotta start somewheres!

BuyingorSelling

I think a big part of the problem is there are not enough squat racks in gyms. All decent programs seem to have squats buit in yet in my gym we only have 2. Are they expensive for the gyms to buy?

BossArky

BuyingorSelling wrote: »

I think a big part of the problem is there are not enough squat racks in gyms. Are they expensive for the gyms to buy?

From a gym managers point of view:

- a squat rack probably won't be used as much as a fancy looking machine.
- squat requires someone to teach proper technique, or a newbie may injury themselves and claim...

AARRRGH

I went to Jackie Skelly Ballsbridge today at lunch and it was quite busy. I don't normally go there so I have no idea if the people were new or not, but judging by their atrocious form and lack of muscle I'd say they were!

Weird gym btw. Full of posers.