Educo gym

d-gal

There has been a number of threads on this subject in the fitness forum over the last few months. As a lot of people don't visit the forum that often I am just wondering what opinion people have of the one in Oranmore.
Personally I dislike it and see it as a major scam but just want some people's experiences on it

ronnie3585

d-gal wrote: »

Personally I dislike it and see it as a major scam

I love the smell of broad, unqualified and defamatory statements in the morning.

Care to elaborate?

d-gal

No problem

http://www.educogym.com/Results.aspx

read all the other testimonials. Realise my suspicions?

?Cee?view

Wouldn't mind meeting the Christina one on the testimonials

But seriously, a friend of mine did 10 sessions. It's a low carb diet combined with resistance training which will produce results. It's nothing new, just nicely packaged and marketed. Problem is, they might need to have a third picture of the people who get the great results to see how they look six months later when their activity levels return to normal and they return to the dietary habits that got them into "trouble" in the first place.

Another issue which the OP is probably hinting at is that Tony Quinn is apparently behind the business and brand.

biko

d-gal wrote: »

Personally I dislike it and see it as a major scam

Do you have any personal experience of this gym or backup for this scam accusation? Something else than referring to a results page where they seem happy with the gym?

edit: interesting threads in Fitness alright

d-gal

biko wrote: »

Do you have any personal experience of this gym or backup for this scam accusation? Something else than referring to a results page where they seem happy with the gym?

well if you look at one result that a guy (Michal Rupenski) has said he has gained 30pounds of muscle and lost 20 pounds of fat in 6months. Thats a ludicrous statement and virtually impossible. Any person in the health industry will tell you that. Look at the two pictures. First one he has his stomach pushed out when obviously he already has flattish stomach (look at the two hip flexor lines). He has shoulders pinned back to make his traps look smaller and also chest not as developed. Newer picture has better lighting, he is flexing, it's a side view to show his arms better and his stomach is tensed. With the two pictures you can see his legs are the same (where you should gain the most mass of muscle). So it's obvious it is exagerrated greatly.
And again looking at the amount of controversy surrounding it with Tony Quinn it just adds to it. Educo is really just a room with a home multi-gym and you are given a similar diet to Athkins (personal experience/knowledge). Overall, charging 350euro for 12days of 20minute sessions is mad

Robbo

I'd be more interested in ould Tony's far flung seminars. Tens of thousands for "personal development"? Where do I sign!

These boys make Xenu seem like he hasn't done his Irish market research.

MattKid

Dodgy marketing worse than the supplements industry.

greg2010

Hi Guys

I just want to say that I did reply to the OP with my honest experience of educo gym however my post has been deleted. Actually I'm new to boards.ie so I wonder if you guys on this thread can tell me what I should do? I guess I was trying to do a service for the community but seem to have been accused of being Joe Camel and seem to have been censored? Do I have any right of appeal?

ronnie3585

Appeal to this guy;

Word is, he hates Joe Camel.

biko

greg2010 wrote: »

Hi Guys

I just want to say that I did reply to the OP with my honest experience of educo gym however my post has been deleted. Actually I'm new to boards.ie so I wonder if you guys on this thread can tell me what I should do? I guess I was trying to do a service for the community but seem to have been accused of being Joe Camel and seem to have been censored? Do I have any right of appeal?

Hi, when you first start posting on boards and promote something people will think you only regged to advertise a business (shill).
I suggest you have a read of the Newbie section and the Galway charter.
Welcome to boards

greg2010

ahaha no there was no batcave at the educogym i went to - it's just a gym.
When i was looking for a local gym months ago I googled the local gyms and then came on boards looking for what people said about them and found this thread. But nowhere could I find an opinion - good or bad - of someone that had actually been as opposed to peoples perception of it.
If I had paid my membership fee and it hadn't of worked believe me I would have been on here slating the place. But hey guess what it works - and thats the information that I wanted six months ago - so here I am back trying to fix the lack of information that I faced.
Because that's what we do right?
So just to be clear I couldn't care less if you go to educogym or not but to answer the OP - it worked for me.
It was a happy day indeed when I threw out all my 36" jeans and bought 32".

mikom

greg2010 wrote: »

It was a happy day indeed when I threw out all my 36" jeans and bought 32".

Yeah..... they tend to fit a bit better with a slimmer wallet.

greg2010

mikom wrote: »

Yeah..... they tend to fit a bit better with a slimmer wallet.

hi mikon - I think it was you that accused me of being a schill and had my original post on educo gym deleted right?

So I have some questions ...

1. If this was a normal jackie skellie gym and I came on and gave my opinion - would you also have deleted my post or do you have some sort of agenda against educogym?
2. If I was a schill why would I tell you that I didn't take the supplements - did you think about that for even a split second before you censored me?
3. Have ever set foot inside an educogym?

btw you are right - it is more expensive than a regular gym and that is why it is more important than usual that people like me are able to give honest opinions of their experience.

You censoring my opinion does not contribute to the community in my view. It would have been better to either at least engage me in dialogue first before deleting my post or to have left the post and allowed people who had a negative experience of their training at educoym to have added their posts to challenge mine.

mikom

mikom
Registered User

not

mikom
moderator

JohnMcManus

This is a scam.
What they do with the fake before and after photos is to take someone fit and photograph them, then pay them to gain extra weight.
They then use the before photo as and after photo. So its easy to claim that this women lost 20 lbs when in fact she actually gained 20 lbs.
This marketing trick has been used for years by suppliment and weight loss product manufacturers around the world to gain consumer confidence.
The only real way to lose weight; is to exercise more and eat less. Its simple.
The other ways are to take HGH (Human Growth Hormones) which have the same effect as anabolic steroids, burning fat and gaining muscle mass. But of course this only works while you take HGH or anabolic steroids, the results stop when you stop using them.

greg2010

well all i know actually mikom is that i got this ...

Gimme an S
Gimme a H
Gimme an I
Gimme an L
Gimme an L
What does that spell?


from you and then my post got deleted so if you want to pretent you didn't complain then ok

kind of interesting i think that you won't answer any of my questions - why is that?

greg2010

JohnMcManus wrote: »

This is a scam.
What they do with the fake before and after photos is to take someone fit and photograph them, then pay them to gain extra weight.
They then use the before photo as and after photo. So its easy to claim that this women lost 20 lbs when in fact she actually gained 20 lbs.
This marketing trick has been used for years by suppliment and weight loss product manufacturers around the world to gain consumer confidence.
The only real way to lose weight; is to exercise more and eat less. Its simple.
The other ways are to take HGH (Human Growth Hormones) which have the same effect as anabolic steroids, burning fat and gaining muscle mass. But of course this only works while you take HGH or anabolic steroids, the results stop when you stop using them.

yeah probably people do that but educogym don't - as I say the fact that that is your perception of educogym but in fact you have never been made it more difficult for me six months ago to know if it worked or not.

biko

You do realise that when the next Irish person googles Educo Gym Galway this thread will be among the first results? Also there's a thread in Fitness if you need to discuss this gym. They have experience with various places. I'm locking this.