re: Reds gym (Lafayette) is the biggest piece of shite gym I have ever seen

I know what a power cage is but how does that help if you fail on the last bench rep and the bar is on your chest?

quote:

---

No reason to the way the equipment is set up.

Humidity is higher inside than a regualr summer's day in lafayette.

Equipment is old as frick.

Why would anyone pay so much money to workout in this dump.

---

I've lived many places, all large cities and I've yet to come across a gym that begins to rival the quality and affordability of Reds. Nice troll, though.

If I set the pins 2 inches above my chest I can't get full motion.

quote:

---

Is it still 1988?

---

This will be hard for some people in this thread to hear, but this is true. Reds is a gym for a style of lifting that peaked in the 80s and 90s.

Beginning in the 2000's there has been a move towards warehouse gyms. Barebones free weights, kettlebells and other implements with body weight training mixed in.

I'm no crossfit guy, but in those circles they are known as "boxes."

I trained powerlifting/bodybuilding style post Katrina, and when I moved to laf in 2007 Reds was a freaking wonderland. I am sad to say that my training for the most part stayed stuck, with some nice gains, for 7 years.

That was until I couldn't go to Reds for a couple weeks due to medical reasons and then found body weight and sandbag training. And then strongman training, with odd objects, and Olympic lifts.

I returned to reds after a medical loa, only to find in the powerlifting room a sign that said "please do not drop weights." It was at that point I knew my time at Reds had past.

I now train underground style, and I am stronger than I ever was at Reds.

If you are a serious lifter, Reds is not your gym. It is a social club, which is fine for 90% of the people. I only write this because when I went to Reds I stayed stuck in an 80-90's bodybuilding mentality, when with the information available on the internet, I was capable of much more.

quote:

---

I'm no crossfit guy, but in those circles they are known as "boxes."

---

Stopped reading here

You could probably boss those Snap Fitness baws around. Try there.

quote:

---

Reds gym (Lafayette) is the biggest piece of shite gym I have ever seen

---

Yeh, they don't have pizza parties for you fatasses there. You need to join one of those Planet Fitness places. They'll make sure no one hurts your feelings, bitch.

quote:

---

My problem with red's is the crowds.

---

There is not much of a crowd early in the a.m.

I don't do weights in the morning

quote:

---

If I set the pins 2 inches above my chest I can't get full motion.

---

You set the pins low enough to get full range of motion. Your chest isn't concrete. If you fail you sink your chest and roll the bar.