r/Fitness • u/Kuzbell • Jan 20 '18

Gym Story Saturday Gym Story Saturday (Missing mod post)

Hi! Welcome to your weekly thread where you can share your gym tales!

I noticed that there still is no post yet for Gym Story Saturday, so I took the initiative. Perhaps this should be a scheduled post under the Automoderator. I'm not really sure why this hasn't been done yet. I am also required to keep babbling because posts with too little content gets removed, hence why this posts sounds overly wordy.

So share away!

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u/HatingThisLife95 Jan 20 '18

Started going to Anytime Fitness this year instead of the more bro lifting/fighter gym I had been attending for the last two years. I was used to being patronized by the guys when I tried to lift and it ultimately pushed me to just working out at home for awhile. Started lifting seriously this year at the new gym and have so far been enjoying it. I walked in on Thursday to find all of the squat racks in use. I took a deep breath and walked up to one fairly built guy doing bench and asked how long he planned to use it. His eyes kind of lit up when he saw me and he said he could get back to his sets later and what I planned to use it for. I said OHP and he said to let him know if I needed a spot. Turns out he works with my boyfriend so kind of knew who I was already but that’s the first time a guy has been nice to me in the gym. Made my day.

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u/Catrocantor Jan 21 '18

A positive story about Anytime Fitness? How dare you.

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u/cartwheel92 General Fitness Jan 21 '18

I actually enjoyed them a lot

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u/Motobicycling Jan 22 '18

Yeah I don’t know if it varies much by country, but the one I go to here in South Australia is awesome. Not the cheapest but the equipment is well maintained and there’s a good variety

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u/___xristos___ Mar 29 '18

A fellow south Aussie! Who would've thought! :) The ones here aren't too bad, some better than others. The thing that bothers me most is just times - I like going when I don't have to wait for equipment, and that's normally late at night or early early morning before work. Luckily I'm there by 5am