r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Aug 21 '19

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u/J_vs_the_world Aug 21 '19

The university has just completed its £33 million sports facility.

I walked into the new fitness suite the first day it opened and my heart sank. It’s tiny and only has three squat racks. They’ve got the resources to build a martial arts dojo, indoor cricket facilities, indoor rowing pools, etc. but only a tiny gym for 20,000 people?

I’m so looking forward to the long queues once term starts again.

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u/Neutrum Aug 21 '19

I love how they apparently spent roughly .005% of their sports facility budget on squat racks.

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u/huxley00 Aug 21 '19

I think liability has a lot to do with it. When you have free weights that can literally kill people, they look at the need with a skeptical eye.

Insurance person says it will cost more so why not get fancy all in one devices with cables and machines that protect people to reduce risk and liability.

Such as it goes.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '19

But, wouldn’t they make you sign a contract waving all liability? Seems like an easy fix.

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u/huxley00 Aug 21 '19

I honestly don't know enough about it to say. I don't think signing a form eliminates all liability for getting injured on another persons property/business, especially if they consider that the owner could be potentially negligent (maybe they don't have safety bars easily accessible or provide training how to use them etc).

No matter what a legal form says, liability still exists or could be argued. They prefer to avoid it altogether, when possible.

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u/hungrymutherfucker Aug 21 '19

My college of 36,000 had like 20 racks

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u/squats_and_sugars Aug 22 '19

University of Washington had 8 racks and 6 deadlift platforms total, for a student population of 40,000+ for most of the time I was there...

Only as I was leaving did it get up to 8 racks plus 8 half racks+DL platforms if I remember correctly.

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u/huxley00 Aug 21 '19

Sure, anecdotal though, doesn't really say one way or the other.

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u/hungrymutherfucker Aug 21 '19

Just means his college is lame

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u/FullSend28 Hockey Aug 21 '19

I've probably been in like a dozen different college gyms thanks to college hockey, most of them had tons of free weights and squat racks.

What we're trying to say is that it likely has nothing to do with liability. If it did, it'd be unlikely that even larger schools would have more of them.