Does anyone work out at a YMCA? I've just moved to a new apartment and there's a YMCA and a Planet Fitness within walking distance. YMCA runs about $40/month. Planet Fitness of course is $10/month, but I can't imagine not being able to dead lift. I really need access to efficient compound lifts. Getting back into lifting after a long hiatus.
Go straight for the YMCA?
Do a couple of months at Planet Fitness to get back on the grind and then switch to YMCA?
isn't the YMCA where all the gay guys go?
Depends on the quality of the YMCA. really varies location to location. I have 2 in my town. One has 4 olympic platforms and the other doesn't even have a squat rack.
I work out a a YMCA and I can’t complain. Plus, if you look decent and if your lifts are decent, you will mog everyone
Y by me just got rid of all their free weights for some dumb cable castle. The LA fitness a few towns over is worth the drive
But when they did have free weights, was it worth it?
Sometimes YMCA has special deals for poorfags. You have to show them your last year's taxes though
>actually fucking considering planet fitness
Go check out the YMCA my local one is pretty damn good.
I work out at my YMCA frequently and i like it. Dumbbells go up to 100lb and theres even a scoreboard for strongest lifts by age catagory on the wall. Only issue is they do after school problems so sometimes the weight room is crawling with niglets
Hell yeah. All of it was old school York barbell shit from like the 80s. No one was there. Tiny little room that played rock and had an aux cord if you wanted to play your own music. Shit was cash.
My place is in the white suburbs of Houston. Not the whitest, but pretty white. Looks like i'm going for YMCA.
Iv'e worked at two Y's in different states for about a year and a half. They vary a lot, the first one I worked at the had like one power rack and a squat rack, the one I'm at now has like 5racks in one room and 5 more in another room. I would say just go for the y if they seem like they have enough shit. Hopefully you also get a pool for the best cardio/endurance exercise out there. Fuck hamplanet fitness
The one I go to is decent enough, it's better than any of the Anytimes I've been to.
Although there is one a couple towns over that doesn't have a squat rack or any olympic platforms. So it depends on where you live.
YMCAs exist for fags and niggers to spread aids in their bathrooms, parking lots and through their workout centers where pozzed individuals frequently prick their palms to leave trace amounts of blood on the bar. Read up on it. You'd have to be a real piece of shit to end up in one
>planet fitness
No
Mines ok and I got a free membership since i used to work there for some reason. My only issue is that there's no rubber plates so I can really do oly lifts to the max but I love it and its quite too.
I go to a YMCA and it's kind of fucking weird desu;
>ONE squat rack
>But has a DL/Oly platform with tons of rubber weights
>But it's right in the middle of the freeweight area
>has a second area for a few extra cardio machines and some weird stretching machines that are strictly inferior to basic standing stretches
>ton of DB's, decent collection of KB's going up to 55 lbs
>has a kineswire thing that can be modded to a bunch of different movements but pretty much sucks at all of them
>has a TRX system you can set up on the smith machine and has a set of rings on cables in the middle of the "stretching" area
It's pretty alright, my old gym was dope af but gf was too intimidated to go to it and we moved a bit farther away from my old gym.
YMCA's vary greatly since the branch manager has a ton of control, for better or worse.
>Used to work at a branch in florida as a PT
Pay for PT work was lousy compared to other places I worked but the managers were super cool and it was a much steadier paycheck than normal PT work. Also had a professional boomer powerlifter workout at my location, super friendly old dude that is still very impressive.
Go for the Y, OP they can be pretty based
For some reason YMCA is really fucking expensive. It's like 60 dollarydoos a head. Fucking ridiculous.
Y is better. If you're poor they will lower the price for a gym membership
Mine was right in the middle of Buffalo's rich white suburbs and the shitty suburban areas. For three years I dealt with a filthy mixture of literal Boomer assholes and hordes of city kids. Switching to my current gym, which is super small and the Apple store equivalent of a gym, was the best decision I've made in a while.
Make sure it's actually worth 40 a month. Don't pony up that much cash if they've got 1 power rack and never bother fixing anything.
And that's a good thing.
And everyone in your household.
You can also just grab a tax form and fill it out with made-up numbers. They won't check