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20 rep squatting, very brave! I noticed in another thread that you're currently at Cambridge - what are the lifting facilities like at the university gym? Or do you use your college gym (whichever one that may be)?

I use my college(Girton)'s stuff, which isn't particularly extensive, but hey. I think the uni gym is at fenners and is pretty good-if you ask Chumbaniya he used to train there and should know I think.

I am guessing your gym has to be better than oxfords uni gym.
They're gunna rebuild it cos the powerlifting room is simply too small

20 rep squats will be good for cardio, too. When I did my 115 x 20 I had to go straight to the bathroom after to get some water and almost passed out on the floor.

I noticed in another thread that you're currently at Cambridge - what are the lifting facilities like at the university gym?

The powerlifting room can have 2-6 people in at one time. There's one platform (dropping weights not allowed) with a squat rack, one power cage (I think that's the right term), a fixed bench, a moveable bench, an incline bench and a pull up bar. In addition to plenty of olympic bars (and some powerlifting ones for members of the powerlifting club), there's a trap bar. There's a wide variety of plates (something like 0.125kg to 50kg) including some training bumper plates, but there aren't necessarily a lot at any particular weight. The dumbbells get reasonably heavy, but I can't remember how heavy. There are various boxes and chains and stuff. I can't really comment on how busy it gets because I've only gone twice.

The main gym has a lot of machines -- various weight machines, some quite flash cross-trainers, running machines, etc., and three rowing machines (I think they're Concepts) -- and some dumbbells going up to 25kg. It doesn't have a proper pull up bar for some reason, but it does have some sort of assisted dip/pull up thing.

It's possible that I've missed something out, misremembered some detail or used a term incorrectly, but it's hopefully an accurate description.

So what your saying is that both Oxford's and Cambridge's gyms suck?

Close, but what I was actually doing was giving a description of Cambridge's gym. If you want to check the subtle distinction, I have for your convenience included in this post a spoilered version of what I said earlier.



I would say that it's actually a very good gym if you and a training partner are willing to go at a time when there won't be anyone else there. Only £40 a year too (or £30 for just the powerlifting room).

So what your saying is that both Oxford's and Cambridge's gyms suck?

Since I go to Oxford, I know what Oxford's uni gym looks like. Since your description sounds exactly like Iffley gym in oxford, I thus conclude that both are small and therefore suck

However our power-lifting room can have up to 9 ppl in it- I know wow!

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