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Which University has the best Gym?

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Reply 60

username224850

Original post by M1F2R3

I'd imagine the American state Universities have insane gyms...

yeah Rutgers (New Jersey) where I go has like 7 gyms :tongue:

+ bloomsbury

Original post by lotsofsnails

yeah Rutgers (New Jersey) where I go has like 7 gyms :tongue:

Damn, that's a LOT.

Reply 63

DdotT

Original post by HumanNature1992

Nerdy Asians dont use the gym :colone:

My gym always seems to have a couple of asians lurking about.....

Reply 64

HumanNature1992

Original post by lotsofsnails

yeah Rutgers (New Jersey) where I go has like 7 gyms :tongue:

Gym Tan Laundry :wink:

Reply 65

NemoOrange

Is UCLan's gym any good? I know there's a few around the Preston area, but this one is, obviously, easy to get to and it's only £100 from now til Sept.

Anybody got any experiences?

Reply 66

Cast.Iron

I remember Exeter's being quite good.

Can anybody shed any light on the Cambridge gym scene? I would have assumed that the gym would have been pretty good given the quality of rowers/rugby players there but so far all I have been met with is disappointment.

I have heard of a place called Kelsey Kerridge or something like that which seems good but a little pricey.

Reply 67

Carpediemxx

Bristol is ****e

The uni gym, that is...there are a couple alright non uni ones around

Then there is empire where the big boys train (grimey as **** though)

UCL!

Original post by Wick3d

UCL!

As I mentioned earlier: I seriously hope not. What do you think makes UCL gym so good?

Reply 70

js374

Bath - England Rugby team train there regularly - 'nuff said!

Reply 71

username133326

When I looked at Stirling it had a great freeweights room, and I was told there was a similar one on the floor above it.

Aberdeen is supposedly going to be second only to Loughborough in terms of sporting facilities when the new complex is completed, so I'd imagine its gym is decent.

Glasgow wasn't great when I saw it.

Dundee was good but too small IMO

Aberystwyth I remember being unimpressed by...

and as for Bangor... well I've seen worse... and the DW Sports gym isn't much better - everything is at least 10 years old, and there's not much of it :frown:

Reply 72

MC armani

Edinburgh is supposed to have an excellent gym

Bumpy Bump Bump

Original post by DdotT

Bumpy Bump Bump

Here's a list of some universities with decent looking weight rooms (pics included):
http://www.rubiconsports.co.uk/default.asp?page=149

Reply 75

DdotT

Original post by teriaki

Here's a list of some universities with decent looking weight rooms (pics included):
http://www.rubiconsports.co.uk/default.asp?page=149

More people need to see that, great post :P
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Reply 76

Monkey_Pete

Original post by teriaki

Here's a list of some universities with decent looking weight rooms (pics included):
http://www.rubiconsports.co.uk/default.asp?page=149

those pics are not always the actual uni gyms. For example i got to swansea uni and its got a pick there of an awesome looking setup, but that is not in the uni gym. It might be somewhere in the sports centre, but not in the gym, not easy/obvious access.

Reply 77

teriaki

Original post by Monkey_Pete

Then you go and train in the proper weights room with the true athletes, not in the TechnoGym/Life Fitness showroom. I don't understand the problem.

Original post by DdotT

More people need to see that, great post :P
Cookies and BJ for u

Thank you, I will take both.

The annoying thing is that even though such gyms are one in a thousand in the UK, they seem to be a standard in the US where not just every university but also many high schools have such (and much bigger) weight rooms:
http://www.legendfitness.com/clientele_showcase/procollegehigh_school.aspx
http://www.magnumfitness.com/template.php?p=facilities
http://www.williamsstrength.com/customer-gallery/high-schools/

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 78

Monkey_Pete

Original post by teriaki

Then you go and train in the proper weights room with the true athletes, not in the TechnoGym/Life Fitness showroom. I don't understand the problem.

The room i go to has 2 squat racks, 2 benches with fixed racks, 4 other benches, smith machine, 10'-10' matted area for deadlifting. 3 cable machines. 8ish olympic bars, atleast 600kg+ of free weights and lots of dumbells.

It does also have all the technoGym stuff in there.

I didnt say it wasnt a well stocked weight room. Just that the weights in the photo on the page you linked was not in the uni gym.

Reply 79

Tabris

Original post by FluxD

They didn't have deadlifting platforms when I started uni but they put them in last year, they don't have enough plates if you are strong and only one squat rack though.

The good thing though, is that nobody ever uses the squat rack since they're too focused on the benches.

That, or people seem to prefer squatting in the smith machine (why?).

I wish we had a power cage.

(edited 12 years ago)