gyms crowding this time of year?

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  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    I_Will_End_You wrote: »
    tomatoey wrote: »

    Sounds like a good solution! I need to vary cardio options and can't do bodyweight impact so I'm stuck in a gym. Although I was thinking about maybe picking up some kind of sport.


    My biggest calorie burner is when I play volleyball on Sundays. Especially the spring/summer/fall sand leagues. Looking into a sport could be a good idea. It's a lot more fun than the gym, that's for sure.

    I love volleyball! Can't do that right now (wrist issue among other things), but I'll try to think creatively about what I can do.

    I thought about biking outside, but man, drivers where I live are super aggressive, and my spatial awareness could be better (have been doored). I don't really want to try to improve it at the risk of being hit by a truck :/
  • mkakids
    mkakids Posts: 1,913 Member
    sammik307 wrote: »
    This is seriously the worst ever.. Im glad people want to better themselves but my Gym consists of people NEVER putting weights away so your spending 10 minutes looking for what you want, people sitting on machines talking on their phones and so much more... Abs arent made in a month people.. Agh rant for the day.. Sorry about that

    Yup, this. i spent 5 minutes yesterday looking for a FULL SIZED Olympic bar for the squat rack. Why walk off with that?! Especially since there were about 8 bars on the rack 10 feet from the squat cage (not Olympic though, but perfectly fine for nearly everything). I found it behind the row of treadmills, where there is just a walking path...not enough room to use it. i want to know what they were doing with it!

    I dont mind the crowd, as long as people don't take the equipment to a random corner and leave it there.
  • AlisonH729
    AlisonH729 Posts: 558 Member
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  • cheflaurawalke
    cheflaurawalke Posts: 42 Member
    tomatoey wrote: »
    I might have to find a new place. Everyone s thinking about summer abs now :(

    Things have been getting really busy this week (huge lineups for things busy)

    Too bad summer bodies are made in the winter. I'm finally appreciating the fact that I get to the gym at 4am and it is almost always empty.
  • nstock
    nstock Posts: 135 Member
    Just try to figure out what days are busiest for each muscle group. At my gym I know, Monday is chest day, and Tuesday is legs for sure. I know not to do those muscle groups on those days. I also find that the gym is less crowded Thursday-Sunday. Try making those days your main workout days (if that's possible). I find gyms are busy until Easter and then it lightens up (no more spring break vacations to prepare for)
  • CrabNebula
    CrabNebula Posts: 1,119 Member
    I'm glad my employer has a gym, because it is basically never full. Maybe once a month, I'll go in and find someone is using a machine I want. Fine, I just go to my second choice and it is no big deal. People who do use the gym tend to put weights back where they belong.

    Every once in a great while, I'll come in and there will be a bunch of people in the gym. 90% of them, I'll never see again in there after that one session. I don't know what's up with that, but whatever.
  • sammik307
    sammik307 Posts: 19
    nstock wrote: »
    Just try to figure out what days are busiest for each muscle group. At my gym I know, Monday is chest day, and Tuesday is legs for sure. I know not to do those muscle groups on those days. I also find that the gym is less crowded Thursday-Sunday. Try making those days your main workout days (if that's possible). I find gyms are busy until Easter and then it lightens up (no more spring break vacations to prepare for)

    Yep i got that down too!! I do opposite of whatever everyone else does lol.. Yet you still get that one person whos dying to use the machine your on... Then stalks you for the next two hours
  • atypicalsmith
    atypicalsmith Posts: 2,742 Member
    edited March 2015
    I belong to an excellent YMCA and nobody pees on the toilets (so far). Once in a while a toilet seat is wet, but so is the floor, so I know it's a swimmer who dripped water on the seat and didn't pee in the swimming pool :smile: It's restaurants here where the toilet seat gets peed on - I love it! If someone else is in the bathroom. I will wash my hands or pretend to fix my makeup or whatever until they are done and then go into the same stall. Usually there is pee on the seat. I very politely and not a bit sarcastically ask, "Ma'am, would you mind cleaning the toilet seat you just peed all over?" I could write a book about the different responses I get! (So far, nobody has strangled me, as I am here still to be able to write this.)
  • sammik307
    sammik307 Posts: 19
    Haha
  • Bellodesiderare
    Bellodesiderare Posts: 278 Member
    The waiting added an hour to my workout, I'm going to have to find another time to go. I wonder if they did some kind of promotion. [/quote]

    You can hardly navigate around equipment at my gym during peak times. I switched to working out at 5:30 AM. I see the same people there every morning and never have to wait for equipment because the gym isn't crowded. I hate mornings. HATE them. It took me some time to adjust, but the switch was worth it.
  • Amanda4change
    Amanda4change Posts: 620 Member
    During the day isn't bad at my gym, but as soon as 5pm rolls around it starts getting busy from 6:30-9:30 (they close at 10) it's insane also there is a huge issue with not enough parking. This is why I usually go around 1-2pm there's almost never anyone around then.
  • atypicalsmith
    atypicalsmith Posts: 2,742 Member
    edited March 2015
    My local YMCA has so many ways to exercise that I never have to wait, no matter how crowded it is. There are treadmills, ellipticals, and stationary bikes in three rooms - cardio, adult, and family. There are about six or eight classes a day. There's an Olympic swimming pool (as mentioned previously). There's even a bowling alley! Yes, it costs a few dollars more than a 24/7 gym with limited equipment, but it's worth every dime to me. I pay $52.00 a month which includes locker rental and use of towels when I shower there. This is NOT an advertisement! Just simply praise.
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    edited March 2015
    atypicalsmith wrote: »
    My local YMCA has so many ways to exercise that I never have to wait, no matter how crowded it is. There are treadmills, ellipticals, and stationary bikes in three rooms - cardio, adult, and family. There are about six or eight classes a day. There's an Olympic swimming pool (as mentioned previously). There's even a bowling alley! Yes, it costs a few dollars more than a 24/7 gym with limited equipment, but it's worth every dime to me. I pay $52.00 a month which includes locker rental and use of towels when I shower there. This is NOT an advertisement! Just simply praise.

    I LOVE the Y but can't justify $75/month (the rate where I am). I pay what you do for what I get. I chose this place because it's a five minute walk from my apartment
  • tomatoey
    tomatoey Posts: 5,446 Member
    Bellodesiderare wrote: »
    The waiting added an hour to my workout, I'm going to have to find another time to go. I wonder if they did some kind of promotion.

    You can hardly navigate around equipment at my gym during peak times. I switched to working out at 5:30 AM. I see the same people there every morning and never have to wait for equipment because the gym isn't crowded. I hate mornings. HATE them. It took me some time to adjust, but the switch was worth it. [/quote]

    You do what you have to! Glad you found something that works :)
  • Azexas
    Azexas Posts: 4,334 Member
    When I go running after work on the treadmill I noticed a lot of college aged kids around my gym now. I'm thinking many people are home on spring break.

    I try to hit the gym at 5am before work and there aren't too many people there. There are a couple people who have stuck around from New Years, but there is no more then 10 people tops in the morning.
  • atypicalsmith
    atypicalsmith Posts: 2,742 Member
    tomatoey wrote: »
    atypicalsmith wrote: »
    My local YMCA has so many ways to exercise that I never have to wait, no matter how crowded it is. There are treadmills, ellipticals, and stationary bikes in three rooms - cardio, adult, and family. There are about six or eight classes a day. There's an Olympic swimming pool (as mentioned previously). There's even a bowling alley! Yes, it costs a few dollars more than a 24/7 gym with limited equipment, but it's worth every dime to me. I pay $52.00 a month which includes locker rental and use of towels when I shower there. This is NOT an advertisement! Just simply praise.

    I LOVE the Y but can't justify $75/month (the rate where I am). I pay what you do for what I get. I chose this place because it's a five minute walk from my apartment

    I forever didn't justify the monthly rate (that's a senior rate; normal is about $75.00, as it is where you are). But for the first time since 2008, I'm down 20 pounds instead of 20 pounds MORE! I'm making friends there who have the same goals and aspirations as mine, just as I am here on MFP. And there is so much more variety than a workout gym. Again, not an advertisement, just praise! I love my YMCA!
  • azulvioleta6
    azulvioleta6 Posts: 4,195 Member
    Hmmm...this is the one time of year when I hardly ever go to the gym. It's busy season for Latin dancing for my area, so I am doing that as a workout. It's also the time of year when heavy gardening and outdoor work happens.
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