After looking at the Dubai thread made me think of the first real gym I went to.
Had a place where I live called "Dave's Power Palace". It was literally a converted warehouse.
Had tons of free weights.
Probably 4 power racks no waiting.
Buckets of chalk.
Extremely poor lighting.
Every piece of equipment was beat up and the weights looked like someone took a hammer to them all.
All pieces of cardio equipment broke down at least once a week.
Oh yeah and the owner had this fucking stray cat that would walk around the place because it had no air conditioning so he opened a few big bay garage doors.
I am sure I missed it but it probably had a loading dock in it somewhere as well.
It was run by an old guy named Dave. He was this short little power lifter guy.
With the gyms today mostly looking like Globogym from dodgeball I kind of miss that hot stinky place with ripped bench covers and duct tape on them. To bad it was at the beginning of my weightlifting journey and I couldn't fully appreciate it. Then again at that time the big corporate gym in my area was the 24 fitness not like all the same ones we have now.
Had a place where I live called "Dave's Power Palace". It was literally a converted warehouse.
Had tons of free weights.
Probably 4 power racks no waiting.
Buckets of chalk.
Extremely poor lighting.
Every piece of equipment was beat up and the weights looked like someone took a hammer to them all.
All pieces of cardio equipment broke down at least once a week.
Oh yeah and the owner had this fucking stray cat that would walk around the place because it had no air conditioning so he opened a few big bay garage doors.
I am sure I missed it but it probably had a loading dock in it somewhere as well.
It was run by an old guy named Dave. He was this short little power lifter guy.
With the gyms today mostly looking like Globogym from dodgeball I kind of miss that hot stinky place with ripped bench covers and duct tape on them. To bad it was at the beginning of my weightlifting journey and I couldn't fully appreciate it. Then again at that time the big corporate gym in my area was the 24 fitness not like all the same ones we have now.