Me and my brother lift at Gold’s Gym in Omaha. Everytime we lift I hate the gym a little bit more. We’ve thought long and hard about different options - but right now it looks like we’re stuck at Gold’s Gym.
Gold’s has treated us pretty good for the past 2 years, however they’ve recently decided to make some changes. They’ve put ads on the radio saying “they don’t want any concrete heads” … “and people carrying around gallon jugs of water”. The gym itself has turned into a circus with lights and sirens going off complete with Disney music in the background.
Everybody who lifts any amount of weight jokes about it all the time - “you’re going to set off the alarm!” And the serious lifters aren’t really a small portion of these gyms’ members. We’re all experienced and have been at the gym for a while, but according to their radio ad, “Gold’s Gym would rather get a new member than keep an old one.” How does that make any of their members feel?
My bro sent me an e-mail today with a quote that he liked and I did too:
As a young lifter, I remember going into the gym and seeing some really big, strong dudes lifting heavy weights, clapping chalk, and making a lot of noise. The music playing on the stereo made you want to work out the moment you walked inside. This has been replaced by a bunch of pencil neck “trainers” with extra-medium muscle shirts and small shorts running around with clipboards having their clients balance on top of a swimming pool ball, juggle dumbbells, and recite their ABCs backwards. - Paul Caldwell
I searched and found the rest of the article here: www.EliteFTS.com I don’t know who Paul Caldwell is and have never lifted at his training facility - but I’d like to… anything’s got to be better than Golds Gym Omaha.