My gym turned pus$y

[animal crackers]

So I hadn't worked out in a few weeks, and I went back about a week ago, and they completely got rid of all the freeweight benchpress, and dumbbells over 50 lbs. This is terrible.

I mean they replaced all of it with machines, but I always read that you can't really gain big by working out on machines.

So either I switch gyms (which would suck as I only pay 7.50 a month for this one) or figure out how to do all my excersises with 50lb or less dumbbells.

Suggestions?

I'm esp wondering about bench, squats, big excersizes that I used to be able to do.

They have the squat machines, where the bar is on a track, but is that any good?

 

[CrizzleGA]

The bar is on a smith machine? ask them what the **** they did with all the free weights? tell them you want to buy some lolz

 

[Warboss Alex]

Take every weight and decent machine in this gym to its maximum, grind them down until you've conquered every one, then change gyms (if you want to save some money, if sub-50lb dumbbells are too easy for you then yes, change immediately).

 

[WORKEROUTER]

Wow, that is REALLY p*ssy and pathetic.

Change gyms immediately. Being in such a p*ssy environment is only going to hurt your gains.

 

[Warboss Alex]

I hate how people underestimate machines so much. Granted, there's plenty which're crappy but you can still make progress on some of them. And once you stagnate on free weights (you can't keep increasing weights all the time, eventually you WILL have to use a machine of some sort) what then?

Once your Hammer Strength chest press is at 150kg you won't be worrying about your pec size will you?

 

[gav]

i think it's best to keep a balance between machines and free weights.

last summer my private gym/leisure suite decided it would replace the bench and bbs with a multi-purpose machine; by multi purpose i mean it did everything. apart from that the dbs only went up to 10kg.

as for "squats on the track" or the smith machine i think you're talking about, i prefer doing my squats on that and i've been making slow gains on it over the past few months. (70kg*4 to 95kg*4)