My Gym

This is just a little bit about the place where I'm doing my lifting.  I work out at Symmetry Gym in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  They list themselves as the last real gym in Tulsa.  And they're pretty much dead on.  We've got Gold's and Planet Fitness.  Gold's is ok, but its highly commercialized.  You get kicked out of Planet Fitness for lifting too much weight or grunting, and even worse the one's I've been to don't have a single free bar in the entire joint.  We have a regional gym called 10 gym.  Somewhat like Planet Fitness, but no lunk alarm.  And they have free bars and a power rack.  But the people in there are all there to socialize or there for the free aerobics classes.  Very few people are there to work out.  And of course the music they have blaring is crappy pop tunes.  They also had these custom looking plates.  The 45's they had were shorter than normal 45's and they were rubberized.  Overall if I didn't have anywhere else to work out it would probably be there that I would train.  They're super cheap at $10 a month too.

I used to work out at a place called Access Fitness.  It wasn't part of the chain of those gyms.  This was owned by an old power lifter.  He built nearly all the equipment in the gym.  He didn't play music in the gym, and didn't allow anything other than headphones in there.  He had everything though.  Even had a deadlift platform with metric bounce plates.  It was great until he sold it to a guy who turned it in to an MMA gym.

Now I work out at Symmetry.  Real weights, real strong dudes lifting them.  They have posters and announcements of strength and fitness events around the state all over the place.  24 hour access with a key card.  Metal/Rock blaring through speakers through out the gym.  They even have a monolift.  Great place to work out, tons of great people to learn from, and its not expensive at all.  $25 a month.  Hopefully being in a great place like that will keep me motivated through the next few years.

If you want to check it out they have a facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/symmetry.gym.7?fref=ts