Originally Posted by
niz19
In NYC, all the NYSC are essentially multi-level, with the barbell section being in the smallest/shittiest area. If the one you go to has a "pool" (read: bathtub) in the basement, then I used to go to that one as well. DBs were down in the basement. Was like working out in a sauna in the summer.
Have another NYSC story from this past weekend. For this thread, it might qualify as a campfire story, told to young lifters to scare them away from big box gyms forever. So gather round.
It's Saturday, 2PM. Walk into the gym and immediately, something feels off. Usually on Sat afternoon, nobody is in the gym, except one or two assholes using the only squat rack to do something ridiculous. But today, right by the front desk, there were literally 40-50 Asian college-aged students. Just standing there, most not even wearing gym clothes - jeans, button down shirts, skirts on the girls. My spidey sense says this is all very wrong, but I ignore it.
I venture to the basement lair and see the squat rack is open. Praise Jesus. I notice another 25-30 more Asian college-aged students, mostly girls, near the benches/DBs, where I am switching out the bent bar from the squat rack (aka warmup farmer's carries). Are they here to workout? Given that 4-5 of them are sitting on the equipment as if they were park benches, I'm assuming no. Very odd, but the squat rack is open so I pay it no mind.
I do my squats. Notice some sort of "competition" going on near the benches. Luckily, as I finish, the whole room clears out (50+ people at this point in <1000 square feet). I make my way over to the bench area, now cleared. Do my bench reps. Almost home, this has worked out perfectly, I think. But I was so wrong.
Time for cleans.
And then they came, streaming down the stairs like a flood. 20, 30, 40 of them. I lost count. I'm on set 3 of my cleans, almost done. They keep coming. Set 4, dear god I'm almost there. Something is going on near the benches, which are less than 10 feet away. There are so many of them, I can't even see what it is, nor do I care. A group of 5-10 girls comes over and starts sitting near the bench in front of me. I'm cleaning in about the smallest area one could clean in. Mirrors at my back, decline bench at my right, a post on my left. I bend down to get my last set of cleans in and another group comes over and starts LITERALLY stepping over the bar, then just standing there. To do a clean would mean putting the end of the barbell up someone's ass.
I consider this. But no, I am a pussy, and I let the opportunity pass. At this point, more of them are streaming down. I can barely see the barbell at this point. I'm being drowned in a sea of Asian college-aged student.
I pick up my shit and just walk out of the gym. Don't rack the weights, which is fucked up, I know. But any gym that allows that sort of circus deserves to pick up their own shit. Fuck you NYSC. Fuck you.
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