Gym/Health Club Memberships

[run4it]

Where do you go?
Where is it located?
What's included?
What's it costing?
What are the chances of Riven or Selwyn finding a date there?

[run4it]

I go to Fitness 360. It's near Delaware/Kenmore...across from Target Plaza.
It's pretty bare-bones....treadmills, elipticals, bikes, free weights and weight machines. Rarely have to wait to use any equipment. There are also yoga, 'boot camp', and spin classes available and included.

I pay $20/mo, though I think it's more for new members.

[bigpoppapuff]

i've been at body blocks...excellent gym and trainers.....right now i'm at allentown athletix....if fitness 19 opens in north bflo or downtown,i'll join.....the owner is a good friend and client of mine.....

[run4it]

i've been at body blocks...excellent gym and trainers.....right now i'm at allentown athletix....if fitness 19 opens in north bflo or downtown,i'll join.....the owner is a good friend and client of mine.....
What's price/facilities like at Allentown?

[bigpoppapuff]

What's price/facilities like at Allentown?


i think i'm paying $379 for the year....body blocks is $500..(again,i think)....AA is an older facility...very clean....some newer equipment...some older...loads of group programs and very good,certified trainers...if anyone is interested,i will personally meet you at either club...AA or body blocks to walk you through and introduce you....i might also see if i can arrange a possible SU discount...

[granpabob]

my health cube is walking out in my back yard and taking oders from my wife
weeding the garden trimming the trees mowing the lawn or just a walk in the woods. why pay for exercise when you have so many free ways to be active

[Sylvan]

Where do you go?
Where is it located?
What's included?
What's it costing?
What are the chances of Riven or Selwyn finding a date there?

Backyard
The woods
Nature
Effort
Riven-none
Me? Dates come here and they love it. :D

[Bannister]

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What's it costing?
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Where: YMCA
Located: North Buffalo
Included: Pool, small weight room, aerobics classes, a grody looking track
Costing: $45/mo for a family membership
Date Possibilities: You might have some luck taking an aerobics or spinning class. Avoid the water aerobics group unless you're looking for a senior citizen gal.

[wheresthesun]

Where do you go?
Where is it located?
What's included?
What's it costing?
What are the chances of Riven or Selwyn finding a date there?
Southtowns YMCA
Transit Rd.
Most everything except individual classes...i.e. kids swim class etc...is included
Cost N/A
Riven will find a date there, without a doubt.:D

[wheresthesun]

Well, this thread really took off. :rolleyes:
OK--question for those of you who DO workout...what type of program do you do? Cardio? Strength training? etc...

[Sylvan]

I lift heavy logs and carry them up hills. Stack them. Then cut them to length and split them with a maul into smaller pieces and stack them again. Then I carry bundles into the house when I need them.

[bigpoppapuff]

Well, this thread really took off. :rolleyes:
OK--question for those of you who DO workout...what type of program do you do? Cardio? Strength training? etc...



strength training and stretching....should do more cardio...but i hate it....

[wheresthesun]

strength training and stretching....should do more cardio...but i hate it....
Forgot about the stretching component; very important. And, yes cardio, albeit monotonous, is a must. So, get moving BPP!:D

[run4it]

I do about 25-30 minutes of cardio 4-5 times a week (usually on the elliptical). I stretch (not enough) before and after most of the workouts. I do light weight training once or twice a week.

During the summer I do a LOT more cardio (I ride my bike to work) but less weight training as I'm not actually in the gym.

[bigpoppapuff]

i have a weight training program for you,run...real easy to do...and only two days/week...

[wheresthesun]

Here's the thing about stretching and men; they don't do it. It's true. Runners are some of the worst offenders. Men tend to be very tight in the hamstrings which can lead to lots of issues. Easy light stretching before, and more aggressive stretching after a run can prevent injuries down the road. Truly.:)

[DR_GONZO]

I have been going to Gold's, first in West Seneca on Seneca St., but now-a-days here in Cheektowaga at French and Transit. $29/month is well worth it to me. I luved the setup in the old Gold's on Seneca but this one on French, albeit a little trendy, is O.K. for my training.

[mrakwaters]

I go to world gym in Hamburg and I love it. I have a student membership for $10 a month. Membership includes classes (such as pilates, yoga, karate, body pump, step, etc.) as well as childcare services. I love this gym. I moved to West Seneca and am closer to Baily's, but I'll never leave world gym

[bigpoppapuff]

I go to world gym in Hamburg and I love it. I have a student membership for $10 a month. Membership includes classes (such as pilates, yoga, karate, body pump, step, etc.) as well as childcare services. I love this gym. I moved to West Seneca and am closer to Baily's, but I'll never leave world gym


is dan valenti still working there as a trainer??....if he is...tell him i said hello!!

[Dumbfounded]

Where do you go?
Where is it located?
What's included?
What's it costing?
What are the chances of Riven or Selwyn finding a date there?

JCC Amherst

North Forest Road

-State-of-the-art ellipticals, treadmills & other aerobic machines,
-circuit-traning weight machines
-Big-assed heated indoor and outdoor (summer) pools
-Squash/Racketball courts
-Basketball court
-Newly refurbished locker rooms with saunas and steamrooms
-VERY well educated personal trainers
-Yoga and tons of other classes to sign up for (extra)
-Massage (extra!)
-Daycare
-"Hardcore" weight room upstairs with running track around it, a power rack, Smith Machine, cable crossover machine, seated T-bar machine, leg press, several fixed benches, calve machine, seated leg curl machine, 8 or more loose benches, decline benches, ab machine, tons of bosu balls;All kinds of instruction and workout programs offered
Much, much more included
Plenty of mirrors

Cost? I THINK around $300/yr with a discount for students and seniors. Two initial free training sessions.

Courteous, professional, clean and friendly

Dating and mating?

SOME hot women, but most are beasts.
Kidding. Plenty of women to date.

I go there to paump iron und vork vith der aerobic machines! Der gym is for veights!!
Not to pickup der chip floozies und go "bouncy bouncy" mit in der bedroom!!!

Minuses? Just one...TOO MANY DAMNED SCREAMING KIDS!!!

[wheresthesun]

I go there to paump iron und vork vith der aerobic machines! Der gym is for veights!!
Not to pickup der chip floozies und go "bouncy bouncy" mit in der bedroom!!!

Minuses? Just one...TOO MANY DAMNED SCREAMING KIDS!!!
I HATE it when you speak German:D


Cost? I THINK around $300/yr with a discount for students and seniors. Two initial free training sessions. Which are you, a student or a senior? :D Do they give discounts to Jewishes or do they actually increase their fee? ;)

General Question: Is there a gym in, or near, the city of Buffalo where you can work out without membership...in other words, "pay-as-you-go?" (preferably clean w/Cybex and free-weights)

Secondly, has anyone ever used a body bar? I have a 15 lb. bar and I love it. You can work virtually any muscle group. The one draw back is the limited range of motion as opposed to free weights. It's one of my favorite "at-home" work out tools. That and my little one-dollar rubber ball.

[Dumbfounded]

I HATE it when you speak German:D

Which are you, a student or a senior? :D Do they give discounts to Jewishes or do they actually increase their fee? ;)

I'm neither a student or a senior: I graduated nursery sh-College
and I'm 45 (just to clarify)


By joining a local temple of my choice, ostensibly to pray, meet and interact with other Jews and "rediscover" my Judiasm, I received a huge membership discount at the JCC
(don't know if its still offered)

The greater Buffalo Jewish community is trying to get Jews back into Judiasm,
so yes, I DID receive a huge discount on my center membership for the first year (two years ago), but after that its around $300/YR for one member with discounts for famalies, of course


There isn't a discount for just being Jewish and well over half of the center's members are non-Jews.



I'm pretty sure that students and seniors
get a really nice discount.


The JCC has a great website and you should be able to get your information from it or you can call/stop in at the Amherst, North Forest Rd. center or the one on Deleware in Buffalo





General Question: Is there a gym in, or near, the city of Buffalo where you can work out without membership...in other words, "pay-as-you-go?" (preferably clean w/Cybex and free-weights)

One in Kenmore, Deleware Avenue

Secondly, has anyone ever used a body bar? I have a 15 lb. bar and I love it. You can work virtually any muscle group. The one draw back is the limited range of motion as opposed to free weights. It's one of my favorite "at-home" work out tools. That and my little one-dollar rubber ball.



If you can somehow use a local college's or university's gym, that might be a pay-as-you go deal

Another option: Some of the Y's are pretty damned good.

YEARS ago, I joined the Deleware Y with membership fees based on a sliding scale for my income-GREAT DEAL





That new huge gym on Sheridan & Eggert might offer a decent pay-as-you-go deal




If you want to put together a great home gym, then write/type out a list of what equipment you'll need (adjust it to your changing needs over time) and slowly buy something new every week or whenever you can

a large mirror
Olympic weights with adjustable dumbells
Adjustable bench for flat, incline & decline presses
Lat pulldown or pullup bar T-bar
extra weights and bars
a belt is RARELY needed;Mainly for HEAVY lifts
workout gloves or the ones with hooks
a squat rack

Hell, if you can somehow get a Smith Machine & a power rack, you're just about set!

"Dick's" carries some killer combo machines but you can buy weight and other excercise eqpt:


FROM:

"The Buffalo News" (Especially the thrifities)
"The Swap Sheet"
"Craig's List"
Your local community newspapers






I'll stop writing German since I'm not mocking Timmy anymore and imitating Arnold is old and lame
(like John McCain!)

[winfield31]

Where do you go?
Where is it located?
What's included?
What's it costing?
What are the chances of Riven or Selwyn finding a date there?:) 1.) basement gym (treadmill , weight bench , stepper , soft rug for threapy/stretching excercises , etc.) 2.) My home 3.) It's all paid for right now 4.) My 80 year old mother-in-law (lives w/us) is "free" right now , they "may" have a shot ? Also do a lot of walking in the neighborhood , don't kill ourselves , walk at approx. a 3 MPH "pace" , it's pretty easy on the knees............

[StashuDapew]

I lift at home in my garage, and have done so for many years. I do miss the old World Gym though when it was on Walden in the 80's. I'd drive from Elma just to lift there. More 100 pound York plates on the racks than you could easily count, and delicious protein shakes! That was a true destination for any obsessed lifter, such as yours truly. :D

Donny opened back up as a key club on Transit near Genesee for a while after he left Walden, but it just wasn't the same. About the same length as Walden, but it was super narrow.

Also around roughly the same time frame, Steve Binkowski (a.k.a. 'The Bink') had a pretty nice gym on the east side of Transit between Como Park and Losson/William. That man had calves on him like a Sahlen's smokehouse ham, and boy howdy could he move some serious iron. He taught me a heckuva lot about lifting. Last I heard he was in Florida, but that was a long time ago.

I did lift for a while at Fitness Factory in Kenmore, and that was an OK place. It was 250 for one year at the time (circa 2001) and they had some decent equipment. And an Eleiko bar with the old style rubber-rimmed York bumper plates courtesy of 'Olympic Ed' who is actually another World Gym 'former' member. :)

I'd love to open up a place like the old World Gym when I retire, it would be a true retreat for obsessive dinosaur lifters and 'Milo' readers. Hopefully it will happen. :)

[DR_GONZO]

Also around roughly the same time frame, Steve Binkowski (a.k.a. 'The Bink') had a pretty nice gym on the east side of Transit between Como Park and Losson/William.

Pyramid, I loved that place! Was right after H.S. when some H.S. buds and I started going there. He was pretty big from what I remember. Wasn't he, his son, or sons(?) all into that power lifting? I remember the one guy looked like Hercules Hernandez but bigger. They would all train heavy as hell while us youngsters watched in amazement at what they would lift, bench, squat, etc... That was cool!:cool:

[bigpoppapuff]

Pyramid, I loved that place! Was right after H.S. when some H.S. buds and I started going there. He was pretty big from what I remember. Wasn't he, his son, or sons(?) all into that power lifting? I remember the one guy looked like Hercules Hernandez but bigger. They would all train heavy as hell while us youngsters watched in amazement at what they would lift, bench, squat, etc... That was cool!:cool:

steve binkowski won the mr buffalo in 1988....he was a beast!!

[bigpoppapuff]

by the way.....in the 275lb class in 1990 in the buffalo power lifting championships...he benched 474....as i said.....he was a beast!!

[Steve Binkowski]

Hey bigpapapuff, Stashu Dapew & DR GONZO..... It's Steve Binkowski here!
Thanks for all the kind words guys!
Just thought I would let you guys I have been living in Sarasota FL since 1993
I just turned 63 last May, you guys feel old now don't you?
Quit lifting altogether in 2002. finished off my career with a 429 bench @230 bwt in 2002 and the highlight of my PL career was winning a Gold in Graz Austria 1n 1998 in 275 50-54 in the APF Worlds.

Please reply and let me know what you guys are up to these days.

Steve Binkowski

[DR_GONZO]

Steve, just want to say thanks for running such a kick arse gym back in the day! Loved that place. Nothing fancy, just pure weight lifting equipment, that worked better than most of the junk at gyms now-a-days. To this day, working out has been a stable in my life based on the basics I toiled with back in Pyramid. No candy-a55, buttercup, flavor of the day B.S. Just down and dirty lifting. No picnics!:cool:

Once again thanks for opening the door to the best gym I have ever been into in Buffalo,
DR_GONZO

[zanna vaida]

i've been at body blocks...excellent gym and trainers.....right now i'm at allentown athletix....if fitness 19 opens in north bflo or downtown,i'll join.....the owner is a good friend and client of mine.....


Did you solve the "Wife issue"? Sounds like you go to a club on your own?

[CAugust]

Did you solve the "Wife issue"? Sounds like you go to a club on your own?

who goes with a wife or husband to a gym or club? Thats not unheard of, but odd - usually people go alone....................

[run4it]

who goes with a wife or husband to a gym or club? Thats not unheard of, but odd - usually people go alone....................

My wife and I go....

...I make her lift weights and she makes me go to yoga and pilates. They're both things that are GOOD for us that we probably wouldn't do on our own. It's called, umm.....supporting each other, or something.

[pilot56]

Planet Fitness on Sheridan in Amherst (between Hopkins and Youngs)
Only $10.00 a month! Open 24 hrs Mon-Fri!