I pay 12 bucks a month for my 24 hour fitness all club membership.
(Got it through Costco).
24 isn't the best place, but its typically filled with people on the fitness machines,
and the squat rack is never taken, plus they're everywhere and always open.
Over all I like the place, can't beat the price.
At home, bought some olympic weights, a bar, squat stands and a couple of benches and never looked back.
I would kill to have a home gym
Fall/Spring - campus gym
Winter/Summer - 24 Hour Fitness back home
Local boxing gym and a shitty commercial gym... for now.
I used to have a garage gym, but have since moved to a condo with only a carport with storage closets.
Being in a town filled with winter sport athletes our local community center is probably better than your standard chain gym. Some machines, but also a squat rack, bench, trap bar, kettlebells and full dumbells up to way heavy.
There is a short climbing wall, concept II rower, heavy bag, speedbags, indoor track, full court for bball/volleyball as well. Its $200 a year which breaks down to $16 a month.
The rest of my workouts are snowboarding, mountain and road biking and swimming. All of those are within 0-15 minutes of my place. :D
In a bodybuilding/powerlifting dungeon.
Its full of guys who train hard day in, day out.
Helps to motivate me personally.
Invisible Lats Syndrome - At home, bought some olympic weights, a bar, squat stands and a couple of benches and never looked back.
Nice!
I have looked at the I hate my gym kit (Or something like that) on elitefts.com,
do you think something like that is worth it?
Or where did you purchase your setup?
At my CrossFit gym. I don't pay anything 'cause I work there. :)
Also I take indoor rowing classes every week at a local spin/rowing/yoga place. Killer cardio.
24 Hr (Just for heavy lifting & the pool)
Nature (TRX, Weight Vest, Kbells)
MMA gym
I've been thinking about moving back home with my parents, just to save money (to buy a house of my own) and so I can have a home gym :-p Then I could just use somewhere local and cheaper to swim.
A local community center across the street from a halfway house. The clientele of the weightroom is okay but some of the other areas of the facility are sketchy.
Last week they had to close the pool because someone took a dump in it.
I've also heard rumours of some local bum that will hang out in the showers and masturbate.
We have a gym at work.
I work out at home (I have a sledgehammer/old tire, a doorway pullup bar, and a keg I am gradually filling with sand) or go running outside at one of several local parks.
Up until a few months back I went to a boxing gym 4-6x a week and went for long walks with a sandbag, but I havent done much of either since school let back in.
I've been trying to simplify for a while and I'm finding I can be pretty happy (and as strong/conditioned as I really care to be) just working with the sledge, lifting the keg, running, and doing pushups. I can keep getting stronger just off this stuff for a while, too, I figure I've got a few years before I'm able to clean/press or snatch a full keg (and once it's full of sand I can get the sand wet, too).
As soon as I get through this semester at school I'm going back to the gym (I was boxing and taking judo until september, eager to get back to it).
YMCA
The one by my house is pretty new, and I go at 430AM. Nobody in the weight room, so I have the whole thing to myself. Locker rooms empty as well. Only thing that sucks is they pump in christain soft rock over the speakers. I don't like to wear headphones because I end up zoning out.
I travel often, and the Y allows you to use any facility in the country, so that is a plus. A lot of them are real dumps though, so deserve the bad reputation.
I turned my living room into a gym (matted floors, pullup/dip station, barbells, dumbells, sledge/tire, chains, the works), and also a membership to Planet fitness for $10 a month.
backyard: weights, squat stand, sledgehammer/tire, jump rope
gonna have to find somewhere indoors soon though w/ winter comin'.
Wasn't Planet Fitness the one booting members for grunting while working out?
piratepirate -Invisible Lats Syndrome - At home, bought some olympic weights, a bar, squat stands and a couple of benches and never looked back.
Nice!
I have looked at the I hate my gym kit (Or something like that) on elitefts.com,
do you think something like that is worth it?
Or where did you purchase your setup?
At the time I got set up I was doing a modified WS4SB program so I stripped it down to bare essentials and bought equipment to suit.
So I bought an olympic bar, spin collars and 2 off 5, 10, 15, 20, 25kg weights from the local distributor of a barbell company. This was probably the biggest cost for me, I bought new because the stuff I found second hand was shitty and mostly for 1" OD bars. It was over $500, and the biggest cost.
I found this company that since has gone out of business that had basic gym equipment sold in flat packs imported from China. I bought a new set of squat stands from them for next to nothing and it goes low enough to use for benching and more than high enough to use for squatting so that was done.
I went to a local fitness place and bought a cheap flat bench, dip belt, weight rack and ab wheel. Went to a rubber place and bought a 2m x 1m piece of their densest foam rubber to deadlift off of and cut it in half with a jigsaw. Then to the hardware store for misc stuff like a chalk bucket, PVC piping for a roller for myofascial release and smaller diameter stuff for a wrist roller, plus broom sticks for warmup exercises. There was already a pullup/dip tower at the house so that was all I needed.
I change up my routine from time to time so I eventually added more stuff as I needed it. I went high volume, 4 day, bodybuilding type split for a while so I got a Z-bar and 11" dumbbell handles that suit olympic sized 2" weights, plus extra collars and enough for 4 off of all the smaller sized weights .5, 1.25, 2.5, 5, 10 kg plus an incline bench.
With all that I can adapt basically any program to suit my setup. I would love a cable machine that uses 2" olympic weights and has a small footprint but I don't think such a thing exists. I'll probably invest in a DC stick welder and attempt to make one myself.
A small room in the back of my house with some bars and free weights and other stuff it's not much but does the job 
Ring Girl,
Yes. Which is good because i hate it when meatheads grunt for no reason.
The one i go to is empty most of the time anyway, and i go mostly for the cardio room because i already have weights, so it's a non-issue.