[icehog3]

I've never been inside a Planet Fitness, brian.

The days of the hardcore gyms are just about over. The gym I train at now tries to cater to the "fitness" crowd, with tons of cardio machines and personal trainers preaching exercises that seem foreign to us dinosaurs.

Luckily the gym has enough hardcore stuff to keep the lifters happy, and none of us could care less what the others lift, we just help each other to improve. I lift with guys who bench anywhere from 135 to 595, from ages 18 to 65, and we're all supportive and cool to each other.

I grew up when a gym was weights, a heavy bag and a drinking fountain, and the fountain didn't work 1/2 the time. We wore funny looking baggy pants and lifted Volkswagons, and we liked it that way. AC/DC and other 3 chord hard rock blasted through the speakers, and after the workout we would go to Burger King and have 4 bacon doublecheeseburgers each. I kinda miss those days...I definitely miss that metabolism.