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Hi,

Before lockdown I used to go to the gym 2 or 3 mornings a week. They provided virtual spin and exercise classes that I could book online and if I went early in the morning it would usually be quite quiet.

But after lockdown they changed it so you have to go to the gym reception and ask them to put a class on. They always cocked it up or there would already be a class in progress and I’d have to go back and forth to reception. It was a lot of faff that stressed me out, made me feel like a problem and I stopped going.

Do any of you use a gym and if so how have you gotten round be problem or them being busy with people queueing for equipment etc? I just want to go in, exercise and get out.

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  • I can only speak for myself but I prefer to exercise alone most of the classes in my local gym cardio and I’m not too impressed with that. Prefer to do things at my own pace.

    that said my experience of the gym started after Covid. I do find it frustrating waiting for weight machines as it happens I’m in the gym right now waiting for weight machines. but the convenience of a 24 hour gym and my limited funds far outweighs that concern.

    I think all gyms underinvesting weight machines largely because they’re actually pretty expensive to maintain. they seem to break quite regularly. And obviously if you’ve got one machine but you need to use in your routine and that you only have one copy of that machine well there’s a lot less flexibility than with a running machine where you can have six of them and they’re all the same as each other

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  • I can only speak for myself but I prefer to exercise alone most of the classes in my local gym cardio and I’m not too impressed with that. Prefer to do things at my own pace.

    that said my experience of the gym started after Covid. I do find it frustrating waiting for weight machines as it happens I’m in the gym right now waiting for weight machines. but the convenience of a 24 hour gym and my limited funds far outweighs that concern.

    I think all gyms underinvesting weight machines largely because they’re actually pretty expensive to maintain. they seem to break quite regularly. And obviously if you’ve got one machine but you need to use in your routine and that you only have one copy of that machine well there’s a lot less flexibility than with a running machine where you can have six of them and they’re all the same as each other

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