Is the Gold Coast the next Muscle Beach Venice?

[gib]

Discuss.

[Never1AShow]

Discuss.

Muscle beach Venice does not really exist and has not existed for many years.  People always get this confused.  There is Golds Venice which is a great gym about 2 blocks off the beach where you don't ever even see the water.  Then there is the weight put on the boardwalk which tourists walk by.  No real bodybuilder trains there other than on a lark.  It's mostly weirdos with mental issues/narcism.  There is no "Muscle Beach".

I dont know when it ended, some time after the discussion of the two wolves on the hill by muscular men working on their tans in the mid 70s and the late 80s when it was already gone.

[Grape Ape]

I thought the original muscle beach is in Santa Monica right next to Venice......at least that's what the signs said when I was staying a hotel right next to it.

It has rings, chinup bars, dip stands and lots of ropes to climb.  People have special gloves for hanging on the rings and do some insane tricks.

[Kwon_2]

Muscle Beach

[TuHolmes]

I thought the original muscle beach is in Santa Monica right next to Venice......at least that's what the signs said when I was staying a hotel right next to it.

It has rings, chinup bars, dip stands and lots of ropes to climb.  People have special gloves for hanging on the rings and do some insane tricks.

They moved the "original" muscle beach gym and all of that stuff, down the beach a little.

The place is still there though. You can get a membership for 120 bucks a year last I checked. You'll be working out outside with rusted plates, but if it's your thing, go for it.

It's there.

As far as the Gold's Gym in Venice... Pros still train there if they are around, but really, the world is different than it used to be.

Really great gyms are all over the place now, so people don't make the "pilgrimage" to Venice anymore.

[SquidVicious]

Yes, you'll only find the narcissistic weirdos at Muscle Beach and not at Gold's Venice.