So I just found out that my gym is closing down due to a loss of business to the opening of a gigantic LA Fitness down the street!! My gym is one of the very last hardcore gyms in my county and the only hardcore gym within reasonable driving distance. The LA Fitness is a gym for pussies...no dumbells over 100lbs, no squat cages, no deadlifting allowed, no steel plates or dumbells and jam packed with dipshits. Does anyone else here feel my pain?
I've visited an LA Fitness gym in Orlando, and they had plenty of dumbbells (up to 150s) and two squat racks.
The plates were the vinyl or rubber-coated ones, but there were several flat and incline bench presses (actually bolted to the floor).
That gym is CLEAN. The bars and chrome are so shiny, you can almost eat off them.
With all of that said, it's WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too pricey. And, since I still have my Bally membership that I got for Christmas nearly 20 years ago, I'll stick with that.