Author Topic: Looking for a gym in Vegas.  (Read 966 times)

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Re: Looking for a gym in Vegas
« Reply #25 on: November 09, 2025, 03:27:00 PM »
sway just told us he films himself in the gym and has a tripod.

Well, it’s always the old guys who complain the most. Yet they always seem to  go to the gyms where it happens the most. Almost all the gyms  in Vegas has people filming. Personal trainers here do it all the time during training sessions with clients. The clients love it.

Basically the older guys don’t seem to realize they’re the minority in this issue. And they don’t understand that the gyms love it. They want everyone to see their gym and want to train at it. Especially here in Vegas. Jay cutler always says right away what gym he’s at when he films. Several of the gyms even have photo areas all over them. The influencers and competitors do most of the marketing for them in some cases.

I think the bigger issue is that gyms are filled with more younger people. And certainly there’s a lot more women in the gyms than ever before. And with more women training, the gyms have changed. There’s zero hardcore gyms here now. We know what Vegas gyms were like 20-25 yrs ago. Now theirs zero market for a hardcore/meathead gym.

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Re: Looking for a gym in Vegas
« Reply #26 on: November 09, 2025, 04:21:47 PM »
Well, it’s always the old guys who complain the most. Yet they always seem to  go to the gyms where it happens the most. Almost all the gyms  in Vegas has people filming. Personal trainers here do it all the time during training sessions with clients. The clients love it.

Basically the older guys don’t seem to realize they’re the minority in this issue. And they don’t understand that the gyms love it. They want everyone to see their gym and want to train at it. Especially here in Vegas. Jay cutler always says right away what gym he’s at when he films. Several of the gyms even have photo areas all over them. The influencers and competitors do most of the marketing for them in some cases.

I think the bigger issue is that gyms are filled with more younger people. And certainly there’s a lot more women in the gyms than ever before. And with more women training, the gyms have changed. There’s zero hardcore gyms here now. We know what Vegas gyms were like 20-25 yrs ago. Now theirs zero market for a hardcore/meathead gym.

There's not even 1 hard-core gym?
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Re: Looking for a gym in Vegas
« Reply #27 on: Today at 12:36:30 AM »
There's not even 1 hard-core gym?
Just buy weights and lift at home.

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Re: Looking for a gym in Vegas.
« Reply #28 on: Today at 03:37:08 AM »
That's right, with minimal equipment and without doping from the start (80's), I am extremely muscular.
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Re: Looking for a gym in Vegas
« Reply #29 on: Today at 06:07:05 AM »
Just buy weights and lift at home.

Not like their used be. The Lift Factory on West Cheyenne would be the closest to a hardcore gym. But that’s nowhere close to where you live now. You can also try Torture gym and Strength Culture but they’re not hardcore like you would remember. You could also try Smash Iron Fitness as well, that gym has powerlifting equipment as well. Stan Efferding has a gym on East Windmill but it’s really small and expensive.

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Re: Looking for a gym in Vegas
« Reply #30 on: Today at 06:16:06 AM »
THANKS FOR SUCH WONDERFUL INSIGHT ON THIS. I GUESS EVERYONE IS WRONG! OH, EXCEPT FOR YOU AND THE INFLUENCERS WHO FILM! I GUESS WE'RE BEING UNREASONABLE FOR WANTING TO GO TO THE GYM AND NOT TRIP OVER A WORTHLESS TRIPOD. MANY THANKS FOR PROVIDING YOUR INVALUABLE  "FLY ON THE WALL" PERSPECTIVE OF THE FILMING STUDIO GYMS OF LAS VEGAS!!

People who film are the minority. They're nothing but pests. Nothing worse than when the gym is busy and these idiots show up with their film crews, lights, and multiple tripods. Then they begin taping off areas and kicking members off benches because it's going to be used in the video.

No one admires them. Gyms don't need marketing from these influencers. So what about the perverts who got caught filming people on the toilets and nude in the showers? Sounds like you endorse that and consider it part of the gym's marketing as well?

I've seen members kick tripods across the floor and drop weights on people's phones as they record their stupid videos. I've seen people get in fights with people filming their videos. And each time, I've seen the management kick out the people who are filming. Gyms are not film studios.

No the clients do not "love it" when trainers record them. So where are all these videos of the clients who you claim love being filmed? I've never once read a client's testimonial where they raved about how incredible it was to be filmed and how their life changed for the better because of the filming.

Calm down Grandpa. Filming in the gym is absolutely nothing like what you described. No one carries a tripod around in the gyms. Most of the time you won’t even notice people filming. No one ever takes over areas of the gyms to film either. You’re clueless and have no idea what you’re talking about. Just another rant from a jealous old man.

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Re: Looking for a gym in Vegas
« Reply #31 on: Today at 07:40:03 AM »
Calm down Grandpa. Filming in the gym is absolutely nothing like what you described. No one carries a tripod around in the gyms. Most of the time you won’t even notice people filming. No one ever takes over areas of the gyms to film either. You’re clueless and have no idea what you’re talking about. Just another rant from a jealous old man.
Filming in the gym is 1000% like I described.

Numerous times I've been sitting on a bench and have had someone set up a tripod right next to me to film their content.

I've been at other gyms where tripods are set up in the middle of the gym floor, set up on treadmills rendering them not able to be used, or set up in the locker room filming people showering, posing, or on the toilet.

I've seen groups of people arrive together and it's their film crew ready to set up their mobile filming studio right in the middle of the evening gym time. They will park right in front of the main entrance to the gym in their car displaying their IG name or YouTube channel name on the car thus forcing other people to walk through the bushes under the windows just to get inside the gym. They will then start carrying in white boards on stands, tripods, large lights, boxes of clothing, backdrop curtains, fake weight plates, boxes of protein bars, and costumes and leave all this junk right smack in the middle of the gym forcing people to have to step over this stuff just to get to the dumbell rack or squat racks.

I've witnessed these people at other gyms take over the turf areas when filming skits and handstand balancing acts on dumbells and barbells.

 I also love how you viewed my correct observations and legitimate complaints as hate and resorted to ad hominem attacks.

Gym tripods should be broken into pieces and tossed in a dumpster.

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Re: Looking for a gym in Vegas
« Reply #32 on: Today at 07:45:20 AM »
There's not even 1 hard-core gym?
Yes there are. Just pick any gym that looks good to you. But stay away from Dragon's Lair. Don't listen to Sway. I think he probably spends so much time focused on people filming at the gym and watching videos on his phone that he gets distracted during his workout.
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Re: Looking for a gym in Vegas
« Reply #33 on: Today at 09:03:17 AM »
Filming in the gym is 1000% like I described.

Numerous times I've been sitting on a bench and have had someone set up a tripod right next to me to film their content.

I've been at other gyms where tripods are set up in the middle of the gym floor, set up on treadmills rendering them not able to be used, or set up in the locker room filming people showering, posing, or on the toilet.

I've seen groups of people arrive together and it's their film crew ready to set up their mobile filming studio right in the middle of the evening gym time. They will park right in front of the main entrance to the gym in their car displaying their IG name or YouTube channel name on the car thus forcing other people to walk through the bushes under the windows just to get inside the gym. They will then start carrying in white boards on stands, tripods, large lights, boxes of clothing, backdrop curtains, fake weight plates, boxes of protein bars, and costumes and leave all this junk right smack in the middle of the gym forcing people to have to step over this stuff just to get to the dumbell rack or squat racks.

I've witnessed these people at other gyms take over the turf areas when filming skits and handstand balancing acts on dumbells and barbells.

 I also love how you viewed my correct observations and legitimate complaints as hate and resorted to ad hominem attacks.

Gym tripods should be broken into pieces and tossed in a dumpster.

38 returns can correct this if Im wrong but Im sure Nathan de Ashas gym had a sign up, if you want to film its £50

Doesnt look the bad guy by banning filming but makes it out of reach of most people

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Re: Looking for a gym in Vegas.
« Reply #34 on: Today at 09:07:00 AM »
yep its either 50 or 75 quid

rightly so in my opinion
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