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Thread: Old school Mid-City Gym
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12-10-2009, 05:03 PM #1
Old school Mid-City Gym
I've been home of late and just cleaning, the rooms, the garage etc etc. Been stumbling on a lot of old sh!t and since I been finding old bodybuilding pics and stuff I have been sharing them here and at the old site I frequent.
I found this add that I did with mid-city gym 11 years ago. I remember doing this to bring more people into the gym and to have them use the gyms program, APEX Fitness. Funny thing is I did not write any of it, they did. I got paid though
Mid-city gym was truly a hardcore gym back then, I have not been there in almost 5 years now. Last I checked it turned into a fitness center. Anyway just wanted to share some memories with you guys.
I blurred out my last name after I scanned it. Here is the front and back of the add
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12-10-2009, 05:10 PM #2
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12-10-2009, 07:20 PM #3
Was cool back then, not so much now at least from what I was told.
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12-10-2009, 08:00 PM #4
Old school is gone ...very sad
Went and checked out a new Golds Gym today and it was so
hi tech ...no gym feeling to it all
Very few in the free wieght area - and I did not see one girl lifting*Live every moment __Laugh every day__and Love Beyond Words *
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12-10-2009, 08:09 PM #5
Very hard to find a hardcore gym nowadays, but hey we can keep searching
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12-10-2009, 08:13 PM #6
Give me 2 years and there is a really good chance I will have my own gym where I can design, equip and make it feel the way i want too. BTW everyone here is allowed to come train and stay in one of the guest rooms for free.
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12-10-2009, 08:18 PM #7
Man I had that opportunity, the owner of hard bodies was going to sell me his gym an dI was going to go partners with a friend of mine but when I got with a lawyer to see if I could keep out certain people he told me I could not. He said although I would own the gym there were laws I would need to follow so technically I couldn't do what I wanted to do with the gym only to an extent.
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12-10-2009, 08:22 PM #8
Dude when are you going to visit the PIT? Some straight up people in there, definitely the place to go to see if you got what it takes.
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12-10-2009, 10:33 PM #9
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i train on and off at the one in bayonne and for the most part it has stayed the same except for the actual members. however,i think back to the late eighties and early nineties and seeing guys like santoriello come thru and wonder if any gym could replicate that era and its different "characters".
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12-11-2009, 08:35 AM #10
Hardcore? Overall kick ass attitude, paint peeling from the walls, floor encased with sweat urine and blood, worn machines from the 50s era, bent Olympic bars from over use, power rack has been welded so many times it will along with Cher and cockroaches be the last things remaining on Earth, duck taped benches, am radio with poor speaker and stuck on Oldies, chock everywhere, AC broken, desk manager asleep laid overface first in his Big Mac and fries, syringe on the floor in the locker room corner, the 150s sitting besides the incline bench, and 'fuck you' written over the 'Members Please Pick Up Your Weights' sign. Yeah Baby.
Love Hardcore.
Blu...I can take you into that Golds again and show you how to love the place. Turn a blind eye to the chrome and spandex. I bet there is some kick ass equipment in there. If its the East gym...is there still the roped off Pit?
John...cool suff...love it.
Baldie
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12-11-2009, 09:32 AM #11
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12-11-2009, 11:54 AM #12*Live every moment __Laugh every day__and Love Beyond Words *
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12-11-2009, 11:57 AM #13
who was that dude up north who had a gym with UP THE DOSE on the wall?
The pens you signed papers with were fake syringes.
It's a really well know guy, I think he may have won Mr U a couple of times. Name is stuck in the back of my brain, seems like his first name is Steve
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12-11-2009, 12:28 PM #14
Sometimes you have to create that atmosphere. Arnold used to do it, he's why Golds got famous. I do it at Iron Bodies. When Bill was there, and my wife, we ALL created it- the energy. Admittedly my gyms a semi dungeon, but hell I used to do it an LA Fitness too. Got thrown out of 3 gyms in AZ for doing it, bunch of pussies up where I was. Point is, sometimes you have to MAKE it happen.
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12-11-2009, 12:40 PM #15
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