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Originally Posted by chad.roper
It seems like everyone is wanting to loose weight and do a lot of endurance sports. At the gym I go to they cater to endurance people they have all kinds of events for them like runs and bicycle stuff and swims and triathetes or whatever they call it. They never have anything for powerlifters. Its discrimination. They never have anything I can participate in its always runs and stuff.
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Think about it this way.............
You own a gym in your area and you want to make the most money you can possibly make. Are you going to want to attract more adults who want to just "stay in shape" or more powerlifters? The answer is more adults who just want to "stay in shape" because there are not many PLers who are going to workout at a commercial gym.
I have the same thing at my gym. I am by no means a PLer, but there is only 1 rack at my gym for anything done with a barbell (including barbell curls in the rack!!!!!!!).
One day i was doing deadlifts with about 300 lbs on the bar. After each rep, i would try to slowly bring down the weight because there were a lot of people around me. However, after my set a trainer came over to me and yelled at me to try to be more quiet. I asked him how (135 lbs and 800 lbs make the same noise) and he said something like
"Look bro. I know what you're doing and why you're doing it. It's just that a lot of the older people here complain to me that they can't concentrate because you're making too much noise. When i was your age, i was doing the same stuff that you're doing now and I've seen you get bigger and stronger while working out here. Keep doing your ****, but just try to lower the weight slowly if you can".
That got me thinking that gyms have to cater to the people who will bring in the most revenue. Even though it's sad, it's a matter of doing what's best for oneself as opposed to doing what is best for one's clients. Also, lifts that PLers perform are hard to teach to a complete beginner, so trainers would be putting their trainees at a greater risk for an injury. I know that's not what i typically tend to preach, but lets say they train 10 people a day. I guarantee you at least 3 people won't be able to correctly perform the lift right off the bat, and if they're really uncoordinated they will be at greater risk for injury.
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