5 Arjen Tilstra - 2 months ago
Great gym with an adequate number of machines and free weights. Friendly personnel and very helpful when you have questions, often also in English if my German skills are failing me. Overall, it's clean, costs are decent and I very much enjoy working out here. The new cardio machines are amazing!!
Though I have no complains for me personally, I do think that the gym could do with some improvements:
1) As a biologist I have a fairly decent understanding of the human body; I often see people performing exercises that will either destroy their shoulders (like behind the neck lat pull downs, these are killing for your rotator cuffs) or knees (like squats with very bad form). I think the people working there should be more aware of this and intervene/assist the person doing these exercises to help with alternatives and/or proper form. I also still often struggle with the latter but will ask for help.
2) A pull-up/chin-up bar that is reachable from the floor would be nice. For me, doing them in the assisted machine does not work.
3) A padded corner with large plates (5 and 10 kilo plates as big as the regular 20s) to perform exercises like regular deadlifts.
