Yeah ... we just kinda' skipped the 'cardio rooms' and went straight to the roof in the ol' days ... *cough* .... *choke* ......Boats I've been on had a cardio room (treadmills, bikes) and a free-weight room, with a few Nautilus machines scattered around.
Thank god. Lord knows the nautilus equipment in base gyms is only used by wives, gfs and retirees. You'd think on a warship it would be mostly freeweights.
How do the weight rooms vary on different types of ships? (small boys, amphibs, USNS, carrier)
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The Portside gym at Pcola was pretty good in terms of having a good number of free weights (not to mention the crossfit class), while the new Radford one was all the obnoxious machines. The gym here at Jax is even worse. I went for the first time last week and there was not even any room where I could do deadlifts or something. Tiny ass gym too. Apparently there are 20K people on this base, so why wouldn't they invest in something bigger/not just a crap ton of treadmills in a row.
Yeah ... we just kinda' skipped the 'cardio rooms' and went straight to the roof in the ol' days ... *cough* .... *choke* ...
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Where is this other gym you speak of? (Not the Radford)
Same building as the movie theater - 2 buildings behind the NEX food court on mainside.
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The Portside gym at Pcola was pretty good in terms of having a good number of free weights (not to mention the crossfit class), while the new Radford one was all the obnoxious machines. The gym here at Jax is even worse. I went for the first time last week and there was not even any room where I could do deadlifts or something. Tiny ass gym too. Apparently there are 20K people on this base, so why wouldn't they invest in something bigger/not just a crap ton of treadmills in a row.
<- spent days after the storm picking up every dang shingle and felled tree branch on board NASWF. Got devoured by ants in doing so. Slept in a Q with no power for something like a week for all the above, with all my earthly possessions in plastic bags. Gym, schmimm. I'm not thanking Ivan for squat. :icon_tongAnd the NASWF gym is nice. Thanks Ivan.
<- spent days after the storm picking up every dang shingle and felled tree branch on board NASWF. Got devoured by ants in doing so. Slept in a Q with no power for something like a week for all the above, with all my earthly possessions in plastic bags. Gym, schmimm. I'm not thanking Ivan for squat. :icon_tong
Hmm, I'd have to call the one here in Jax about that. A cursory look at their website doesn't show any mil discounts or whatnot, but if that was the case I'd probably be up for it. If not, I'm probably going to get a membership to the crossfit place across the street from base.