Lifetime had two fully enclosed free weight racks and four power lifting open cages – mostly for deadlift though you could easily use them for squatting.
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If you have a full cage power rack you can do the whole thing without a spotter, on your own terms and schedule, so going to the gyms I was looking primarily at how many power racks they had. Mostly you just need weights, a bench and a way to lift safely – that involves a squatting rack/power rack which is also used for bench press. It ends up being really simple and doesn’t require a lot of equipment. Each is 5 sets of 5 reps (hence 5×5 – except dead lifts which is 1×5), Squats is done each time or it would be 6 exercises. StrongLifts 5×5 is pretty basic: you alternate 5 different lifting exercises 3 times a week: Squat, Bench Press, Barbell Row, Overhead Press, and Deadlift. Both are sub-optimal for StrongLifts 5×5 because their free weight offerings frankly sucked. Both of the gyms are targeting people who want to do classes, who want to do cardio, who want to use weight machines with pulleys and cables. VASA was more spartan with less available but again, a price to match ($10-25 a month). It was a really nice place with several hundred treadmills, indoor and outdoor pools and other amenities. Lifetime was pretty much a country club with a price to match ($69 a person, $169 for 3+ “adults” over 13 years old, kids under 13 are $10). So I made an appointment at two local gyms to see what they offer. My brother advocated “renting” the equipment via a gym membership before outright buying so I decided to try that.
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(Not to mention there is a seriously awesome app to keep track of it, it even has android wear integration!) I did lifting back in high school and some in college but that was 6 kids ago and while my quads still look pretty awesome (if I say so myself, which I do) it’s time to take the next step. I’ve been wanting to start lifting and StrongLifts 5×5 looked like a simple and effective way to get back into it.
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