Plainfield Gym and Tanning

This place is cheap and has the basic equipment you need. the problem is its pretty run down and has alot of broken machines. they also have a vending machine out front with tons of junkie food and sugary sodas, and yet no diet soda. the protein shake options, however, are good. as a result of all this, the place is pretty empty.

A local gym that shares a building with a hobby shop, counseling service and a dance/​martial arts studio. It’s definitely not as well kept as some of the other gyms in the area, but it has it’s own charm. The gym has a good amount of free weights, machines and cardio equipment. Unfortunately, most of it is really old, and they’re short on bars sometimes. Still, I have never had a problem with the equipment, and despite it’s age, it does it’s job. There is a separate room with some really heavy weights for the hardcore.
The clientele skews towards the more hardcore rather than bored housewives. This tends to intimidate some people, but everyone has always been very considerate towards me.
It’s a good value, only 15 dollars a month if you sign up for an entire year. It’s 30 dollars if you sign up on a month by month basis and 75 for 3 months at a time. They also have specials occaionally. You also get unlimited access to tanning and free movie rentals. Yeah, they have free movie rentals for some reason. Judging from the selection, I think they raided a Blockbuster that was going out of business. In other words, it’s mostly B-​movies with a few new releases and some classics peppered in.
My only complaint is the extremely limited child care services. It’s basically a small, unsupervised playpen with some toys in it. I don’t have kids so this in itself isn’t an issue but there’s been a few times when some welfare queen will bring her 12 kids to the gym and they end up running amok, playing on equipment and the like. There’s no place for that at a gym. Despite this complaint, I’ve been coming to this place for about a year and I really enjoy it. Don’t let’s it’s run down appearance fool you. Oh yeah, they’ve also started keeping some old weight lifting magazines from the 80’s and 90’s around which is pretty amusing.