Deplorable Atmosphere, Patience Wearing Thin

Its been 3yrs since I first started to make a difference for my health and my body, and it all began at the LA Fitness in Winter Garden. As I started to get more fit, comfortable and knowing how to properly work out, I have now learned how to take advantage of almost everything that the gym provides. But unfortunately there are days when the gym does get busy, and when it doooes, the equipment's the LA Fitness in Winter Garden provide are only limited to a certain amount of people which was one of the reasons why I came to LA Fitness in Ocoee specifically because they have a lot more free weights than Winter Garden. The other reason why I came to this one is that I just needed to get away from yet again a detesting and disappointing situation. But I am not feeling in getting into that specific detail on this post. If you want to know a bit of how I feel, just read the previous post. For now its about how deplorable the atmosphere is here in the LA Fitness Ocoee.

The one in Winter Garden I realize have a lot of people who are already fit, who knows what they are doing yet there is a feeling of judgmental eyes from many who could be stuck up and big headed. Its more of an atmosphere amongst the typical view of "JOCKS." But it isn't something that has bothered me much, I am just stating the fact of the atmosphere there compared to the atmosphere in THIS place. The one on Ocoee is located pretty much at the edge of where the ghetto of Pine Hills is in here in Orlando. Now I do work in a mildly ghetto area and I have lived in my parents place where it is pretty much in the vicinity of that area. I wish I could say that I am used to being in that atmosphere, but after coming here I realize how much I have no more patience for it especially in a place where all races, and different kinds of people who are fit or unfit to peacefully and safely exercise and meet their goals of getting stronger and healthier without looking over their shoulder.

The first day I came here, a fight almost breaks out between one guy who was protecting his "girlfriend" from another guy who was eye candying a bit too long. Secondly there are way too many people who take way too long on a machine. Not because they are slow at working out, its because so many of them just converse with other people or on their phone occupying that machine, weight or bench beyond the average time limit that a person would finish. Thirdly because of the location of the place, there are so many young thugs and immature teenagers that come in and make a scene by talking loud and fooling around. For example today, I've just had it when a group of them came next to me and they started pushing each other, showing off their dumbass boxing skills with dumbbells in their hands, and showing off to each other their imbecile way of working out. Even a huge built white guy was sitting next to where I was and even witnessed those fools and I saw and read the lips of that guy cussing out those kids. So it wasn't just me who was frustrated. Fourthly there are so many people in here who purposely makes a scene by screaming and grunting LOUDLY as they push their last rep, throwing the weight onto the ground grabbing the attention of practically....EVERYONE in the gym. Given there are people who do that in the Winter Garden but I am telling you almost everyone does here in the Ocoee one. There are just so many other things that I can say that are disturbing with people who works out here but those things I can tolerate. But lastly, and I cannot stress this enough, people STINK in this place. Okay I understand that people do sweat and they give off certain of their own odor, but DAYUMMMM from what I experience here in this place...put on some deodorant people. I swear I got on one available elliptical on one busy day and the guy next to me was excreting this most pungent, sour smell to the point that I refused to breath and wanted to throw up. But that wasn't just it, the girl next to me was also giving off her own nasty stankiness that I just couldn't bear, stopped and literally jumped off the machine, walked away and refused to go back and clean my machine. The cloud of smell was just unbearable. Let me tell you I have the most sensitive smell as a human being. I swear if a dog was their where I was, it would pass out and die from the chemical gas those people were emitting from their bodies, or shriek and whimper away from the damn smell these people were giving off.

Honestly.....my patience is wearing thin, and I honestly thought that working out at the Winter Garden one was frustrating and intolerable, but compared to this place, the one in Winter Garden is just God sent. Since the Winter Garden one is my first and only gym that I worked out at, I had no other gym to compare it with which is why I complained about so many things there. But now that I've worked out here in Ocoee for a couple weeks I now know difference and clearly see of which gym is best for me. Despite my reasons of trying to switch gyms, I just have no other choice but to return to the LA Fitness in Winter Garden SOOON. For now my patience is thin with this place and I want to see how much longer I can be here till I hit my limit. And yes I have researched on other gyms close to where I live but unfortunately some are way too small of a gym, one is just way too expensive and the other one is just even more closer to the ghetto. So no thank you. That's my rant for today.