You guys will love this. I work at a university and often use the gym after work. It's a really nice facility with a decent weight room, but it very much lacks in floor space to do things like lunges, box jumps, step-ups, that kind of thing. There is an aerobics room (where all the boxes, steps, and medicine balls live) but you can only use it when there isn't a class and there is ALWAYS a class between 5-7pm.
Anyway, every time I find a perfect little nugget of space to do my snatches, jumps, whatever, it gets taken away and filled with more machines. My current favorite space was an alcove with a cable machine in it that still had enough floor space to do other things. Last night I showed up to find the cable machine moved, and two treadmills in my alcove.
I saw the facilities director and explained that it would be excellent to have a little floor space to do non-machine exercises. When he asked what kind of exercises I said, "You know, dumbbell snatches, lunges, box jumps..." and he responded, "...What are those?"
Ugh.
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