I went to the gym this morning and saw this:

http://i.imgur.com/nVcRP.jpg

The gym in my building has been overly biased towards women for a while now. [1]

There tons of aerobic nautilus equipment. There are three treadmills and four stair climbers. All the machines are the mechanical (non-free weight). And the only alternative if they remove the bench press is a smith machine (which have been shown to cause injuries and be less effective than the bench press).

http://thewaronbullshit.com/2009/09/21/dangerous_exercise_machines/

The dumbells max out at 30 lbs. There is no squat rack and originally there was NO bench press but another male in the building offered to donate one.

Further, there have been issues with the bench press before. The incline press causes the bench to shift dangerously. I've brought this up to the HOA only to be ignored.

I've been trying to work with our HOA for a while now and offered to by a squat rack but was ignored by the HOA for 4 months before giving up.

NOW they want to remove the LAST piece of gym equipment usable for men.

I think part of this is that the HOA is getting bad advice but they don't seem to want to listen to any external advice other than those on the HOA board and their exercise machine vendors.

There was a gentleman at the gym who I brought this up with and he 100% agreed with me on all these issues.

I'm 90% certain they are just going to ignore me when I bring this to the attention of the HOA. Men are 50% of the building and should receive 50% of the resources.

  1. I have NO PROBLEM sharing the gym with women. If the situation were reversed I would fight for it to be fair for them too.

tl;dr They're removing equipment usable for men. They have ignored my complaints before and I think they're just going to do so again.