Russian Fitness Studio
If you have seen the last post about the “Russian Spiderman” video you would probably like to know how does an average Russian fitness studio looks like?
Here is the sample. Of course there are more expensive studios for rich people in Moscow and major cities, but most of the young men make their bodies strong and fit in such studios.
There are proud signs “Made in USSR” on some of the equipment. Time passes – things stay the same.
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It looks rather a torture room than a gym.
Luckily some things change… better public sport centers are being opened all over main russian cities (even its roofs in winter may collapse, because of cheap materials used).
Looks like a time capsule
oh, i thought it some normal site about Russia, but it just a propagandistic piece of shit. Bwhahaha. Europeans and americans eat propaganda thinking it is some ‘objective’ and ‘independent’ point of view.
In Russia we read almost all western objective and independent propaganda as some kind of humour. Western histeric is very funny, you know.
You must be joking if you think this is an average gym in Russia.
LOL Where you found such place in Russia?
LOL/ Where you found such place in Russia?
I have never seen something like this in my life. I feel sorry for those who had to be in there.
“There are proud signs “Made in USSR” on some of the equipment. Time passes – things stay the same”.
See, that’s just another little touch of anti-Russian propaganda for stupid folks to whom Russia is a mystery land. Don’t sit in the internet, go visit the country and make up your own mind!
And to call this “an average Russian fitness studio”?!
People posting stuff like that should be burned alive.
Nice basement! When I was a kid we had a body building club in a basement in my native small town in 1980s,although it hadn’t look so neglected. To tell you the true, I believe something like that may exist in a deep province nowdays.
Normalna!
“People posting stuff like that should be burned alive.”
After reading this barbaric filth, one can’t help but agree with the author of the blog that “Time passes – things stay the same.” Russians are still filled with hate and blind nationalism. Just like with Pushkin and Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsin, when criticized the only thing Russian can think to do is kill the critic. Thus, Russia can’t improve and sinks deeper and deeper into the mire.
I can’t see anything wrong with this equipment; it looks like it still works. Actually, it has to be bloody good to still be standing after all this time I’d say.
But yeah, it’s obviously not an ‘average’ gym.
I’d like to go to Russia some time, St. Basil’s Cathedral is calling me.
La Russophobe,
You divide people into Russians (bad) and not-Russians (better). Are you the nazi or racist? Don’t you think that it is some kind of “barbaric filth”? All your words are full of the hate and nationalism. So I think you have to read your posts by yourself and make your brain working.
that is not average gym. i don`t know where did u find it. and btw what is the difference what to lift? if you have motivation to become strong and not to play “fitness man” (just becouse that is glamour) that will be quite enough.
la russophobe what is your own nationality and where do you live?
you call russians as nationalists but exactly you divide ppl by their nationality and you make derogatory conclusions about ppl by their accessory to nation. so exactly YOU are nationalist.
to admin
sad to see you post another crappy post, i thought you became normal man
2 Kos:
“sad to see you post another crappy post, i thought you became normal man”
How can he become normal if it’s his JOB to insult Russia like that?! You don’t actually think this website is maintained by a “fascinated with Russia” individual?!
2 La Russophobe:
Look who’s talking about hate here, haha!
Seriously, you need some good f*cking… although who would wanna do it with a slut like you??
2dRE
first posts were very antirussian but after comments of russian users he bacame a little bit more respectfull to us. but now he start again to post dofferent sh1t. he doesn`t understand that if he will post smth really interesting his blog will be much more popular (among russians too). ok, anyway that is his own problem, must be he is solving his own psychology compexes with hating other ppl and posting such crap
2 Kos:
Dude, he is being PAID to do that! There’are no problems with psychology and shit, just pure anti-Russian propaganda paid by some anti-Russian forces (who knows, maybe Berezovsky?). The “normal” posts which he made are here just to shift people’s focus a bit, to make it look like it’s just a website for fun.
it seems that people like dRE are the reason books like Orwell’s 1984 exist.
2 steroid:
Suit yourself, pal, you have no idea how far you are from the truth.
2 steroid
watch the bush position: “humanitarian bombardments”, “we shall kill them in the name of democracy”, “guantanamo is quite democratic” etc. that is real 1984 person.
>Are you the nazi or racist?
He’s both, trust me =)
…and also the anti-national propagandist, Russia-hater, total loser and just a deranged mad idiot looking for 3rd world war ;).
(Sorry for mistakes and maybe wrong words =))
Now let me explain the situation:
i can even stay there for all day long…
This is not ‘fitness studio’ as it was mantioned before… It’s just a sellar (i’m not sure in spelling - the plase under 1st floor) of some house…
School and college students collected bars, weights and so on in such sellars in 1970-1980, because real gyms was too expensive and rare then (peoples usually got strong working somewhere hard… Smith, builders, loaders and so on)… Despite of it peoples wanted to be strong, so they had to make such a ‘fitness studios’ right under their homes and stay there almost every day after school/college/institute/university and so on… Now out gyms is pretty cheap… for example, [ http://www.samokat-fb.ru/images/pics/f_gym2.jpg ] i can visit such gyms whenever i want for just a 55$ per month
And i’m sorry for my english again =)
I was thinking also that place may be situated in a jail. Some prisoner amateur initiative.
Good one, Diamond! Someone here is actually showing the truth!
P.S. La Russophobe is not a HE, it’s a SHE (also, ‘la’ in French refers to female). Could be shemale too…
lol, _it_ is she, lol
OH MY GOD! It’s a woman O_O!
especially by a russian… well… then my apologizes… but all that i’ve said is unfortunately true…)
This fact explains almost everything =) (yeah, woman’s brain is easier to f*ck up
And… Yeah, this place can be in jail… But possibly it’s a place, I said about before…
Probably such places do exist in the province, but though I live in the central part of the country, not in Moscow, I’ve never seen anything like that. This could really be jail or something like that… Author, where did you get that photos?
Please post more of these so I discover more about my own country, but could you stop calling it “most russians” and “average russian”? It’s just an ordinary lie.
2 Cheshire_d0g:
“could you stop calling it “most russians” and “average russian”? It’s just an ordinary lie”.
Yeah, right, like he’s going to listen to you. That’s the whole point of this website - anti-Russian propaganda.
So, in the US it’s “no towel, no workout”.
But Russia: “no tetanus shot, no workout”.
Anyway, you guys/gals in these comments have got to be kidding. Of course the fact about this being the average gym in Russia is exaggerated.
However, it is true that something similar (a basement gym) was not uncommon in the USSR. Equipement was not availible so people built impressive machines on their own.
Heck, I’d be happy to have the stuff in the pics in my basement. People who are into weight training will understand that basic exercises using a barbell are key in any workout.
Diamond, just to let you know and get your English a bit better:
people = люди
peoples = народы
Anton, okay, okay, i’ve been studying english for just 1,5 years
u take funny joke posts from russian blog-sites. and post it here as cruel reality. ADMIN IS A MOTHERFUCKER
Thx for stupid description again!
And now check out some real usual gym club in St. Petersburg.
http://mega-gym.ru/club.html
With a Japanese restaurant, SPA services, cute instructors, free towels and gel for shower, table tennis, boxing… and for about $30 a month.
“School and college students collected bars, weights and so on in such sellars in 1970-1980″
- you mean this photos are from the 80s?
No they are not - notice the MediaMarkt paper on the floor.
It’s german electronics supermarket chain, that established in russia around year 2000
Wow, the comments are even better than the photos. Out of curosity what does anyone gain from this propaganda?
I just thought this site was about unusual stuff from a place I, unfortunately, know little about. Although it makes me keen to visit, even the strange stuff. Which I take for granted is not normal and I don’t expect to see it, you get weird people/places in every country.
tbh I would be offended if someone put up a similar site about my home country (which is in Europe), seeking out one disturbing example and claiming that it’s common.
what I don’t understand is the “arguments” being used to defend themselves, a la “everyone is attacking our precious homeland” and “your president is a nazi c**t”, “we have only two allies - our navy and our fleet”, “a u vas negrov linchuyut” etc. ffs. why can’t people just relax and not to be paranoid about some kind of mythical “propaganda”? what the hell has politics to do with, say, one dirty cellar in Ukraine, anyway?
man, sometimes the world is really twisted.
spoodie
this is not good site to recieve information about Russia
steroid
not russians started it (i am about this site). we are just trying to defend and let ppl know the real information about Russia not the deragotory comments from this site owner
About the owner I’d like to quote a Russian proverb: “Vaska Cat is listening but eating”
Look at the growing number of ads on the right, they bring a few coins to the owner each time you’re hanging here 
“u take funny joke posts from russian blog-sites. and post it here as cruel reality. ADMIN IS A MOTHERFUCKER”
Simply said and exactly to the point! Totally agree.
“most of the young men make their bodies strong and fit in such studios.”
most of young men pay about 40$ for a month and use normal fitness clubs.
What are the good sites about Russia? I doubt they’ll be as funny but I’m interested none-the-less.
Common, russian fellows, stop saying it’s a kind of anti-russian propaganda! I live in Moscow and I know this city pretty well. We have to confess, that it’s all true! Every russian gym looks like the one on these pictures! And every russian man or woman after visiting such fitness center goes out to the street full of gray snow, takes a bottle of vodka in the nearest shop and singing some drunk songs goes along the street shaking hands with bears snooking around, looking for some american guy to eat on supper! And the only thing we all dream of is to crash our balalaikas on the head of some damn Yankee.
Welcome to Russia, american brothers and sisters! Peace!
spoodie: Do you understand Russian? If so, try http://www.fishki.net - it\’s a good blog-website (with lots of photos) with real humour about Russian life as well as life in other countries. Actually this site steals a lot from Fishki.Net.
- you mean this photos are from the 80s?
If so, thish photos should possibly be black and white
No, i mean this place is from the 80s… This MediaMarkt paper could be easily brought.
I was in such place once… It’s exiting a little to feel that you’re there…
Eolych
Вот чисто из интеpеса… cкoлькo тe лeт и гдe ты тaкoe уродство вcтpeчал? Личнo я зa вcю cвoю трeнажёpную пpактику побывaл в ~20 тренaжёрных зaлах… И тoт чтo я пpивёл в примеp - далекo не сaмый лучший ;). А тaкими, кaк на каpтинке и близкo нe пaхнет… (может и правда только в тюряге).
П.с. насчёт балалаек и водки - это ЛОЛ =))
Eolych, ага, пардон =) только понял что это юмор…
/me - тугодум =)
>not russians started it (i am about this site). we are just trying to defend and let ppl know the real information about Russia not the deragotory comments from this site owner
Come on, this I find this site pretty comic… Sometimes it’s useful to receive some self-criticism… Sometimes even if it’s wrong ;).
I’d never name this site ‘Real information’, it’s just for fun I guess…
>I doubt they’ll be as funny but I’m interested none-the-less.
If you’re looking for a good(true) information about Whole Country…. you’d better got acquainted with a russian and ask him for the information, you’re searching…
2ALL, remember please, the only ABSOLUTELY true information about Russia is located on the RUSSIAN sites! Or the sites with a russian author… Even if he’s not a patriot..
I am Russian. Honestly, i think gyms like this can be actually found in small Russian cities and villages.
And they are not really dirty, just have never been renovated
Ah, 80s nostalgique… Reminds me of my youth, me too used to drop by that kind of “fitness room” aka “kachalka” and it did not look too bad back then
dRE: go get a girlfriend, eh? you sound really stressed out
Meda, it’s not stress… Just sometimes ‘antirussian propagation’ (/me is sick of this phrase… too) is VERY irritating…
Короче смерть нацистам по всему миру
особо ярым - долгая и мучительная…
Meda: I’m actually married and very happilly I must add! Go eat a hamburder.
That is… hamburGer.
PINDOSSSSSI SUKA!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hamburger is shit!!!!!!!!!!!!Bush is STUPID BASTARD!!!
You all are wrong. It is sad for me but this gym is not Russian but Polish. It is the gym where Polish golden medalists in heavy lifting was trained. In the past there was many things “Made in USSR” in Poland. I’m sure of what I’m writing, because I saw a program about it on TV. In Polish sport lot’s of money is wasted by activists and athletes sometimes have to work in conditions like this.
I guess, 15 years ago it used to look like
It’s not good for the russian people
good god… what a sad sad place…
Очень полезная инфа, согласен с автором!
Thanks for very consultive place. Close period I faculty be actuation my journal and Your place has helped me a lot.