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The Anti Gym
Neighborhoods: Five Points, Northwest
2134 Curtis St
Denver, CO 80205
(303) 249-9280
2134 Curtis St
Denver, CO 80205
(303) 249-9280
- Good for Kids:
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4 reviews for The Anti Gym
You have to be interviewed by the owner and head trainer to be qualified for the privilege of working out and paying through the nose at the much-publicized Anti Gym. I popped by for an interview after hearing good things, and didn't quite see what's Anti-Gym about it. There's all the standard gym equipment, and everything looks like a gym, and the guy looks like a guy you'd see in a gym.
Some of the unconventional training techniques involved in the Anti-Gym's blitzkrieg approach to fitness include throwing cupcakes at trainees and belittling people for their physical appearance. Cupcakes? Throwing? Okay, if they want to offer me a job doing that, I'll take it, but I'm sure as heck not going to pay their exorbitant membership fees for the honor of being clubbed with pastries that I can't pick up and throw right back. Food fights = fun. One sided food fights = lame.
Two stars awarded only because anything that helps curtail America's growing obesity problem and keep us the leanest state in the nation must be some good, but my personal hackles prickled at the owner's attitude and his willingness to wallow in as much publicity as he can get for an Anti-Gym that looks pretty much like a gym to me.
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I almost hate to review this place, because the owner is the kind of douchebag that wallows in all the mud and any criticism of his ridiculous gym is viewed as more proof that he is right.
If you are the kind of mental midget that thinks that you should pay $150/mo for the privilege of having a douchebag toss twinkies and pastries at you while you exercise and call you a fatty, then this place is for you. Unbelievably, some people are actually so pathetic that they will not only allow a douchebag to mock them, but they will pay them for the privelege.
However, if you wear shirts by Ed Hardy or Affliction or think your skin tight wife beater tank top makes you look attractive, then this place is for you. Are you the douchebag at the bar with the arm tattoos that feels compelled every night to pull up your shirt and expose your rock hard abs? Then The Anti Gym is for you!
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This place is a joke. But that's okay, it's supposed to be. The live DJ, go-go dancer in a cage (formerly, don't think they can afford one anymore), posters of the owner with twinkies on his middle fingers and the tagline, "Hey Chubbies, Sit and Spin", these are all amusing and uncommon in most gyms. You will spend half an hour getting yelled at while doing moves with fun names like "catchers", "Michael Jackson's", "Prom Dates", etc. You'll get to play trivia, where the wrong answer gets you extra calisthenics. I haven't seen any flying twinkies or cupcakes in a while, but that doesn't mean they aren't just waiting for the right moment. Sure, this place is fun, for a while, then it just gets extremely old, boring and so annoying that it makes you angry.
If you are someone who hasn't worked out in a while, like the former High School football star or the housewife who's kids have just moved out, and you need this kind of motivation, then this place is worth a shot. I tried it out, it was great for a while. But, at some point, it reminds you of that parent who always threatens their child ("do you want a time out?") and never follows through. I would say that I am no longer getting out of it what I once was. But, because of my stupidity in buying 6 months of sessions up front, I'm stuck with $800 of sessions that I really don't want to go to.
My recommendation, if you want to try this place out and think it will do you some good, just get a month. If you continue to dig it, good job. I just can't stand this place anymore.
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You're fat. Oh, that's right ,I said it. Fat, fat, fat. You're chubby and will never find a hubby. You'll never have children, no little wonderful babies for you, but, trust me, oh, you'll always look like you're about 5 months pregnant, ya fatso. And, having sex, ew! never with the lights on--are kidding me!?!? Fat, fat, fat.
OK, AH!!! DON'T KILL ME. That's just pretty much the attitude you'll be treated with over at The Anti-Gym. The previous paragraph about sums up every print or radio ad they run and their entire marketing campaign. They've even staged a Anti- Anti-Gym protest where chubby people protested the gym and its campaign.
But, hey, seriously, if you want to lose weight, really, and don't care about your ego--the Anti-Gym is great. Just don't be scared when they ask you to take a pee test to make sure you didn't eat that ice cream.
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