does any girls have good experiences/results from working out at curves?

does any girls have good experiences/results from working out at curves?
live your life to the fullest.. as if you have no tomorrow
don't waste your money...
a curves workout is for fat/old women who get winded climbing stairs. it's very easy. Too easy.
^^^ I hear this as well, there's no challenge.. AS opposed to other work out systems, it doesn't get more difficult, you don't continue to lose weight or tone up.
It really isn't for people that are fairly active or only want to tone up and lose a few pounds.
Please don't lick me, it tickles..
Forget those women only gyms. They have a crap selection of machines and very few free weights. You want a broad variety of equipment and of course a solid selection of barbells, db's and plates.
There is no need to follow any classes or special program. Just put together a solid, well thought out routine and follow it. Never miss a scheduled workout unless ill and make it a habit. If you need help putting one together, feel free to send me a message, I'm always willing to help people with their fitness goals.
I also know a lot of women go to places like curves to avoid the meat market/sleeze ball guy type of scenerio. But at a regular gym, you can still avoid those types. Just make it clear you are there to work out and not chit chat. It's better to come off as cold, than to be bothered by weirdos.
I know a guy that I think goes to a women's gym...hahaha...I think he goes to check out the ladies!
LOL Frustrated. That's HORRIBLE. How did they even let him in?! LOL
it might not be an only ladies gym but just a MOSTLY ladies gym, or maybe I just got the story wrong...heheh
DOOOOOOOOOOON'T GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TO CURVES.
Just don't. Go to a real gym. <---I can say this, for some reason I was deluded enough at one point to join.
Great for grandma, not great for anybody that isn't old or obese.
Good advice.don't waste your money...
a curves workout is for fat/old women who get winded climbing stairs. it's very easy. Too easy.
Find a real gym.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
I was thinking about going to Curves, but haven't checked it out yet. I always see their commercials on TV for their 30 day weight loss workout program (or 60 days? I don't remember what it is). But can't you go there and just work out without doing that program? We only have one other decent gym in my town, and that's the Y, and EVERYONE goes there and it isn't even very big. The few times I was there, there were kids running around everywhere and it was just waaaaaay overcrowded. The other decent gym we had closed about 2 months ago, so now I don't know where to go work out. I wanted to go to Curves, since I figured it would be a lot less busy, but I don't want to go if I can't get a good workout.
Take the road less traveled- just make sure you have a map.


Madison--
You can't just go to curves and work out. It is a circuit workout and from my understanding you go around the machines, do the reps, and then the music lets you know when to move along. It's better than nothing but nothing great.
-J





Curves is for FAT (not just a few pounds overweight) chicks and/or old broads. Not strippers who just want to get/stay in HOT shape.
Not only is the workout wrong for us, but the regular women in there will most likely not be too happy to see your attractive stripper self in there showing them up![]()





I agree with what everyone else said! Curves will only be beneficial to you if you're extremely out of shape, and most strippers aren't out of shape. Join a regular gym such as Gold's Gym, Bally's, or 24 Hour Fitness. I joined Gold's Gym last year and I'm happy with it. Now if only I can get my ass to go more often!![]()
I went to Curves when I first start losing weight and was at 150 lbs. It is a good program if you are not in shape and have never exercised before. It worked pretty well for me for a while until I got use to it and women started looking me like "what is she doing here", lol. I recommend it for those who are indeed overweight and never exercised before. There are a few young people there but mostly older women.





That place is a joke!
ok, I have like 4 curves as clients.
I have to keep to myself because they all look at me when I go to fix things there or just checkup.
All the woman are nice coming in, but once they pass that door it's all man-hate. Even the rare goodlooking ones.
The best was the one day during a class I came in with a Pizza....hahah wow I havn't had pizza in forever. But I decided.
I want to sit in the middle of the circle, with a six pack, a pizza with everything on it, a tv and a wife beater...and symbolize everything they are there to fight against.
It's not a bad place in my opinion, just a LOT of encouraging problem realization...sometimes depressing really
My experience only.
People are not ruled by their memories.
I actually used to work at curves, not really by my choice... I had moved to a new city and desperatly needed a job. I am actually a nationally certified personal trainer, and I have to say PLEASE don't go to curves. The majority of women that work there have absoulutely no training experience (most of them do not even work out). It is true that this facility is for older women that have never trained before and prefer to work out with other women who they can bitch about everything with. There is no ability for progression or 'true' weight loss. Go to a regular gym that actually has free weights, get a trainer is necessary, and get you a couple issues of Oxygen magazine. You'll be set!





Aside from being a hangout for fat women tucked inside your local mini mall, some of you with liberal leaning viewpoints might want to avoid doing business with Curves for a different reason.
http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/curves.asp
Former SCJ now in rehab.




I'd like to personally thank the ones among you who are looking down from on high to stigmatize Curves. Perhaps I'm confused. I thought we were supposed to stigmatize fat people, not a place where fat people go to become non-fat people. I guess if you're fat, you're simply supposed to go to the regular gym and take the laughs like the drain on society that you really have become, rather than seek out someplace that gives you the support you need.
Now granted, I have not heard any of the women at my local Curves making man hating statements or dissing strippers, but perhaps they're talking behind my back when I'm helping my fat, disabled SO get on one of the machines she has problems getting on because of her lupus, fibromyalgia and arthritis. In spite of her getting a raw deal on genetics, I suspect if she just had more will power like y'all, she wouldn't be so fat. So let's bad mouth the place that makes it possible for her to exercise and get it closed down so she can go to that real gym that ya all love so much and you can giggle at her there.
I mean, seriously, can't we just describe the target audience and business model of Curves for the original poster without all the my-real-gym-don't-stink attitude?
That's a very deceptive article. Although it labels the general statement made in the introduction as "true," if you read it thoroughly, you find the specific statements made in the mass e-mail are, in fact, false, and that the e-mail statements were derived from some inexcusably sloppy newspaper reporting that required the longest correction of a newspaper article I've ever seen in print. In other words, if you skim that page, you're likely to get a misimpression. Even a thorough reading is somewhat confusing, but finally summarizes the truth in the last paragraph.Originally Posted by doc-catfish
-Ev
I am just going to say that I started my fitness training at Women's Workout World (you know, take your body to a higher power...LOL). It's a waste of time. Curves is just like that. They utilize tons of circuit machines because women are afraid of free-weights. The only problem is that building good muscular strength and definition is done not just with weights, but with the muscular control of free weights.
Curves is just another business in the fitness industry banking on the "average" over-weight person.
If you truly want a great workout without paying out the nose, find your local "hard core" weightlifters gym. It has the basics of everything (not the top of the line machines, but they're good) and every single free weight workout you could ever think of. And, most of the men there are too busy really working out for competition that they won't bother you...they'll probably even correct your form and push you along. That's my favorite place to work out.





Maybe a little overheated there Ev. No one's talking about fat people and "fat people gyms" being a drain on society or anything nearly so negative. We're just saying Curves is NOT the place for young, non-obese women to get/stay in HOT shape. And I'd hate to think that we're all speaking from somewhere on highabout the fat old women who always seem to be the ones with the most crap to say about us. We've all experienced it, whether it's at Curves or where ever. And while you're preaching at us that we should come down from on high - maybe you should do the same.
Word Evan.
My mother is fat. Not disabled, no excuse. Just poor diet, smoker, heavy drinker and has been working at a desk from 5.00 AM to 4.00 PM for... ever. For all of you who do that and still run a hundred miles every day - I don't care. My mum doesn't feel like it. I, of course, being her daughter, still look at her and think that she is amazing. Her rolls don't bother me in the slightest. When I encourage her to go to a gym she (rather paradoxically I thought at first) says that she is too fat to go to the gym. That she has to lose weight before joining a gym. Does that not make sense? Look at the disdain shown for "fat old women" here (aren't internetty people meant to be a tolerant bunch? Free from those kinds of appearance based stereotypes? That's what it said in Hackers). I wish there was a Curves filled with fat old women where my mum could go and feel comfortable instead of intimidated and inferior and (correctly as it turns out) that the rest of the world is looking down on her for being fat. And old - although I can't figure out for the life of me how that is in her purview of control. Saying it is not a work out for everyone is one thing; it is quite another to berate the persons and character of those who are, frankly, at a lower fitness level than you. Karma, people. What can y'all be thinking? Am I really the only person here who has ever had a fat or unattractive friend or relative? Besides Ev, obviously.
And Bridg - I'm going to disagree. I think there is a lot of perjorative language thrown around here - on this thread and off of it - about the fat and the ugly. And about women talking to each other apparently. Like, what's with the pizza comment? If there wasn't a simple "well, it's not a very challenging work out" would have ended the thread.
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Reading too much into it. Have you never been insulted by a fat ugly woman, just because you're more attractive than her? Cuz I have. Alot. And apparently alot of others around here have too. The comments about Curves are that THE WORKOUT IS NOT ENOUGH FOR US, WE WILL NOT FIT IN THERE, WILL NOT BE MADE TO FEEL WELCOME. I don't personally look down on any fat person going to any gym trying to get in better shape. Brav-fuckin-O I say. But HELL NO I wouldn't be caught dead in a Curves or anything like it because 1) the workout is just not enough and 2) I know all too well how I'll be 'welcomed'. Yall are making this discussion into something it's not.
Yeah, I haven't. I don't think. Ever. Of course it would never occur to me that someone is insulting me because I am prettier than she is. I would assume that she is a) having a bad day b) I have done something c) she thinks I've done something or d) she is just a bitch. Probably in that order. I mean what makes everyone so sure that these fat old ugly women are pissy because you assume that they think you are more attractive than them? Maybe they have very different reasons for disliking you. Like if I were fat and I were reading this I wouldn't like many of y'all right now. Maybe THAT is why fat, ugly women dislike you.Originally Posted by Bridgette
Well good. I didn't realize the commentary like "that place is a joke", "that is for fat old women" and "I like to go there with pizza and bait all the fat chicks who are daring to try to lose weight" and "it's just a hangout for fat women in minimalls" were so neutral. I don't know - to me it sounds pejorative. To me neutral sounds like "It probably won't be a very challenging work out for you".And apparently alot of others around here have too. The comments about Curves are that THE WORKOUT IS NOT ENOUGH FOR US, WE WILL NOT FIT IN THERE, WILL NOT BE MADE TO FEEL WELCOME. I don't personally look down on any fat person going to any gym trying to get in better shape. Brav-fuckin-O I say. But HELL NO I wouldn't be caught dead in a Curves or anything like it because 1) the workout is just not enough and 2) I know all too well how I'll be 'welcomed'. Yall are making this discussion into something it's not.
I have taught that the sky in all its zones is mortal and its substance was formed by a process of birth
Ev and Jenny....would you agree or disagree that Curves is an acceptable workout for an active young woman?
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