[quote]tGunslinger wrote:
Define futility?
All that nice stuff, yet Okie Light will always be the number two football team in the state.
[i][b]BOOMER!
SOONER![/i][/b][/quote]
Times are changing bud. Gundy signed better recruiting classes than Stoops the last 2 years and after years of neglect, OSU has surpassed OU when it comes to facilities. Also OU is about to go on probation for cheating again (BRSI scandal).
You ever noticed that the nicer weight rooms produce weaker athletes? Something about being pampered like some Paris Hilton-esq bitch. Most of the garage warriors end up stronger and much better conditioned to real world life than the spoiled rich college boys.
Florida St
Florida
http://www.gatorzone.com/insidefootball/?sub=facilities
http://www.gatorzone.com/facilities/images/volleyball/weight.jpg
Vanderbilt
http://vucommodores.cstv.com/facilities/weight-room.html
California - Davis
Hofstra
North Carolina
http://tarheelblue.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/073002aaa.html
Rutgers
http://www.scarletknights.com/strength/
Miami
Lousiville
http://uoflsports.cstv.com/facilities/lou-facilities-papajohns-cardinal-stadium.html
Kansas
http://www.kusports.com/multimedia/photogalleries/football/2003/weightcenter/1.html
http://www.ljworld.com/photos/2003/04/23/kuweightroomoverhead.jpg
BYU
http://www.byucougars.com/athletic_department/facilities/strength/strengthPhotos.html
UMass
http://umassathletics.cstv.com/genrel/071503aaa.html
Boston University
Kentucky
http://ukathletics.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=-1&url_article_id=18859&change_well_id=2
Cornell !!
http://cornellbigred.cstv.com/facilities/friedman-home.html
Virginia Tech
http://www.hokiesports.com/strength/
Texas A&M
http://www.aggieathletics.com/facilities.php?FID=9
Baylor
http://baylorbears.cstv.com/genrel/062705aaa.html
NC State
http://www.gopack.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9200&ATCLID=518292
Georgia Tech
http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/genrel/021203aaa.html
Missouri
http://mutigers.cstv.com/strencond/miss-strencond.html
Wyoming
http://wyomingathletics.cstv.com/ot/rochelle.html
Air Force (Allen Hendricks article is on here)
http://goairforcefalcons.cstv.com/ot/afa-strength-conditioning.html
UConn
http://www.uconnhuskies.com/MainLinks/UConnStrength/2005/facilities.html
SMU
http://smumustangs.cstv.com/facilities/strength-center.html
Texas Tech
http://texastech.cstv.com/facilities/fbweightroom.html
Tulsa
http://tulsahurricane.cstv.com/facilities/tuls-strength-cond-center.html
LSU
http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5200&KEY=&ATCLID=177537
Oklahoma
http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=2893&SPID=209&DB_OEM_ID=300&ATCLID=26586
http://www.soonersports.com/PhotoAlbum.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=300&PALBID=7792
Nebraska
http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_MENU_ID=358&SPSID=183&SPID=41&DB_OEM_ID=100&ATCLID=28370
Ohio St
http://ohiostatebuckeyes.cstv.com/sports/c-strength/spec-rel/strength-facilities.html
Memphis
http://gotigersgo.cstv.com/genrel/080706aac.html
http://gotigersgo.cstv.com/genrel/080706aad.html
UCF
[quote]King of Vice wrote:
You ever noticed that the nicer weight rooms produce weaker athletes? Something about being pampered like some Paris Hilton-esq bitch. Most of the garage warriors end up stronger and much better conditioned to real world life than the spoiled rich college boys.[/quote]
I don’t know about you, but the athletes in the above pictures don’t look like wimps to me. Are you trying to justify only being able to afford a YMCA membership?
F*** me, I think I just spotted a Smith Machine in there.
I’ve lifted in the Colvin Center (Ok. State’s student rec center) one time, and I was impressed by it.
In one corner, they had tucked away three power racks, three lifting platforms, six bars, bumper plates, and conventional plates. I really liked it.
[quote]OKLAHOMA STATE wrote:
Times are changing bud. Gundy signed better recruiting classes than Stoops the last 2 years and after years of neglect, OSU has surpassed OU when it comes to facilities. Also OU is about to go on probation for cheating again (BRSI scandal).
[/quote]
Oklahoma State fans have been saying that “times are changing!” since 1947. Face it, it will be a cold day in hell before Oklahoma State has a better football program than OU.
OU = on Mt. Rushmore of College Football
OSU = traditional bottom-feeders.
In a sport that relies so heavily on tradition, this means that OSU will remain second fiddle in football.
somthing i noticed in all these schools is how poor the olympic lifting form is…
they could atleast teach them how to catch the bar properly…
I think Oklahoma State is doing wonders with the money that Boone Pickens has donated, but I wouldn’t get carried away and call their weight room the nicest in the country.
Like yourself, I’m obviously biased, but I think Nebraska’s new 45,000 square foot weight room competes quite nicely with any other in the country.
[quote]tGunslinger wrote:
Define futility?
All that nice stuff, yet Okie Light will always be the number two football team in the state.
[i][b]BOOMER!
SOONER![/i][/b][/quote]
Like how OU would be the number 2 football team in Idaho? HA!
Don’t tell the recruits that OSU is the #2 school because you wouldn’t think that was true by comparing recruiting classes. But time will tell.
[quote]D Public wrote:
somthing i noticed in all these schools is how poor the olympic lifting form is…
they could atleast teach them how to catch the bar properly…
[/quote]
I’ll second that. These guys are power cleaning weights that really aren’t impressive at all compared to their body size. They are a hell of a lot stronger than their oly lifts indicate.
[quote]tGunslinger wrote:
I’ve lifted in the Colvin Center (Ok. State’s student rec center) one time, and I was impressed by it.
In one corner, they had tucked away three power racks, three lifting platforms, six bars, bumper plates, and conventional plates. I really liked it.[/quote]
Before the Colvin Center got rennovated it had all the power racks in full view to be used. They also had bumper plates with an oly lifting platform. I loved lifting there but some of the best workouts I got were in the Colvin Center Annex.
While the rennovations were taking place they moved a lot of the equipment to the building with a semi-circle roof. They would open what amounted to garage doors and on the other side of that was chain link fence.
It felt like you were lifting in a prison. Sadly, my tuition paid for the Colvin Center rennovation but I never got the chance to lift there.
Wow. Now I know why people who cross over here to Oxford are kind-of disappointed:
http://www.sport.ox.ac.uk/sports-facilities/pulse-gym
I guess we have good libraries … :-).
Gym fetish?
[quote]the_athlete wrote:
Florida St
Florida
http://www.gatorzone.com/insidefootball/?sub=facilities
http://www.gatorzone.com/facilities/images/volleyball/weight.jpg
Vanderbilt
http://vucommodores.cstv.com/facilities/weight-room.html
California - Davis
Hofstra
North Carolina
http://tarheelblue.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/073002aaa.html
Rutgers
http://www.scarletknights.com/strength/
Miami
Lousiville
http://uoflsports.cstv.com/facilities/lou-facilities-papajohns-cardinal-stadium.html
Kansas
http://www.kusports.com/multimedia/photogalleries/football/2003/weightcenter/1.html
http://www.ljworld.com/photos/2003/04/23/kuweightroomoverhead.jpg
BYU
http://www.byucougars.com/athletic_department/facilities/strength/strengthPhotos.html
UMass
http://umassathletics.cstv.com/genrel/071503aaa.html
Boston University
Kentucky
http://ukathletics.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=-1&url_article_id=18859&change_well_id=2
Cornell !!
http://cornellbigred.cstv.com/facilities/friedman-home.html
Virginia Tech
http://www.hokiesports.com/strength/
Texas A&M
http://www.aggieathletics.com/facilities.php?FID=9
Baylor
http://baylorbears.cstv.com/genrel/062705aaa.html
NC State
http://www.gopack.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9200&ATCLID=518292
Georgia Tech
http://ramblinwreck.cstv.com/genrel/021203aaa.html
Missouri
http://mutigers.cstv.com/strencond/miss-strencond.html
Wyoming
http://wyomingathletics.cstv.com/ot/rochelle.html
Air Force (Allen Hendricks article is on here)
http://goairforcefalcons.cstv.com/ot/afa-strength-conditioning.html
UConn
http://www.uconnhuskies.com/MainLinks/UConnStrength/2005/facilities.html
SMU
http://smumustangs.cstv.com/facilities/strength-center.html
Texas Tech
http://texastech.cstv.com/facilities/fbweightroom.html
Tulsa
http://tulsahurricane.cstv.com/facilities/tuls-strength-cond-center.html
LSU
http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=5200&KEY=&ATCLID=177537
Oklahoma
http://www.soonersports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=2893&SPID=209&DB_OEM_ID=300&ATCLID=26586
http://www.soonersports.com/PhotoAlbum.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=300&PALBID=7792
Nebraska
http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_MENU_ID=358&SPSID=183&SPID=41&DB_OEM_ID=100&ATCLID=28370
Ohio St
http://ohiostatebuckeyes.cstv.com/sports/c-strength/spec-rel/strength-facilities.html
Memphis
http://gotigersgo.cstv.com/genrel/080706aac.html
http://gotigersgo.cstv.com/genrel/080706aad.html
UCF
http://ucfathletics.cstv.com/strencond/ucf-strencond.html
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[quote]BF Bullpup wrote:
King of Vice wrote:
You ever noticed that the nicer weight rooms produce weaker athletes? Something about being pampered like some Paris Hilton-esq bitch. Most of the garage warriors end up stronger and much better conditioned to real world life than the spoiled rich college boys.
I don’t know about you, but the athletes in the above pictures don’t look like wimps to me. Are you trying to justify only being able to afford a YMCA membership?[/quote]
They actually looked a bit on the tubby side, in the original link.
I’m a basement warrior.
[quote]King of Vice wrote:
You ever noticed that the nicer weight rooms produce weaker athletes? Something about being pampered like some Paris Hilton-esq bitch. Most of the garage warriors end up stronger and much better conditioned to real world life than the spoiled rich college boys.[/quote]
No, I haven’t noticed that.
hahha King of Vice
Man, im a football player so if I had a choice I would live in some of those places
yummy 
That is one hell of a weightroom. Much better than my days at USC (Univ of So Cal). We had the worst rated weightroom in the Pac-10, and one of the worst in the country.
Makes you wonder where all that money from tuition goes to. 35k a year from each student with 30k students attending makes for alot of money, yet they couldnt update even a damn door knob. No wonder we sucked back then.
They look great with all their bright colors and shiny chrome…I have lifted in a few DI facilities and they are great for recruiting and padding egos.
The true measure of a weight room is the work being done. I have trained with a few buddies in their garages on homemade racks and gotten great workouts.
Great gyms I have been to lately
Thornbecks in Phoenix
Franz’s in Aurora, IL
Atlas Gym in Kenosha Wisconsin
I hope to lift just once at Westside someday- walking in that place mentally will give you an extra plate on your squat.
The people make the gym.
My list of college weightrooms to train in:
Iowa Chris Doyle is awesome coach
Arizona state - Joe kenn
UCLA - Doc Kreis
Texas -Maddog Madden
Air Force - have heard the coach talk on many occasions - knows his stuff
USC and Florida - they are doing something right
What the Oxford gym doesn’t show you is the powerlifting room next door. Granted its small but its has everything that you need, well nearly everything. Also what they don’t show you is the indoor rowing gym. Couple of static boats in a pool for the rowers. Or the indoor cricket nets or the athletic track and countless other pitches.
It might not sound alot but its an academic uni. And yeah the americans coming over do get pissed off, but its the best and cheapest gym in Oxford by far. Its a dam site better than Oxford Brookes gym up the hill.