{"id":3387,"date":"2010-04-27T04:19:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T02:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2015-02-15T09:24:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T14:24:58","slug":"strong-shapely-gym-rutherford-nj-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/strong-shapely-gym-rutherford-nj-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strong & Shapely Gym in Rutherford, NJ is Truly Awesome!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was the first day of Supply Side East.\u00a0 It was all talks – the vendor expo doesn’t open until tomorrow. I took a peek at the preparations, though – looks like it will be pretty cool.\u00a0 I always like hitting the vendor displays – it’s a lot like “Trick or Treat” for grownups. Last show I went to, the Natural Products Expo in Boston, I came home with two sacks full of samples. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

I attended several talks in the “Nutrition Track.” The first was on an academic research project aiming to create a classification scheme to rate the safety of various herbal supps. The second was on fish oil and sustainability.\u00a0 The final one was on sports supplements from an “anti-doping perspective” (you can guess what that one was about).<\/p>\n

Ok, where does the Strong\u00a0& Shapely Gym<\/a> enter in to any of this?<\/p>\n

Simple… sorta.\u00a0 While I was between talks, I returned a call from Rick Collins <\/a>– whom I’m working with on several projects.\u00a0 He’s in New York (just a stone’s throw from where I am in NJ) and knows the area well.\u00a0 We set up an appointment for tomorrow, and in passing, I mentioned that I was going to the Gold’s Gym in Teterboro after the show for a workout.<\/p>\n

Nuh-uh.\u00a0 He was insistent (so was fellow author\u00a0James Villepigue<\/a>, who was in on the call)… I HAD to go to Strong & Shapely in East Rutherford.\u00a0 He even e-mailed the manager, Chris, to let him know I was coming.\u00a0 And since it was actually closer to me than Gold’s, I figured, what the heck?<\/p>\n

Wow.<\/p>\n

The place is fantastic!\u00a0 The owner, Bob Bonham, has built a near-museum… there is a ton of old equipment there, alongside newer pieces.\u00a0 As Bob put it, he kept a lot of the old stuff that worked, which makes sense (newer doesn’t always mean better).\u00a0 There were 10 different leg presses – all set at different angles.\u00a0 There was even a lunge machine… something that I never even knew existed before today.\u00a0 And when was the last time you saw 250 pound dumbbells???<\/p>\n

I got a pretty good workout in, but I also spent a fair amount of time rubbernecking – it was\u00a0cool just\u00a0looking at the different pieces.\u00a0 You would NEVER get bored for lack of variety in this place, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n

One sad note, though.\u00a0 I got a bird’s eye view of the whole place from the free weight area, and quickly noted one thing:\u00a0 I was one of only two women on the training floor – and the other gal was a noob being instructed by her boyfriend.\u00a0 I mentioned this later to Bob, and he affirmed this: he had to put in a special “women only” room in order to attract female members… as he put it, women are “too intimidated” by all the guys.<\/p>\n

Sigh… why this is, I do not know.\u00a0 Yes, a lot of the guys\u00a0were big and beefy, but no one so much as looked crosswise at me.\u00a0 They were there to WORK, and so was I, so that was that.<\/p>\n

At any rate, if you live within 20 miles of East Rutherford, NJ\u00a0and are looking for a gym – go and sign up.\u00a0 That place is seriously REAL.\u00a0 If I lived in the area, I’d join in a heartbeat – it’s THAT good.<\/p>\n

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