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Good news for those of you who are dissatisfied with your gym’s lack of fighting surfaces and giant truck tires. As first promised last year around this time, the UFC opened its first gym in Concord, California with 150 more to come in the next five years. It’s the gym that aspires to be all things to all people. Naturally, there are punching bags and grappling mats galore, with classes available to members of all ages. There’s also the normal gym stuff, like free weights, machines, and treadmills where you can get your jog on in between a guy talking on his cell phone and a middle-aged mom walking very slowly while reading Self Magazine.
For my money though, the highlight of the UFC gym is The Arm Bar. If you’re the type who loves to linger way too long over a protein-infused smoothie, and you’re also the type who appreciates a fairly lazy play on words, this is the place for you. A couple more pictures are after the jump. And yeah, Dana White has seen to it that the walls of his gym reflect his personality.












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commentsCan't imagine someone felt the urge to create a profile just compliment some other dude.
Very nice..that guy deserves a 100% cotton shirt with large letters on the chest
Oh, and all you fuckers trying to bust out a funny comment got served by peckawoodd. He pretty much summed it all up.
honorable mention goes to NomadRip
And Chuck is going to blow an o-ring if he's not careful.
Between the aspiring tuff guys and the over abundance of adductor machines, it would just be one long palmface walking through there.
I live in San Francisco and grew up around Concord and i can tell you this place is gonna be the epitome of fat men wearing tapout sweat sets.
There are some really good places to train in the bay area, and even close to this gym and i am fearful that a lot of meatheads at the UFC gym are gonna go twice a week , lift some weights and think that they can do brazillian jiu jitsu. Fortunatly it will let all of us know whose asses we can beat, anyone wearing a ufc gym shirt....
I see what you did there...you turned my mundane question into an opportunity to show off your witty mma knowledge in the form of a metaphor. Well played sir.
I think you get to train at the gym for something like $20 for the first month, but you have to come in early when no important people are around to see you. If you do well enough they will do like a multi-month contract for about $45 dollars. The more buff you get the more you have to pay, and it can get pretty out of hand. The biggest problem is if you ever leave for another gym or they kick you out for not being able to squat as much as some of the new guys, Dana will publicly berate you. He will then begin to question the the validity of you're max on the bench, and say you only went to the friendlier less dictator like gym down the street because he didn't want you at his gym anymore.
If you're not ready for the UFC gym I would suggest trying out a smaller gym like Strikeforce. They have some good equipment just not nearly as much, but the fees are less, and the owner isn't such a dick. Also they let you work out at other gyms for as long as you want, even if they take the time to build a whole workout room around your specific needs.
I hope this clears up some of the questions you had. So to sum it all up, it looks like Chuck could use some fiber in his diet.
Boy oh boy, I can't wait to ask mom to take me there, I'm gonna be a UFC fighter and trane UFC! I never tap! Im gonna wear my cool Tapout shirt and sprawl shorts and train UFC all the time now!
(I think that's actually this machine called Biodensity or something. It measures maximum output on the leg press, bench press, and dead lift. Pretty cool stuff.)
Any word on the membership fees for the gym?
Now the same pack of douchebags will be seen together at the gym, then the local affliction t shirt dealer, and then their local watering hole on ufc ppv nights.
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