I moved here to Sendai about 3 months ago, and I’m looking for a good gym. I really want a rowing machine and a place to do my own separate cardio with free weights. Ideally I can also drop weights with Olympic weightlifting but I know that might be impossible in most gyms. Anyone have good recommendations?
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For dropping weights your best bet is in crossfit gyms, which unfortunately tend to be expensive and very class oriented with only short open gym periods. Some cities have bigger training centers which have weightlifting platforms, but it seems that Sendai does not have one.
A good resource for checking olympic weightlifting friendly gyms are the JWA list: https://www.j-w-a.or.jp/data/top/2020/jwa_2020_9_3.pdf and Tank Murakami’s list: [https://note.com/tank_m/n/nc775c17c6212](https://note.com/tank_m/n/nc775c17c6212)
Try Sendai’s Gold’s Gym then. That one is the best regarding variety of Olympic bars and etc…
Anytime Fitness and other chains are more focused on machines and tend to have 1 or 2 benches for bench press (max).
If you are student, I’ll check student discount at Gold’s gym