The Queenax - the latest piece of equipment unveiled by Virgin Active. In many ways it is potentially a great piece of kit. Virgin Active in Chelmsford have brought this in during the last few weeks. As you might be able to tell from the poor picture, it is a frame with monkey bars and TRX mountings.
It has some extra useful features including dip bars and vertical bars if anyone wants to practice the human flag (although I haven't seen anyone try - I will nevertheless use it when I can to start practising this).
So what's the problem I mentioned in yesterday's post?
Firstly you struggle to get anywhere near it if you quite outrageously decide you want to train at peak times due to the grid classes dominating that floor area
Secondly it simply isn't big enough - there are only 3 TRX mountings (although 6 are attached but unless you're working in with someone you know these extra are useless).
Thirdly the Queenax has arrived at the expense of the old TRX frame which was much bigger and meant you could do a variety of exercises including pull-ups off the frame.
Quite why they couldn't make use of some floor area by getting rid of the ridiculous number of cardio machines is a mystery to me. on that subject they wouldn't need as many if they trained their members in how to use the machines (more intensively and therefore achieve better exercise and more throughput!)
If they had kept this then wow! what an improvement it would have been.If they had converted one of their studios to a grid studio then great. But now sadly we have the worst of all worlds.
Happy Training.
Andy@Concept.
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