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February 26, 2004 12:47 AM
Broken: Gym entrance
Matt Wilkie sends in this picture forwarded to him by a friend. (We're not sure who took the picture or if it's legitimate - if you have details, please write in: broken at goodexperience dot com.)
Update 2/26: Alice Matsumoto points us to this page (scroll all the way down), suggesting that the picture is legit.
Update 3/9: Micah Dickerson writes, "I can corroborate the legitimacy of the photo. I've actually worked out at that location while visiting a friend."
Yoni -- if you're heading for a fitness center, you should probably consider taking the stairs, as opposed to an escalator.
Gyms, like all other buildings, must be handicap accessible. My gym has four floors, a staircase, an elevator, and several members in wheelchairs that surely appreciate being able to reach the upper floors where the weights are.
This picture is not broken, this site is just narrow-minded. Why would you punish a member with a broken leg (say, from a skiing injury) who wants to still keep his or her upper body fit or do some cardio?
the presence of an elevator for handicapped accessibility is certainly a neccessity.
However, I've never seen a person in a wheel chair take an escalator. A ramp would be a better solution, eh? Also curious to see what the rest of that cut off sign reads.
how would one effectively do cardio with a broken leg?
The escalator seems to be a regular amenity at 24-hour Fitness; they have one in front of their Waikiki Beach location in Hawaii as well (sorry, I don't have a photo).
Foresight. If the fitness business vacates, that space will be easier to rent to a tenent whose customers are not necessarily interested in fitness (e.g. a bookstore).
I saw this picture and immediately recognized it - I haven't lived in San Diego for a few years but something just struck me that I knew it. Now it totally makes sense - if I'd known about This Is Broken I would have sent it in then - I don't care what it's for. I don't care that we think people with a broken leg need it. 1 flight of stairs in front of the gym is ok.
That 24 hour fitness is in a shopping center at Point Loma in San Diego. There are plenty of other business on either side of the gym that cater to the less than healthy.
You idiots. Can't you see the obviously non-disabled people using the escalator, dressed in gym attire? One of them is even carrying a workout towel, in the UNLIKELY event that he breaks out into a sweat.
I've had more than my share of leg injuries, and even during my first one, I climbed stairs just fine.
The point of this picture is not necessarily that there are escalators in front a fitness center, but the fact that the patrons are using the escalator, and nobody is on the stairs.
A similar matter happens at the gym I go to. Two parking lots exists. One behind the building, and one in front. The one behind requires much more walking distance to get to the entrance. Oddly enough visitors to the gym will drive around the front parking lot and wait for spaces to free up so that they can save the walk from the back parking lot to the front. It is especially ironic when I see these same people on the treadmill once inside!!!
Been there, worked out at that gym, took the stairs in, escalator out (my legs were sore since it was leg day). Hey, it's San Diego! Everything's cool in San Diego.
Wanna see something weird? Look at tip #2 on this link (the funny part: it's from 24 Hour Fitness! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!):
After a long search, I finally found your site. My granny used to say, that you must never give up to reach a certain aim.
So keep on going like I did it recently.
Its not that they shouldn't have escalators for the disabled, but the ones taking the stairs in the photo aren't disabled
Its not that they shouldn't have escalators for the disabled, but the ones taking the stairs in the photo aren't disabled
actually, I have a knee injury and a friend of mine has a severely disabled foot. But most of the time, we look like we walk just fine. I go to the gym to do non-impact stuff, to get the rest of me healthy, even if the knee is b0rked.
A friend of mine told me about this place. I love it. I will recommend you to all my friends.
See you again next time I surf around.
If I owned this fitness centre, I would make the both of the escalator stairs move from the top to the bottom, so that people would have to "climb against the current" to get in
You can take a wheelchair on an escalator. It's not recommended, it's somewhat dangerous (you have to hold on tight to the handrails), but it can be done.
There used to be a really long outdoor escalator at the Pittsburgh zoo, climbing a hill. it didn't have steps, it had a tread like moving walkways. Boy was that thing stupid, if someone stumbled, 5 or 6 people would get knocked over. There were some lawsuits because of it.
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sorry -- whats broken?
Posted by: yoni at February 26, 2004 03:30 PM