# Help finding a decent gym in Taipei **URL:** \ **Category:** Health & Fitness\ **Created:** [July 25, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505 "2025-07-25T14:29:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ninman](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a5b964/32.png) [@ninman](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/ninman)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/1 "2025-07-25T14:29:14Z")
So I joined World Gym in Taipei about 2 weeks ago, but I’m strongly considering cancelling and finding a different gym. On Thursday I went in there to do my normal workout and was going to do some squats. I noticed there was a guy deadlifting in front of a squat rack, but not using it. It’s one of those racks that has two poles in front of it and fixed safety bars, so he couldn’t move into the squatting area. For some reason he had the bar almost touching the poles, but he was resting between sets, so I thought, no problem I’ll just set up my squats and he can keep deadlifting. The guy starts getting very aggressive and irate with me for squeezing past the bar so I could set up my squats. I asked staff to come over and tell the guy to stop harassing me, but instead they started blaming me for “not asking him first”, rather than him for actively trying to stop me using equipment he himself was not using and refusing to move his bar back a bit if he needed more space. I’m just wondering if anyone knows any other gyms I can try where the staff are reasonable and supportive ? ---
**Author:** ![ppp](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/9de0a6/32.png) [@ppp](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/ppp)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/2 "2025-07-25T14:37:18Z")
some guy told me why i keep looking at him. Nearly fistfight Then i hire personal trainer. Keep trash away. Many crazy ppl in gym. Can also hire woman trainer. Maybe date her… ---
**Author:** ![aNYCtransplant](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@aNYCtransplant](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/aNYCtransplant)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 2:40pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/3 "2025-07-25T14:40:33Z")
You already posted this on Reddit and they the consensus is that everyone was at fault. You could try the other chain gyms? ---
**Author:** ![ninman](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a5b964/32.png) [@ninman](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/ninman)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/4 "2025-07-25T14:42:12Z")
If that’s true then why did the guy get a warning and the other staff got told how to better deal with those situations, I.e. tell him to move? I was not given a warning. ---
**Author:** ![ppp](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/9de0a6/32.png) [@ppp](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/ppp)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/5 "2025-07-25T14:43:01Z")
Oh u that article 11 dude… ---
**Author:** ![vibekiller](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/vibekiller/32/273185_2.png) [@vibekiller](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/vibekiller)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 5:40am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/6 "2025-07-26T05:40:20Z")
You can just go to the municipal gyms. They only charge about 50NTD per hour and people are quite nice or neutral in my experience. ---
**Author:** ![ninman](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a5b964/32.png) [@ninman](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/ninman)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 5:55am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/7 "2025-07-26T05:55:54Z")
Btw for people thinking I was being unreasonable, here’s what that area looks like. ![20250726_114203](https://forumosauploads-12829.kxcdn.com/original/4X/7/1/4/71490b6c67773f33bbdb146a7a76cf74ef17db7d.jpeg) I wanted to use the squat rack in the back. He was deadlifting right next to it. The deadlift area and the area with the red bench were free. ---
**Author:** ![Poundsand](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@Poundsand](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Poundsand)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 6:18am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/8 "2025-07-26T06:18:49Z")
> [@ninman](#): > > The guy starts getting very aggressive and irate with me for squeezing past the bar so I could set up my squats. > > I asked staff to come over and tell the guy to stop harassing me, but instead they started blaming me for “not asking him first”, rather than him for actively trying to stop me using equipment he himself was not using and refusing to move his bar back a bit if he needed more space. Dude is inconsiderate for his behavior, but you’re also in the wrong if you had to squeeze by him and staff is right you should have asked. Gym etiquette everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![rooftopclown](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/rooftopclown/32/58063_2.png) [@rooftopclown](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/rooftopclown)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 6:21am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/9 "2025-07-26T06:21:19Z")
Exactly why I don’t go the gym. People in bars are much nicer. ✅ ---
**Author:** ![RickRooney](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@RickRooney](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/RickRooney)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 6:29am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/10 "2025-07-26T06:29:43Z")
Why didn’t you just ask him if you could use the squat rack…? Seems like an easily avoided problem tbh. This is Taiwan, people do whatever at the best of times and yea the non thinking behaviour crosses over to gyms. The biggesr problem is they are always crowded AF. They need to open up some more gyms. I go in the day time to avoid the crowding as best as I can. But i would much prefer going at night. And yea don’t expect the staff to be useful, in the one i go to they basically sit on their fat arses and eat bian dangs. I asked one of them once if there is anywhere to do dips, she said no. Actually there is you just gotta fold up the seat. Useless fatty. ---
**Author:** ![ninman](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a5b964/32.png) [@ninman](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/ninman)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 6:38am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/11 "2025-07-26T06:38:04Z")
Why would I ask him to use equipment he’s not using? ---
**Author:** ![ninman](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a5b964/32.png) [@ninman](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/ninman)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 6:39am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/12 "2025-07-26T06:39:10Z")
It’s not my job to ask people to move somewhere else. Maybe he shouldn’t be intentionally blocking a squat rack he wasn’t using. ---
**Author:** ![ninman](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a5b964/32.png) [@ninman](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/ninman)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 6:43am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/13 "2025-07-26T06:43:08Z")
Yeah, in the UK he would’ve been told to move and do his deadlifts somewhere else. Especially since the actual deadlifting area was free. He also probably would’ve been warned there and then about being rude to other members. Here staff don’t seem to care about enforcing the rules or proper etiquette. They just default to “the foreigner is wrong”. ---
**Author:** ![squall1](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/squall1/32/66053_2.png) [@squall1](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/squall1)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 6:46am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/14 "2025-07-26T06:46:21Z")
Should have just asked ---
**Author:** ![ninman](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a5b964/32.png) [@ninman](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/ninman)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 6:48am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/15 "2025-07-26T06:48:23Z")
Asked what exactly ? ---
**Author:** ![Poundsand](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@Poundsand](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Poundsand)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 6:49am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/16 "2025-07-26T06:49:13Z")
> [@ninman](#): > > It’s not my job to ask people to move somewhere else. Right. But it’s gym etiquette. You can do it the easy way or the hard way. You seem to like the hard way. > [@ninman](#): > > Here staff don’t seem to care about enforcing the rules or proper etiquette. Nor do you, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![ninman](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a5b964/32.png) [@ninman](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/ninman)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 6:50am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/17 "2025-07-26T06:50:53Z")
What gym etiquette am I breaking exactly? Using available equipment ? He was deadlifting in a inappropriate place. ---
**Author:** ![RickRooney](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@RickRooney](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/RickRooney)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 6:56am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/18 "2025-07-26T06:56:07Z")
Its just a polite way to communicate to him that you want to use the equipment he is blocking- probably not on purpose. But ok, you do it your way. ---
**Author:** ![ninman](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a5b964/32.png) [@ninman](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/ninman)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 6:59am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/19 "2025-07-26T06:59:47Z")
That’s just a cop out. You can see in the photo there was plenty of space for him to deadlift. I wasn’t even interrupting his lifts. I stepped in while he was resting. If he doesn’t like it, that’s his problem. I’m not asking permission to use equipment that’s not in use. The bigger problem is staff refused to enforce the rules and make him move. ---
**Author:** ![Poundsand](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@Poundsand](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Poundsand)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2025, 7:23am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505/20 "2025-07-26T07:23:04Z")
> [@ninman](#): > > You can see in the photo there was plenty of space for him to deadlift. No, we can’t, as we can’t actually see where anyone was or how anyone was set up. Might as well say you shoulda used the power rack since the photo shows no one there. > [@ninman](#): > > The bigger problem is staff refused to enforce the rules and make him move. You started out by saying no problem, you’d set up and he’d keep deadlifting? So what rule was he breaking and why would he need to move? 😉 [Next page](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/help-finding-a-decent-gym-in-taipei/252505.md?page=2)