My Visit to the World Famous Kissimmee Muscle Gym…

I visit Orlando, FL often. We have conferences and are passport holders to one of the amusement parks there. Normally I would just workout in the gym but my insurance program recently came out with program that allows me to join gym pretty much anywhere for free.

So I take advantage of this every time I go somewhere. No more training in a small ill-equipped hotel gym. Nope I can go pretty much anywhere and get my full workout in. Its like I never left home. So when I was searching around for a gym in the area of the theme park I stumbled upon Kissimmee Muscle, I called them up, found out they took my insurance program and I decided to sign up.

I have to admit I was kind of excited to sign up, from the photos and website it looked like it had that serious work out vibe mixed with all day access and unique equipment. The very first thing I did when I got into town was to head over to the gym and sign up. Since they are a 24 hour access gym you need to sign up when they have staffed hours.

When I got there I was greeted by an nice lady, and the owner himself. He explained the gym concept to me and how they became world famous. Not bad for a gym that has been open for little over a year. If you want to know how they became world famous… well you will have to ask the owner!

I did a quick tour of the gym, which jam packed quite a bit of equipment in large space. The machines were not familiar to me and seemed a little older but they were well maintained and clean. There were even machines I have not see in any gym for a while. The cardio equipment was all newer state of the art equipment.

There were not TVs all around, no extra fluff, and no extra perks like massages and tans. This was a place for serious training and it felt awesome. I could not wait to get in and throw some slag around. Before I left I looked at the wall of photos of those who have gone before, and there were some serious muscle represented. So I felt like I was in the right place.

I work out early. I am not uber-rich, own my own gym and work out at 2 A.M. early. But I am usually at the gym by 5:00 A.M. right when it opens. This gym has 24 hour access. And is the best 24 hour gym I have been to.

So there I am working out in this gym and there are only three other people in there. Heaven… its like I own the place. Everything was easy to find and even easier to use. Its amazing that when you work out a lot you can go from gym to gym and use any of the equipment with ease.

There are some cool things that I should tell you about. They had this cool bench press bar that allowed me to do some triceps exercises getting a pump I had yet to experience.

Then in the corner in the rack room there is a hamstring pedestal where you can do lying hamstring curls almost like a high back extension. Awesome burn on the “hammies” but hard to do.

And finally for the hardcore lifters they have the chains. While I did not get to do much bench press when I was there, I really was eyeing those chains. Maybe next time I will put some on the ends of my bench bar and go old school on it.

Two final notes about the machines there. One is the overhead pullover machine. I have not seen one of these since the 90s and was feeling like I would never see one again. So I worked the crap out of that machine. I loved every rep. And finally a climbing rope. Right there in the middle of the gym, something to remind me of high school gym But who could resist a go on the old rope. I only got half way up!

Well I finished with a long foam roll which is always the perfect way to end a hard work out. And Ill finish this with a high recommendation for Kissimmee Muscle gym.

What it may lack in polish it make up for in character. It has the right amount of equipment mixing old and new. But what sets it apart is how it caters to the very mindset of the serious body trainer. It just speaks to you. And being open 24 hours is a great benefit.

So if you are in the Orlando FL area and what a great place to train then check out Kissimmee Muscle on HWY 192 you will be glad you did. They have all kinds of memberships for people who travel or vacation there like day and week passes. They really do cater to the serious body training lovers like me.