Some Fat at my gym broke the assisted pull up machine. Not happy. I moved not by choice mind you to a new town, that is in rural NZ. Cheap rent currently and waiting out the economic meltdown that is Australia at the moment. It's pretty reasonable in terms of cost my new gym but fuck me. There are so many fat people.   Now I pass for human but I know that visceral fat is there and my metabolism is not what it was in my 20s. Just because the entire region has every 3rd person as a walking whale, and obesity is fucking everywhere does not mean I get a free pass here.  I'm tall so I can get away with quite a bit but fuck me I do not want my BMI where it is, and whilst I have clavicles, no cankles, my bp is normal, and my knuckles on my hands are very delineated that's still no excuse for not trundling off for a 3x weekly catch up at gym. American's have a fear of "bag lady syndrome" I have that + being morbidly obese. This gym is associated with an aquatic center and is some what low rent from the local council. But it's close and has what I need.  I know that NZ does push up the league of fat per population, but I never "saw" it as such. But being in a rural backwater - it's there. Sure enough last week I'm at the gym on a Thursday night at 7pm. I'd finished up some cardio and was doing some floor stretches and crunches. Then bam! At least 8 super planets came out of no where. 3 of them had floating gunts that would give them issues getting in and out of doors. All had cankles, no necks, twisted inward palms, and breathing issues.  The 5 treadmill machines were all in use by these planets, walking slowly for all of about 10 minutes. There was no running on them, the machines were straining to keep up, and 3 super planets were wondering around slowly talking to anyone that came near them. I'd say every one was an easy 180kgs. It was gym attendance but yeah.  I'd also worked out that as they were so huge they couldn't fit on any of the gym machines outside the treadmill. Like any of the press machines were out, any seated rows, or decks or anything with a seat really. Clearly spin class bikes were out, as were other stationary bikes out, leaving only the treadmills. The rowing machines have small seats that you row on, they were so fat, they would possibly tip over the rowing machines. But no it was - 10 minutes of the treadmill and farting around. Sure I'd use free weights or mats or kettlebells but clearly...  Now I left at that stage. Previously the gym was pretty quiet with only 5 others in, we were all just bouncing from machine to machine and I had a good crack on the assisted pull up machine to get my biceps activated. I got in a couple of sets and all was good.  So a day or so later... back in the gym to find the assisted pull up machine is gone. Like WTF? What happened to the machine?   So I bailed up one of the staff and pointed out that A, I was paying for this as a gym membership and B, where is the pull up machine? I was assured by the fit bro that it would only be out for a day or so. So sure enough a day or so later after that (4 days with no assisted pull up machine) that another "assistant" I bailed up and demanded an explanation.   I made sure to tell her that it was not her fault personally, and that it's nothing she could personally do to fix the situation but not having the machine there was really poor form. She then told me that some one had snapped the supporting based of the assisted pull up machine and the manufacturer was 'waiting on a part' to weld it in to shape. Now I'm suspicious as rural areas have places to get farm equipment serviced on a regular basis, but shit me.  Why the fuck can't they all go in the pool? The it's to cold argument is bullshit they have enough blubber for all. Why the shit does it have to fall on me the more regular gym goer to subsidize the 45+ BMI crowd when they break equipment? Is it horrible to contemplate that gym equipment now has to have ratings to with stand a Fat onslaught? I'm choosing winter as the optimum time to get fit (yes it's autumn/fall now) so there is no distraction, and no summer crazy holidays nonsense to distract me. What happens during summer when it's the "get beach body ready" in 4 weeks, and New Years resolution bullshit? Just how much weight was put on it to get metal fatigue? Why are the assistants so blase about it? Does it happen often?   So I'm sorta curious about what happens next. I've got a 6 month membership that I intend to work the shit out of. If this ghetto arsed gym that has to be braced to have fat attacks on a weekly basis writing about it here might save my sanity. It is kinda funny in a grim way.