Hard Nock’s Gym

God I love this place! Dave, Eric! Jane and all the rest will help motivate you to meet any goals you can make. As noted by others leave the bs at the door, the rules are pretty simple don’t hog weights don’t be a moron and flush when done. Dave inspired me to go from a rolley Polly round man to ripped to a degree that I didn’t think could be done. kinda fell apart after being hurt but remembered the lessons Dave gave me and moving back in the right direction. When back in Amesbury it’s good to stop back in, just walking thru the door makes me smile. The beatings will continue till moral improves! Give me heck Dave

I know what you’re thinking. «look at this fat guy, he doesn’t go to the gym!» Well I do (or did) and since I moved away from the Amesbury area I haven’t been able to find a gym that suits me because I’ve been spoiled by this place.
The cut and dry is this, Hard Nock’s is a no frills no BS gym. It’s a small hallway of a gym with lots of free-​weights and weight machines and a handful of cardio machines. If you want to sit in a sauna, swim in a pool, play squash, or hang out at the juice bar, don’t go here.
The way pricing works is you can go for a day, week, or month at a time. There’s no joining fees and no cancellation fees, you just pay up at the beginning of the day/​week/​month (cash only) and sign in and out as you go. If you don’t want to go anymore, don’t show up and don’t pay, simple as that. Nobody is going to hunt you down for some outrageous 200 dollar fee because you cancelled too early.
If you’re lucky enough to be given a key you can go to this gym 24 hours. I can’t tell you the exact hours but I’ve shown up at 4am and 11pm and there’s always people here. Peak hours are between 4−6pm so avoid that if you can.
While this place can be intimidating, everyone there is friendly. If you just ask people will give you advice on workouts and exercises. If you are doing something wrong someone will let you know. Plenty of women and younger kids also lift here (people seem to think its a men-​only place).
Dave, the owner, is frequently there and offers personal training sessions. He will also give you advice if you just ask. One time a friend and I told him we were looking for workouts for rugby, the next day we show up and there’s a big binder sitting next to the sign-​in sheet that says RUGBY with a ton of exercises in it. Show me another gym owner that would do that without charging for it and I might consider going there.
Great pricing structure, great gym with no BS and offers everything up front. (I once called another local gym and they told me to come in and talk to an agent just to find out how much it costs monthly to go there. no thanks!) I really can’t recommend Hard Nock’s enough.