Back To Basics Gym & Fitness Center

While on vacation here in the Poconos Mountains in Pennsylvania, this gym was the closest to where I was staying. It’s still a 18 miles /​20 minutes drive away :-(from my resort, but then flabbiness does not take a vacation!
This aptly-​named gym has all of the basic weight lifting equipment and dumbells and barbells, but none of the fancy computerized machines that you might see at an LA Fitness or 24 Hour SuperGym. It helps to know several different ways to exercise a certain muscle, in case the equipment here is different from your home gym.
I liked the fact that while the gym was small and basic, it does not seem to have many customers during the 3 times I was there, mostly around 5 pm, which is usually prime workout hours (read: crowded) at most any other gyms. So there is no wait for any of the equipment.
The other nice thing about this gym is that they recently took over a «Hoop Center» basketball facility, so attached to this small gym was a huge basketball facility, with enough floor space for FOUR full-​sized basketball courts! In an alcove next to the main basketball floors were vertical jump measuring devices, different height benches for doing plyometrics, plus other specialized equipment to improve your explosiveness and jumping ability. So if you were on a basketball or volleyball team, for the $ 7 day pass you really got access to very specialized (read: hard-​to-​find) sport specific training equipment.
By the way, Dunmore is a suburb of Scranton, PA, in case you are not from the area and wondering where this place was on a map. Next time I’m on vacation in the Poconos, I’m definitely headed back to this gym.