She said, in the past, she was getting so sick of being babied because she was a woman. She loves training hard, and ends up on the floor after many workouts. She recently carried around the building a barrel filled with sand that weighs more than she does, and after a brutal one-hour workout. She now has her name on the barrel in large mailbox letters for all to see. The training atmosphere of a gym is far more important than the equipment in it.
Some gyms have great equipment but a dead atmosphere.
No one is working, and no banging, shouting, grunting and groaning are allowed. These are toner gyms. If you are in one, find another gym. I had some of the best workouts of my life at a poorly-equipped and crowded gym at an Air Base in Germany rusty weights, creaky floors, broken cables, etc. Several hard workers were always in there.