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The gym and older people

  • 07-01-2009 7:16pm
    #1
    EyesLeft
    Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭


    So here is a sort of ridiculous question but do older people use the gym?

    It turns out I will be back in Dublin for a while and it seems that since I was at TCD as an undergrad I can join the gym at quite a good rate. The thing is I don't like the feeling of being out of place so is it only used by students or is there a fair mix of students, staff and so on? What about the pool, is there all sorts of people or is it all super-fit 20 year old sport club adones?

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Riskymove
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,900 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    Afriend of mine is a former student who uses the gym and pool regularly.

    I can confirm he qualifies as an "older person":D


  • #3
    uprooted shane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 250 ✭✭uprooted shane


    i seen a lecture of mine in the pool there last year! and in the gym too, theres always usually a good mix, there is mostly students there though, but no one bats an eye lid!


  • #4
    the flananator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭the flananator


    EyesLeft wrote: »
    So here is a sort of ridiculous question but do older people use the gym?

    It turns out I will be back in Dublin for a while and it seems that since I was at TCD as an undergrad I can join the gym at quite a good rate. The thing is I don't like the feeling of being out of place so is it only used by students or is there a fair mix of students, staff and so on? What about the pool, is there all sorts of people or is it all super-fit 20 year old sport club adones?

    Thanks.

    People will throw their poo at you.


  • #5
    zuchum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 500 ✭✭✭zuchum


    EyesLeft wrote: »
    What about the pool, is there all sorts of people or is it all super-fit 20 year old sport club adones?

    That's Adonises, 3rd declension,extending noun.

    sorry...

    As for the gym,there's always a really good mix of younger and older people there; I see my lecturers quite a bit, and quite a lot of postgrads go too, so it should be ok!

    And even the 20 year olds aren't all that Adonis-y.


  • #6
    EyesLeft
    Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭EyesLeft


    Adonises like penises? I didn't know that.

    Anyway thanks for the replies: it isn't like it is a big issue, it is just the pool and gym are no fun if you feel sad. Anyway the choice is TCD which everyone says is good or the council run place on Townsend Street which I used to like because the pool had an entertaining bathhouse atmosphere.


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  • #7
    cotwold
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭cotwold


    EyesLeft wrote: »
    is it all super-fit 20 year old sport club adones?

    Thanks.

    I wish, that would certainly be motivation to go more often. No theres all sorts.


  • #8
    Tricity Bendix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,510 ✭✭✭Tricity Bendix


    zuchum wrote: »
    quite a lot of postgrads go too, so it should be ok!
    Yeah, postgrads are ANCIENT! Old crusties...


  • #9
    scruttocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭scruttocks


    zuchum wrote: »
    That's Adonises, 3rd declension,extending noun.

    sorry...

    Stung


  • #10
    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    b.ie curious wrote: »
    Yeah, postgrads are ANCIENT! Old crusties...

    :(


  • #11
    Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,699 ✭✭✭Brian


    zuchum wrote: »
    That's Adonises, 3rd declension,extending noun.
    "Extending noun"?
    Adonis is a Greek noun anyway.


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  • #12
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    b.ie curious wrote: »
    Yeah, postgrads are ANCIENT! Old crusties...

    Way harsh.

    I go a fair bit and I'm the ring side of 4th year by a couple of years.

    Wouldnt give a toss who is at the gym.

    Unless its G'em. She uses all the weights


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