Gym advice in Dublin 8

roberteboot

Hello Everyone,

Im looking at possibly moving into an apartment around the Islandbridge area close to Heuston station.

I was wondering if anyone has a run down on my gym options around there?

Id be close to Kilmainham and i guess it would be easy enough to get the Luas into Smithfield too or further into town.

Im not very familiar with the area so ive no idea if there are decent gyms about.

Ive been training regularly since i gave up rugby in colleage so id be looking for one with the usual - free benches, squat rack, decent dumbells at least 30+kgs.

From talking to lads who train there regularly RAW would be perfect but its just too far across every evening i reckon.

Looking for a good mix of fitness/lifting gym. Not a full Atlas/Hercs/Powerhouse type lifting gym if you know what i mean. Ive trained with a couple of lads who'd head in there but wouldnt be THAT hardcore More an all round decent gym with good equipment and atmosphere.

Anyway basically what im looking for is a run down on options and opinions.

ps: I wouldnt be driving so that limits things a little.

Cheers for any replies or help...

roberteboot

Sorry to bump this - moving into Kilmainham and still looking for a gym....

Im going to be living just beside the Hilton. I hear theres a gym there but that its not much use...

Ive also been told theres a decent gym in Fatima which should only be a ten minute walk or so but i dont have any details on it.

Has anyone any other suggestions?

Cheers

d'Oracle

St. Cathrines Community Sports centre:

http://www.dublincity.ie/RecreationandCulture/SportsFacilities/LeisureCentres/Pages/StCatherine%27s%20CommunitySportsCentre.aspx

Cant vouch for what they have. Its on Marrowbone Lane, off cork street. Close enough to the Fatima or James Luas Stops.

Ballyfermot Leisure Centre:

Again not sure what the equipment range is like, but its new and has a pool.
Shouldn't be too far from you....

http://www.dublincity.ie/RecreationandCulture/SportsFacilities/LeisureCentres/Pages/BallyfermotLeisureCentre.aspx

flywheel

roberteboot wrote: »

Id be close to Kilmainham and i guess it would be easy enough to get the Luas into Smithfield too or further into town.

if you're on the luas then heading east on the red line in order from your location you might want to check out:

smithfield: http://www.oneescape.ie/

chirstchurch (four courts prob closest stop and walk over river):
http://www.iveaghfitness.ie/

aston quay (jervis or abbey st and walk over river):
http://www.crunchfitness.ie/astonquay.html (no squat rack tho)

with the connolly extension opens up you might be able to get down as far as the ones in the IFSC or Docklands... but try those first

havana

The gym at fatima is called herberton. Looks great but then i'm a total couch potato! Still haven't got around to joining and i can see it from my window!

bluefinger

Hilton Hotel in Kilmainham has a gym.

The gym in Fatima is supposed to be great though. I'm in Catherines and it's empty since the Fatima one opened!

roberteboot

Cheers for that everyone its really appreciated.
At least now i have a nice few options to go and check out,
Cheers

ConsiderThis

Ah, the modern obsession with the gym.

I've often thought that when a future generations are doing archelogical digs and unearth a fully kitted out gym, they will deduce it is a place where miscreants in our society were sent by the courts for punishment.

Why is it we confuse health and fitness in our society? Call me old fashioned, but I note that Jim Fixx, who was credited with helping start the fitness revolution, died aged 52.

He was the author of the best-selling book, The Complete Book of Running, popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogger.

He may have been very fit, but was not healthy. Why do we continue to confuse fitness with health?

d'Oracle

ConsiderThis wrote: »

Ah, the modern obsession with the gym.

I've often thought that when a future generations are doing archelogical digs and unearth a fully kitted out gym, they will deduce it is a place where miscreants in our society were sent by the courts for punishment.

Why is it we confuse health and fitness in our society? Call me old fashioned, but I note that Jim Fixx, who was credited with helping start the fitness revolution, died aged 52.

He was the author of the best-selling book, The Complete Book of Running, popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogger.

He may have been very fit, but was not healthy. Why do we continue to confuse fitness with health?

Read the stickies.

ConsiderThis

d'Oracle wrote: »

Read the stickies.

I promise you that, if I knew what the "stickies" were, I'd read them with interest.

corkcomp

ConsiderThis wrote: »

I promise you that, if I knew what the "stickies" were, I'd read them with interest.

just in case you missed one of the first posts on top of the forum

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054876750

d'Oracle

ConsiderThis wrote: »

I promise you that, if I knew what the "stickies" were, I'd read them with interest.

A sticky is a thread which is pinned to the top of a message board.
So it does not decend in order.
This function is often used for important and regularly accessed threads.

Welcome to the internet.

ConsiderThis

d'Oracle wrote: »

A sticky is a thread which is pinned to the top of a message board.
So it does not decend in order.
This function is often used for important and regularly accessed threads.

Welcome to the internet.

I have looked to the top of this page but can't see anything that looks like its pinned to the top. Then you say it doesn't descend in order anyhow, so i really have no idea what it is. is it important I know what it is?

d'Oracle

Get back under that bridge Troll.

ConsiderThis

d'Oracle wrote: »

Get back under that bridge Troll.

It seems impossible to have a conversation with you that is understandable in normal english!

Curlypinkie

The one beside Fatima Luas stop (Herberton) is brilliant. Been a member for a month soon. Staff is kind, helpful and clued in and facilities are great. It's not expensive either.

wivy

bumping this up! 4 years old and looking for a good gym in the dublin 8 area or close by

amazingemmet

capital strength on the scr www.defygravity.ie