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What's NUIM Gym like?

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  • 29-01-2011 10:24am
    #1
    AlwaysConfused
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭


    Hi

    I was just wondering what is the gym on campus like. I was thinking of going in the second term with a friend but I've never been to this gym or any gym in my life.

    What kinda equipment has the gym on campus got?

    Any tips for a gym nOOb (sarcasm aside please :D)


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    #2
    squishykins
    Registered Users Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭squishykins


    Because I'm lazy. :rolleyes:

    Here's your answer


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    mp3guy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,955 ✭✭✭mp3guy


    And incase the OP is too lazy to wade through a 7 page topic;

    http://sports.nuim.ie/facilities/NUIMFitnessCentre.shtml

    Weekdays is gets busier as the day goes on, before 10.30 / 11.00 is usually nice and quiet. After 6 forget it, everyone is in there (the beginning of semesters are particularly bad).

    Not sure about weekends, quieter I think. And in Summer its usually quiet enough most of the time.

    If you go, please don't smell and for godsake wipe the machines down when you're done with them.


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    funky penguin
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    For a free gym, tis well stocked, and if you time your visits as mp3guy said above, you'll mostly have it to yourself.

    Weekends are generally quiet but the hours are severly diminished in comparison to teh weekdays, so plan ahead! :)


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    lilsis
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭lilsis


    mp3guy wrote: »
    If you go, please don't smell and for godsake wipe the machines down when you're done with them.

    Please don't, i had some girl stink me out of the place last week cos she had to much deodrant on I could hardly see it was that bad!

    For a free gym it's great, but obviously nothing fancy, there's no TVs or anything like that that would be in other gyms that you'd pay for. If you're going to use a machine that's noisy, like the treadmill, I'd suggest bringing your own mp3 as most of the time you can't hear the music. I would definitly suggest going early in the day when it's less likely for many to be there. I'm fit enough but still feel a bit intimidated if I can't run for as long as other people. If you're a girl (like me) it can feel a bit weird walking into the gym as all the weight are at the door where you go in and there's all these huge guys doing weights, I still leg it to the other end of the gym when I go in. That's the only bad thing about it, the weights, I would always do some small weights at any other gym but would feel like I can't there cos of all the guys and don't even think they'd have small enough ones for me.

    And again please don't smell.


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    lemansky
    Registered Users Posts: 970 ✭✭✭lemansky


    Also be aware that in the early morning, depending on the day, there may be quite a few sports scholarship people there. It can pack out the area down by the weights. Good news is that a lot of the time its the space they use rather than all of the weights/equipment, so if you can squeeze in its all good.


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