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The Gun Show

  • 12-11-2015 10:25pm
    #1
    tomato1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75 ✭✭


    So how often do you go to gym yourself?

    How often do you go to gym per week? 25 votes

    Not a gym person
    0% 0 votes
    Once a week
    76% 19 votes
    Twice a week
    8% 2 votes
    3 times or more
    16% 4 votes


Comments

  • #2
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Gun show?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #3
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,190 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    Gun show?

    Reference to arm muscles, from American slang, bit dated now.


  • #4
    mattP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭mattP


    I don't go to the gym anymore cause I don't have time, instead I go for a 3-5k jog in the mornings, time and weather dependent:P
    I feel as a young gay guy theres a lot of pressure to stay really fit, I don't really know where it comes from (Media I suppose?) but I think if I wasn't fit and had a few pound spare it would hinder my chances of finding a guy. Like my boyfriend now is really fit too, so I would feel really guilty if I let myself go, if that makes sense. I guess "attractiveness" and compatibility and whatever is just much more comparable when ye're of the same gender.


  • #5
    Ten of Swords
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,384 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    I have gym membership through work. I use it for the swimming pool quite often but rarely for the gym, I do not get the obsession some people have for working out for hours at a time when an outdoor run or 30 minute cardio does just fine. I do go with one friend sometimes but it's usually an ordeal because he gets extremely competitive and his attitude just ends up annoying me.

    In the evenings after work I either go for a run in Phoenix park or go for a long cycle (I don't cycle in the evenings at this time of year as it is so dark and the weather is so unpredictable). My main reason for this is to give myself a release from my day at work which I find extremely stressful so I put in the earbuds, pump the volume and run until I forget about whatever is getting me down.

    Apart from that I cycle at the weekends, swim in the mornings if I'm in early enough, play basketball whenever I can and I have a punch bag in my room - a treasured leftover from my teens when I was working through anger and self control issues - I can gauge how things are going in my life by how much I'm using the bag! All of that does me just fine so I can do without the gym but if I have a metabolism crash when I'm in my 30s and I start looking like my dad I will be in that gym 24/7 :p

    Moderator: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender, Vegan & Vegetarian

    Category Moderator: Social & Fun



  • #6
    ongarboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    I went to college in the 1990s where guys really didn't look after their bodies. Ironically, you hardly ever met really overweight or obese guys but six packs were not the ultimate ideal nor were common either. My sister works on a university campus now and she can't get over how so many guys all seem to have gym membership and it's all about body perfection. I suspect this peer pressure (gay and straight), which is probably media driven along with the advent of metrosexuality is the main driver of male awareness of looking good. I don't think it's a bad thing as its good to look well but when it becomes an obsessive compulsion, it can be a problem

    One curious question I have - why do so many guys on the dating apps look for "gym buddies"? Am I missing the double meaning of what that request really means? :)


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