Exercise/Fitness/Sports

kg703

Hi all,

Just looking to see if any fitness/sports clubs around the Killiney area (or within 10/15 min drive). Did boxercise for a few years on the northside and loved it. Was more based on the social aspect as well as the fitness so not really looking for a giant muscle dude to scream at me while I'm running around with Kettlebells.

Willing to give any sports a go too, played football (terribly) and tennis (also terribly) for years but if any team sports looking for an overweight 30 year old female...... havent done anything since June and have gained a stone since then so really need to find something!

Contacted a few places a good few asking for 12 euro a class?! Madness. Hope that's not the norm over here (fiver a class on the sunny side :pac:)

Anyway my last thread I started was looking for a good spice bag so the guilt has already kicked in here.

RosieJoe

Ben Dunne gym appeal to you at all? €20 a month and all classes are free. There is one in Cherrywood.

kg703

Ah the better the social aspect, the more likely I am to actually go. I would absolutely join the gym and never walk back in the doors. The last place I was in was a little club, the people knew your name, knew what was going on, we had xmas parties, summer parties, did runamuck together etc.

Kinda looking for something like that. Where exercising meets socialising

LimeFruitGum

I was at the Dunne gym in Cherrywood last year and tbh, I just didn't 'click' with the place at all, if that makes sense. One of the first things they said to me was 'Don't come in Monday-Wednesday evenings, it's always packed'. Well, I work long office hours, sorry if the gym isn't big enough to deal with that! For some reason, I found it very off-putting and I never really wanted to go there. Not particularly social or big either; apart from the price, I would not go back.
Yet, I used to really enjoy going to their Westpoint when I worked near Blanchardstown. Anyhoo!

My OH goes to Glenview. I know, it's Kilmacanogue, but he loves their social vibe. They do BBQs and Xmas parties.

kg703

Yeah I was in Westwood for a year and had a friend going so when we went together it was great. When she left I went once and that place is not cheap. I'm a 'trial' member of a gym where I work but I won't keep it up because it's just boring unless you have someone to go with.

The more I think about this, the more I realise that I just need someone to bring me to these places all the time!

There are boxercise classes in UrbanJunction in Blackrock - might be a bit far though?
There's also http://www.dancetheatreireland.com/ in Dun Laoghaire. Bit left field but I took a class there years and years ago and found them really cool and the people friendly. Lots of total dance beginners, so everyone was kind of morto together!

ted1

uiu could try Killiney castle gym or if You prefer a team sport Cuala have a mums team, being a mum isn't a requirement.

http://www.cualagaa.ie/ladies-football/gaelic-4-mothers/

kg703

ted1 wrote: »

uiu could try Killiney castle gym or if You prefer a team sport Cuala have a mums team, being a mum isn't a requirement.

http://www.cualagaa.ie/ladies-football/gaelic-4-mothers/

That actually looks brilliant - I'm not a mammy but thats exactly what im looking for. Although I work in football (soccer) I might be shot for going to the competition :pac:

Cali_girl wrote: »

There are boxercise classes in UrbanJunction in Blackrock - might be a bit far though?
There's also http://www.dancetheatreireland.com/ in Dun Laoghaire. Bit left field but I took a class there years and years ago and found them really cool and the people friendly. Lots of total dance beginners, so everyone was kind of morto together!

That looks like a lot of fun actually. I'm not used to that without 6 beers inside me first

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I took the body conditioning/contemporary dance class and remember being so scared and nervous signing up and asking one of the directors about the standard / what class would suit me best. I recall him asking "Well how comfortable are you with movement and expressing yourself physically" and cracking up to myself having to answer, well, I've never danced but I've done a little amateur boxing They were really sound.