Trinity Gym

PHB

The showers in TCD gym are really good actually, good high pressure.

Diet_Coke

ARe you serious? The showers in Luce. Ok, afaik, there are 2 male dressing rooms in luce. each with 6 showers. In one of the rooms, only 5 of the showers work and one of them cold. There are no buttons, but rather a sensor that doesn't obey the laws of physics. The showers smell like dead rats and this high pressure is merely reasonable pressure. The water, however, is rarely cold. And you're rarely waiting more than a few minutes to splash around naked with your sporting pals.

Diet_Coke

In the gym there are about 14 thread mills. about 8 bikes. 4 rowing machines. some step things. maybe some more of that girly stuff.

there are weights machines, leg curls, lateral press, pull up machine, squats, most of the normal stuff but no bench press machine (one of each).

Then there are 5/6 benches for doing ur free weights. There are loads of little dumbells (is that what they're called?). That's about it, the gym is ok because it _WAS_ free and at a euro a go, it's not that bad, Again, if a rugby or rowing crowd come in, or heaven forbid, the female rugby or rowing crowd come in, you may as well just go get a shower.

also, there are these big giant balls for playing with and some mats for lying down pretending to stretch/ab roll on.

AARRRGH

Sorry to sound retarded, but is the gym open to the general public?
Are there instructors?

Diet_Coke

No, it is not I'm afraid. There are instructors but I've never seen them do instructing, aparently you can book them for an introduction and a weights plan or something. The dude P, is sound, the auld one is bit narky and the young ones just have an attitude. Find a pal who used to attend trinity, get him to join (about 180 i think) then replace his face with yours on the card, cheapest gym in d2.

Pet

I think they are planning on opening it to the public though are they not?? Membership-only like, but still.

the smiley one

em, sorry to be an eager fresher, but just wondering is there any indoor pool open to trinity students?

Boston

Yes there is, three euro, it's on townsend street, accross from the fire brigade station.

Also, Dude, half the other guys in the changing rooms will be nakid, it's not like they will be looking at you, cause it's so odd.

Pet

Does anyone know when the new Sports Centre is set to be finished? And are there any details available, other than the sadly-lacking tcd.ie/sport?

Pet

Pet wrote:

Does anyone know when the new Sports Centre is set to be finished? And are there any details available, other than the sadly-lacking tcd.ie/sport?

December 2006, last I heard. Though by December, you may well want to read "May".

Nietzschean

though by what date will it be fully active, is everything in the loyd building actually working yet?

John

Serenity wrote:

though by what date will it be fully active, is everything in the loyd building actually working yet?

The lift and that's about it. Friends of mine working there in the neuro labs during the summer had to take all their samples to the physiology building to do all their tests on it. Not even an ice machine in the building!

the smiley one

LiouVille wrote:

Yes there is, three euro, it's on townsend street, accross from the fire brigade station.

Woot! cheers!

John2

John2 wrote:

Not even an ice machine in the building!

Huh? There's the walk-in freezer on the 4th floor!

For all your cryogenic needs

John

Yeah but there's no ice machine for filling a little bucket with to put samples in while you work. Working in a freezer isn't good for you.