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Limerick Fitness Gym

  • 06-10-2005 08:55AM
    #1
    grasscutter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 164 ✭✭


    Hi

    I am looking for a decent fitness gym somewhere in Limerick City.
    Does anybody have any recommendations including what the cost might be?


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  • #2
    joc_06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,376 ✭✭✭joc_06


    best imo is UL arena. about 500 a year. for what you're getting its a steal
    JJb i next. about the same
    in town the one across from the savoy (or where it used to be is about the best) proce about the 400-500 mark too


  • #3
    Mr E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,790 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    I'm in JJB, and its a great gym. Staff are nice, and there are lots of treadmills, rowers, bikes and cross trainers. Weights machines are plentiful, but some are a bit light (both hamstring curl machines are easy (for me) at full weight).

    Dumbells go up to 50kg (in intervals of 2kg), but for some bizarre reason, the intervals jump to 4kg above 30kg (34, 38 etc.). It has swimming pool and large changing room. The price I'm paying is €45, and I think for the next couple of weeks there is no joining fee (I think I saw a flyer about it this morning).

    Go in and get a tour anyway, and see what you think.


  • #4
    grasscutter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 164 ✭✭grasscutter


    Hi joc/tmb

    thanks for the replys

    Took a look at JJB last night and it looked decent.

    I will check out the one opposite the flattened Savoy today

    cheers

    grasscutter


  • #5
    incisor71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 281 ✭✭incisor71


    TmB wrote:
    I'm in JJB, and its a great gym.
    A lot of gyms in Limerick are feeling the bite of JJB. The place where I am, Grove Island, used to be VERY busy in the eveningtimes, so I had to schedule my weight sessions for 7am (they open at that time just three mornings in the week) so that I'd have a clear run of all machines for the supersets I'd been prescribed by my trainer.

    Now it wouldn't matter if I spent 10 minutes on the pec deck in the eveningtime, and it's a veritable ghost gym in the morningtimes.

    The one reservation I'd have about JJB is its location - tiring to get there at the weekends when the shoppers come in their throngs, an even longer weekday morning journey to Shannon, and (politically/racially incorrect though it may be to say so) a little too near the haulting site for my liking.

    (On the last point though, Grove Island is starting to attract more and more unsavoury types who hang around the car park and have shopping trolley races down the ramps... so I guess every place has its downside).


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