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OLD SCHOOL GYM??? cork

  • 16-07-2010 10:00AM
    #1
    coltay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 ✭


    Hello,

    Just wondering if there is any real gyms in cork? Im a member of the Mardyke Arena and it is a very decent gym with lots of modern machines.

    But im looking for a proper powerlifting type gym - no posers, just really interested in old school techniques - kettle bells, tractor wheels, farmers walk, ropes, old school lat machines, .

    It might be bit run down but i dont care just want lots of equipment.
    Im not a bodybuilder but am getting vrey interested in powerlifting(while being fairly weak, lol!!)


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  • #2
    mudokon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,519 ✭✭✭mudokon


    Not sure of the name of it but I think there is something similar just off Evergreen st. I've never been in there but when I have passed there it all seems to be free weights & little else from what I have seen.

    If you are coming from the South Gate Bridge end of Evergreen street walking towards Turners Cross. Shortly after you pass the community centre there will be a lane on the right hand side. The gym is on that lane, I think it is the first building you come too.

    The lane will take you towards Friars walk/Tower street area.


  • #3
    coltay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19 ✭coltay


    cheers mudoken,

    any chance you know name of it?


  • #4
    mudokon
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    I'm not sure but I'll probably be passing there later so I'll check the name of it for you (if I remember). :)


  • #5
    mudokon
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    The place was shut when I went by but I'd say this is the one, the address matches where I thought it was anyway. :)

    St Finbarrs Weight Training Club,
    Crones Lane,
    Evergreen Street.

    021 431 2715


  • #6
    corkcomp
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    The locker room might also fit the bill!


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  • #7
    small sean
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    Fitton Street gym is as good as it gets for old school gym in Cork


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
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    corkcomp wrote: »
    The locker room might also fit the bill!

    Isn't that poser central though ?


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
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    small sean wrote: »
    Fitton Street gym is as good as it gets for old school gym in Cork

    Lad I worked with years ago went there, he was an old school weight lifter, animal of a man he was.


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