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Gyms to Reopen 2021???

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  • #122
    j@utis
    Registered Users Posts: 3,064 ✭✭✭j@utis


    Patsy167 wrote: »
    This might be a bit off topic but I am always amazed at how in the long run everyone seems to revert to the their baseline.

    I will see the same 30-40 people at the gym fr the past 5 years and even with the lockdowns, closures etc., the people who were always in amazing shape, still find a way to get it done and return looking amazing. Very motivating to see

    Only a handful or two of those in our gym, and 90% of them on PEDs. I couldn't care less for them. Normal people like me, busy working mums, dads etc, come back with few extra pounds and can lift feck all again :D


  • #123
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,715 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    j@utis wrote: »
    Only a handful or two of those in our gym, and 90% of them on PEDs. I couldn't care less for them. Normal people like me, busy working mums, dads etc, come back with few extra pounds and can lift feck all again :D

    I don’t take PEDs, but thank you.

    I’m joking of course


  • #124
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,550 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    I don’t take PEDs, but thank you.

    I’m joking of course

    You do take PEDs?


  • #125
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users Posts: 17,375 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    My arms are very very shaky.

    The strength in the back and chest is still there but my arms are in absolute bits.


  • #126
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,715 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    You do take PEDs?

    You’ve seen my numbers Alf, what do you think


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  • #127
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,550 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    You’ve seen my numbers Alf, what do you think

    I think the wallpaper is throwing you off.


  • #128
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,715 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    I think the wallpaper is throwing you off.

    Haha, that, and the lack of PEDs


  • #129
    JeffKenna
    Registered Users Posts: 4,507 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    OmegaGene wrote: »
    Ahhhh lads I’m in bits, even sitting down hurts
    Hoping a run shakes it off but I’m not sure if I will manage it

    I'm not sure what you and your partner get up to in your private life is any concern of this forum...


  • #130
    jrosen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,629 ✭✭✭jrosen


    Was chatting briefly to the manager of my gym today and he said they are discussing the introduction of masks on the premises at all times. Currently only required to wear to and from he gym floor


  • #131
    Patsy167
    Registered Users Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭Patsy167


    jrosen wrote: »
    Was chatting briefly to the manager of my gym today and he said they are discussing the introduction of masks on the premises at all times. Currently only required to wear to and from he gym floor

    Not ideal but if it helps in any way to keep them open then so be it. Sign me up for Gym+Mask over a closed sign on the front door any day.


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  • #132
    FlubberJones
    Registered Users Posts: 892 ✭✭✭FlubberJones


    BD in Cherrywood, no slots and no masks, but if they brought one or both in I would do so if it kept the place open. The pace is so huge though, at 06:15 there are only about 15 people in the place, you can miss them!


  • #133
    j@utis
    Registered Users Posts: 3,064 ✭✭✭j@utis


    jrosen wrote: »
    Was chatting briefly to the manager of my gym today and he said they are discussing the introduction of masks on the premises at all times. Currently only required to wear to and from he gym floor

    That'd be a very sad turn of things. I don't think it'd be possible to freeze my membership over the mask issue but if it was, I would. I have to wear mask all day at work and I'm totally sick of it.


  • #134
    caviardreams
    Registered Users Posts: 5,437 ✭✭✭caviardreams


    Patsy167 wrote: »
    Not ideal but if it helps in any way to keep them open then so be it. Sign me up for Gym+Mask over a closed sign on the front door any day.

    Plus gives a perfectly valid excuse to avoid doing high rep squats! :D:D


  • #135
    MEGA BRO WOLF 5000
    Registered Users Posts: 17,375 ✭✭✭✭MEGA BRO WOLF 5000


    j@utis wrote: »
    That'd be a very sad turn of things. I don't think it'd be possible to freeze my membership over the mask issue but if it was, I would. I have to wear mask all day at work and I'm totally sick of it.

    Same, 12 hour shifts wearing a mask straight into a 90 minute session of more mask wearing.


  • #136
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users Posts: 12,715 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    caviardreams wrote: »
    Plus gives a perfectly valid excuse to avoid doing high rep squats! :D:D

    Why the fuk would anyone want to do high rep squats!!!!


  • #137
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,550 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    Why the fuk would anyone want to do high rep squats!!!!

    They might have nice wallpaper and want to spend longer looking at it


  • #138
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,697 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Westwood is fine but the sauna/steam room says Max 4 people and yesterday I looked in and there were at least 10 in the steam room.
    No masks anywhere either, I wear one as much as I can. It's mad hearing how other gyms have rules.
    Apart from that it seems ok.


  • #139
    Patsy167
    Registered Users Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭Patsy167


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Westwood is fine but the sauna/steam room says Max 4 people and yesterday I looked in and there were at least 10 in the steam room.
    No masks anywhere either, I wear one as much as I can. It's mad hearing how other gyms have rules.
    Apart from that it seems ok.

    Delighted to hear some places have saunas and steam rooms back open. Had written off any possibility of these re-appearing until post-vaccine


  • #140
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,697 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Patsy167 wrote: »
    Delighted to hear some places have saunas and steam rooms back open. Had written off any possibility of these re-appearing until post-vaccine

    Yeah they were open last time too. The joys of shaving after a steam room, it just falls off your face.


  • #141
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,697 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Gross!


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  • #142
    JeffKenna
    Registered Users Posts: 4,507 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    Went to the gym Tuesday and Wednesday. Got a swim in yesterday and this morning, never close again please!!


  • #143
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,550 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    OmegaGene wrote: »
    The old fellas shave in the sauna where I go, they come in with a little pot of water and not a single feck given

    Should tell them it's worse for them to shave in there. The heat opens the pores and softens the beard so the shave isn't as clean and will dry your skin out more.

    They will still likely give zero fúcks, mind


  • #144
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,838 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    OmegaGene wrote: »
    The old fellas shave in the sauna where I go, they come in with a little pot of water and not a single feck given

    never seen that, Ireland or somewhere else?

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #145
    hunter164
    Registered Users Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭hunter164


    OmegaGene wrote: »
    These are Irish fellas in there 70’s
    I thought I was seeing things at first

    Probably the same oulfellas that walk around the changing rooms with just a pair of flip flops on eating a banana


  • #146
    DVDM93
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,144 ✭✭✭DVDM93


    I'm a member of a gym that has two facilities, one is nearer my workplace & the other is nearer home.

    In both there are the same group of aul lads who seem to spend most of their time shaving in the sauna/steam room or just walking around the changing rooms bollock naked talking sh1te.

    It must be quite common in gyms across Ireland.


  • #147
    ongarite
    Registered Users Posts: 8,198 ✭✭✭ongarite


    https://theoatmeal.com/pl/minor_differences2/locker_room


  • #148
    caviardreams
    Registered Users Posts: 5,437 ✭✭✭caviardreams


    I can honestly say this doesn't happen in the female changing rooms / areas at all! I feel like I am missing out on the drama :pac::pac::pac:


  • #149
    DVDM93
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,144 ✭✭✭DVDM93


    ongarite wrote: »
    https://theoatmeal.com/pl/minor_differences2/locker_room

    hahahaha yes this is spot on :D


  • #150
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,550 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Can't just blame the oul lads for blow drying their balls in Ben Dunnes by all accounts though


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  • #151
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,697 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Looking like next week will be the last week gyms are open, I can't see them opening after Christmas at this rate. Sigh.


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