Gyms

We have a chain of public gyms in our city, and they have no name.

 

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Table of Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. Why They are Sometimes Called “4-in-1 Gyms”
  3. Equipment
  4. Culture
  5. Daily Inisfreean Exercises
  6. Footwear (Images)
  7. Novels Excerpt
  8. Gym Concepts (Images)
  9. Gym Lovers (Images)
  10. The Gym Guy (Images)
  11. 2023 October Update:  Layout and History
  12. 2024/+

 

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Introduction:

Inisfreeans love to be fit, physically active, and the perfect little helpers when it comes to their guests spending time at the gym.  It is also a strict part of the Inisfreean Way (city law) that all guests be and remain in excellent physical fitness during their visits to Inisfree.  Ensuring this is always easy for them, the Inisfreeans have built and staffed a number of world-class gymnasiums across their realm.  Many of these premier facilities include acupuncture clinics, massage parlors (sports medicine level), open-air eateries (Genghis Grill style), and either on-site waterfall-based showers or actual waterfalls close by for the same purposes.

 

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Why They are Sometimes Called “4-in-1 Gyms”:

All of these gyms of ours have four main parts/attractions.

  1. the gym itself; workout equipment and coaches (who are all, of course, ICVs)
  2. workout-recovery based dining on-site (with topside/rooftop tables and chairs)
  3. sports-medicine / massage-therapy clinic (in a soundproofed section of each of these gyms)
  4. acupuncture clinic (in another soundproofed section of each of these gyms)

While their waterfall-based shower-stalls are definitely another of their features that attracts many fitness-minded residents and guests to these facilities, those are considered standard in all Inisfreean homes and offices (as well as aboard many of our starships).

 

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Equipment:

Our gyms include the full range of exercise equipment; everything you would expect to find in a top-end fitness club is included in all of our own workout facilities.

  • all free weights
  • all ‘machines’ (guided weights)
  • balance domes (inflatable hemispheres instead of yoga balls)
  • climbing ropes (and a 2-story indoor climbing-wall with numerous routes of the full range of difficulties)
  • gymnastics springboards, pommel horses, trampolines, and hanging Olympic rings
  • jacuzzi-like resistance pools
  • lap pools; indoor swimming with lanes
  • ‘medicine’ balls
  • resistance bands
  • towels
  • treadmills:  regular, and Woodway Curve
  • yoga mats, balls, & stretch-blocks

Not included:

  • lockers (as the city is a nudist resort, all people here part of a literal single family, and rarely do any of our gym-goers wear more than swim-trunks if male, or a sports bra and bikini-bottom if female)

 

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Culture:

You’ll see a lot of fitness enthusiasts fully focused on sculpting their bodies at Inisfree’s gyms.  They do so in silence; you won’t find any loud ‘gym rats’ here, screaming as they drop the weights.  Those who wish to introduce themselves or chat with anyone working out will typically wait patiently at the exit so they know for sure when their workout is complete.

Workouts are usually followed by a ‘recovery meal’, that meal always being vegan.  All the protein our people need comes from the same places the animals get their protein; plants.  Recovery meals can be custom-designed by any Inisfreean to meet the caloric and other desires of our guests.

Shoes stay on when on the workout floor, and can come off when around the pools and showers.  For guys, workout shorts also stay on.  Girls usually wear yoga pants and sports bras, and keep their hair in a high ponytail.  Fingerless gloves are recommended for those not yet accustomed to the pull-up bars, and chalk for those on the Olympic rings or climbing walls.

Girls can always workout nude.

Everyone in our realm is mature; no one defaults to mindless negative reactions to being gawked at by admirers.  People understand they are here half to exercise, and half to show off / socialize (without ‘hogging’ equipment/benches).  People here enjoy being gazed/stared at –since everyone here is has the same values, maturity, relationship type/preference, etc..

Classes at our gyms are open to everyone, and are divided into levels for beginners, intermediate, and athletes / experts.  Everyone approved to learn of and visit Inisfree is in good shape, but there’s always room for improvement and fun challenges.  Talk to any Inisfreean girl to determine which level and classes are right for you.

‘Couples workouts’ are common in Inisfree; you’ll see a lot of guy-girl pairs helping each other warm up, jog, do sit-ups, and various other exercises.  Once they are well-practiced at exercising as a team together, they often show off some of their partners-yoga and other couples-based moves at the Balancing Platforms along our city’s main beach.  Groups of threes and more are also common in these workouts and demonstrations.

Inisfreeans are an open and flirty group.  They share love everywhere they go, including at their gyms.  A playful pop (spank) on the ass here (always from a guy to a girl, or a girl to either a guy or girl here) means “See you in the showers–” for sex –and all showers are for both genders.  If you see lovers having fun in there, be happy for them, and leave them be.

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2023 December:  no TVs, no music

Since we are sane good beings, not degenerate deviant weirdos, all our toilet stalls do not have door gaps you could see through, and all the shower stalls here have shower curtains, and there is always an ICV or kajira available to hand-wash you if you shower here; we do not have things set up like barbaric queer Outlanders sometimes did; we do not have females isolated from males, or males able to see each other when they shower.

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2024 January:  Guys do not walk around naked in front of each other –in the men’s locker-room or anywhere.
Girls do.
This is the way.

 

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Daily Inisfreean Exercises:

Other than sex, which is regarded as the only workout type more effective for the whole mind and body than even swimming, and which is virtually constant across our realm, people in Inisfree typically include the following in their workouts:

  • climbing two ropes at once; one hand on either rope (use mooring lines to add to the challenge)
  • push-ups while holding the Olympic rings, with one’s feet resting in another pair of these rings, or upon the colored, inflatable, workout-balls
  • sit-ups:  toes raised to armpits or wrists while hanging from the muscle-up bars or Olympic rings

* Try all of the above exercises with a flak and Scuba tank on!

 

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Footwear:

It’s important to keep your feet safe, and the gym floors clean, so try on some pairs of shoes and see which ones really work for you.

You can order yours online; just step into your closet’s laser-eye area.

  • Nike Free 7.0
  • P-K sneaker
  • Converse combat sneaker-boot (v’s)
  • Rykä sneakers
  • Vibram foot-glove (worn after all Converse combat sneaker-boot hikes)

 

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Novels Excerpt:

From the clearing, once she had had her fill of its majestic and invigorating views, they entered one of the mountainside gyms. Each gym in Inisfree, Auz told her, included a sports-medicine massage section, an acupuncture clinic, a vegan version of the Mongolian Grill, and waterfalls to shower in. Inisfreeans, as always, held open the doors for them, honoring them as they came through.

The people entering and exiting looked incredibly fit. They stood tall and proud, and waved to Auz and Lucifera. A few exchanged high-fives and forearm-grips with a hearty smack sound. On the weights floor, she would see several benching, squatting, and otherwise working out with weights well in excess of what most Olympians were able to; everything about Inisfree allowed people to greatly increase their potentials.

Walking over to one of the climbing ropes bolted to the ceiling, Auz demonstrated a good footing technique which made climbing such things much easier. A friend jogged over to challenge him to a fun rope-climbing race, so he climbed back down, got ready, and began. It ended with climbing one more time, this time without using their feet at all.

Showering came next, and was clearly Auz’s favorite part; he hurried right into that cool waterfall flow, dropping down under the surface of its pool, and swimming around a bit for good measure. Few things could get people as clean as such an event. The king of Inisfree emerged looking and feeling like a million bucks.

Lunch was on the rooftop of that gym; that’s where the Mongolian Grill eatery was. Lucifera had all the options of its namesake restaurant chain from the outside; there were different noodles and rices, dozens of vegetables, sauces and other seasonings, and an array of healthy drinks. The bowls were piled generously high, almost to the point of spilling over, and Auz devoured his, wielding his chopsticks like a pro.

Some people were telling tales of adventurous times outside Inisfree. Some were applauding or merrily laughing. One group was engaged in a spirited game of tossing bites of food at each other to see who would be the first to miss, at which point a penalty (or reward, the way they looked at it) of handstand-pushups would ensue.

 

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Gym Concepts:

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Gym Lovers:

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The Gym Guy:

Auz loves his workouts and gyms.

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2023 October Update:  Layout and History

Most people workout in their exercise-room in our realm, as everyone’s home comes standard with a home-gym, fully stocked.  However, with 2B returning approved visitors “at capacity” shortly after 23,000 A.D., there will still be a lot of those people frequenting the public gyms, as we are “one big happy family” who loves showing off our successful body-sculpting/-maintaining.

  1. 2022:  1,329,411 now approved to visit/return to Inisfree, ~102,262 each of our 13 months a year,
    most of those using their home gym and/or exercising in our “great outdoors” (climbing, jogging, surfing, swimming, etc.),
    ~10% using these public gyms of ours, thus ~10,226 of those people per month,
    and everyone coming to one of these gyms once a day for the usual ~1 hour per day = ~426 people attending one of our gyms every hour, thus a need (at 250 people per gym) for 2 of them in Inisfree now
  2. 23000+ A.D.:  2B total approved to visit/return to Inisfree; ~153,846,153 each of our months, ~15,384,615 attending these gyms ~daily, ~641,025 hourly, thus (at 250 people per gym) a need for 2,564 of these gyms (however, not in Inisfree; with 219,000 Inisfree-like cities in the SSA, it can still be just 1 or 2 of these gyms per city of ours)

Dimensions:

  • ~66′ x 66′ “footprint” (foundation); 4,356 sq.ft. per floor
  • 3 floors; 2 internal, 1 rooftop-access (thus 13,068 sq.ft. of floorspace, not factoring in walls/partitions, etc.)
  • ~1/4 the size of The Ridge athletic club, or ~1/3 the size of an L.A. Fitness average/standard gym

Capacity:

  • Fire Code prescribes at least 50 sq.ft. per person/exerciser
  • 13,068 sq.ft. / 50 = ~250-260 people allowed inside at any given time
  • 250/3 = ~83/floor
  • √83 = ~9; room for a 9×9 group of workout areas per floor

Gym Numbers, Grand Openings, and Locations:

  1. Gym4 #1:  2012 A.D., uppermost/back corner/tree-line of the Mountain Slope Clearing
  2. Gym4 #2:  2022 A.D., in the most-populous (civilian residents) area of Inisfree; our downtown
  3. Gym4 #3:  2032 A.D., in the bottom corner of Cliffdwelling1 (CD1); closest to CD2 and CD3

The chain of these gyms is more across our realm than it is within Inisfree; 3 gyms in Inisfree, and 1 or 2 in each of the SSA cities.

SSA gyms are ready by 2089 (first year after the construction of all 219,000 Inisfree-like cities in that subset-realm), Inisfree’s population (of non-ICVs approved to enter/return) ~4,482,297 at that time, thus a 3rd gym was added to Inisfree while we waited on those others to become able to be built/opened; in CD1.

Noisier equipment/levels/machines are stacked in this design; the massage-tables rooms are over the quieter (lap pools).

The stairs to the roof (dining floor) have a covering with a double-doors set that functions like a mild airlock to keep rain out.

Machines are grouped based on body-section / muscle-group, and each group of machines has a sign hanging from the ceiling over the middle of that group, each sign labeled so you don’t have to get close to read the how-to plaque on each machine to know what it is for.  Sign labels:

  • ARMS
  • BACK
  • CORE
  • LEGS
  • (etc.)

 

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Each of these gyms of ours is staffed by a few ICVs who handle hostessing/tours, maintenance, and management,
plus several kajirae; those girls are the janitors (wiping down machine seat pads, etc.) and shower helpers here.

 

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