Who here actually likes going to the gym? I specifically ONLY mean fitness/cardio gyms, not martial arts dojos, yoga studios, dance studios, stripaerobics (pole dancing), or any other stuff. I mean, treadmills and weight machines.How much do you like going to the gym? I'm a 2 out of 10. Maybe a 1.Girls at the gymGuys at the gymHOW MUCH DO YOU ENJOY REGULARLY GOING TO A FITNESS/CARDIO GYM?
10 - I LIVE at the gym, spend more than fifteen hours a week there, and it's my favorite place to be! (For those who vote this, WTF is wrong with you?)
9 - I LOVE going to the gym and I always have a good time when there.
8 - I really like going to the gym and genuinely get enjoyment out of exercise.
7 - I mostly like going to the gym, even if I may be tired or exhausted before heading there.
6 - I somewhat like going to the gym; it depends on my mood that day.
5 - I don't like going to the gym at first, but I feel better once I'm there.
4 - I somewhat dislike going to the gym, but it's not that bad. (Or, I dislike going to the gym by myself, but enjoy it more if I go there with others.)
3 - I strongly dislike going to the gym and I think it sucks, but I need to keep going, anyway.
2 - I hate going to the gym, because it's boring, painful, sweaty, or I never get any results from it.
1 - I f*cking DESPISE going to the gym, it's a chore I loathe having to do, and it's something I dread doing every single time!
0 - I don't go to the gym, ever.
BONUS QUESTION: How easily or effectively do you see results when there?Once again, I'm option C. Which is all the more reason why I hate the f*cking gym.A - I see gains pretty easily and it makes it all the more rewarding.
B - I get results more-or-less as easily or difficult as anyone else.
C - I pretty much never get any results anytime I go, no matter what, and it makes me feel like I'm wasting my time there.
On a zero-to-ten scale, how much do you enjoy going to the gym?
Zero, I don't even go to the gym, it's a waste of time and money in my opinion. I have shaggy/goku metabolism, and I'm not into sports or body building.
The times in my life where my metabolism was slow, i just ate different stuff for a while, and it sped back up.
Anyone who can't do that, is better off buying home equipment, its cheaper than going to the gym, and you only need a rowing machine and some lightweight dumbells and your entire body gets worked out without paying for gym fees..
I have the complete opposite of a Shaggy metabolism. I have an Absolute Zero metabolism. I can literally go a week or more without eating. In fact, I rarely ever get hungry. As in, the stomach growls. It's like, maybe a once a month thing. I used to do fasting on and off for several weeks at a time (never lost a single pound though just living off water). However, I do have an appetite, a mental desire to eat food. But I only eat once a day now, just because we're told we're "supposed" to eat to stay alive, although I could stop eating altogether and it wouldn't affect me at all.
And home equipment is for people who own a house. I move to a new apartment/city every four to six months.
Apartments are usually just rented out houses, the average living room is big enough. the dumbells are the 5 pounders, the rowing machine takes up less space than a bike. But if you are moving that much, you have bigger problems.
Either way, fasting and eating very little will slow down a person's metabolism, if the body isn't getting food, it holds on to what it already has, if you eat like goku, you poop food out before it's even half done being digested, and you still end up with enough nutrients so the body realizes it doesn't need to store fat, causing weight loss.
If you stopped eating entirely, your body would fall apart and you would die.
The best way to gain weight is 1 big meal a day, then fasting, the best way to lose it is to snack on small portions throughout the day and eat when you are tired during the day.
I'm in a category that might be difficult to rank on a scale because there's the feeling of going to the gym vs. the feeling when I get there.
If we're talking strictly in terms of going, I'm a 5/10 and that description you picked for the 5 is very apt. But once I'm there, I'm having a better time than anybody and you'd have to pull me away from the weights and machines to go home. I want to spend the whole day there. I want to sleep there. I've found my escape from all my mental stress in the gym; I just have to go there.
As for results, I'm in the A category. I think it's because I was a sponsored athlete when younger but also because I'm not a disciplined one now that I'm no longer sponsored. I can slack off for an entire year and have friends thinking I did something epic for whole months when I've only just resumed going to the gym several times. My body changes really quickly if I'm out of shape and it gets back in shape really fast.
So I slack off a lot and then once you bring me into a gym, I'm in paradise and I see epic gains only to lose them until I go back again. But I got the whole "muscle memory" (not in terms of muscle growth but in terms of being able to ride a bicycle easily without training wheels because I already mastered it).
I would say an 8 is where I would be and a splice between A/B for gains. It takes a lot of dedication and consistency to get that body you need and it can be draining and discouraging when you don't see results quick.
I went to a gym for an entire year - 12 months - and literally got no results from it. This wasn't recent either, this was 2012. I did it to try to impress the woman I was going to marry, and I didn't lose a single effing pound from it. In fact, I don't think I've ever any progress from a cardio gym. I only go now to do DDP Yoga or in case I might get a heart attack or something, but it really does feel pointless to me in regards to weight loss and getting a better body.
When I was in my teens and twenties I really liked it a lot. I would always want to stay for just one more set. I am older now and have lots of aches and pains so it is not as much fun any more. I give it a 7 on most days. I get results about like everyone else. I work out hard most of the time so I do get results but I don't recover as fast as I used to.
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