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http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2007-02-02-naked-gym_x.htm?csp=34

Looks like a Dutch gymn is going to offer naked exercise on Sundays. I might swim au natural but I'm not so sure I would pump iron or ride the exercycle that way. :p

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The naked part I would have no problem with. The working out part is where the problems start. My motto is "No Pain? Good."

Well it depends. If I was the only one naked, I would feel a bit awkward. If others were naked however...

Yes, although I'd be slightly worried about some hygiene issues involving exercise bikes tbh.

You might not be able to catch herpes off a toilet seat, but from an exercise bike being ridden in the buff it might be slightly more of a risk.

ewwww no.

i dont like being around naked strangers.

Got it.

*praises*
*ontopicness*

No, I would not. Why? Athletes Foot.

I wouldn't have much against it seeing as one's naked in the locker room anyway. This would have to be a "no fat people" gym, though. I don't need to see that.

Would you rather be naked around strangers, or strange around nakeders?

No, out of three reasons:

1.) I don't like run around naked
2.) I feel uncomfortable if I see a lots of naked people

and the main reason:

3.) I don't like any work-out at any gym.

wouldn't bother me

Again: "Working out"?

No, for biological reasons only though.

Ball sweat is no one's friend...

oh my god the horror you may see

No because I hate to work out. Plus the whole thing seems awfully unclean.

Exercising naked worked for the ancient Greeks. I would have no problem with doing that.

I wouldnt do it. Its not practical.

Running around with your "equipment" bouncing isnt fun. It can be dangerous.

Not to mention doing exercises naked. What if a weight falls on you? On your feet? On your body? Clothes doesnt help much, but they do protect you somewhat.

Anyway, it doesnt have much to do with the subject, but here in my city there is a girls-only gym. Only girls allowed, no matter the time, and men arent allowed. I wonder how they behave in there :D

I wouldn't mind getting a sauna or steam or swimming/hottubbing in the nude, but working out, no. I don't even like working out to begin with, let alone naked.

Ball sweat is no one's friend...

And there we have it.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2007-02-02-naked-gym_x.htm?csp=34

Looks like a Dutch gymn is going to offer naked exercise on Sundays. I might swim au natural but I'm not so sure I would pump iron or ride the exercycle that way. :p
What?????? No pics???? :(

...or ride the exercycle that way. :p

Sounds chafetastic.

Well it depends. If I was the only one naked, I would feel a bit awkward.

It's not so bad. :)

No, I would not.

Anyway, it doesnt have much to do with the subject, but here in my city there is a girls-only gym. Only girls allowed, no matter the time, and men arent allowed. I wonder how they behave in there :D

Yeah, I've always wondered about bathroom herd behavior myself...

I voted "yes" in the sense of "oh why not?" but the hygiene issue and the flapping issue hadn't occurred to me until I read the thread.

So, "no" in the sense of "why bother?" Try it for a lark I guess.

I'm not sure that I would want to get on an exercise bike naked that someone else had been on naked. It's the whole hygiene thing. I mean, do you have to put a towel on the seat before you sit? Is someone going to come along with antiseptic towels and clean them off between riders? And what about athlete's foot? I don't particularly want to share other people's secretions (at least not in this context) and I don't think that they would want to share mine. Of course, I'm probably just a pathologically clean American.

No way. I just know that my balls would get caught in something. That would be very, very bad.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2007-02-02-naked-gym_x.htm?csp=34

Looks like a Dutch gymn is going to offer naked exercise on Sundays. I might swim au natural but I'm not so sure I would pump iron or ride the exercycle that way. :p

HAHA. I love the Dutch and Netherlands...

wouldn't bother meWouldn't bother me either, but picking up anal warts from the excercise bike just might.

I wouldn't go for it. I'd have to soak the whole damn place in vodka & honestly, I'd rather drink it than spray it round a gym.

Yeah, I've always wondered about bathroom herd behavior myself...
We go together to the washrooms to make out away from drooling boys. :rolleyes:

We go together to the washrooms to make out away from drooling boys. :rolleyes:

I totally knew it!

I wouldnt do it. Its not practical.

Anyway, it doesnt have much to do with the subject, but here in my city there is a girls-only gym. Only girls allowed, no matter the time, and men arent allowed. I wonder how they behave in there :D

We don't behave much differently than we do in a coed gym. We're less shy about our flaws and we tend to be more involved in each other's "progress" and less inclined to play macho games about who can lift the most weight or do the most reps. On the downside, there's more slacking off and socializing, (which is why I no longer go to the all girls gym).

Yeah, I've always wondered about bathroom herd behavior myself...
It's so that they can gossip and bitch about people in a relatively closed and secret environment, I have been led to believe.

Running around with your "equipment" bouncing isnt fun. It can be dangerous.is that what mothers really mean when they say "Don't runaround like that, you'll put someone's eye out!"

HAHA. I love the Dutch and Netherlands...... shouldn't that be Dutch and the Netherregions?

No way. I just know that my balls would get caught in something. That would be very, very bad.

It's not so bad. :)

is that what mothers really mean when they say "Don't runaround like that, you'll put someone's eye out!"

... shouldn't that be Dutch and the Netherregions?

Depends on whose netherregion that is...

I'd be too afraid of getting my dangly bits caught in the machinery, trapped under weights or stuck between the spokes of the exercyles.

Also being naked makes it a lot more difficult to hide the fact one is there just for a perv.

I don't think I would really want to operate exercise machinery with my bits exposed...

Of course, it may be worth it. Are their woman prancing about in only their socks?

eww, i'd have no problem being naked, but what worries me is all the naked bottoms that had been on the exercise equipment before mine. seems a bit unsanitary to me.

We go together to the washrooms to make out away from drooling boys. :rolleyes:

I was joking. Guess I didn't use the right smiley. But then, I was never great with smilies.

PS: What you just said is in a lot of jokes guys make.

As long as its sanitary, sure. Whee nudism :p

Wait...are there naked, hot people? If not, that might change my opinion.

As long as its sanitary, sure. Whee nudism :p

Yeah, that's why I'd only go nude in a pool/steamroom/sauna/jacuzzi and not an exercise area.

Wait...are there naked, hot girls? If not, that might change my opinion.

Hopefully, but not a given. Of course, if you're bisexual it's likely to be win-win no matter what in regard to the "naked, hot" part of the statement.

I wouldn't have much against it seeing as one's naked in the locker room anyway. This would have to be a "no fat people" gym, though. I don't need to see that.

So just what do you have against naked fat people? :p

When I'm at home, and I use the home gym my parents have in the basement, I typically exercise without a shirt, but, damn, the surfaces on the weight machine are cold as shit. I don't see why anyone would want to exercise in the Buff. It's bad enough that my back has to get cold, at least that way my butt stays warm.

And the more I exercise, the more noticeable the temperature difference gets. Say I get off the weight machine and do two or three dozen push ups. Then, honestly, it's practically torture to get back on that thing.

damn, the surfaces on the weight machine

That's what towels are for. :rolleyes:

Although my spending most of last month in hospitals means I'm really flabby, out of shape, and desperately needing a workout, I'd prefer to do it with clothes on. Something about my bare ass touching the same piece of sweaty equipment that thousands of others have... to think that those people had rashes, warts, etc...

Not good, so no buff.

I lost a bet with a girl on the track team with me, and I had to do some lunges in the b-day suit. I was fine, would have rather won though:p .

Whats a Gym(Simpsons joke...)
I hope someone drops a weight on their package.