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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Even Hotter wrote: |
Why only see the bad? ^^
Take it as a compliment!
Back home sometimes hetro friends would come to gay bars with me. They might get come on to or get their tight ass pinched.
Guess who enjoyed themselves more - the ones who laughed it off and went with the flow seeing as they were in a different cultural mix or the ones that got all upset over it!?
Open your heart and mind in Korea and many truly warm and wonderful things may just flow back into them!
Didn't you ocme here for NEW experiences? Then why see them as bad? Try and embrace them and find something positive!
I belive you can do this if you try and if you count your blessings! |
Ringworm is a great new experience? |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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The pumping kpop remixes have driven me out of many a gym, even with in-ear headphones you can't keep it out. Having to walk home sweaty because the shower room is slippery with mildew and phlegm.
There are good gyms, but not the ones you pay 100,000won for 3months. |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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My gym in Apgu has:
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6) haven't seen many models/hot chicks working out.. |
Go to the hot yoga studio in apgu. Most people who go are hot chicks^^. In tiny bikinis. Doing back bends and stuff before class to warm up.. It's nice. |
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the_curious
Joined: 04 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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| people who hog the treadmills walking at 4.0 km/h while watching tv (mostly girls) |
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RMNC
Joined: 21 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Hyeon Een wrote: |
| SeoulFinn wrote: |
My gym in Apgu has:
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6) haven't seen many models/hot chicks working out.. |
Go to the hot yoga studio in apgu. Most people who go are hot chicks^^. In tiny bikinis. Doing back bends and stuff before class to warm up.. It's nice. |
Except hot yoga sucks big time. Seriously, it's like torture. |
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kburg385
Joined: 27 Jun 2010
Location: Bundang South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 12:49 am Post subject: Crazy Korean Gyms |
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This is the most hysterical thread I've ever read. I agree whole heartedly with everything said here. The gyms here are crazy. I'm a girl, and I work out 5-6 times a week, and I would say I'm pretty toned/muscular. Now I know that Korean girls aren't usually known for being muscular or athletic, but the amount of shit I get for lifting weights from the trainers and other Korean guys who lift weights is unbelievable. They insist I don't know what I'm doing, I'm lifting too much, try to push me to "walk" on the treadmill, or use those dinky pink weights. I hate it! If they're not trying to tell me to do something less "manly", they're trying to adjust my form or tell me I'm lifting wrong.
I'm all for help, and I can admit when I may not have the best form. But when they're "correcting" me they often make me feel uncomfortable, and are way to close to my boobs and crotch area. It's annoying. And creepy. As for other things;
-no sanitation what so ever, never wiping down machines or cleaning them
-never putting back weights
-never washing the stretch/yoga mats, that literally smell like ass when you roll them out to use them
- watching t.v full blast and standing around it
- freaking out when i wear my tennis shoes from outside to work out inside, I'm sorry but my outside shoes are way cleaner than the floors in the gym, and I'm not BUYING a new pair just for the gym. absurd
- and finally that insanely awkward "machine" that's like a bull that you supposedly ride. It's so weird and creepy looking. especially when weird old korean men do it. |
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RMNC
Joined: 21 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 1:53 am Post subject: Re: Crazy Korean Gyms |
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| Hottest post I've ever read. |
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tukmax
Joined: 06 Jul 2010
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Diqquad
Joined: 15 Oct 2010
Location: Parallel Worldz
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 10:00 am Post subject: |
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| I'd sometimes like to explain to some of the younger guys that 3 - 4 sets of 6 - 8 reps with hevier wieghts would be more beneficial to hypertropy than 25 sets of 40 reps of military presses with the same wight they've been using for a year, but I doubt they'd believe me. |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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| A few weeks ago a guy walked into the shower room in his workout clothes and pissed on the floor, knowing damn well there was a bathroom 10 feet away. Unbelievable. |
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SeoulFinn
Joined: 27 Feb 2006
Location: 1h from Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Hyeon Een wrote: |
| SeoulFinn wrote: |
My gym in Apgu has:
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6) haven't seen many models/hot chicks working out.. |
Go to the hot yoga studio in apgu. Most people who go are hot chicks^^. In tiny bikinis. Doing back bends and stuff before class to warm up.. It's nice. |
I love women in bikinis as much as the next guy, but joining a yoga class is a bit too much. You see, I'm as flexible as an iron bar. Thanks anyway!
Few days ago I found out that one 32-y-o actress is working out in my gym. At first I didn't recognize her (no make-up, some acne), but the staff told me who she was and that she was unmarried. Erm, yes? Like our love is ever going to happen! If it did, her career would commit a suicide as she would not be in the TV and the movies anymore. *sigh* Which is a damn shame, as she's pretty nice specimen of the female gender. I'd love to spot her... but the owner/PT is always hovering over her.
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ATM SPIDERTAO
Joined: 05 Jul 2009
Location: seoul, south korea
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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haha my gym is pretty good. it's cheap at only 180Kwon a month and i like how you can go shoeless, although i never do. that way, your feet dont' stink!
but what i dont' like are that the freeweights are in kilos which i can't use, even though i'm canadian and we use metric units, i'm still a pounds kinda guy
and like the range for lighter weights are pretty good... but the jump from heavy weights is freakin' insane
like the heaviest weights are these 45 kilo weights. 99 pounds, pretty good! not much i can use them for other than chest and dead lifting
and the second highest weight are freakin' 32 kilos! that's about 70 pounds... ugh... unless i wanna go back to 1st year university, i ain't gonna be doing crap with 70 pounds... if they even had a 40 kilo weight, it'd be great. i guess i should get stronger so i can do the beastly 100 pound shoulder press but i'm not that big or strong of a guy
also, they dont' have a dedicated seat for the shoulder press. only an incline bench and the crappy bicep curl seat for shoulders
and the shoulder press machine maxes out at like super light. i can max it out and do like 25 reps. not to say i'm strong but come on. anything over 10 reps and you're just doing it for the hell of it. the back rowing machine thing is good though. i can only do like half of the weights. so it's a pretty decent piece of machinery. but i dunno why some of the machines are like made for highschool students
korean dudes have pretty strong quads though! old dudes are doing like 6-7 20 kilo weights on each side pretty effortlessly |
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machoman
Joined: 11 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| ATM SPIDERTAO wrote: |
korean dudes have pretty strong quads though! old dudes are doing like 6-7 20 kilo weights on each side pretty effortlessly |
your gym sounds expensive.... and are these old dudes doing proper form? the guys who stack on weights like that barely bend their legs. |
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NYC_Gal
Joined: 08 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| ATM SPIDERTAO wrote: |
haha my gym is pretty good. it's cheap at only 180Kwon a month and i like how you can go shoeless, although i never do. that way, your feet dont' stink!
but what i dont' like are that the freeweights are in kilos which i can't use, even though i'm canadian and we use metric units, i'm still a pounds kinda guy
and like the range for lighter weights are pretty good... but the jump from heavy weights is freakin' insane
like the heaviest weights are these 45 kilo weights. 99 pounds, pretty good! not much i can use them for other than chest and dead lifting
and the second highest weight are freakin' 32 kilos! that's about 70 pounds... ugh... unless i wanna go back to 1st year university, i ain't gonna be doing crap with 70 pounds... if they even had a 40 kilo weight, it'd be great. i guess i should get stronger so i can do the beastly 100 pound shoulder press but i'm not that big or strong of a guy
also, they dont' have a dedicated seat for the shoulder press. only an incline bench and the crappy bicep curl seat for shoulders
and the shoulder press machine maxes out at like super light. i can max it out and do like 25 reps. not to say i'm strong but come on. anything over 10 reps and you're just doing it for the hell of it. the back rowing machine thing is good though. i can only do like half of the weights. so it's a pretty decent piece of machinery. but i dunno why some of the machines are like made for highschool students
korean dudes have pretty strong quads though! old dudes are doing like 6-7 20 kilo weights on each side pretty effortlessly |
At 180k won a month, I want classes, a pool, a sauna, and racquetball. |
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travelnguy
Joined: 27 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Blowdrying one's nutsack in close proximity to others in a small changing room that smells like ass. |
I was cracking up at this one. It's like that at my gym too. I told my wife about it and she said the women do it too (well, not nutsacks).
My biggest problem at the gym is that there are no spray bottles to clean the equipment after someone uses it. What good does a towel do when they use the same towel to wipe their sweaty face? |
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