Gym in Spain's Basque region offers naked workouts

[Digital Fanatic]

A gym in Spain's Basque region has come up with an eye-catching way of battling the recession.

It has begun offering naked workouts, for nudists.

Easy Gym in Arrigorriaga is the first of its kind in Spain, pioneering the peculiar practice of stripping while keeping fit.

"With the crisis we noticed there were fewer people using the gym," owner Merche Laseca explained to the BBC.

"I'm not a nudist myself, though I have no problem with it. But this initiative is about the money."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13162118

Would certainly liven up the gym experience for some!

No touching toes in the warm-up session, please!!!!

[Sasha222]

When is the next flight out? I my claustrophobia is cured

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Originally Posted by Hugh

No touching toes in the warm-up session, please!!!!

lol

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Originally Posted by Sasha222

When is the next flight out? I my claustrophobia is cured

[LondonRoad]

The imagination is a wonderfull thing. The images I have in my mind of the naked Gym members probably bears (sic) no resemblence to reality.

[Sasha222]

"It's your clothes that catch the sweat when you work out," said Idoya Echevarria. "So where does all the sweat go, if you're naked? Onto the machines? The floor? Or onto the person next to you?"

Yuk! I have changed my mind. That is digusting

[Digital Fanatic]

eeeewwww

Exercising question

"Each to his own," the owner of another - traditional - gym in Bilbao told the BBC. "But I think it's the most unhygienic thing in the world."

"It's your clothes that catch the sweat when you work out," said Idoya Echevarria. "So where does all the sweat go, if you're naked? Onto the machines? The floor? Or onto the person next to you?"

And after all that research, Ms Laseca was disappointed by the low show at her inaugural session. Only four naturist fitness fanatics turned up.

"But the people who came really enjoyed themselves," she says, apparently undeterred. From May, the gym will operate every Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday - exclusively for the uninhibited.

A teacher has already been in touch to offer naked yoga classes.

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Originally Posted by Sasha222

"It's your clothes that catch the sweat when you work out," said Idoya Echevarria. "So where does all the sweat go, if you're naked? Onto the machines? The floor? Or onto the person next to you?"

Yuk! I have changed my mind. That is digusting

eeewwww

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Originally Posted by LondonRoad

The imagination is a wonderfull thing. The images I have in my mind of the naked Gym members probably bears (sic) no resemblence to reality.

hahaha yeah, usually the ones that strip are the rather less than "gifted" in the beauty/looks area

Bless them though! lol

[Sasha222]

On second thoughts I could just go to observe and just check out the gym

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Originally Posted by Sasha222

On second thoughts I could just go to observe and just check out the gym

[Sasha222]

Gotta be a female spotter on the free weights specially benchpress.
Imagine getting your tackle caught between 10 5kg weight blocks?
And who is gonna do the squats?? lol

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Originally Posted by Zing

Gotta be a female spotter on the free weights specially benchpress.
Imagine getting your tackle caught between 10 5kg weight blocks?
And who is gonna do the squats?? lol

lol

imagine everything bouncing around on the runners too!

[Sasha222]

[Ramrod]

Originally Posted by Sasha222

"It's your clothes that catch the sweat when you work out," said Idoya Echevarria. "So where does all the sweat go, if you're naked? Onto the machines? The floor? Or onto the person next to you?"

Yuk! I have changed my mind. That is digusting

Depends whos sweat it is

It is proper gym etiquete to wipe down machinary when you finish anyway