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A gym, like PureGym in Nutley, also serves as a social hub where you can be part of a community, and interact on a daily basis with existing friends and friends you have not yet met.
Nutley's PureGym even has it's own song, made back when it was "Blink Fitness".
🙁 While the machines, employees and members at Nutley's PureGym are all a pleasure, you will not find any worse music in the town of Nutley, and you are assaulted with television screens everywhere showing dancing prostitutes, gang bangers, and other degenerates that you cannot avoid.
We've tried to help you avoid the horrible music at the gym by creating a 24/7 audio stream so you have an alternate to the music coming out of the speakers at the gym.
Granted, the majority of folks at the gym listen to their own music with headphones or ear buds. But, this stream was created to also demonstrate a point. I believe any gym should have a goal of getting folks to remove their headphones or earbuds. This way when two people pass each other at the gym they can say hi and exchange a few words easily. When one or both of the people has headphones or earbuds in they have to stop their music and remove their listening devices from their ears so as to talk to others in the gym. This discourages people from talking to each other at the gym.
I would submit that this creates a barrier to people easily talking to each other and, I believe the more people are able to talk to each other in the gym, the more likely they are to become friends. The more people at the gym are friends with each other, the more they can encourage each other. I believe this would also encourage people to go to the gym more, because when you go to the gym in this manner, you're not just working out, you're also meeting and hanging out with your friends.
Therefore, I believe every gym should have music that is mostly instrumental, in the background, and most importantly is not so bad that people wear headphones or earbuds to listen to their own music to avoid the music coming out of the speakers. Granted, some or many will want to listen to their own music, but I believe there is a significant number of people at the gym that listen to music through their headphones or earbuds only because the music coming out of the speakers at the gym is offensive to them or so horrible they just cannot stand it.
I would go further. I would say that every gym should have some kind of process to determine how successful they are at getting people to remove their headphones. There should be a measurable metric that gym management looks at each month that allows them to tell if people are removing their headphones. Without this metric, it will be impossible for a gym to determine if their goal of having people removed their headphones or earbuds is successful or not.
Many gyms now have cameras virtually everywhere. I would submit that one process for the metric I mentioned above would be to use the video from those cameras to identify the number of people with headphones earbuds or neither programatically. Once this count can be done changes in discount. Overtime can be measured. That is just one method that comes to mind. But, without a method and a metric it will be impossible for a gym to determine if they are succeeding or not.
We don't currently have a solution for the screens of dancing prostitutes, but we are working on it.
Casper™ Cloaking Technology by Designtex has a film you can put on glass that believe it or not, when you look at a TV makes it look like the TV is off.
We have written them, got samples, and played around, attaching them to safety glasses. We brought them to the gym and use them while on the stationary bike and believe it or not.... it works. So, in theory, someone could make a set of glasses with that, which would allow you to walk around in the real world and when you looked at any television screen or computer screen, you would not see any dancing prostitutes, or anything actually.
Personally, my manual dexterity is very poor. So, the idea of me making this, even just one for myself is pretty much out of the question.
And let's face it, there is a multi billion dollar industry pouring money into forcing you to look at screens. So the idea of glasses like these becoming popular or readily available is probably not on the horizon. It's probably as likely as a device that should've been invented 50 years ago that would adjust the volume of your TV automatically anytime a commercial came on to either reduce the volume or completely mute it until the show came back on having been made available.
It's an easily built device electronically, but, I would submit that if any company made such a device, the CEO of the company would be found murdered. Society wants to force you to watch television and screens, and it will be a fight for anyone that wants to go against this trend. But... I can dream can't I?
The gym is important for your body's fitness, but it's also important for your Nutley life. It is a clubhouse / community center in Nutley. It's a physical location where you can interact with other Nutley people, not online, but in the physical world. If Nutley Life had a store or a church, it would be the gym. It's a place you can walk to and find Nutley Life.
💪 If you need a personal trainer, I can recommend Barrett @ RabbitFit. The dude is not only friendly, dedicated, and knowledgable... but organized as hell.
Ancient Greek society centered around the gymnasium
The ancient Greek gymnasium became a place for more than exercise and training. This development arose through recognition by the Greeks of the strong relation between athletics, education and health. Accordingly, the gymnasium became connected with education on the one hand and medicine on the other. Physical training and maintenance of health and strength were the chief parts of children's earlier education. Except for time devoted to letters and music, the education of young men was solely conducted in the gymnasium, where provisions were made not only for physical pedagogy but for instruction in morals and ethics. As pupils grew older, informal conversation and other forms of social activity took the place of institutional, systematic discipline. Since the gymnasia were favorite resorts of youth, they were frequented by teachers, especially philosophers. Philosophers and sophists frequently assembled to hold talks and lectures in the gymnasia; thus the institution became a resort for those interested in less structured intellectual pursuits in addition to those using the place for training in physical exercises.
In Athens there were three great public gymnasia: the Academy, the Lyceum and the Cynosarges, each of which was dedicated to a deity whose statue adorned the structure. Each of the three was rendered famous by association with a celebrated school of philosophy. Antisthenes founded a school at the Cynosarges, from which some say the name Cynic derives; Plato founded a school that gathered at the Academy, after which the school was named, making the gymnasium famous for hundreds of years; and at the Lyceum, Aristotle founded the Peripatetic school.
Plato considered gymnastics to be an important part of education (see Republic iii. and parts of Laws) and according to him it was the sophist Prodicus who first pointed out the connection between gymnastics and health. Having found gymnastic exercises beneficial to his own weak constitution, Prodicus formulated a method that became generally accepted and was subsequently improved by Hippocrates. Galen also put great stress on the proper and frequent use of gymnastics. Throughout other ancient Greek medical writings special exercises are prescribed as cures for specific diseases, showing the extent to which the Greeks considered health and fitness connected. The same connection is commonly suggested by experts today.