The Gym
Improve physical, mental & heart health, strength, flexibility, mood, and sleep quality. Reduce obesity, heart disease, stress, and anxiety.
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.
🙁 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.
When you work out, listening to music is sometimes helpful. For that, we've got you covered. The big green radio button is an "alternative" radio station to what the gym currently plays through their speakers... but better. 😃
Nutley's PureGym even has it's own song.
💪 If you need a personal trainer, I can recommend Barrett @ RabbitFit. The dude is not only friendly, dedicated, and knowledgable... but organized as hell.
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.
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.