What's outside your gym?

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  • kathleenjoyful
    kathleenjoyful Posts: 210 Member
    Fish and chip shop
    Local restaurant
    Thai takeaway
    Pizza shop
    Kebab shop
    IGA (small local supermarket)
    Cafe / patisserie as well as a deli (both usually closed at the time I workout)
    A hairdresser, dress shop and a pharmacy

    I don't feel particularly tempted by any of it, but that's usually because I've pre-logged my dinner and am heading home to make it after my workout! I do go to the fish and chip shop sometimes, because they have beautiful fresh fish and do great deals of fish or fishcakes, chips and salad for ten bucks. Fits in my calories, and I LOVE fish and eat heaps of it.
  • DeltaZero
    DeltaZero Posts: 1,197 Member
    We are supposed to go outside the gym? Into the real world? What?
  • redheaddee
    redheaddee Posts: 2,005 Member
    My gym has an awesome water park out front, and is surrounded by a golf course & Husqvarna.
  • Andaisy1
    Andaisy1 Posts: 306 Member
    In the same complex there is:
    Panera Bread
    Taco Bell
    Starbucks
    Chili's
    Five Guys
    Old Country Buffet
    Panda Express
    Subway
    Texas Roadhouse

    Next door:
    McDonald's
    Dunkin Donuts

    The majority of the food places were built well after the gym - found that amusing.
  • 99clmsntgr
    99clmsntgr Posts: 777 Member
    Typically the world is my gym, but on those days it's too cold or I want to get a non-running workout in, I hit the gym in my company's building, so...

    The assembly and Operations areas and the parking lot between buildings. :happy:
  • AnsiStar
    AnsiStar Posts: 165 Member
    My gym is on an industrial estate so nearby there's mostly offices and opposite there are fields and a main road....next to it is a McDonalds xD The only one in my town. And down the road is a supermarket.
  • KristinaB83
    KristinaB83 Posts: 440 Member
    Everything is by my gym... It's NYC.
  • Jerrypeoples
    Jerrypeoples Posts: 1,541 Member
    to the left is a hair cut salon, next to that a chinese place, next to that is a bank that is moving
    to the right is a rehab, next to that empty space, next to that pizza shop, next to that paint store, a big lots, a "fancy restaurant" then a grocery store

    looking straight out is a car garage and a car wash
  • angieroo2
    angieroo2 Posts: 970 Member
    It looks like offices are above. There are other offices buildings around it, and a dentist. I think that there's a sandwich shop next to the gym but I haven't actually seen it.
  • lecounth
    lecounth Posts: 42 Member
    Within eyesignt from walking out the front door of my gym

    - Applebee's
    - Papa Johns
    - Jimmy Johns (I wonder if they are cousins??)
    - KFC/Taco Bell which is right smack dab next to the gym
    - McDonalds
    - Arby's
    - Jumbo China
    - Burger King
    - Qudoba
    - Jasmine Mediterranean

    I drive home the opposite way and am only taunted by some higher end restaurants and Trader Joe's.

    Fun question!!
  • 89nunu
    89nunu Posts: 1,082 Member
    a parking lot and an actual massive park with a river and all. Probably to show the guys on the treadmill (at least in the summer) that they are only wasting money...
  • WaKay
    WaKay Posts: 314
    police station across the street, in a strip mall between a job assistance place and financial planner. Then there's the health food store on the end.
  • abickford82
    abickford82 Posts: 207
    To the left is a Dialysis Clinic, in front is Starbucks, and Frozen yogurt shop (not at all healthy). To the right is a Pita Pit restaurant, and a tanning salon.
  • jdctrumpet
    jdctrumpet Posts: 64 Member
    I'm pretty lucky when it comes to this. On one side is a Five Guys burger place. But on the other side there's a Zoe's Kitchen and a SaladWorks. Both of those places are delicious so I don't have to be tempted by Five Guys.
  • stumblinthrulife
    stumblinthrulife Posts: 2,558 Member
    An elementary school, a credit union, and Bandana's BBQ.

    Let me tell you, a heaping plate of BBQ pork and beef beats the crap out of a protein shake after a workout.
  • Mischievous_Rascal
    Mischievous_Rascal Posts: 1,791 Member
    A flower shop, a few galleries, a little European bistro and an art school. All that and my gym overlook a little square filled with sculptures and hipsters. Not a bad view, actually. :)
  • Shriffee
    Shriffee Posts: 250 Member
    My house, my driveway, and other houses. My gym is in my garage. :happy:
  • PhearlessPhreaks
    PhearlessPhreaks Posts: 890 Member
    That sucks, OP! Mine is set back behind a bunch of office buildings, adjacent to a town park with paved foot and bike trails, picnic areas, open field areas and some woods. However, the road the office building are situated on have myriad restaurants and drive-thrus, so I imagine people coming from that direction have more temptation than I. Thankfully the route I take to and from the gym doesn't pass by anything other than a few gas stations and a mall. :)
  • Bean1272
    Bean1272 Posts: 16
    Directly next door to my gym is a Cold Stone Creamery...... Good thing im lactose intolerant.:noway: :laugh:
  • husseycd
    husseycd Posts: 814 Member
    It's not what's outside the gym that gets me, it's those awesome protein shakes in the cafeteria. Granted, they aren't super high calorie, but they run, like, $7/each.
  • SpeSHul_SnoflEHk
    SpeSHul_SnoflEHk Posts: 6,256 Member
    Dependson which one I am using (It's a network, and I can go to any in the network for free). My home base gym has an Urgent Care Center next door to the left, and a landscaping nursery to the right. In front is a huge city park with lots of trees and wooded areas. Behind is a large field, with some apartments, and storage units on the other side.

    So, basically, snowdrifts, ice and cold winds
  • GorillaNJ
    GorillaNJ Posts: 4,024 Member
    My gym shares a parking lot with a pub that has Guinness on tap. It makes for a difficult distraction at times for sure!
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    It's at one end of a shopping center. The other end has Subway and Papa John's, and then two buildings down include another pizza place and a coffee shop.
  • BlueBombers
    BlueBombers Posts: 4,064 Member
    My gym is at home so I just have a bunch of houses around my gym.
  • SunKissed1989
    SunKissed1989 Posts: 1,314 Member
    The main academic building of my uni :tongue:

    There is, however, an ice cream vending machine as you walk into the gym:laugh:
  • NZ61RL
    NZ61RL Posts: 69
    Within eyesignt from walking out the front door of my gym

    - Applebee's
    - Papa Johns
    - Jimmy Johns (I wonder if they are cousins??)
    - KFC/Taco Bell which is right smack dab next to the gym
    - McDonalds
    - Arby's
    - Jumbo China
    - Burger King
    - Qudoba
    - Jasmine Mediterranean

    I drive home the opposite way and am only taunted by some higher end restaurants and Trader Joe's.

    Fun question!!

    Oh gee!!
  • NZ61RL
    NZ61RL Posts: 69
    My gym is right next door to a frozen yogurt place, then a coffee shop, then a Chipotle. Not exactly healthy, but it could be worse. However, there's also a pizza place across the street, and another one around the corner, and a bagel shop a block away, and a diner down the block in both directions. Then again, I live in NYC, so I could basically be describing anywhere in the city. =P

    I love the colour of your hair!!
  • palmerdanielle
    palmerdanielle Posts: 341 Member
    Wow guess I'm lucky! My gym is in a newly expanding area of the city, so right now closest thing is a gas station and Tim Hortons, it's a few minutes drive before seeing other things, Home Depot, Starbucks, etc. if I were to go to the gym downtown it would be a whole different story.
  • debrag12
    debrag12 Posts: 1,071 Member
    A bowls green right outside reception, local football club beyond that oh and surrounded by fields full of horses :) The nearest shops are a few min walk away but nothing like fast food places.
    Another gym is next to the local tip lol
    The gym 2 mins from my house is on the same road as a pub, italian, subway, miso, sandwich shop, mexian, sainsburys road corner & another pub.
  • Pearsquared
    Pearsquared Posts: 1,656 Member
    Apartment buildings. I live in one of them. Makes it pretty hard to make excuses about not going to the gym, that's for sure!

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