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I walked today to waterloo station to buy the cheap day return ticket for the naked walk tomorrow, (there is a short cut i can take to get to waterloo station from my place) .


the ticket is £13.40 which is reasonable considering the last time i checked about 3 or4 yrs ago it was £10.50. 


i was wandering around the area checking things out, and outside the station on the eastern side i saw two guys handing out leaflet, and it was for a gym, so i took it and was told it was just down the road , a new gym going to open in september, and they are offering £10.99 monthly membership and no starting fee. i asked is it related to the gym in vauxhall, and he said yes. 


it is thegymgroup.com  anyone can join the waterloo gym. just be aware that it wont open till sept 2012, so they will take one payment in august, and then nothing till one month after the gym opens and monthly from then on... 

this new waterloo gym is in the same building as travellodge. so they will be able to offer the facillities to the hotel guests too. at only £5 a daily pass, it will be a good extra service that the travelodge can offer its guests. 

the normal fee is £19.99 or something like that and there is a £20 start fee. so this new gym is a way to get in without paying the start fee and get half the normal monthly fee. 
What's more, it is open 24hrs, and I can go anytime. my previous gym restricts me to before 11am. 

hope to see u there if u join and let me know. it would be nice to make friends from the gym. 

so when i returned i got online and joined. the gym wont be opened till sept. which suits me fine, as i want to give going to the gym a rest but come september and the winter, i think i shall want to get back to the gym again. 

Added. 25.7.12 got an email from thegymgroup telling me that the waterloo gym will open 12pm 24.9.12, but before that from 1.9.12 at 10am we can go have a look at it. 

Added. 13.9.12 got an email from the group saying they are keeping the membership fee at £10.99 for a year for anyone joining now, though they have to pay the joining fee. 
they may be over extending themselves with so many branches so near each other. the stockwell and vauxhall branch are nearby. 

my muscles need building up...haha. A shapely muscled body is always nice to look at and to feel and i am talking of others seeing it. our faces may show that we are not young anymore, but the body can always look good at any age and easier to maintain its looks than the face. 

This new waterloo gym is further away from my flat than the fitness first gym that i was a member of; and further from the vauxhall branch,though still within easy walking or biking distance; but after a year when the membership reverts to the full price, i shall take out the multi gym offer which costs the same and then go to the vauxhall gym. 

so there it is , i am glad i met those two guys giving out the leaflet to the gym. i can see thegymgroup have made deep inroads into the other gym companies like fitness first. esp now that fitness first have stopped giving us free coffee/tea. 

maybe fitness first  will reduce its membership fees to almost as low as this thegymgroup. to try to compete. my old fee was £26.50 a month. cant imagine they can afford to reduce it further. now i am able to get it for £10.99 a month for a year at least.  

in the end, we dont really need saunas, steam rooms etc. they become a distraction from the body building. u end up not exercising but going straight to the sauna . 

i have to admit i would enjoy going there for their showers. my shower pressure is very low ever since upstairs neighbours above me did something to their bathroom, and reduce the water pressure. 

but in the meantime i shall have about 3 months of summer to enjoy the outdoors and london. 

i read in the guardian about the beach,a artificial sandy beach  being recreated in the greenwich peninsula , following the paris idea of making an artificial sandy beach in the city. good idea. pity it is so far from me. it has been delayed opening  this year, 9 days to go according to the website; but it will operate normally may till sept every year for 5yrs. its a great addition to london.


but as a nudist i shall prefer going to the highgate men naked sunbathing area once the sun comes out and it is easier for me to get there too. 

hope the sun comes out for tomorrow,  saturday when i go naked walking. 

i read that we should get exercising about 2hrs every week. and going naked walking is a nice way to get my exercise haha. 

so things in my life are going along fine. even the sun is coming out now and forecast to come out more next week . next monday is forecast to be sunny, i might go to the highgate naked area that day; we might be in for some summer weather at last.