Lived in tokyo like 2025-2017 and go back once or twice a year (barring wuflu). Every city in tokyo has a community gym with a nominal fee (mine was 200y a pop or roughly $2aud). There are also various chains like golds and rizap. The emphasis is on being slim, not getting big. Pic rel
There are chains (Anytime, Gold’s, etc) and they tend to have nice facilities, but the memberships are fairly expensive. Something like 6000 yen a month for a starting package. There are also community center gyms kind of like the YMCA, but they’re mega casual. I’m talking old ladies, balance balls, dumbbells that only go up to 35kg, that kind of casual.
Lots of personal training studios but they mainly cater to people trying to lose weight or tone up, not get big. Being buff is not really a desirable look for many people here. Most of the people you’ll meet at regular gyms are either foreigners or athletes (usually the local college baseball or rugby team). Women are somewhat rare, unless you’re in the trendiest and most instagrammable gym in your city.
On the bright side, many of them don’t allow people with tattoos to sign up, so that’s a big plus.
I don't get offended at being called a kraut but I just say and write the full word Japanese out of respect. You know they rounded us up in camps along with the Italians in the USA.
GVS lives in China and said that if you do a 3pl8 deadlift people will record you with their phones like you're superman. He said he benched 2pl8 and he literally had a small crowd around him by his 3rd set because people were so unused to seeing someone be that strong and strangers treat him like a circus side show sometimes because he has 18 inch arms. He also said that people will regularly interrupt you mid-set and a few people actually started taking plates off the bar while he was squatting multiple times
>people will regularly interrupt you mid-set and a few people actually started taking plates off the bar while he was squatting multiple times
thats just how china is, their society basically changed from peasant farmers to glittering megacities in a single generation. there is a shocking lack of courtesy, they just don't know how to live with each other still.
i go to a big chain gym and i hate the Black person music but it's mostly women and people trying to get slim
there are some buff people too but they seem to do machines mostly
few people do proper weight training, i don't think it's popular
the good thing is that tattoos are banned
I live in Japan and go to an Anytime Fitness. A lot of dudes with quite good physiques there, definitely most guys (including me) do a highly bodybuilding style, emphasis on being lean and hypertrophy. Don't see a lot of deadlifting or things of that nature. Actually a fair amount of women, pretty attractive too. I think the gym is becoming more mainstream here. The monthly fee is 8000yen a month last time i checked
Went to gym in Vietnam. They had parrots in cages, but blasting trance so hars it felt like a nightclub. 80 % of the ppl were probably 15-25byo dudes and most were without shirt. Everyone was doing arms. I was warming up on bench with lmao 70kg, and someone ran there and was like "Dude, are you trying to have a nice day". He wouldn't let go of the bar and tried to help me, but after like 6 reps he finally let me do unassisted. After that great feat of strength they were following me and helping me load and unload weights.
Now I know what it's like to be the biggest and strongest guy in the gym.
Not as much but it's getting more popular among normies
my gym is filled with chinese students
Lived in tokyo like 2025-2017 and go back once or twice a year (barring wuflu). Every city in tokyo has a community gym with a nominal fee (mine was 200y a pop or roughly $2aud). There are also various chains like golds and rizap. The emphasis is on being slim, not getting big. Pic rel
2015*
Havent mastered time travel yet sadly
>Havent mastered time travel yet sadly
Why not? What's stoping you?
2025 was 8 years ago.
How did you survive WW3?
I hid in the fridge.
Work more important no time for gym.
Not as popular as in the west.
There are chains (Anytime, Gold’s, etc) and they tend to have nice facilities, but the memberships are fairly expensive. Something like 6000 yen a month for a starting package. There are also community center gyms kind of like the YMCA, but they’re mega casual. I’m talking old ladies, balance balls, dumbbells that only go up to 35kg, that kind of casual.
Lots of personal training studios but they mainly cater to people trying to lose weight or tone up, not get big. Being buff is not really a desirable look for many people here. Most of the people you’ll meet at regular gyms are either foreigners or athletes (usually the local college baseball or rugby team). Women are somewhat rare, unless you’re in the trendiest and most instagrammable gym in your city.
On the bright side, many of them don’t allow people with tattoos to sign up, so that’s a big plus.
t. Japanon
Are you jap or immigrant?
no real japanese post on IST, they post on 2chan. anybody from "japan" on IST is a sexpat.
Nah they are on IST and a lot of them even write Japanese
You know Japanese people love American culture
I don't get offended at being called a kraut but I just say and write the full word Japanese out of respect. You know they rounded us up in camps along with the Italians in the USA.
those are 100% sexpats
Only real japs on IST are IST autists who make Korean hate threads
I'm a foreigner living in Japan. IST is the last place on this site you should expect to encounter an actual Japanese person.
Then why did you call yourself Japanon?
Because I'm an Anon that lives in Japan.
You know that ain't how it works.
GVS lives in China and said that if you do a 3pl8 deadlift people will record you with their phones like you're superman. He said he benched 2pl8 and he literally had a small crowd around him by his 3rd set because people were so unused to seeing someone be that strong and strangers treat him like a circus side show sometimes because he has 18 inch arms. He also said that people will regularly interrupt you mid-set and a few people actually started taking plates off the bar while he was squatting multiple times
>people will regularly interrupt you mid-set and a few people actually started taking plates off the bar while he was squatting multiple times
thats just how china is, their society basically changed from peasant farmers to glittering megacities in a single generation. there is a shocking lack of courtesy, they just don't know how to live with each other still.
I had zoomers recording me doing 5pl deadlifts in a 24 hour fitness in manhattan beach, LA
at the end of my second set two of them got close and slapped me on the back too
i go to a big chain gym and i hate the Black person music but it's mostly women and people trying to get slim
there are some buff people too but they seem to do machines mostly
few people do proper weight training, i don't think it's popular
the good thing is that tattoos are banned
oh and almost no one does proper reps, but i think it's the same in western gyms too
everyone cheats their reps or only does half ROM and quickly
I live in Japan and go to an Anytime Fitness. A lot of dudes with quite good physiques there, definitely most guys (including me) do a highly bodybuilding style, emphasis on being lean and hypertrophy. Don't see a lot of deadlifting or things of that nature. Actually a fair amount of women, pretty attractive too. I think the gym is becoming more mainstream here. The monthly fee is 8000yen a month last time i checked
full of Instagram prostitutes and gays
and basically it's rarely packed
t.taiwan
Lived in korea in 2013, saw like two jacked dudes. Went back 2017 and roids and tattoos were everywhere.
Went to gym in Vietnam. They had parrots in cages, but blasting trance so hars it felt like a nightclub. 80 % of the ppl were probably 15-25byo dudes and most were without shirt. Everyone was doing arms. I was warming up on bench with lmao 70kg, and someone ran there and was like "Dude, are you trying to have a nice day". He wouldn't let go of the bar and tried to help me, but after like 6 reps he finally let me do unassisted. After that great feat of strength they were following me and helping me load and unload weights.
Now I know what it's like to be the biggest and strongest guy in the gym.