Is gymcel culture bigger in countries where Rugby is popular?

[Deleted member 2382]

The countries where gymcel culture seems to be most prevalent are UK and Australia, then I will throw in Ireland because being a bulky Rugby or GAA player is heavily glorified there. New Zealand is likely the same. South Africa is known for High School Rugby players being roided to the gills.
In Belgium it is almost impossible to find an oldschool or weights focused gym when searching online, everything is advertised as a fitness centre focused on classes and cardio
The gym I signed up for has 2 benches with racks, 3 benches at free weights and one squat rack jfl.
I think repping 2 plates bench would make me the strongest guy at this gym
The gym I went to in Ireland was a chain gym that catered to a broad demographic but still had 10 power racks and deadlift platforms
It seems being lean is more glorified than having mass in mainland Europe, ,makes sense when the most contact heavy sport they play is soccer

 

[looksmaxxed]

it's probably correlated with higher masculine competition. any large multicultural city is going to have a gymcel culture due to male competition. the us is the biggest gymcel culture

 

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[Deleted member 18436]

To be honest rugby was never big in the school i went to in London always joggers who did football. We did have a rugby team but would always get destroyed by the kids who only ever played it with cauliflower ears

 

[Deleted member 18436]

it's probably correlated with higher masculine competition. any large multicultural city is going to have a gymcel culture due to male competition. the us is the biggest gymcel culture

good point more so in working/ lower class environments it's pretty much expected to lift or get your head caved in.

 

[Sigmamale]

Well US doesn't have rugby but still has huge gym culture

 

[DoctorLooksmax]

Rugby isn’t that big in the UK outside of West Country and Wales + private schools.

It gets mogged hard by football

 

[Oberyn]

Well US doesn't have rugby but still has huge gym culture

Football is pretty much the same.

 

[Ezekiel]

The countries where gymcel culture seems to be most prevalent are UK and Australia, then I will throw in Ireland because being a bulky Rugby or GAA player is heavily glorified there. New Zealand is likely the same. South Africa is known for High School Rugby players being roided to the gills.
In Belgium it is almost impossible to find an oldschool or weights focused gym when searching online, everything is advertised as a fitness centre focused on classes and cardio
The gym I signed up for has 2 benches with racks, 3 benches at free weights and one squat rack jfl.
I think repping 2 plates bench would make me the strongest guy at this gym
The gym I went to in Ireland was a chain gym that catered to a broad demographic but still had 10 power racks and deadlift platforms
It seems being lean is more glorified than having mass in mainland Europe, ,makes sense when the most contact heavy sport they play is soccer

EE has pretty much no Rugby/American football presence whatsoever but it's still full of roided gymbros, it's actually more uncommon to find someone who doesn't go to the gym.

 

[Deleted member 18436]

Well US doesn't have rugby but still has huge gym culture

but you have football culture

 

[Sigmamale]

but you have football culture

Yeah but even lifting for other sports like basketball and baseball is normal in America as well

 

[Deleted member 18436]

Yeah but even lifting for other sports like basketball and baseball is normal in America as well

i was under the impression allot of amercian school kids don't play sports. Practically everyone plays some sport in the uk in childhood

 

[DoctorLooksmax]

i was under the impression allot of amercian school kids don't play sports. Practically everyone plays some sport in the uk in childhood

True but generally not rugby if you didn’t go to a private school

 

[Sigmamale]

i was under the impression allot of amercian school kids don't play sports. Practically everyone plays some sport in the uk in childhood

Most American males play some type of sport. Also there are a lot of males who don't play sports in high school but still lift. In elementary and middle school almost every guy plays some type of sport even if only at a recreational level.

 

[Deleted member 18436]

Most American males play some type of sport. Also there are a lot of males who don't play sports in high school but still lift. In elementary and middle school almost every guy plays some type of sport even if only at a recreational level.

In the uk in my school you was not allowed to do weights but allot of kids would go to a gym at 15

 

[Chinacurry]

The countries where gymcel culture seems to be most prevalent are UK and Australia, then I will throw in Ireland because being a bulky Rugby or GAA player is heavily glorified there. New Zealand is likely the same. South Africa is known for High School Rugby players being roided to the gills.
In Belgium it is almost impossible to find an oldschool or weights focused gym when searching online, everything is advertised as a fitness centre focused on classes and cardio
The gym I signed up for has 2 benches with racks, 3 benches at free weights and one squat rack jfl.
I think repping 2 plates bench would make me the strongest guy at this gym
The gym I went to in Ireland was a chain gym that catered to a broad demographic but still had 10 power racks and deadlift platforms
It seems being lean is more glorified than having mass in mainland Europe, ,makes sense when the most contact heavy sport they play is soccer

yep have observed, gymcel (ie mass and tone) has caught on in all.big.cities now due to women's standards, but has always been a.thing in the rugby countries. partly due to rugby, and also genetics as those are settler countries and to.have survived from settler days to now, u need strong Gene's. here I mean SA, NZ, Aus, pac islands

plus those countries have v high protein diet, and high quality of protein. here I mean SA, NZ , Aus, Ireland, France, England