Nexus 2023 Issue 1

(SOME OF THE)

TO GRAB YOURSELF A UNIREC

A+B TRIMESTER

STUDENT GYM MEMBERSHIP

1. Choice selection.

2. Choice people.

3. Outrageous amount of space.

4. Mirror room great for krump practice.

5. Friday night pick-up basketball.

6. Get ankles broken at Friday night pick-up basketball.

7. Seriously big weights room.

16. Table tennis duels (to the death of course).

17. Member of the Month honours.

18. Punching bags able to withstand karate chops.

19. Limited edition lanyards.

20. JTR.

64. Cause headaches with uneven weight plates.

65. Reply to emails, check the weather and finish that script you’ve been working on these past few years between sets.

66. Finally beat your dad in an arm wrestle.

91. Very lit Zumba classes (think Outback dancefloor).

92. Outdoor pools for bomb practice.

93. Indoor pools not for bomb practice.

94. H.I.I.T.

95. Debut your latest Gymshark haul.

122. Women’s Weights. 123. Super cool and nice trainers.

124. 1x ice cold drinking fountain whose location shall remain anonymous.

125. Get your butt kicked by REV instructor Steph (either one).

126. Finally beat your mum in an arm wrestle.

148. Excuse not to study. 149. Summer bod maintenance.

150. Learn powerlifting. 151. Surprise yourself.

152. Aggressive pre-town pump.

153. Crack the honours board top 10.

177. Sasa’s legendary bootcamps.

178. Foam rolling for the muscle knots but actually the chinwags.

179. Post workout feeds at Bongo.

180. 180 windmill dunks in the sports hall (if unable to dunk please see #181).

181. 180 windmill layups in the sports hall.

199. Showers with decent water pressure.

200. Underestimate the stairmaster.

201. Die on the stairmaster.

202. Crack a muscle-up.

203. Get called to reception by Vanessa.

204. Test out the new gym playlist to determine if Taylor Swift can withstand the force of a bodyweight deadlift.

205. Forget your gym towel for the 23rd time this week.

206. Get a new training program.

207. Train for parkrun.

255. Social Sport league.

256. Did we mention a place to krump?

257. Mental wellbeing.

258. Physical wellbeing.

259. Weights room used to be a nightclub (ask James).

260. Steptember.

261. Not Les Mills.

262. Crowd DJ.

263. ‘Most Smiley Reception Staff’ award winner 3 years in a row.

264. Big ol’ sports hall.

291. Flex the 1998 West Ham home kit you spent your entire course related costs on.

292. Update your experience on Linkedin with your latest bench.

293. Master the skipping rope.

294. Catch a Muski basketball training camp.

295. Spot a mate (in the weights room).

296. Spot a mate (at the front desk).

297. Spot a mate (at Kahurangi when they swore they were too sick to come to the gym).

310. Plenty of space to krump if you wanted to.

311. Gym tag in a pleasant shade of orange.

312. Yoga.

333. Try get crocs past security (reception).

334. Start a fitness IG.

335. Get sponsored by Sportsfuel.

336. Become wildly famous.

356. Pre-season training.

357. Spot a Silver Fern.

358. Rationalise the 5 coffees a day by rebranding them as ‘pre-workout’.

359. Forget headphones to better appreciate true devastation.

360. Your knees.

361. Let everyone know on Snapchat that you gym.

362. Stress relief.

363. Fall in love with someone at reception.

364. Body Blast.

365. Hit a milestone.

366. Learn to krump.

367. Acquire Steph Curry range at practice.

368. Showcase Rudy Gobert range at the game.

369. Damn you fine.

370. Good lighting.

371. Free exercise consultations.

372. Drop-in volleyball.

373. Grow muscles in strange new places you didn’t know could grow muscles.

374. Start a diet.

375. Abandon diet.

376. Realise balance is key.

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382. Opportunity to obliterate your panda dunks via calf raises.

383. Bring a buddy with bring-a-buddy.

384. Squash courts.

385. Eat a PB (sandwich), then hit a PB (squat).

387. Lose count of your reps.

395. Cardio.

396. Improve your strength and stamina for that drunk wrestling league you and your mates seemed to have started.

397. Decent backdrop for a BeReal.

398. Test out the latest batch of your pre-workout homebrew.

399. Content.

400. Kick Box.

413. Grunt a bunch.

414. Spend 45 mins just on the warmup.

415. Skip core.

416. Skip class for a (group ex) class.

417. UniRec swag.

418. High Performance room for medium and low

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