{"id":1505,"date":"2021-02-27T11:20:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T22:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2021-02-27T12:36:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T23:36:34","slug":"queenstown-as-a-fitness-desination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/queenstown-as-a-fitness-desination.php","title":{"rendered":"Queenstown as a fitness desination"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Well there are two sides to Queenstown as a fitness destination. Good & bad. I’m leaving in a week after a 2 month stay. <\/p>\n

I’ll tell you the bad stuff first. The air here is polluted. You wont see that in any article or official report but I have coughed my guts out the whole time I have been here – especially at first.<\/p>\n

In the tourist village its caused by chimneys all over the place. Being an alpine village it often gets a bit chilly & folks just crank up the fire.<\/p>\n

However on other trips I have stayed at Frankton near the airport & also coughed my guts out. Over there it was a dust bowl. So if the smoke doesn’t get you the dust will. <\/p>\n

Up on the mountain in the trees however the air is clean & fresh. As it is most places around here just not where most of the people are to be found.<\/p>\n

OK second thing wrong with the place is drugs & alcohol. The village is full of bars & drunks. At the backpackers here they are on LSD & god knows what. So many people come here to party not keep fit.<\/p>\n

Finally this is not a town for bodybuilding & powerlifting. Of course you can do that anywhere if you want but it is not the focus here.<\/p>\n

I joined the local gym which makes it pretty clear its a gay friendly gym. I am not gay lol but its the only place available to train without catching a bus. So I would have much more preferred to train at a hardcore body building \/ powerlifting nohomo gym.<\/p>\n

There are a bunch of CrossFit & fighting gyms in town but again – probably not for heavyweights in this town.<\/p>\n

Now for the “good” news – kind of<\/p>\n

This place is a meca for endurance sports & athletes. There’s are so many super fit mother fuckers around here that kick my ass at endurance. Cycling – there are races all over the place, marathons – they just do it daily, not up hill, up mountain. Even many old people here are super fit, and the freaks on LSD are also very fit at endurance.<\/p>\n

Suffice to say all of the folk hiking for days on end & zapping up mountains in 1\/4 the time of me are skinny little runts with little fat or muscle.<\/p>\n

I can beat them all up but they are kicking my ass badly at cardio. The consolation is that Queenstown is a special destination. People that come here to participate in the sports or great hikes usually have trained hard at endurance for months in advance. If you come here as a weightlifter & they kick your ass like me, don’t feel so bad. These fuckers came prepared.<\/p>\n

So if you are cutting, losing some fat & building up endurance this is a great place to be for a while.<\/p>\n

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