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I already wrote about the gym I was attending when I was younger. It's owned by my uncle. I started going there when I was 17 and stopped after I moved out of home around age 18.
I got to go back there recently since I've been staying at my parents' during the lock down and had to exercise at some point. Also, the membership is kind of free to me, that is my uncle lets me go there without a membership because he knows I"m going to have to go back to why own place eventually.
I was pleased to see that he had been constantly upgrading and modernising the place. It had nothing to do with what it looked like 12 years ago. It obviously grew one more floor and offered a whole host of new accommodations that were definitely not there a decade ago. That and the fact that my cousin (uncle's son) now runs it, his dad is taking care of another gym that they opened in the meantime.
This particular uncle is my dad's younger brother, he's not even 50 yet. Around age 15 he got a girl pregnant with a boy and she ended up leaving him with the baby whom he took care of on his own and never married. It's an oddity in my family to have only one kid and these two are thick as thieves. So close that they actually operate their family business together now. My cousin is 33 and just like his dad, got all his kids at a very young age so my uncle was actually a grandpa at an age where most people are becoming parents and my cousin's first son is 18 (but not going to have a kid anytime soon).

Yet, what struck me the most when I went back there was not that my cousin's son was now in legal age to vote and drink nor that their business had obviously skyrocketed but another "detail" that I resized after finishing my workout routine.
The place got packed while I was exercising. The crowd looked pretty normal, pretty average with a balanced number of young, middle aged and older guys spanning from 16 years old to a good 65 for some patrons. There were also kids below 16 but they were all in dance rooms or heading to swimming or martial arts class at the other side of the building. I know for a fact that my uncle doesn't allow kids bellow 16 to use the machines since he thinks it's not healthy to build muscle at this age (which is kinda backed by science).

After finishing my workout I spent an hour or so taking to my cousin's 18 year old son who's ripped as fuck, just like his dad and grandpa but actually attends med school. So, by the time we finished our conversation I got caught in the middle of the rush hour in the locker room and had to wait before heading to the shower and the swimming pool. I had inadvertently decided to come on the day when the swimming pool was open to naked swimmers. They had built a new outdoor swimming pool that had been declared nudist for the whole summer. People willing to wear a swimsuit could still use the indoor one.

At first I couldn't help but questioning that business decision, not really foreseeing what I was about to witness.

When I went back to the locker room I was struck my the amount of people that were there. Only men of course since the women's locker room was literally on the other side of the building. The locker room, the steam room and the access to both swimming pools being smartly placed very close to one another, there were naked men everywhere. I mean, there are naked men in locker rooms anyways but this one was not designed as a place where you go, shower and change. It was designed as a place where you can hang out, have a smoothie, relax in the steam room or the jacuzzi, sunbathe outside and swim in the swimming pool. I've never seen that before.
The bar was placed in such a way that it was possible to get a smoothie from inside the locker room area just as easily as if you were outside. There were also places for people to sit down and hang out outside the locker room area but they were empty, guys were pretty much only hanging out inside the locker room area and they were all naked. My uncle has turned our family lifestyle into a business opportunity.
There was a lounge space with nice couches where guys could wait after showering for a free spot in the steam room or in a jacuzzi or simply hang out. Some were talking, some were playing on their phones, one was obviously sleeping but all were naked. My cousin joined me there after finishing giving a class. Entering the locker room, he took a quick shower and sat next to me on a big couch.

I had to question him about this whole layout. He told me that at first, they had redesigned the whole place to be more efficient, it was never meant to be "clothing optional" although they obviously did not have any problems with that. Then guys started using the space that way and soon, even guys who used to wear a towel around their waist while lounging on the couch or a swimsuit in the jacuzzi started to forget about it. And when the majority of customers silently agreed to make the full area nudist the rest simply complied because it's always awkward to be the only clothed person in a room filled with naked people.

But the place had remained extremely family friendly, that was where the owners drew the line. They call that concept "teaching healthy nudity" and apparently had received extremely positive feedback and extra business from moms and daughters and dads and sons (men and women spaces are very strictly separated) who attend this particular gym because it's a healthy way to teach younger ones to be comfortable being naked with people of the same gender. And it showed. There was even a TV for boys to watch while waiting for their dads and apparently they were going to launch a naked swimming class for all age ranges. The only drawback was that the place was definitely getting pretty noisy.


Amidst this whole crowd the proportion of guys who were cut and pierced was also blatantly higher than in my memories. With no exaggeration I'm tempted to say that half the guys, all ages alike, were cut and pierced.

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