What city in the US is most fitness-oriented?

>muscle beach

Holy shit imagine falling for the biggest fitness meme of all time. Venice is actual trash. A freak show of druggies and degenerates. Antithesis of fitness

Then honestly just move to a big city like NYC. Can walk or bike everywhere. Lots of gyms, pools, and groups for whatever you’re into.
Or tell us what fitness you’re looking forS

See, it's good to know this. Does it really not have any sort of "fitness culture" there?

Name ONE flaw with Oregon, Washington and north California for fitness groups.
>implying the average 20 something up there gives a shit about meme politics

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I wanna say I'm surprised Minneapolis/St. Paul is number two but given the great spring/summer/fall and gyms everywhere, plus the nature scene I guess I should be applauding

I already live in a big city. It's fucking disgusting and expensive. Sure, there are groups, but it takes me an hour to drive anywhere here because the traffic is so shitty so I won't go across town to do anything with anyone. Although I mentioned larger cities, it would be great if I could find a mid-sized city that has a "fitness culture" of some sort, or at least supports it culturally.

The only reason I'm asking is that I don't think such a place exists. I'd love to be proven wrong.

"Muscle beach" is just a tourist trap. A tiny outdoor shit gym where saps go to fluff their ego. There's some calisthenic equipment too on the sand and some workout yeah but it's a sideshow to the main attraction of the circus freaks everywhere

It rains three-quarters of the year. I live in that region and I don't even want to leave the fucking house between October and May because it's fucking disgusting outside.

I should have put that in my original post: light rain and lots of sun are mandatory.

You don't have to ever drive in new york though

I don't drive where I am now because there's a reasonably decent public transportation system. Still takes an hour to get across town.

If you’re spending an hour driving across town you’re doing it wrong. LA, Dallas, etc. are bullshit glorified suburb cities. In a proper city like NYC you basically never have to drive. DC and Boston are similar. Chicago and Philly are not quite as good but also walkable.

Also in NYC you rarely have to GO across town. Odds are there’s a fucking equinox in your building and a Starbucks in your actual apartment.

Let me see if I can explain this better.

I'm looking for a place where people take fitness a bit more seriously than other places. In NYC, everyone's probably all about work (I don't know; I've never been there). In SF/Seattle, everyone's all about "tech" and capeshit movies and "my app will change the world".

Is there someplace where people think "sure, I work/see movies/etc., but it's important to be fit and healthy so I go to the gym/exercise on a very regular basis" as a general idea? Maybe not everyone in those places, but where it's a sort of cultural foundation? Maybe there's nowhere. Maybe I'll only get this in a smaller community. But I don't talk to people at the gym because we're all there to get shit done, not chatter. And Crossfit seems like a meme, but it has some of the culture I might be wanting (I don't know, I've never been).

Boston and Cambridge represent! Fuck Jewton

Plenty of outdoor activities, year round pleasant weather, beautiful people, beaches, and military influence. The high rent is just how we keep the poor people from overrunning and turning the city into another Los Angeles.

Thank you. That helps.

The closest thing to what you describe are places like Denver and salt lake and Portland where people are into hiking, skiing, biking, etc. (and craft beer). you also rule out cross fit, which is extremely popular.
HIIT and lifting are niche interests. There is no city I’ve ever heard of where people are all into powerlifting.
But also, your stereotypes about NYC, Seattle, abs SF are all still consistent with fitness. In all those cities people are leaner and healthier than the national average and more into fitness.

Go visit some places, but TLDR it sounds like your looking for a chimera.

Tampa or Miami

Lmao Minneapolis at #2 i guess there's a big culture of doing stuff here, but i wouldn't have guessed we were that high

San Diegan here and I approve of this, also nice dubs

I would try a beach town on the southeast coast of America. Its way cheaper, and people tend to be less fat in beach towns.

you'd be surprised by how many people age 15-50 are braindead SJWs up here. at first glance it might seem like there are only a few quarantined in specific zones. but it's so ubiquitous here even seemingly normal people have SJW sympathies. really it's a small core of radical zealots being propped up by a mob of weak willed apologists.

there does seem to be a backlash happening, though. I've seen more young normal people up here than ever before, however they are probably coming from other areas. what's really helping the place is that the subaru-granola-coexist boomers are dying off and their offspring are either limited in numbers, isolated autists, or nonexistent. this place is ripe for revolution.

I agree with a lot of the top ten but not necessarily the order. Colorado is the fittest place in the country, and that includes Denver, Boulder, etc.

>Lmao Minneapolis at #2 i guess there's a big culture of doing stuff here, but i wouldn't have guessed we were that high
You've never been to the rest of the country. Fat as fuck

yeah, I don't understand how Colorado is that low. they've got the damn Olympic Training Center there, that alone basically makes it fitness destination #1 in my mind.

Strangely, I haven't ruled out Crossfit, but I don't think it's a healthy way to exercise; it seems haphazard and uncontrolled and injury-prone. But I do like the community it fosters, supporting one another, competing against each other to improve, etc.

You might be right that I'm unicorn hunting. I've lived in many of the places mentioned in this thread (I've moved around a lot), so I have some first-hand knowledge. I agree that places like Seattle have "hiking culture" and that sort of thing, but I've met those people and I wouldn't consider them "pro fitness" most of the time. The exception might be the climbing community members that I've met/seen.

>year round pleasant weather
it gets blazing hot in the summers.

Washington isnt a fucking city...

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Define "blazing hot". I've lived near Phoenix. THAT is "blazing hot".

Yes it is, they mean Washington DC.

Maybe Denver is full of relative fatties. I've only been to Boulder in Colarado and that place is fit as fuck. It's the only place in the US without a subway that I'd live in.

>42. New Orleans
Pretty suprising, as everything is cooked with obnoxious amounts of lard/butter and drowned in salt.

Why not live in a fat place instead? Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven

im in savannah for work right now and it’s pretty great

is everything okay big guy?

Phx is ok but the summers are trash. We had days over 100 weeks ago, June - Sept its just hot no matter when

I can confirm, living in Boston. I have no idea how many gyms are within walking distance of me but the one I go to is 500 feet away, and there's other wackier shit nearby like boxing, jiujitsu, MMA, rock climbing, obstacle courses, etc.

Dc master race reporting in, you fucking peasants.

You dont wanna go to Cali. Place is a third world shithole.

I've been to Boulder. I liked it.

Checked and agreed by another Diegan.
And very easy to mog the short illegals.

Yeah me too. I like where I live but Boulder is on my shortlist for other places in the US I'd be willing to live in.

So basically every place with large military presence is fit and every place where blacks and mexicans coalesce is very fat

>large military presence
>Seattle
>Boston
>Man Jose
What?

Because it's easier to improve when you are surrounded by others who are improving themselves and have a culture which supports doing so.

as long as you maintain good form and just ignore the obviously stupid shit like “deadlifts for time”, you can get something out of crossfit

In my experience, relying on others will only bring you down.

'I' replaced with the A. Oregan you say.

I don't disagree with this. But what is around us affects us. I want to surround myself with people who think health and fitness and having a life are important. I wouldn't rely on them, but their influence can be a benefit.

Based
Grow the fuck up poor boy. All the best shit and places that actually matter are going to be more expensive than Yokelville. People who make it, people who matter live in the 1% of places who matter.

Everything is big in Texas

Ha, I grew up in the south, moved to Vegas then Portland. I miss Vegas...

What did you like about Vegas?

I liked the weather, I lived in North Las Vegas so i was close to Mt. Charleston for god tier hiking, 24hour gym at LVAC. I had a pool, easy to get around. I liked the desert aesthetic, Vegas was good to me.

How was LVAC? Looking at the website it looks fucking stupid, with women doing meme exercises and people dancing to music.

Georgia itself is bad, but I live in Atlanta and in the rich parts, everyone is skinny.

Its fucking massive with lots of locations. Lots of bros in there but its cheap and opened 24/7. Its got all the equipment you would ever need and an indoor running track.

Nice. I'm probably going to visit Vegas this year, so I'll check it out. Thanks, user.

Carlsfag here its super fucking expensive to live here but the gyms are great. When I say expensive I mean FUCKING EXPENSIVE. No retards because its either boomers doing cardio or guys doing actual lifting. Community in general is very active and living right next to the beach with great beaches is awesome incentive to get the goal body. IF you plan on living here, settling down would be a + because the education system specifically is one of the best in SoCal with easy access to UCSD,CSUSM, and SDSU.

No worries m8, Vegas is a really nice city aside from the strip and all that bullshit. Go to Mt Charleston and red rocks if you get a chance.

Bonus pic of a Charleston summit.

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Thanks again

San Diego is expensive as hell, and absolutely worth every fucking penny.

From what I can tell, the first part is true. Tell me more about the second part. Why?

Lived in Venice Beach for 6 years. Lots of fit people. Muscle beach is cool, used to see piano man every now and then filming shit.

Expensive to live and hard to get situated if you don't have a network, but not impossible

JP here.

>fittest areas are all liberal
>fattest are all conservative

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Colorado is probably one of the healthiest states.

>high elevation
>lots of hiking and nature activities
>good local community with values
>both cold and hot weather for max temperature gains

just stay away from cities like the denver area and don't buy into the whole "dude weed lmao" bullshit, and you will be fine.

i think you might be retarded user.

I remember one of the earliest pics I saw on Jow Forums was a story of someone hearing about Gainesville and thinking it it's just full of people with nothing but muscles and sunglasses

not an argument

I mean, you're not completely wrong.

If not Denver, then where? Boulder? Fort Collins? Colorado Springs?

I love dixie, but I wish people would take being healthy as serious as hunting.

But moving to California? I love my guns too much...outside of ice hockey and running, there ain’t much worth living for

>fattest are all black
FTFY

>Oakland is #4

Boston is a pretty happy medium desu. It's a bit more forward thinking but it's not full pussy SJW, masculinity is alive and well. Bostonians don't take no shit.

imagine needing an entire city to have a fitness culture to stay motivated

you're already not gonna make it

Lol at Indianapolis, meth capital of the "just passing through" state.

>waaah waaah it rains too much
rain jackets, umbrellas, just deal with it?

Unironically come to Florida. We have the same kind of Southerner spirit as opposed to Commiefornians, but thanks to being a bit more progressive than the rest of the South and because everyone needs to look good in the heat/at the beach, there are a lot more fit people than the rest of the South

Did any of your fucking retards actually read the chart?
>according to factors like preventative health behaviors, levels of disease, and community resources that support physical activity
So 2/3 of the criteria they list are purely subjective, who knows what other kinds of bullshit was included as "fit".

Ever consider you're the problem? Any city with over 100k people will have hundreds of people that fit enjoy fitness and will have PLENTY of gyms. Maybe it's just your fault you're incapable of finding them, or maybe you're just being whiny for the sake of complaining.

>beautiful place year round
>traffic is the least suicide inducing of California's major cities
>plenty of mountains for hiking, as well as beaches and whatnot
>people are hotter than most other places on Earth
>safest I've ever felt in a city that size at night
>best burritos in the fucking world
I could go on, but it's pretty fucking late where I am right now.

You do realize that there's a fitness scene in every fucking city over maybe 50k in the country, right? I currently live near a city of 80k and there's fucking gyms everywhere.

Tried for 5 years, Came pretty damn close to suicide. I need the fucking sun.

All I hear about Florida is negative shit like "Florida Man", meth/crack/drugs, a bazillion brown immigrants (both legal and illegal), and all the fucking New York boomers and Jews who moved down there. Sounds like shit, to be honest, from a people perspective. Am I wrong?

the subway in NYC smells like piss and is honestly a national embarrassment. Moscow's subways are 1000x cleaner, safer, and more beautiful
>t. American
If only an asteroid would hit new york city for real, instead of only in movies

>not understanding that limited exposure to sunlight can worsen mood and health
Based condescending retard.

Yes, I have. And finding a smaller community (which I mention above) is a needed thing. But it's also nice when you're at work or in public and people don't give you shit about being fit: "put some meat on those bones" or "you look like a lunkhead" or whatever. So if I can get into a city/region which doesn't have that attitude, it helps that much more. Plus, that'll mean there are likely even more groups and gyms per capita than in some obese shithole.