A **gym** (from Ancient Greek //gymnásion//, "place to be naked") is nominally a facility in which humans voluntarily load their own [[Musculature | skeletal muscle]] past its capacity to provoke [[Hypertrophy | adaptive overcompensation]].

This mechanism is named [[Progressive Overload | progressive overload]], a rare gift-offering from biology. Often, however, a gym-goer's consistency is gated by [[Akrasia]].

> The real purpose of gyms is to convert people's New Year's Resolutions and expensive city-centre real estate into idle subscriptions.
> — [[gollark]]