Gym during Ramadan, yes or no?

[a.s.]

Yes, I will be going to the Gym during Ramadan, but I will be keeping it to the minimum since I want to spend most of the time reciting Qur'an and doing dhikr. I plan on going an hour and a half before iftar, so I can eat and drink as soon as I get home. And then of course, taraweeh after iftar.

Dont go everyday, I'll only be going like 3 times a week, and only for an hour or hour-and-half.

This Ramadan is gonna be brutal. Bring it on!

[a.s.]

Ramadan is not for spending down the gym. 30 days rest from exercise must be undertaken, instead time must be spent on concentrated worship and focus on Allah . Every second of Ramadan should be considered as very valuable and not to be wasted on unnecessary actions. It is like an employee in their job usually getting paid 20 dollars an hour, and the boss tells the employee that for one month only they will get $500 an hour....that employee will work as many hours as they can for that month, knowing that they are getting lots of money and they will be able to rest when it ends. Ramadan is looked at like this by the advanced awliya Allah (or friends of Allah).

Bro, going to the gym can be an act of worship also. If you are doing it for the sake of Allah to stay and healthy and fit, which is also a part of Islam.

30 days rest from Gym is not a good hing to do if you go to gym regularly. If you do this then you'll lose all the muscle you had previously gained, so all those days you worked out will have gone to waste. Of course we will also do dhikr and Qur'an recitation and many other good deeds, but we'll have time for the gym also.

[تفويض]

Bro, going to the gym can be an act of worship also. If you are doing it for the sake of Allah to stay and healthy and fit, which is also a part of Islam.

30 days rest from Gym is not a good hing to do if you go to gym regularly. If you do this then you'll lose all the muscle you had previously gained, so all those days you worked out will have gone to waste. Of course we will also do dhikr and Qur'an recitation and many other good deeds, but we'll have time for the gym also.

True that gymming can be an act of ibaadah, but I feel it's very easy I am doing something that I would do anyway and make it out to be worship. For example, I love doing X and I would do it regardless of whether it could be an act of worship or not. Just as an example, even though it's not very good, I am interested in trying to learn how to lucid dream. As far as I know it's not impermissible to learn how to lucid dream, neither is it something recommended islamically, it's neutral. If suddenly there was a way to make it into an act of ibaadah I would find it really difficult to believe my intentions would suddenly change and the driving force behind me learning it is to worship rather than what I originally intended it to be for.

Note btw the use of I here, I'm not doubting anybody elses intentions at all. It's just I remember creating an awfully long thread about this a long time ago on here somewhere in the fiqh section I think. The aspect of intentions is something I have a lot of trouble with.

Anyways the reason I wrote this was to say for me personally, I would prefer to stick to things where I know I am doing it solely for Allah SWT which if it was to benefit me that's great. Once I can hit that stage with my workouts, where a day will come when I can't be bothered to workout but I will say no I'm doing this for Allah and get up and go workout that's the day I know I'm really doing it for Him and I wouldn't have a problem working out in Ramadhan. As of now, when I can't be bothered, I'm not getting up off this sofa.

[TapeMonkey]

Recite things dring your exercise routines, use that as your timing. "Hmm, recite this aya 50 times today... then 60 times tomorrow..." Get your exercise and ibadah in at the same time.

[Salman_Hanafi]

, I have been jogging in Ramadhan in the past, and intend to do it regularly this ramadhan ....My one piece of fairly general advice is that you should exercise just before Iftar, time it in such a way that you are returning home and the maghrib azaan starts.....If you finish exercising like half an hour before iftar, you might feel dehydrated for a longer period of time, and the last half an hour can be uncomfortable...