If like me, NY and its panel of fast food, burger, street food and seamless orders quickly has an impact on your form, if after two months living here, the stairs to access your apartment is the most painful hardship of your day, it means you also need to practice sport again. Good for you, this city has developed a “gym religion”. The gym density is sometime so high, than we can be able to assert, that between two gym clubs there always is another gym.
But the difficulty to find a gym which really fit you is still the same, and the price of those place can sometime be hard to accept.
A non-exhaustive list of gym clubs that can fit you on NY :
- Planet Fitness; Easy to find, close to your place given the incredible number of planet fitness in the city. This gym is quite cheap compare to others, from 10$ a month. It provides a bunch of machines for your training, and try to establish a cool atmosphere, released of any kind of competition. But if like me, running on a treadmill give you the strange feeling to look like a hamster, you should chose something else.
- Crunch: I’ve never really been to that brand, but I’ve been told that the price is almost the same than for planet fitness, but it’s more about collective fitness class.
- If you are ready to spend around $100 a month in sport, you can find some of those complete gym center with not only a bunch of machine but also a swimming pool, a climbing rock. Two example: MPHC, close to time square, Chelsea Pier, close to the Hudson River.
- The recreation centers. Last and cheaper one! Those center are supported by the city of New York. It can provide you some good gym place, gym classes and swimming pool, for an uncompetitive price. $25 a year if you are under 25 !!! Those places are not as fancy as the others, but to my mind, a swimming pool still is a swimming pool.
Enjoy the workout!
