For the last few days of last week, I have been spending my lunch hour with a colleague visiting the many fitness centres in KL. Ever since I told him I joined Cal Fit, he wants to join a gym too. Not sure why...maybe it has to do with the fact he is getting married next year, so he needs (hmm..think it more like wants) to look good.
Looking back, KL has certainly come a long way in terms of fitness centres from the good old days when they were called gyms which used to be in a small shop lot above Kedai Kopi Eighty Eight. Small, dingy looking places where guys grunt away, lifting weights with the smell of char kuey teow floating in from downstairs. There are a few surviving ones and slowly but surely following the footsteps of the dinosaur.
Nowadays KL-lites are certainly spoilt for choice when it comes to fitness centres. Each of them trying to woo members with claims of having the latest machines, better facilities and the most affordable membership packages. But after visiting most of the fitness centres in KL, I have concluded most of them offer the same facilities. The compelling factor which swings people would be the membership packages. From low monthly subs to pay one year get one year free. Aren't we spoilt for choice?
And fitness centres now offer much more. Not only can they work out, there are also a plethora of classes from bodypump to yoga to pilates and the firm favourite among the family, step class. It is in this class where the guys outnumber the gals and outperform as well.
But that is another story, eh?.. :-)
Looking back, KL has certainly come a long way in terms of fitness centres from the good old days when they were called gyms which used to be in a small shop lot above Kedai Kopi Eighty Eight. Small, dingy looking places where guys grunt away, lifting weights with the smell of char kuey teow floating in from downstairs. There are a few surviving ones and slowly but surely following the footsteps of the dinosaur.
Nowadays KL-lites are certainly spoilt for choice when it comes to fitness centres. Each of them trying to woo members with claims of having the latest machines, better facilities and the most affordable membership packages. But after visiting most of the fitness centres in KL, I have concluded most of them offer the same facilities. The compelling factor which swings people would be the membership packages. From low monthly subs to pay one year get one year free. Aren't we spoilt for choice?
And fitness centres now offer much more. Not only can they work out, there are also a plethora of classes from bodypump to yoga to pilates and the firm favourite among the family, step class. It is in this class where the guys outnumber the gals and outperform as well.
But that is another story, eh?.. :-)
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