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01-29-2008, 04:04 PM
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Snatchtastic
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Hotels with Good Gyms
I travel a lot for work so I'm constantly looking for hotels with decent gyms. Because my schedule is usually packed while on the road, it's much easier to workout at the hotel rather than driving to a commercial gym before of after meetings. I figured I might as well start a thread where people can post their "finds" when it comes to hotel gyms.
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01-29-2008, 04:08 PM
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I stayed at a Hyatt in Dallas that was linked to a sports club. It had most everything one would need for a decent workout, including heavy dumbells. Don't remember if it had a barbell/squat rack. It was close to the airport...got stuck from air travel delay.
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01-29-2008, 04:08 PM
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Snatchtastic
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I'm in New York City this week. I'm staying at the Grand Hyatt for the first time and it has a really nice gym (for a hotel). They have the usual treadmills, elipticals, bikes, and a couple weights machines. They also have dumbbells up to 50lbs, an adjustable bench, stability balls, body bars, foam rollers, core balls, and one of those cable/pulley stations that have a place to do pullups (regular and neutral grip). Two thumbs up!
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01-29-2008, 04:14 PM
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If you stay at the Laquinta or the Doubletree in downtown Little Rock you get to work out in one of the coolest gyms in the country (ranked by Men's Health as a "top 30 best").
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01-29-2008, 04:49 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jean-Paul
If you stay at the Laquinta or the Doubletree in downtown Little Rock you get to work out in one of the coolest gyms in the country (ranked by Men's Health as a "top 30 best"). |
I work for a company headquartered in Little Rock so I've had the opportunity to stay there, as I have to travel there periodically. Though, next time I have to travel to LR, I'm going to pay you a visit! |
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01-29-2008, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Jean-Paul
If you stay at the Laquinta or the Doubletree in downtown Little Rock you get to work out in one of the coolest gyms in the country (ranked by Men's Health as a "top 30 best"). |
As a SuperModerator I am going to have to warn you about promoting your commercial interests on this site. I think the owner of this site and other mods have put a lot of effort in to keep the "ads" out. Now even though your particular establishment may have a FREE TRIAL promotion, may be owned by a fitness advisor to the Governor that served as chairman of the Arkansas Governor's Council on Fitness among other things, is no reason to promote your particular location here. The next thing you know, you will be posting links to your fitness forum!!! OK, bud, though you may be a big poster here, with a kazillion posts, consider yourself officially warned about commercial plugs!!!!
BTW, my list of decent hotel gyms, I do not travel much in the US or Canada, but have not stayed in a hotel with a decent gym. In Japan, it is hard to find a decent gym (except public facilities) and impossible at a nice hotel (by decent gym I mean free weights) :
Guam: Onward Beach Hotel: a so-so hotel, but waterslides, and connected to a Golds Gym, machines freeweights, racks!!!
Lima: Swissotel Lima: Kick ass hotel, everything except racks, but , I deadlifted there, no problems with the "staff" saying no deadlifting. (nice floors, though, so I was "gentle").
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01-29-2008, 06:02 PM
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01-29-2008, 06:48 PM
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Hyatt Century City in Los Angeles has a great hotel gym with free weights and machines.
I'm sure there are others I have stayed out that are decent, but forgetting now. I often will cab or walk to a local gym.
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01-29-2008, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by L'ilJ
I'm in New York City this week. I'm staying at the Grand Hyatt for the first time and it has a really nice gym (for a hotel). They have the usual treadmills, elipticals, bikes, and a couple weights machines. They also have dumbbells up to 50lbs, an adjustable bench, stability balls, body bars, foam rollers, core balls, and one of those cable/pulley stations that have a place to do pullups (regular and neutral grip). Two thumbs up!
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ha, I'm actually flying up to new york on thursday for the weekend. Not staying at a hotel, but I'll keep this in mind in case we take a family trip to NYC in the future.
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01-29-2008, 08:25 PM
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I think, therefore I post
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Originally Posted by missjane
I work for a company headquartered in Little Rock so I've had the opportunity to stay there, as I have to travel there periodically. Though, next time I have to travel to LR, I'm going to pay you a visit!
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I hope you do!
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01-29-2008, 08:47 PM
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I have used this site before and found it to be pretty on-point:
Fit For Business | Hotels with great gyms, pools, athletic facilities! Find a hotel with an outstanding hotel gym, hotel fitness center or full-service athletic club, including personal training, racquetball, tennis, squash, lap pool, boxing, group e |
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02-21-2008, 08:18 AM
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Renaissance Times Square has dumbbells and a bench (as well as weight and cardio machines).
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02-24-2008, 01:21 PM
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Im going to Chicago next week. The hotel claims to have a decent gym. We will see.
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02-24-2008, 02:52 PM
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Señor Member
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Originally Posted by rwmct
Im going to Chicago next week. The hotel claims to have a decent gym. We will see.
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You should probably talk to Kaiser. He lives in Chicago.
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02-24-2008, 05:39 PM
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Snatchtastic
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Tampa, Florida. The Westshore Marriott has a decent workout room. Several treadmills/bicycles/eliptical machines. Good mats for mobility work. Swiss Balls. Adjustable bench. Dumbbells to 50 pounds. Also, some crappy weight machines laid out in a circuit. What a waste of space! Plenty of room around the swimming pool for rope jumping and other GPP workouts. Two thumbs up.
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02-24-2008, 08:34 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by L'ilJ
Tampa, Florida. The Westshore Marriott has a decent workout room. Several treadmills/bicycles/eliptical machines. Good mats for mobility work. Swiss Balls. Adjustable bench. Dumbbells to 50 pounds. Also, some crappy weight machines laid out in a circuit. What a waste of space! Plenty of room around the swimming pool for rope jumping and other GPP workouts. Two thumbs up.
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Ponta Vedra, Florida. TPC Sawgrass Marriott, pretty much exactly like the above post. I got a really good dumbbell workout in when I was there.
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