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Hotel Workouts: Update

January 9, 2006 at 3:57 PM | 0 Comments

The New York Times continues to follow the hotel industry's obsession with providing better workouts for their guests by visiting the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta.

Once filled with just the bare minimum of exercise machines, the hotel recently put in new machines complete with individual TVs and anti-bacterial wipes to keep everything germ-free.

This Hyatt along with many others, also offer guests tools for outside workouts such as a Fitness GPS Forerunner Armband, which can monitor heart rate and the running distance, but is also preprogrammed with the hotel's coordinates, so you can't get lost.

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While the Westin Hotels & Resorts brand took the lead in the hotel gym phenomenon, many other hotels are stepping up to the plate, including Holiday Inn Select who just struck a deal with Nautilus Fitness to build on-property fitness centers by 2007.

Marriott is going one step further with its Renaissance ClubSports brand at the Walnut Creek, CA location--a 12,000-square-foot gym with everything from cardiovascular to circuit and free-weight equipment to basketball, volleyball, racquetball and squash courts and areas for the free yoga, tai chi and kickboxing classes. The ClubSports also have aquatic centers and daycare centers for kids.

Fifteen more ClubSports are planned by 2012, that is if America sticks with the exercise obsession.

Related Stories:
· Hotels See Gains in Letting Guests Feel Pain [NY Times]
· Westin Promotes Workouts [HotelChatter]

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