Visiting Thailand’s Fitness Road… If I Were You
This is the first in a two-report series on fitness resorts. Read this article to read about Bali fitness resorts*
Most sports have their meccas. For skiing, it’s either Colorado or Switzerland. For scuba diving, Indonesia. For tennis, UK’s courts at Wimbledon. Yet for weight lifting, is there a place? And where can people go to get smart on fitness?
So far, the Fitness Road on the southern end of Thailand’s Phuket island could be the world’s only place offering a true weight lifting community. This post highlights what’s available on the road, ending on a prediction that gyms are a vital part of the coming health revolution called Medicine 3.0.
Why go?
Phuket’s fitness camps can turbocharge one’s fitness know-how. They teach weight lifting, martial arts (especially Muay Thai), and high-intensity interval training (HIIT). Other traditional classes like indoor cycling and yoga are also avaialble. Fitness Road’s camps integrate hotel-style lodging with fitness rooms (with 4–20 classes a day), restaurants, cafes, and sauna/ice bath facilities. Guests stay from three days to two months and concentrate on making fitness gains. Fitness centers offer single-class passes (from 300–600 Thai baht, or $8.50-$17 USD), day passes (around $40 USD), or week passes ($200 USD and up).
