Yoga on the go
I’m all for doing yoga while I’m out and about in the world but sometimes when I need it most is when I return home.
Hours spent in a car or plane, hauling luggage and the wonderful foods I consumed on said trip usually make me feel a need to stretch out and eat veggies for a week.
Now, there’s a new option to start working out the kinks before getting home – gyms at airports. The website, www.airportgym.com, gives locations of gyms in or near airports and some include yoga rooms.
Only a few U.S. airports are listed with onsite gyms or hotels offering day passes. Most of the listings showed gyms that were a short cab ride away from the airport.
O’Hare Airport in Chicago was one of the few with the attached Hilton Hotel selling day passes. Seems like a good spot to have one considering the airport’s history of flight delay problems that I have personally experiences as well as my fellow travelers who gave it only 3 stars at FlightStats.
The site also has listings in Canada including in terminal options in Toronto and Vancouver, including a yoga and spa space.
Listings are generated by users so if you find a good spot you can e-mail them and have it included.
Though not common now, maybe this will encourage people to put workout spaces in airports. I personally think those old smoking rooms, if properly cleaned, could be great little yoga spaces. But I might feel like a fish in a bowl in the clear glass ones.
Or we could all just do headstands in the terminal while we wait.
