Comments on: Working out in Paris: Now a more extreme experience

By: Michael Middleton

Michael Middleton — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:27:39 +0000

Hmm, I’m going to Paris in a week. Maybe I ought to seek out a gym so that for once, I’m the hardest working person in the entire place. Good ego boost, that.

By: Katie Drummond - The Extreme Self – Working out in the UK: Now a more extreme experience - True/Slant

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:12:12 +0000

[...] September, I blogged/whined about a new “all kids” fitness center outside of Paris, France. The [...]

By: paullarosa

paullarosa — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:50:51 +0000

i meant ‘can one do it?’ but i’ll find out firsthand when i go there next week! merci

By: Katie Drummond

Katie Drummond — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:08:46 +0000

As in: can one do it? Or, are there facilities to support a yoga practice? According to this article from Yoga Journal, there are even yoga travel tours in Paris: http://www.yogajournal.com/lifestyle/540

Although, I doubt they’d offer much in the way of Americanized, power-hot-500-calorie-burn “yoga”.

By: paullarosa

paullarosa — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:43:54 +0000

What about doing yoga in Paris? Any thoughts?

By: utzie

utzie — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:31:25 +0000

every French teacher I’ve ever had told me that Paris was a bad example of French social culture.

By: Katie Drummond

Katie Drummond — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:32:13 +0000

Hardly! 24-hour gyms are another article entirely…I once stopped by a gym at 3 a.m. and found nothing but infomercials on TV and three cab drivers on elliptical trainers. It was very very very weird.

By: Jod Kaftan

Jod Kaftan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:31:04 +0000

I guess they don’t have 24 Hour Fitness in France.

By: Caitlin Kelly

Caitlin Kelly — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:53:28 +0000

I have read it. What Paris is really good at are hammams, steam-bath/spas that are the best respite imaginable on a frosty, rainy winter’s day. One of my happiest memories was lying relaxed and swaddled in a white sheet beside their lap pool. Lying still. What a concept.

The guy who runs our local Y must hate me because I keep suggesting he, or someone who pays attention, actually lie down on one of the mats and look at how filthy the baseboards are windows and radiators are…which you don’t necessarily notice while standing up or moving, but having it in your face while lying down is just gross. I can’t be the only person who find all that dirt and dust, let alone sweat, off-putting.

By: Katie Drummond

Katie Drummond — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:28:10 +0000

Have you read Adam Gopnik’s book of essays on Paris? He has a hilarious one on trying to join a gym there, and then finding out that everyone just sits by the pool eating finger sandwiches.

Yup, I hate the gym aesthetic too – is it really that difficult to just make a workout space functional, user-friendly and not smell like ten-week-old sweat? Gah.