Gyms, sports activities, walk-in yoga classes and more, By Sandra Berry. Los Cabos Magazine – Issue #15 – Winter 2008
Vacation is a time to relax, kick back, and take a break from real life. Planning to continue your fitness program while traveling is the best way to reduce stress and maintain the gains you have already established. Anyone who exercises regularly knows how you feel when you miss a week or two of exercise. Your body gets sluggish and out of sorts. Why toss all those exercise goals you’ve worked so hard to achieve, in one week of overindulging?
The simplest way is to stay with your routine. Upon arrival in Los Cabos, concentrate on maintaining your fitness, instead of improving it. If you’re going to a gym on a regular basis, find a gym at your resort. If you’re into yoga or Pilates, local instructors welcome visitors to their classes, either private or in some resorts, like Esperanza. Exercise helps bring your body to its most natural and calm state. Vacation does the same thing, so why not combine the two and accelerate the result? This can lead to a very satisfying break, and you’ll arrive home in better shape than when you left.
A vacation is a great time to try a new workout. Think of something you have always wanted to do like surfing, salsa dance lessons, or water aerobics. These are fun activities and will keep you moving, without feeling like you are “working out.” Solmar Beach in Cabo San Lucas and Hotel Beach in San José del Cabo offer some great options. In addition to walking or jogging on the beach, Los Cabos offers a variety of activities that are fun and aerobic. There’s beach volleyball, surfing, swimming, kayaking, snorkeling, golf, tennis, and even shopping! Los Cabos can fit the bill to keep you on track without cutting into your fun.
Into yoga? Tony Sanchez, director of yoga at One & Only Palmilla, offers classes by appointment, and is working on a new project to include yoga for golfers. (624) 146-7000. India Wood conducts yoga classes at Las Ventanas al Paraíso and at Club 96 at the Palmilla development. (624) 172-6121.
Keep your heart rate up while breaking a sweat in the water! Ruby de Witte, certified by the Aquatic Exercise Association in the United States, conducts water aerobics at Los Cabos Golf Resort & Country Club in Cabo San Lucas and also offers private training at your home or hotel (she has all the proper equipment). Ruby is also a certified Pilates instructor. (624) 105-9336.
Whether eight years old or 80 years young, Los Cabos has several options for getting up on a surfboard in no time. At Cabo Surf Hotel, one of the best surfing areas, the instructors at Mike Doyle’s Surf School will have you surfing by the end of the day. This boutique hotel, fronting Acapulquito Beach in San José del Cabo, is a favorite for sophisticated surfers, honeymooners, and anyone who loves an intimate hotel atmosphere with old Baja-style flavor and hospitality. Ground and water training. Private lessons available. Daily from 8 am to 7 pm. Reserve in advance. (624) 172-6188.
Tennis anyone? Opening and playable in January 2008, is a five-court deluxe private tennis facility at Villas de Oro in the Palmilla development. When completed, the club, located across from Las Tiendas de Palmilla, will feature a 9,000 square foot clubhouse, lighted tennis courts with a sunken center court with seating for 250, a retail shop, resort-style swimming pool, a dedicated lap pool and a fitness center. (624) 144-5662.
However you plan your vacation, keep your health in mind. Stay active and have fun!
By Sandra Berry
