Medan Kota

I have a treadmill at home, it was my 2003 Christmas present.  Mr hubby gave me one as he refused to let me join a Health Club… there’s a man-ly and silly reason behind that..… so, with that, my workout revolved around the machine.. following the various programs that comes with it.. plus some mini weights that I have..

After the Spa treat at JW Marriott Hotel Medan, I was told by Marriott PR that she was gonna schedule an experience at the Health Club for me…  from the day I was told till the actual day, my mind was going like… I shall cancel it.. I shall cancel it…. for you see, I felt very kumpong, not having really entered a full gym since I moved to Medan in 2000.

My hubby, being a totally pain and very smart of it, he didn’t want to tag along!!! When it was dining experiences, he was so readily eager to go along with me… but with the Health Club, he backed out since the first day we were told… giving excuses that he have meeting… though he did had an emergency one on the day…

Well, the experienced, … I felt absolutely fabulous after… my 4KM run never felt so short, so easily complete.. thanks to the private mini TV that is right in front of me… I am free to change the Indovision channels as many times as I like… and not having to watch whatever that’s put on the shared TV screen in other places.. and the ear phone plug gives me the freedom to control the volume as I please … and the machine even have an iPod plug on it too… having said that, I am not sure if I am being kumpong to it or this have been around in the market for quite sometimes already…

I then went on one of this machine…

I LOVE IT.. I went on it once at a hotel gym on my vacation, and fell in love with it … so much so that I almost bought one about 2 years back until my husband chose this instead!!!

you will not believe his explanation…. ‘why waste time and energy on the runner, when you can just stand and let the shaker machine do the hardwork for you …  burn double the calories at half the time… absolute efficiency! ‘ 

And stupid enough, I fell for him (not the salesman!!), and yes, I blamed myself each time I sat in my home office and see how this crazy shaker sat in the room for 2 years, being used by less than the amount of fingers on our hands…   totally crazy..

So.. what’s there to praise for this new Health Club in Medan, …. new, exclusive, quiet, clean and the killer’s view… I also like how the club has towels and bottled Aqua water placed all around the machines and readily have it in every corner of the room… with that, you don’t have to bring those typical water bottle and filled it with water from the water dispenser.  And as for towels, any typical gym would give you just ONE… just one piece as you walk in to collect your locker key and with that one piece, you are supposed to use it for wiping off sweat, use for shower, sauna, swim, as well as drying off your body…. unless of course you bring along yourself…

And the infinity swimming pool, it’s such a heaven one to dip in, free from chlorine, the club uses the natural resource one… good for the skin…

Then to finish everything off, I went for a quick Sauna.. since I have forgotten to bring along my bikinis, and was thinking of using just the towel, found that the club even have sarong made available for use… very thoughtful indeed…

Annual Membership fees…

Single:     Rp 9.500.000

Couple:   Rp 16.000.000

Group:     Rp 30.000.000 (max 4 persons)

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