Street Fitness: Testing China’s Outdoor Gyms – General

www.echinacities.com — My day's mission – to find a gym to work off the winter flab – had been fruitless. The gyms I had visited fell into two categories: lush, zen, expensive, air-conditioned affairs with monthly prices only marginally less than my salary, and dingy basements populated by bare-torsoed Asian hardmen with snake tattoos and menacing eyes. That was until I entered my housing complex and noticed a spry old man using one of the public exercise contraptions at the base of my apartment block.

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zhangbohan 2 years 31 weeks ago

Look harder. Good gyms are becoming quite commonplace in Chinese cities.

Alex 2 years 31 weeks ago

Lots of inexpensive gyms in most Chinese cities, often with top quality equipment.

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