• Fitness
    • Nutrition
    • Weight loss
  • Health
    • Medicine
    • Administration
    • Wellbeing
  • COVID 19
  • Magazine
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
  • Login
Viva Health Magazine
  • Health
    • All
    • Administration
    • Facilities
    • Medicine
    • Wellbeing
    The Doctor Burnout

    The Doctor Burnout

    10 mistakes smart doctors make

    10 mistakes smart doctors make

    The Other Hypertension

    The Other Hypertension

    The Power of the Patient’s Voice – How Health Care Organizations Can Empower Patients and Improve Care Delivery.

    The Power of the Patient’s Voice – How Health Care Organizations Can Empower Patients and Improve Care Delivery.

    Breakfast Is Not As Important As We Are Told And Here Is Why

    Breakfast Is Not As Important As We Are Told And Here Is Why

    ‘’Is Life Worth Living? It all depends on the Liver’

    ‘’Is Life Worth Living? It all depends on the Liver’

    The Vivahealth Medical Foundation team takes off to Tortibo

    The Vivahealth Medical Foundation team takes off to Tortibo

    MY STORY: THE THING THAT NEARLY KILLED ME

    MY STORY: THE THING THAT NEARLY KILLED ME

    Life of the Ghanaian Doctor

    Life of the Ghanaian Doctor

    • Medicine
    • Wellbeing
  • Administration
    The Doctor Burnout

    The Doctor Burnout

    10 mistakes smart doctors make

    10 mistakes smart doctors make

    Life of the Ghanaian Doctor

    Life of the Ghanaian Doctor

    NHIS must cover drugs for Parkinson’s Disease – Foundation appeals to government

    NHIS must cover drugs for Parkinson’s Disease – Foundation appeals to government

    Find a Doctor

    Medical Directory Form

    5 Things to Prepare before your Doctor Visit

    5 Things to Prepare before your Doctor Visit

  • Nutrition
  • Fitness
    • All
    • Nutrition
    • Weight loss
    Breakfast Is Not As Important As We Are Told And Here Is Why

    Breakfast Is Not As Important As We Are Told And Here Is Why

    Benefits of avocado: 5 reasons they are good for your health

    Benefits of avocado: 5 reasons they are good for your health

    Do Not Juice Your Fruits And Vegetables Again

    Do Not Juice Your Fruits And Vegetables Again

    The Best things in Life are Free and unappreciated

    The Best things in Life are Free and unappreciated

    3 ways your mind sabotages your fitness goals

    3 ways your mind sabotages your fitness goals

    8 Things That Happen to Your Body, When You Eat Chia Seeds

    8 Things That Happen to Your Body, When You Eat Chia Seeds

    What’s my skin type?

    What’s my skin type?

    Chilli Peppers: More Nutritious Than You Think.

    Chilli Peppers: More Nutritious Than You Think.

    WHY AM I NOT LOOSING WEIGHT?

    WHY AM I NOT LOOSING WEIGHT?

  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
  • Health
    • All
    • Administration
    • Facilities
    • Medicine
    • Wellbeing
    The Doctor Burnout

    The Doctor Burnout

    10 mistakes smart doctors make

    10 mistakes smart doctors make

    The Other Hypertension

    The Other Hypertension

    The Power of the Patient’s Voice – How Health Care Organizations Can Empower Patients and Improve Care Delivery.

    The Power of the Patient’s Voice – How Health Care Organizations Can Empower Patients and Improve Care Delivery.

    Breakfast Is Not As Important As We Are Told And Here Is Why

    Breakfast Is Not As Important As We Are Told And Here Is Why

    ‘’Is Life Worth Living? It all depends on the Liver’

    ‘’Is Life Worth Living? It all depends on the Liver’

    The Vivahealth Medical Foundation team takes off to Tortibo

    The Vivahealth Medical Foundation team takes off to Tortibo

    MY STORY: THE THING THAT NEARLY KILLED ME

    MY STORY: THE THING THAT NEARLY KILLED ME

    Life of the Ghanaian Doctor

    Life of the Ghanaian Doctor

    • Medicine
    • Wellbeing
  • Administration
    The Doctor Burnout

    The Doctor Burnout

    10 mistakes smart doctors make

    10 mistakes smart doctors make

    Life of the Ghanaian Doctor

    Life of the Ghanaian Doctor

    NHIS must cover drugs for Parkinson’s Disease – Foundation appeals to government

    NHIS must cover drugs for Parkinson’s Disease – Foundation appeals to government

    Find a Doctor

    Medical Directory Form

    5 Things to Prepare before your Doctor Visit

    5 Things to Prepare before your Doctor Visit

  • Nutrition
  • Fitness
    • All
    • Nutrition
    • Weight loss
    Breakfast Is Not As Important As We Are Told And Here Is Why

    Breakfast Is Not As Important As We Are Told And Here Is Why

    Benefits of avocado: 5 reasons they are good for your health

    Benefits of avocado: 5 reasons they are good for your health

    Do Not Juice Your Fruits And Vegetables Again

    Do Not Juice Your Fruits And Vegetables Again

    The Best things in Life are Free and unappreciated

    The Best things in Life are Free and unappreciated

    3 ways your mind sabotages your fitness goals

    3 ways your mind sabotages your fitness goals

    8 Things That Happen to Your Body, When You Eat Chia Seeds

    8 Things That Happen to Your Body, When You Eat Chia Seeds

    What’s my skin type?

    What’s my skin type?

    Chilli Peppers: More Nutritious Than You Think.

    Chilli Peppers: More Nutritious Than You Think.

    WHY AM I NOT LOOSING WEIGHT?

    WHY AM I NOT LOOSING WEIGHT?

  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
Viva Health Magazine
No Result
View All Result
Home Fitness

This Gym Wants to Help You Get Swole at the Airport

Viva Health by Viva Health
December 11, 2021
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

It’ll feature showers, healthy food, and workout clothes to rent.

In the past, getting a workout in the airport meant sprinting to the terminal while carrying an awkward piece of luggage and weaving between traveling families. You arrived at the terminal sweaty and stressed before sitting in an uncomfortable seat for hours.

Roam Fitness founders Ty Manegold and Cynthia Sandall want to dramatically improve what it means to get a pre-flight workout. The luxury gym’s first location opened in February 2017, just past security next to gate D1 at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. What the 1,175-square-foot gym lacks in size, it aims to make up for it in convenience. In addition to the gym itself, Roam features showers, healthy food, workout clothes to rent, its own flight-tracking boards and vacuum sealing if you bring your own clothes.

“We have everything for someone who’s traveling through in their business suit to be on a treadmill in five minutes or less,” Manegold says.

The rental clothes are free with your membership, but you can also buy clothes if you don’t want to rent them. Day passes are $25, and annual memberships are $30 per month. Day pass members can reserve a 15-minute shower slot when they check in, and annual members can do so 24 hours in advance. The showers are equipped with Amazon Alexa-powered devices to help you keep track of time.

Right now, BWI hosts the only Roam Fitness location. The company hopes to expand, but branching out has presented challenges. Airports like to keep as small a footprint as possible, which means businesses that make a lot of money in a small space are ideal. Gyms, which require space to work out, are a harder sell than something like a bar or shop.

But Manegold and Sandall believe the mindset of airports is slowly beginning to shift. “Some of the leaders have started to look more closely at the passenger experience and providing additional services,” Sandall says. “They’re looking for healthier options like being able to exercise or do yoga.” San Francisco and Dallas, for example, have installed airport yoga studios, and Indianapolis International features stationary bikes that charge your phone.

Short-term goals for Roam include a joint location with XpresSpa at San Francisco International and another location at JFK in New York, both of which are slated for the middle of 2019. In addition to convincing airports that Roam is worth the space, the gym must also play a waiting game: Airport bars and restaurants often have long-term leases that hamper the gym’s expansion plans.

In the meantime, Manegold and Sandall hope to get the word out and convince travelers that working out while waiting for a flight is worth it. Roam at BWI features an elliptical, three treadmills, a rower, two stationary bikes, two benches, free weights, a pull-up assist and a stretching space with yoga props and medicine balls. Roam will never be Gold’s Gym, but Manegold and Sandall are OK with that. They believe most travelers would prefer some form of cardio before a long flight. They also hope the fact that Roam has a luxury feel (and isn’t a “budget motel basement gym,” as Manegold puts it) will make the space feel inviting.

As people continue to pour money into fitness, Roam thinks the demand for an airport gym will grow. Although Manegold and Sandall hope casual flyers will make use of the gym, they envision their main clientele as frequent flyers who want to have more free time at their destination. They also think airport employees will use the gym. The more people use and enjoy Roam, the more likely airports will view gyms as a crucial experience to have.

“Right now if you go to any airport, you can expect there to be some sort of spa service,” Manegold says. “Fifteen or 20 years ago, that was unheard of.”

Roam hopes to open 20 more locations in the next five years. In the company’s perfect world 15 years from now, travelers will just expect a Roam to be somewhere in their terminal. The company’s website even includes a page where you can petition your local airport to open a Roam Fitness. In addition to partnerships with spas, Roam would like to partner with hotels, Airbnb hosts, and even insurance companies. But for now, the main goal is convincing travelers and airports alike that a long travel day can be much better with a workout at your terminal.

“It’s an efficiency thing; it’s a health thing,” Sandall says. “When we designed this gym and what’s included in the day pass, it was very much, ‘What do people need to feel comfortable and feel like they’ll get in and out the door and still make it to their gate on time?’”

Viva Health

Viva Health

Recommended.

Benefits of avocado: 5 reasons they are good for your health

Benefits of avocado: 5 reasons they are good for your health

April 21, 2022
Introducing Yakokoe.

Introducing Yakokoe.

December 8, 2021

Trending.

No Content Available
Viva Health Magazine

Viva is a health focused magazine produced quarterly that serves readers with medical content, insights from experts, content on lifestyle and healthy living.Everything we publish is to enable you make the right and healthy choice for you and your family. We are dedicated to delivering accurate, trusted, up-to-date health and medical information, for consumers. We write in simple language without the usual medical jargons, so the average reader can understand, using real-life examples

Follow Us

  • Fitness
  • Health
  • COVID 19
  • Magazine

© 2021 Viva Health Magazine - Powered By Gotechpluz.

No Result
View All Result
  • Fitness
    • Nutrition
    • Weight loss
  • Health
    • Medicine
    • Administration
    • Wellbeing
  • COVID 19
  • Magazine

© 2021 Viva Health Magazine - Powered By Gotechpluz.

Welcome Back!

Sign In with Facebook
Sign In with Google
Sign In with Linked In
OR

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist