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Of course, you can be like our last great American, Mark Twain – ‘I have never
taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.’
But if you want to get out, have fun, and do something completely different
(where else could you ice climb and wakeboard on the same day without
leaving the city?), it’s all right here.
From the serenity of yoga
overlooking a garden, we turn to
Wake Up Docklands in Canary Wharf
– ‘London’s Inner-City Water Sports
Oasis’ – they too offer paddleboard
yoga but for more adrenaline try the
cable-tow wakeboard option. No need
to leave London to, according to Time
Out, ‘feel like being transported out of
London and into a beach holiday’. The
Shack is a fully licenced bar so a drink
to recover is at hand.
Also at Canary Wharf is the street velodrome – this is an amazingly cool
unique cycle sport concept which brings all the excitement of Olympic style
sprint pursuit racing right into the heart of the community – essentially it is
a pop-up mini velodrome. The core vision is to make being active by cycling
more accessible – a key aspect is that taking part in Street Velodrome
events is always 100% free.
Frame has
arrived in
King’s Cross –
their mission
is to foster a
more positive
approach to
health and
fitness, ‘more
than just
the regular
gym session
pounding the
treadmill’
Frame has arrived in King’s Cross – their mission is to foster a more positive
approach to health and fitness, ‘more than just the regular gym session
pounding the treadmill’. King’s Cross has three studios: fitness (complete with
punch bags and kettlebells), yoga and barre (with big windows overlooking
a beautiful garden) and a Pilates studio (with 10 state of the art reformer
machines). A fourth studio will be added early next year. ‘With a busy Framer
in mind the changing rooms are equipped with power-showers and all the
necessary bits and bobs (hair dryers, straighteners, shampoo, conditioner and
body wash) to take you from studio to the street’.
KING’S CROSS
Move Your Frame
ROYAL VICTORIA DOCK
Wakeboarding
in the Wharf
CANARY WHARF
Pop-up Velodrome
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