Friday, February 8, 2008

Toa Payoh Safra Gym

Today, Lunar New Year Day 2 - Went to Toa Payoh Safra Gym. Since I have been travelling to quite a number of gyms, Planet Fitness, California, Several Clubfitt gyms etc, I thought of writing a gym review, and this will be my first review on gym.

Im so glad I went today bcos i am so inspired by 2 people there whom i met... Augustine and Joan Liew. In case you dunno who they are...

this is joan's website: http://www.joanliew.com/
and this is Augustine: http://auguslee.com/

Overview of Toa Payoh Safra Gym

It measures 10,000 sq m and is the largest SAFRA’s gym. Total of 3 floors to the gym - the basement consisting a double-volume workout area with a 100-m indoor warm-up track; the second consisting the 25-pax dance studio, squash court and frontdesk.

There are two floors of changing and showering facility for both males and females, each equipped with its own jacuzzi and steam room. There is also a indoor rock wall... but so far i have no seen anyone using it, and i doubt it is in a usable condition

There are around 20 threadmills, and 20 over other cardio machines such as epileptic runner, climber, bicycle machine etc. There indoor running track are kind of obsolete as some machines are actually place on the track already.

Bench Presses are most people's favourite, and the waiting time for bench presses usually is very long. But over here, there are 4 Flat Bench Presses, 2 inclined and 1 declined bench press.

They have a cable crossover machine, seldom or never seen in clubfitt gyms.
Heaviest Dumbell is 30kg; And they sort of have a personal space for individuals to train, each person with 1 mirror... train at ur own privacy.

Overall This Gym: 4.5 /5.0

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

you forgot to mention that there are TWO power racks

- yxy

FoodieGymmie said...

ah yes... 2 power racks... facing directly at the mirror..shiok! no obstruction... i go yishun gym do squats alway kena blocked by rows n rows of people from the mirror...