You’ve found a place dedicated to your morning workout and upgraded your space with the finest finishes, now it’s time to bring the best equipment home.
Don’t settle for unattractive workout equipment, choose from colorful designs, enchanting patterns and the finest materials for your routine. Long gone are the days of plastic water bottles, dull workout mats, and beat up gym bags. Athletes and enthusiasts are searching for equipment that will brighten their workouts and spark envy at the gym.
Yoga Design Lab offers a variety of mats, blocks, kids mats, towels, exercise balls, and other equipment that are nothing short of works of art. Whether you’re a beginner or the owner of your own home studio, these choices make the perfect addition to any session, a thoughtful gift, or the fun source of motivation you’ve been missing.
Yoga Design Lab stemmed from a desire for creativity and function, along with bio-renewable consciousness. Praised around the world for its wide variety of products and designs, the company continues to expand and create enviable yoga and other workout essentials.
Embrace color on and off the mat.
Infinity Mats
Beauty meets premium performance. The natural tree rubber base with an ultra-grip laser cut surface helps align your practice.
Combo Mats
Redefining yoga mats. Mat and towel combined in one product. Made from recycled plastic bottles and designed to be awesome.
Towels
Experience how this non-slip, super absorbent, microfiber yoga towel takes your practice to the next level.
Wheels
Achieve backbends smoothly, loosen tight muscles, and add creativity to your practice with the Yoga Wheel.
Bags
Carry your mat and essentials to class or run away to a deserted island for the weekend. It’s got you.
Props
Luxury yoga straps, blocks, balls designed to support you in the most beautiful way and stretch further.
Condo developers offer spa services catered specifically to male residents.
Times are changing and as we approach 2018, developers are increasingly creating on-site spa experiences that cater to male residents, just as much as their female counterparts. For discerning luxury buyers looking to decompress, there has rarely been a shortage of projects with full-service spas that give neighboring hotels a run for their money. However, these two Miami projects feature a unique take on resident wellness:
REGALIA
This ultra-luxury condo tower recently listed its stunning penthouse unit with Chad Carroll of The Carroll Group of Douglas Elliman. Carroll often refers to the unit’s master bath and spa as “king-worthy.” Commanding 1,500 square feet, this haven for relaxation features a hydrotherapy jacuzzi tub that overlooks the Atlantic Ocean, a steam room and sauna.
Everyone knows that boys love their toys, and this smart-home allows all amenities to be controlled remotely or even programmed to adapt to the residents behavior.
Photos courtesy of Regalia Beach Developers
1010 BRICKELL
At this residence, men can venture to the co-ed hammam Turkish steam bath that features hot and cold plunge pools, a steam and sauna. Key International’s recently-completed residence also offers aromatherapy rooms, which are designed to improve lung function and eliminate toxins.
For the fitness buff, muscular therapy treatments are available to speed up post-workout recovery, or for a more curated approach to wellness, personal training and health-conscious private chefs are also available.
Photos courtesy of World Red Eye
Photo courtesy of The Harbour
The Harbour
Also developed by Key International, this residence’s indoor-outdoor spa seamlessly blends nature and leisure. Male residents seeking a “woodsy” spa experience, can opt for a massage treatment in one of the outdoor cabanas, set with a view of waves crashing and sounds of birds chirping. Using essential oils infused with the restorative elements found at the project’s on-site aromatherapy trail, like lavender, eucalyptus and chamomile, stress melts away leaving a rejuvenated sense of body and mind.
Within the last decade, yoga — used both to stay fit and alleviate stress — has become a popular practice among individuals of all ages.
By Alyssa Gautieri
As homeowners begin to seek more unique amenities, yoga-inspired offerings have become more popular. Where better to achieve ultimate relaxation than in the comfort and exclusivity of your own home?
Offering one-of-a-kind yoga amenities, here are a few properties that are helping residents achieve a new state of Zen:
Nine on the Hudson
The project’s notable architecture firm, Marchetto Higgins Stieve Architects, drew inspiration from the Chinese Embassy to provide residents with Zen-inspired amenities. The property offers an expansive 2,000-square-foot yoga room to help owners achieve complete relaxation while taking in breathtaking views of New York City.
Photo courtesy of VDP
Oceana Bal Harbour
Residents may enjoy intimate sunrise meditation sessions in Oceana Bal Harbour’s yoga studio. With floor-to-ceiling windows, the studio boasts beautiful views of its oceanic Atlantic horizon. Local yogis will also participate in the property’s meditation series.
Photo courtesy of Oceana Bal Harbour
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This residences offers a 24-hour fitness center, which includes a state-of-the-art yoga room equipped with stretching equipment and virtual fitness classes.
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To gain maximum exercise benefits from their home pool and spa complexes, homeowners are seeking out powerful swim training systems.
Luxury swimming pool design and build company Aqua Platinum has began to research this trend’s growth.
“There’s been a huge increase in demand for counter current swimming technology in the past few months, as more and more people come to recognise the health benefits of these systems,” says Dominic Searle, the business development manager at Aqua Platinum.
Ideal for swimmers who want to build up their core strength and endurance, swimming training systems create powerful currents within pools, plus they can be installed in pools of almost any size.
By swimming against the current, individuals can benefit from an enhanced workout that is incredibly low-impact on the joints. Counter current swimming also speeds up the metabolism and elongates the muscles.
Celebrities including Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston swear by swimming when it comes to keeping their A-list bodies in shape.
“It’s not just celebrities who can achieving amazing muscle tone and overall fitness levels as a result of swimming,” says Searle. “Counter current systems mean that anyone can instantly improve the health benefits of their swimming pool, turning what is already a great form of exercise into something even more effective and enjoyable.”
Most of those with high-end pools tend to opt for swim training systems like the JetStream TriVa, which looks beautifully sleek and stylish. The system suits a wide range of swimming abilities and levels, from beginner to professional level training.
At Newlands Manor in Dorset, the counter current training system is suitable for athletic level swim training.
The JetStream TriVa appeals to a range of swimming abilities.
Photos courtesy of Aqua Platinum Designs and TriVa