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The Park Slope Armory YMCA complex, voted best sporting facility in NY by NY Mag.

You can take one of two tracks during the summer: veg out, marinate in the exquisite creature comfort that is air conditioning, enjoy all the lazy summer freebies the city has to offer and soak in the sun; or you could use the season as inspiration to get yourself into ideal bikini shape for all those sweet summer bike safaris. The Y in Park Slope is here to help with a stellar summer membership deal: from now until Sept. 5 you can join both Slope locations for the summer for just $200 (or $275 for the whole family). That’s a savings of almost $250 over the regular adult price! Read the rest of this entry »

The inner & outer benefits of backbends, on Yoga Today

Summer has long departed and with it went all the free outdoor workout opportunities, from Zumba in the park to Pilates under the bridge. Winter has far fewer options, which is why it’s tempting to stay inside hoarding cookies like a hibernating bear. If you can’t afford a gym (or fancy insulated running clothes), what do you do for a structured workout? We found a whole world of free online workout videos, perfect for the broke but healthy among us. Don’t worry: Buffed, Beautiful, and Bitchin’ on YouTube isn’t the only game in town. Read the rest of this entry »

Planet Fitness on Duffield St.

We just got turned onto to this hot offer from a new gym near Fulton Mall: the recently opened Planet Fitness on Duffield Street is offering you the ACT NOW deal of $29 to signup and $10 a month after that. The deal is good through Feb. 26, so you’ve got less than a week to talk yourself into doing it (ladies, two words: swimsuit season. Dudes, three words: Board short thighs).

The gym looks brand new, with spiffy yellow-and-purple machines everywhere and a bank of flatscreen TVs against the treadmill wall, each labeled to what station they were turned to (The Fresh Prince was a popular eye-grabber this a.m.). Planet Fitness is open 24 hours Monday-Friday and 7 a.m.-7 p.m. on the weekends.

Some of us have adopted a sit-and-fret fitness regimen. If this hasn’t quite worked out for your body mass index, we’ve compiled a list for the ultimate ‘fit’ freeloader: all the free trial passes available at Brooklyn gyms. If you went to every one, you could have 26 straight days of workouts—almost worth it, if not for the weeks of calls, letters and email that would follow from your eight new gyms. Also a seemingly good deal: New York Sports’ Clubs two-week, $19.99 membership, good at the club’s seven Brooklyn locations and only available online. Read the rest of this entry »