Many Parisians are using the confinement / stay-at-home time to get (or stay) in shape. Whether it's Pilates, yoga, dancing in place or lifting weights, the lockdown has been an opportunity to tone up, and if we need help, trainers and studios are offering free online workout classes... all at one's fingertips with but a quick online search. For many, like former CHANEL model now author Caroline de Maigret (find her books on Amazon) - who openly admits to pretty much hating scheduled-workout anything - exercise doesn't mean a structured gym routine, and in Paris, staying active doesn't even feel like "exercise" partly because most everyone walks as much as possible and uses bicycles to get around as part of daily life.
However, things are changing. Gym clubs (salles de sport), once a rarity, have sprouted up in unexpected neighborhoods. While most workouts come from the U.S., Swedish Gym is popular, mostly
among women, offering cheap and numerous
classes around the city. Runners, another rarity until fairly recently, seem to be
everywhere. And of course Montmartre, with its hilly streets and many stairways has become my own personal daily workout territoire - a perfect excuse to enjoy this dazzling spring weather, not that I need one. - BPJ
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