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Fitness Holiday in Nasugbu, Batangas

Challenge yourself on a bicycle ride up to Mount Pico de Loro

Fitness Holiday in Nasugbu Batangas

A well-spent holiday usually equates to longer periods of rest and an increased appetite. Thus, you hear people say that they gained weight during vacation.

Challenge yourself on a bicycle ride up to Mount Pico de Loro
Challenge yourself on a bicycle ride up to Mount Pico de Loro

At Hamilo Coast, fitness go in between rest and eat with the long list of sports and activities offered to its holiday-feasting guests.

The Beach and Country Club alone is filled with facilities where you can have a good hour’s sweat of fun and intense sports.

It has a Bowling and Billiard Room where you can exercise your mind and body in a low impact and relaxed pace. Experts say that aiming at a target, be it an 8-ball or 10 pins, helps build focus, concentration and control, and hones good hand-eye coordination, especially when your mind has used up too much electronic gadgets.

Fit and fun with Billiards
Fit and fun with Billiards

If you follow a strict workout, then the Gym near Pico Sands Hotel is a great place for you. It has cardio machines and weights, all maintained in mint condition to sustain gym buffs a great holiday workout.

While a more intense indoor workout come into play, the Beach and Country Club has several courts for Basketball, Tennis, Badminton, and Squash. These popular sports give fantastic health benefits towards muscle strength, stamina buildup, better respiration and blood flow, and fat burn.

Intense body workout on the surface with a kayak
Intense body workout on the surface with a kayak

The great outdoors of Hamilo Coast are just as fun and intense for fitness.

In terms of water sports, there are a couple of swimming pools where you could do multiple laps of your favorite strokes, as well as move your joints and burn calories.

Running on the grounds of Hamilo is reinvigorating
Running on the grounds of Hamilo is reinvigorating

Scuba Diving and Snorkeling are perfect to experience in Hamilo’s protected marine reserve areas. These not only allow you to commune with its vibrant marina, but you also get to improve your breathing and meditation, burn calories and absorb the many benefits of being immersed in sea water.

Stamina buildup at best with racket sports
Stamina buildup at best with racket sports

On the water surface, you could tone your upper body and build stronger lower body muscles through Kayaking and Windsurfing. These surface gliding sports give good exposure to the healing sea breeze and nourishing sunlight, aside from many mental and physical benefits.

The Pico de Loro Beach Cove also makes for a great workout location, with Volleyball and Football lined up on the beach. Running on the beach’s soft sand target areas that are hard to tone. It strengthens the core, glutes, lower back, thighs, including inner, and calves.

Treadmill with a view
Treadmill with a view

If you enjoy working out with some nature exploration, then pedal your bicycle or run or trek along the grounds, foothills and rugged paths of Hamilo’s vast scope. Breathe in the crisp forest breeze, strengthen your core and muscles, and view untouched nature and various birds as you pump up your cardio throughout the way, even all the way up to the summit of Mount Pico de Loro.

And at any spacious and quiet area you can find within Hamilo, you can easily lay your mat and commune with your inner self through a good practice of yoga.

There's no other way to greet the morning than to practice yoga on the beach
There’s no other way to greet the morning than to practice yoga on the beach

As a whole, your body, mind and soul are well nourished at Hamilo Coast. You just have to make a habit of driving an hour and a half (via CAVITEX) to this part of Nasugbu, Batangas in order to experience the ultimate fitness holiday away from Manila.

For further details, contact Hamilo Coast Customer Care Hotline (+632) 902.8022 or browse their website http://picodeloroclub.com. Book online via Agoda.

Written by Amanda Virrey

Amanda Virrey is a free-spirit who loves to experience and write about the sweetness of life with her young daughter in places, food, events and people, far and wide, never getting old, but always staying young, fit and happy.

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