Hey guys! Happy Monday! So,
having some tea at my
gym in Sofia, Bulgaria. And I wanted to show you guys a little tour of this because it is the most amazing
gym I've been to and it's not even the biggest one in the city.
There's actually one that looks at least two times bigger and
the reason I wanted to show you well, first of all,
you're watching Traveling with Kristin where I take you behind the scenes and the digital nomad lifestyle. And today is day
14 of at least 90 live streams in a row with a little tip for how to
sustain and thrive in the digital Nomad lifestyle. And today I wanted to show you this fitness center because I think that there's
maybe not even just a misconception about certain foreign countries that aren't super well known.
So I think Eastern Europe is very underrated as a travel destination and also as a place to live. But I
think that yeah, there's just like a general lack of information about what it's like to be in
countries like Bulgaria, for example. And I don't know how much you guys pay for your fitness membership in the US.
But I pay when I'm in the US. I think for like
bar classes, yoga classes. I'm paying at least
$100 a month.
Sometimes more depending on the package especially if you do like Barry's Bootcamp or Soul Cycle or stuff like that.
So I wanted to show you what you can get
for literally for free.
So I paid for one month
membership at this gym that my Airbnb is right next to you and it was about 40 euro for the month and
I got 40 euro worth of vouchers
for the spa and other pulse fitness centers for food and things like that. So it's basically free.
So a 79 Lav and then I got 80 Lav back, so I'm winning by 1 Lav.
And yeah,
that's for a whole month membership and I'll just show you what you can get for 40 euro a month in Bulgaria. It's amazing.
So first, I'm on,
I'm just in like the coffee area.
You can get like free coffee tea and I am on the third floor.
So there's four floors and this is like the cardio
floor
with a really nice view of the mountains out there.
This is a
pulse fitness west heart.
And there's multiple,
there's actually multiple rooms on each floor. So
there's the spinning room here well first there's like a million a it's like all cardio equipment,
really pretty
there's the massage chairs over there.
I
have not used those yet. Let's see. Here's yeah.
It's Monday morning. So there's like not that many people here. But here's the spinning room
which looks I mean, it's just as nice as like any soul cycle I've ever been to lots of like
motivational
Images everywhere. So this is the cardio zone.
Now
let's go up to the fourth floor.
Oh, there's also Wi-Fi everywhere, by the way. So on the fourth floor, there's like dance classes. There's yoga classes.
There's
okay, okay, we're back. I think I lost signal per second because I went too high but um
forgot what I was saying? Oh, yeah, so there's like actually
their class schedule. Hey, guys, how's it going? Oh, no, I think it's my internet actually
let me know I'm gonna go actually there's separate internet in the spa.
There's actually two internet connections in this gym.
There's like one for the whole building and then there's one for the spa which we'll go see next.
Well, it's very bright.
So there's more, there's actually,
wow, it's so bright right here. Okay.
There's more
there's CrossFit they're spinning, there's yoga, different kinds of yoga. There's Numa there's these like kangaroo jump things.
There's Pilates.
And
there's also, you can get all kinds of stuff I'll show you guys some there's like a whole store with healthy food.
So
you get some snacks,
gluten free like so meant so much health food stuff, so much organic stuff, protein bars. I
have not tried the kangaroo girl thing.
You got all of your waters here. Look at the price of these waters you can get like
beautiful
mountain spring water for two left. That's one euro.
This one's like some kind of fancy water for like one euro - 50.
There's more organic yummy stuff. Yeah, the kangaroo jumps have like
these big shoes that you wear. I actually haven't tried them yet.
These look really good, by the way,
salted caramel coconut chips.
And then this is the like weight room.
So I'm gonna try not to film any people.
But a really nice weight room and then this is the whole CrossFit zone over here
which I have not used as well.
But look how nice this is. I am in I'm in Sofia Bulgaria.
I'm at a spa, just a normal spa and fitness center in Sofia Bulgaria.
Show you outside.
There's all kinds of like equipment outside, which it's snowing so
I'll just show you through the window in the summer. You can work out out here.
How cool is that?
So that's my building next door.
But like you can do
like bootcamp stuff out here in the summer and
then over here is the spa. This is the pool. It's frozen.
But we'll go into the spa next
which is also amazing and
yeah, this whole place is like 40 euro a month.
And it's not the biggest one like there's literally one that's twice as big.
But I love that Bulgarians are really into fitness and working out.
I mean, I haven't even worked out in every room in this fitness center.
Because I don't have that much time but actually
let's go to the spot next. So
there's another weight room over here. He doesn't even know about. Oh my god.
So one of the things I like about being a digital nomad is being able to workout at any time of day. Oh
my god, I didn't even know this was here. There's another
workout class here. I know I'm gonna try not to get lost. Oh my god. I didn't even know this was here.
I'm so mad. I could have done more classes down here.
Like more hardcore weights. Oh my god. I haven't even worked out in this room either.
Yeah, it's huge.
I'm very sad that I'm leaving now today, but actually even though I was only here for a week. There are
different pulse fitness centers around Sofia and around Bulgaria.
So there's actually one in Bansko in the town that I'm going to. And I can work out there I think.
So, yeah, I don't know.
I just
love, like, I love working from home and being a digital nomad and being able to work out at any time of day that I
want. So I can come during off-peak times
and then I also love while being able to choose like which country I'm in because here, I'm 7 hours ahead of East Coast time.
So I can basically just like take my time work out
like go to the sauna and stuff during the day and then well very bright and
then um
and then
I can do my work in the afternoon into the evening when everybody's awake in the US.
So here's like so solariums.
Hi, I'm giving a tour.
You got like your normal, it's good
normal spa stuff and actually
yesterday I saw somebody walking out here barefoot in the snow.
So this is the spa that you get.
So I got for tiara with credit tips,
like...
I've been doing,
what other?
Massage. Oh really in here. Oh, I didn't know that they have massages here. How much?
Different,
1660
thirty euro per hour for massage.
Around there. Awesome. This is the nice gentleman.
To sauna. Yep, I
think this fault one.
Yeah, let's go check that one out.
Can I go with these shoes, just to go there?
Just one minute. Okay, you're supposed to wear flip-flops in here. Alright, let's check out the spa.
Oh, yeah still in the gym.
Okay, I think we're back now.
Sorry, so there's um, there's two
internet connections, and I think I just reconnected to the Wi-Fi in here. So yeah, the spot is amazing.
This is the frozen pool, this is the
basalt sauna.
So in here, it's a sauna.
That is full of Himalayan salt bricks and you can burn
250 to 450
calories in here.
I'm not gonna go all the way in but I'll just show it to you.
How cool is this guys? Oh my god, it feels so good. I need to come in here. So
this is all Himalayan salt and it's just very
detoxifying and very lovely and amazing.
So
after you,
after you go in the sauna,
then you can go in the steam room and then there's another sauna. That's hotter.
No, no, it's of me not you huh?
So then there's another.
Steam room here and this is my favorite part. This is the,
these are like heated lounge chairs. So look you can set the temperature,
that's 40
Degrees Celsius. And then this is the most relaxing thing ever is just laying on these chairs after a workout.
So that's it guys that is my,
that is a tour of my beautiful
fitness center and Sofia Bulgaria, and I don't know about you.
But I didn't know that this is here and I didn't know that the gyms were so nice in Bulgaria. And I
didn't know that it was so affordable.
And I didn't know that you get so many perks.
So it's just like one of the many things of travelling like just learning.
I didn't know they had such a big like sauna spa thermal water culture here. I didn't know
that people were so into like exercise and working out that they have like five or six of these locations just in
Sofia alone. And
hey guys! Hi pie!
Man it's just like,
it's open till 11 p.m. - so you can like come in the spa super late like last night.
I came I ran on the treadmill
from like 9 to 10 and then I spent an hour just like hanging out in the sauna in the spa and
it's just the quality of life is
outstanding here. And
the people are nice and I don't know. I just really like it here. I want to show you guys so that was four floors
of
amazing like top-of-the-line equipment
for 40 euros a month with a full spa with spa services like tanning
massages everything and
a Himalayan salt
sauna, which I've only seen in Bulgaria and they're super expensive in the US. I looked it up.
But yeah, like
it's just just amazing, and I wanted to share this with you guys so that you can see what's available.
I'm kind of sad to go to the mountains today.
But I'm also excited to go snowboarding and I'll just join this the pulse fitness in Bansko.
So
good to see you guys! Theresa. And tor let's see. Let me look at the chat here.
See if I missed any question. Sorry about the internet. I connected to a few different um a few different
Wi-Fi connections.
Yeah, what other what do you guys like have you ever seen a gym like this before?
Honestly, I haven't and this is just like normal here. So
definitely, check it out if you can come this direction. Oh.
Thank you. I'm glad you think of my good hostess. I was on House Hunters International,
little-known fact.
So I do have some practice doing house tours. And now this is my first gym tour.
I have a couple videos of like Airbnb tours, but this is actually more fun.
Yeah, if I come across another really cool one there's like one called pulse fitness platinum.
Sure, I don't film anybody without their permission, yeah, there's one called pulse
fitness platinum.
That is like two or three times bigger than this one if you can even believe that so I'll link to these below.
Put it on your list. Put it on your bucket list and
I'll see you guys tomorrow for another episode of live 90 of live video streams
in Traveling with Kristin where we go behind the scenes for the digital Nomad lifestyle. Thanks for tuning in, Therese!