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This is especially ideal for guests who (1) don't want their colleagues (or the general public) to see their sweaty selves in the hotel gym and (2) those rare souls who want to work out 24/7 as if no one is watching.
Hilton has designed a new room category for its full-service brands that brings the fitness center into the guest room. Called Five Feet to Fitness, this new room type includes more than 11 pieces of fitness equipment and accessories that make it easier for travelers to work out privately in their own guest rooms.
Hilton isn't the first hotel company to include fitness equipment in the guest room. Even Hotels from InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), for example, has had this feature, gym equipment in guest rooms, as a brand standard across all rooms from its start in 2012.
However, the types of fitness equipment Hilton is placing in the room, and the way it's being utilized in a standard room setting is unique, said Ryan Crabbe, senior director of global wellness for Hilton.
"This room is a really different offering," Crabbe said. "Five Feet to Fitness is a purpose-built environment. It's easy to deliver or just place a piece of fitness equipment or accessory into a room, but it's harder to transform the room so that it actually becomes a credible space for that activity. We could have just thrown everything into a room and placed a cardio bike on a carpeted guest room floor. But we ripped out the carpet and put down performance flooring that you'd find in the world's best fitness centers."
Equipment in the room includes an indoor bike from Wattbike and a training station called Gym Rax that lets guests do strength, core, suspension, and high-intensity interval training-style exercises. Embedded into the Gym Rax apparatus is a digital Fitness Kiosk, a touchscreen display where guests can watch equipment tutorials and more than 200 workouts that include cardio, cycling, endurance, strength, high-intensity intervals, yoga, stretch, and recovery. There's als
