FitFact: The top 3 tactics to grab a sun lounger by the pool in summer 🏊♂️🏖️
Summertime is cliché time: while English people seem to like to drink too deeply on vacation and Russians empty entire restaurant buffets, Germans are said to be champions at reserving a berth. Today we’re giving this cliché our full attention – after all, the vacation season is approaching and with it the desire to get a good lounger by the hotel pool! With our tips, you’ll now be able to get to the pool even faster than our northern neighbors to secure your “territory” in the form of a front-row-with-an-umbrella deckchair:
3) Always one (stair) step ahead
Climbing the mooring career ladder: if you want to be a true poolside professional, you need to know your surroundings. In large hotel complexes, there are often quite a few floors to cover. Up and down, equally fast and skillful, countless steps have to be climbed 🥵. Always with the aim of not getting too out of breath. Because only those who don’t lose their breath and their thighs don’t sour have the potential to get a place in the pool and join the ranks of the folding chair Olympians. Do you want to become one of these Olympians? Then off you go to our Stairmaster!
2) Intimidation tactics with Fitboxing and TôSôx
Wild West at the edge of the pool: you stand face to face, like two cowboys, in the middle the lounger that is supposed to be yours. Who will win the battle for the folding chair 🤼? The best tactic: confuse your opponent! You will confuse your opponent by displaying the martial arts techniques you have learned from Fitboxing and TôSôx, which you elegantly dance on your side of the couch. Use this opportunity to distract your lounger opponent and, in a moment of careless irritation, throw them off balance with an air kick: your chance to throw in the towel (on the folding chair, of course!) while your opponent sinks backwards into the swimming pool.
1) Speedy Gonzales with HIIT training on the treadmill
Fast, faster, Speedy: train your sprint moment on the treadmill with high-intensity interval training (HIIT). When sneaking up to the pool loungers in the early morning, the basic motto is: keep quiet and inconspicuous. But woe betide you if you discover (German) competitors who have their sights set on your folding chair, then it’s time to go from now to a hundred, at full throttle 🏃♀️💨! Only those who build up speed explosively like Speedy Gonzales will get a place on the couch. So from now on, train in fast-slow-fast on the treadmill so that you can master the finish at the pool faster than your towel competitors!
Even if this year’s summer doesn’t really want to get going – the summer vacations are just around the corner. One thing is already certain: with our tips, you’ll be ready for the race for the pool loungers. Ready, steady, goooo!
And if you want to know how you can celebrate Switzerland in style on August 1 and get in top shape at the same time, then stay tuned, because in the next FitFact you’ll find out exactly that with our tips 😉.
