Long walks in New York will give you plenty of exercise but you also need variations so why not join a pass of SoulCycle while you are there.
This is great training! A SoulCycle ride delivers an intents full-body workout in a fun and energizing atmosphere. Not only will you burn calories and get your heart pumping, but you will also work your core and tone your upper body.
SoulCycle are on 4 locations in New York:
Upper West Side – Upper East Side – Union Square – Tribeca
This summer Citi Bike will provide 10 000 robust bicycles at 600 stations in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Each station consists of a kiosk with a touch-screen, a map of the system, and docks into which durable bikes are securely locked and held until hired for rental.
To ride you must first purchase access, available for 24-Hours, 7-Days or Annually.
www.citibikenyc.com
If you happen to be in New York in August you will have even more opportunities for a car free ride.
During the Summer Streets Event major roads including Park Avenue are shut to traffic over three weekends in August.
Rental bikes are already a popular feature in cities like Paris and Copenhagen. This summer it´s New York’s turn to get more than 10 000 rental bikes to be deployed at 600 sites around the city.
Central Park is an obvious place to ride but you can also ride along the Hudson River, from Battery Park in Downtown all the way up to Harlem.
Download a bike map over New York here.
If you happen to live in New York the Bowery Lane Bicycles is the place to buy your bike from. Handmade bikes of top quality. All bike materials is taken from local suppliers and the whole bike is bolted together by bicycle makers who lives in New York.
BOWERY LANE BICYCLES from Joe Tomcho on Vimeo.
Here are two nice jogging tracks, both with river views.
Hudson Riverfront Park – the place to choose for running if you live in on the west side of Manhattan and around Chelsea, West Village, Tribeca and Meatpacking.
The other jogging track is perfect if you are based in the Lower East Side. The you run just down to the River and along East River Waterfront Park/Esplanade. Just follow the jogging track and it will take you under Brooklyn Bridge.
East River Esplanade