Well, since I have been here a month and it has been a little cold outside for exercising in Westpark (which is beautiful and right next to my apartment), I have joined a gym here in Munich.

We checked out a few different gyms here in Munich and I was very shocked at the prices and poor quality of gyms we found. We started by going to see a gym called Body & Soul (I wanted to go there because it used to be an Elixia - which is the gym I went to in Oslo that was amazing). I could not believe that the membership was over 100 euros per MONTH! AND the gym, in my opinion was pretty crappy. I was not happy and did not want to go there.

So then we found McFit. As funny as the name is, it is not a bad gym. This gym is open 24 hours, which is really amazing and only costs 17(ish) euros a month. A HUGE difference. It reminded me of 24 hour fitness back in the US. It had the same kind of feeling there. The only big problem for me is how bad it smells like B.O. in there.

Yes, most gyms smell. They usually smell of a lot of sweat and some B.O. But this gym really amazed me at how much it smelled like B.O. Its like a gym full of people who belong to the church of “I don’t believe in deodorant” who were working out very hard and smelling very bad.

Need to find a good gym to workout at in Germany? I suggest you check out McFit!

I also don’t love the treadmills they have at McFit (and this is what I use the most at the gym) but still because of their prices and hours this is the gym we chose to join. The treadmills have these awkward low and long handrails on them. They are too close together so when you walk and swing your arms you are constantly hitting them. And for some reason on the right handlebar this is a big black protruding object, that I don’t know what is is for or why it is there, that I hit my hand on constantly. Its not very pleasant.

PLUS those handrails that you constantly are hitting while working out shock you every time you touch them. Like an electrical shock. I don’t know if its the air, or what. But for some reason I am being shocked every second of my workout, and that’s super annoying. But I am still happy to have a treadmill to work out on, even these ones.

My solution to the problem of the smell is to just wear craploads of perfume, so that when I am hot and sweating I am only smelling myself. Although this is a good idea in theory, it has not really worked as I planned. Because no matter how much perfume I wear, when someone who smells extremely strong of B.O. gets on the treadmill next to you, the perfume is NOT what you are breathing in anymore.

Well, the truth is that smell or no smell, I am really happy to have a gym membership and a place to work out now. And all-in-all I like McFit (so far).

What gym do you go to in Munich? Tell us about it in a comment below!