Malls these days are certainly good places to go to to get some physical activity. Of course if you’re a fitness buff, malls will probably not give you more fitness benefits comparing to a gymnasium (malls do have gymnasiums too). But if you’re a “couch potato” malls are great places to get you started on getting some physical activity, especially one of the larger malls.
We recently visited 1 Utama a huge and successful mall in Bandar Utama, Selangor (Malaysia) that started welcoming visitors since 1995. With a gross built-up area of 5.59 million square feet of space spreading over 7 levels of retail floors; 1 Utama is the largest shopping mall in Malaysia and 7th largest in the world (as at time of writing this article). It certainly is a huge mall. It is so large that I very easily surpass my “daily fitness goal or rather fitness activity goal” of walking 10,000 steps; all done just by walking about in the mall with plenty of extra steps.
Other than a plethora of shops to shop at as well as places to dine at; 1 Utama has a rainforest, a garden called The Secret Garden, an indoor skydiving centre, a surfing pool, two cinemas, a gymnasium, a batting cage, a rock climbing gym, a futsal centre, a PADI 5-star scuba diving centre, a gymnasium, a bowling alley, a family karaoke place, a huge children’s play centre, and lots more to offer visitors. Below are some of our favourites.