This guide will provide you with the ten best ideas to make your gyms become more than just an ugly workout machine in a corner.
1- Setting up TV and Multimedia Entertainment.
To spice up your workouts with entertainment, your sims can watch tv and run on a treadmill at the same time. So if you set up TVs at the gym, they run can help raise the sim’s fun need as they sweat it out.
You can also create a room with mood-lighting mirrors, pumping speakers, and blasting music. This can just add a cool vibe to working out. You can change the color and intensity of lights in the room and alter the look and feel between visits too with minimal effort.
2- Get your Gym a polished look.
Next up is just to consider the vibe of your gym with a polished modern building. You can even make a gym that looks like a warehouse.
If you have the city living expansion pack, then the garage door murals can tie in nicely with this. Your sims can start painting when they visit the gym to create a bit of difference.
You can also use large balconies or rooftops to add an outdoorsy vibe to a gym.
3- Use Swimming Pools
The third idea is all about water. You can add a pool to your gym to swim laps in or something smaller just for a quick dip.
You can also use spas to give your gym an awesome look. If you have the spa day gang pack, then adding in a sauna is another great option both as a relaxing activity and as an additional awesome location.
You can also put a sensory deprivation chamber from the get famous expansion pack.
These are fancy beds with additional features and they come with a lot of awesome upgrades. The circadian tweaker upgrade means that a sim’s bladder and hygiene along with their energy needs will all increase when they’re sleeping inside.
4- Boxing Rooms
The next idea is that you can create a boxing room with punching bags. It can make your gym feel as if it caters to different sims and different types of workouts.
5- Install a basketball court.
The city living expansion pack is required for the fifth idea. You can make a basketball gymnasium that makes shooting hoops and getting those slam dunks the focus of the lot. You can also include a small gym to make it a more versatile space.
6- Energize your Sim.
The next idea is to include ways to make your sim energize. An energized sim will train their fitness skill faster making your gym the perfect place to visit for a workout.
This could be as easy as having a sim drop off a few crystals from the crystal collection and enabling their emotional aura to give nearby sims an energized moodlet or it could just be about including a change room with showers allowing sims to have a brisk shower which gives them an energized moodlet.
7- Add a small Cafe
The seventh idea is to add a small cafe to your gym, it will require the get-together expansion pack. Not only does a cafe help to make your gym more of a social place but drinking coffee will provide an energized moodlet that fits in well when you’re about to work out.
You can even get a tea brewer somewhere in the gym. Drinking oolong tea will give a powerfully energized moodlet.
But if you don’t have the get-together expansion pack then you could alternatively make do with the bar and if you have the snowy escape expansion pack then you can also pop in vending machines if you feel like they fit in.
8- Add a yoga studio.
You can also add a yoga studio or meditation space, you need to have the spa day game pack for this. It adds some very awesome and relaxing activities to your gym and also gives your Sims a location to work as a yoga or meditation instructor and make some extra money.
9- Create a club.
The next idea will require the get-together expansion pack and it’s to create a club hangout area in your gym having a fitness-related club is something that you’ll likely end up having in your game and making a club-specific room can help bring that club to life.
Offering members an exclusive place to train, socialize, and all around live their best life getting fit.
Maybe club members get better equipment who knows, well you get to choose the perks and what goes into the club room.
A side note is to save up and buy the fitness skill boost perk for your club which will mean that sims train the fitness skill faster while in an active club gathering.
10- Add traits to your gym.
The last idea is just to think about traits for your gym. A good one to include is bracing breezes which will boost the rate at which your sims gain fitness skills and can also give an energized moodlet.
Other traits can help depending on what vibe you want. For example, the teen hangout lot trait can be helpful if you want your gym to have a younger vibe which could fit in well with a basketball gymnasium.
