7 Updated Weekend Activities in Metro Manila

Sep 22, 2023

Everyone needs to spend time socializing and getting to know one another on a personal level, thus, bonding is crucial. Weekends are also a wonderful opportunity to spend time with your family members and create enduring and lasting memories together. This is due to how challenging it is to find time for one another in the hectic world of today. It's crucial to spend quality time with your partner or friends, especially if you work long hours during the week.

Weekend bonding with your friends and/or family is a fantastic method to maintain a good and strong relationship. If you have kids, I'm sure you already have some thoughts running through your head for how to both teach kids and fill the free time they have off from school during the weekend. Enough of the board games and card games at home! Go out and have some fun.

Even if you might want to do nothing on the weekends, spending time with your whole family and friends is really beneficial. You can visit a local animal shelter, the local zoo, free museums and art galleries, or watch a local play. But isn't it cool to try something new and fun, especially if it's just around the corner?

Well, here are the 7 fun activities this weekend that you can also try:

Fitness boxing

Although both provide great exercise, fitness boxing is often distinct from boxing as a sport. In a fitness boxing lesson, you typically throw punches at a punching bag or the air (a technique called shadowboxing) rather than absorbing blows in the ring.

While there aren't quite as many boxing gyms in Metro Manila as there are yoga studios, these facilities are essential for anyone who wants to devote their lives to boxing. Look them up.

1. Elorde Boxing Gym

Location: Multiple

2. Elite Boxing and Muay Thai

Locations: Elite Boxing and Muay Thai, 2/F, High Street South Corporate Plaza, 9th Ave., cor. 26th St., Bonifacio, Global City, Taguig City

3. Maic's Gym

Locations: 7 Ditchoy Street, Midtown Subdivision, Barangay San Roque, Marikina City

4. Fight Factory Manila

Location: Multiple locations across Metro Manila

Bowling

Since the early 1800s, bowling has been a popular pleasure activity for people of all ages. It is still going strong now. It is a fantastic way to spend time with loved ones or friends. It can be a lighthearted and comforting activity, or it can be intensely competitive. Whatever method you use, bowling is a great, fun activity and exercise that has lots of advantages.

A wonderful and fun way to workout is through bowling. Despite appearances, bowling is a really effective form of exercise. Your arms, legs, and back muscles must all be used. Your heart rate increases as a result. On average, you can burn 250 calories every hour.

To enjoy the fun stuff in bowling, you don't need to have bulging biceps, be able to sprint quickly, or be able to do a handstand. Young kids and the elderly, male and female, and all other types of individuals take pleasure in this sport. A terrific way to make friends from all areas of life is through bowling.

When you can visit a bowling alley in luxury, why go to a regular, old bowling alley? What Studio 300 provides is that. The upscale bowling alley in Pasig's Pioneer Center also features billiards, darts, and KTV. Additionally, they let you reserve the space for private gatherings, which is the cherry on top. Anyone up for a weekend bowling party?

Location: 3rd Floor, Pioneer Street, Pioneer Center Rd., Pasig, 1603 Metro Manila

Rock Climbing

A person of any age and fitness level can take up this sport. Which is best? You don't need to venture outside and subject yourself to the heat of the sun because Metro Manila is home to a large number of indoor wall climbing gyms and bouldering facilities.

Both types of climbing are excellent sources of exercise and help you acquire specific social skills. It is also a ton of fun to do it with friends, family, or even on a highly active first date.

The ideal beginner-friendly and essentially low-commitment exercise to undertake is rock climbing or bouldering if you're wanting to add some variety to your fitness routine or liven up your weekends affordable weekend activities. Both novice and expert climbers who want to learn a new skill and use the facility at their own pace can use it, so visit Climb Central Manila.

Location: The Portal, Mayflower Street, Greenfield District, Mandaluyong City

Pole Dancing

While many people for years disregarded the health advantages of pole dancing, they have now come to light as associations with the activity have shifted from the film club or the strip club to the local park or the studio. The athleticism, grace, and skill levels required for pole dancing have always been on par with those for gymnastics and ballet. If you want to improve your health and fitness and have more fun exercising than most fun things you can think of, this is a terrific exercise to start. Plus, you get to enjoy your weekend activities.

Pole dancing develops strong core muscles in addition to upper-body strength. When you need to ascend, lift your legs, or support your weight, you employ your lower back and abdominal muscles to complete the task. When we said pole dancing is a full-body workout, we weren't joking. At first, you might discover that the majority of routines require upper-body and core strength.

All forms of exercise are beneficial to mental health because they release endorphins, which have been shown to lower stress and anxiety. Your self-esteem will benefit from this, along with better health, physical changes that will improve your look, and the mental stimulation that exercise provides.

At Polecats Manila, introductory sessions, aerial hoop sessions, sensual floor classes, and K-pop pole classes are open to first-timers in the studio or online.

Location: 22F, Strata 100 Building, Emerald Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig, Metro Manila

Baking

The weekend is the best time to bake; make a batch of cookies to break up a Saturday afternoon, or plan ahead and prepare biscuits and flaky scones for weekday sweets and snacks.

For kids of all ages, baking has always been a fun and delightful pastime. However, it is especially enjoyable family fun for kids, who also get a lot of educational advantages from it.

It can be enjoyable to cook with friends and family, especially during family movie night or any upcoming family game or event, to be honest. However, there are numerous venues throughout the metro that make the procedure simpler and more accessible if you don't consider yourself a baking expert or don't have the necessary materials.

Some of the more well-liked locations allow guests to bake a variety of delicacies and desserts, including Bakebe in SM Aura and I Did It Myself DIY Bakery in SM Megamall. The fact that you have access to all the cooking equipment, supplies, and recipes is the finest part. Simply adhere to the instructions.

Locations: SM Aura Taguig and SM Megamall

Pottery

One must allow their creativity and inspiration to flow more freely and abundantly if they want to be truly artistic. Over time, Manila has witnessed great ideas, the emergence of enthusiastic people, and a variety of artistic expressions through various activities and media.

Ready to discover something or learn a new skill? Need some productive alone time after a stressful week? or simply seeking a fun date concept? Make a trip to Bumi and Ashe on your next rainy weekend or Saturday afternoon, whether you're alone or with pals. Friends Marita, Naina, and Buffy founded this women-run pottery studio, which has two spacious floors of creative space where you can learn how to hand build, throw on a wheel, or even just have a cup of fine coffee at the cafe upstairs while your friends work.

You can learn how to build ceramic objects on a wheel with just a few fun things, like we did over the course of an afternoon.

Location: Bumi and Ashe at 59A Cubao Expo Driveway, Quezon City.

Painting

The fact that painting stimulates both the right and left sides of the brain may not be immediately apparent, despite how clear it may seem.

The left half of the brain is utilized in painting to solve more creative problems, such as letting the painter visualize their work before they even set up their easel. The left side of the brain is used to solve reasonable, logical problems, such as how to arrange the picture.

By giving those emotions a physical form through painting, we can cope with them and avoid the suffering that comes from holding those sentiments inside. This is why art therapy is frequently recommended by psychologists to patients who have experienced psychological trauma: it aids in the discharge of emotions in a secure, non-threatening setting.

A delightful and relaxed way to spend a day is to watch nature paint on canvas while sipping fine wine at the Makati art studio Sip & Gogh. You can plan a few things ahead for a picnic lunch and a group painting session with all your pals from the north or south of the metro because they have locations in Makati, Pasig, and Quezon City.

Location: 4th Floor, Century City Mall, Kalayaan Ave., 1210 Makati

One of the finest methods to improve your relationship is to spend time together on the weekends.

It's not necessary to save money to go out to the newest club, see the newest movie, learn a new language, make new memories, or even have a romantic supper on Friday and Saturday nights. Spending time together, just the two of you, is still possible.

Weekend activities are essential for fostering psychological well-being because they help us refuel and achieve equilibrium in the local area of our lives. After a long week at work, we indulge in a variety of leisure, rest, and housekeeping responsibilities over the weekend.

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