Exclusive | The luxury hotel that has it all for your health goals including a stocked fridge, in-room gym equipment and sleepmaxxing tech

Getting into a healthy routine is hard.Keeping it going when you travel? That’s even harder.At 38, I’ve spent the past several months making strength training, nutrition and recovery a genuine part of my lifestyle — but spending nights away from home has a way of shaking up even the most solid regimen.So when I was invited to experience AKA Central Park’s new comprehensive health and wellness program, I was curious whether a hotel could actually make it easier to maintain my routine when I was away.Because let’s be honest — offering a tiny gym with a couple of treadmills and free weights is hardly a helpful motivator for sticking with it.Long-stay hospitality brand AKA debuted its new Atelier AKA Health + Wellness initiative at its properties earlier this summer.The program, which encourages guests to keep moving eating and recovering in ways that fit their lives, revolves around five pillars: movement, nourishment, sleep, mindfulness and longevity.

I spent two nights at their Central Park location, where rooms start at $545 a night for a studio and $715 a night for a one-bedroom, putting that philosophy to the test.At home, planning what you’ll eat for the week is pretty straight-forward — especially if you knock out your Whole Foods run and meal prep like clockwork on Sundays.Traveling with nutrition goals, though, usually requires some advance planning.Sometimes it means hauling half your kitchen with you.AKA takes care of that part.Before my stay, they asked about my food preferences and arranged for FreshDirect to stock the kitchen with Honeycrisp apples, eggs, chicken breasts, blueberries, Greek yogurt, baked sweet potatoes, cucumbers, fresh ginger, popcorn, sourdough bread, lemons, oranges and my other favorites.It meant one less thing to figure out after a long week of work — and, crucially, one less reason to stray from my healthy eating routine.As a petite woman whose trying to build muscle, I’m currently eating at a calorie surplus ...