People who live in warm climates year round or people who travel extensively, perhaps on business, and stay in hotels where they have indoor swimming pools, would make good use of several different styles of beach towels as a holiday gift or a birthday gift.

Beach towels can be used for a multitude of purposes and not just for drying off after a dip in the ocean or lying on the beach sunbathing. Beach towels could be used instead of baby blankets when swaddling babies who were a few weeks older and have outgrown the smaller square baby blankets meant for the newborns.  Beach towels are usually rectangular shaped and work nicely holding a month or so old baby.

Pink beach towels work perfect for baby girls and blue beach towels are nice to swaddle baby boys in.  However using beach towels for babies is not the only thing beach towels are good for; beach towels are great for placing on a picnic table to use as a super absorbent tablecloth, especially when young kids tend to spill their juices and a vinyl tablecloth does nothing but allow the spill to sit in a puddle or run down the sides of the table.

A beach towel could also be the perfect exercise “buddy” in that it is inexpensive, versatile and everyone seems to have one.  To improve your posture and strengthen and tone your shoulders and upper back muscles, take the beach towel and hold it in front of your body with elbows out and forearms at a 90 degree angle. Squeeze your shoulder blades together and hold for five seconds, repeating 10 times.

To condition your ab muscles, butt and thighs, in addition to promoting stability and balance use a beach towel. Begin by standing with your right foot on the towel and your body weight on your left foot; slide your right foot to the back and to the side.  Repeat this on the other foot about 12 times per foot.  To add an element of difficulty to this exercise, try doing it at the beach in the sand.