HARD CORE…
Yoga at dawn, a four-hour hike through the mountains, a circuittraining class and a massage. That’s the intense daily schedule at Mountain Trek in Nelson, B.C., where guests ranging from stressed-out CEOs to wealthy Type A’s come for a week-long boot-camp experience set in a beautiful Canadian landscape. Dubbed a “boutique fitness retreat,” this is an all-inclusive, highly immersive experience that includes portion-, sugar- and calorie-controlled gourmet food (kiss sweets, caffeine, booze and salt goodbye), challenging workouts and lifestyle-improvement seminars—all with the goal to make the numbers on the scale smaller and the mind more at rest. The main focus of activity is Nordic Fitness Trekking, which engages 90 percent of the body’s muscles and is a potent antidote to the damage done by a sedentary office-based lifestyle. You will come back invigorated, inspired and a size smaller—but you will work hard for it.