HOW ELSE DO THE ONE PER CENT KEEP FIT DURING COVID?
The kit
No matter how exclusive your gym, it’s still safer to work out in your own personal fitness cen centre. Rishi’s £1,7 £1,750 Peloton m might seem high high-end, but you could spend £8,000 on a step machine, o over £11,000 on an Infinity Fu Functional Traine Trainer (for resist resistance), or Pe Peloton’s inco incoming stat state-ofthe the-art trea treadmill tha that starts at £ £2,295. It’ll even offe offer sleep med meditation, apparently. Too conventional? Try a Ciclotte circular exercise bike that doubles as a contemporary sculpture. Yours for £10,000. Hock, a luxury German gym brand, sells 18-carat dumbbells for £112,000.
Bespoke meals
Orders on Ubereats rocketed 160 per cent during lockdown. The super-rich have also come to rely on deliveries (albeit a posher kind). Munchfit – which primarily services City workers, and whose founder, personal trainer Angus Fay, was “sick of clients buying from Pret, Eat, Itsu” – delivers up to four meals a day, six days a week.
A “lean” package, which might include beef teriyaki freshly prepared in the company’s London kitchen, will set you back around £800 a month. Delicious.
Virtual PT
Even those trainers who work with the rich and famous, have taken their sessions online. Imagine Joe Wicks – if he could see your skipped repetitions. And you had to pay. Gym app Classpass has partnered with Fyt to offer classes from trainers such as Ali Mckenzie of KXU in London, where Prince Harry got wedding fit. “Something wonderful has emerged and opened the door to a new world for people intimidated by going to the gym,” he explains.
Getting weird
Purified air and isolation chambers sound like pandemic trends, but the super-rich are always one step ahead. In recent years, the rising passion for “ultra fitness” has meant high net-worth individuals have had ice baths, hypoxic chambers (for altitude training), humidity-level controls and quartz lamps installed in their home gyms. Not to mention those at their weekend homes.