Highly commended:
Equilibrium, Kings Cross
The super-slick Coal Drops Yard
has a new fitness draw – and the
5,500 square-foot Equilibrium is as
stylish as its surroundings. Founders
Jay Brockway and Niko Algieri
wanted to build a studio that could
offer a thorough muscle-quivering,
metabolism-firing workout along-
side all the trappings of a boutique
hotel. Cue changing rooms lined
with healing lava tiles and a Tom
Dixon lamp-lit reception (plus
there’s a café serving organic coffee
and juices a mere lunge away). And
upstairs is the main fitness studio,
where you’ll veer between sprinting
on Woodway treadmills and core-
tautening circuits using resistance
bands and TRX cables in the signa-
ture EQ Total Body class. Other-
wise there’s a dark and cavernous
PT room, where barbell-hoisting
and kettlebell-swinging will reveal
abs you never knew you had.
Classes, POA. weareequilibrium.comBEST FOR...
THE REGIMEWinner: The Clock,various locations
With outposts in Barnes, Notting
Hill and Marylebone, The Clock
delivers the whole package. Not
just in terms of the workout (swift,
20-minute sessions, divided into
legs and arms, plus a ferocious
chest/back combination); or the
well-rounded roster of classes, from
Sculpt – a killer mixture of minute
yet powerful leg lifts and pliés
perched on your tiptoes with barre
instructor Martina, to yoga with
Taichi, who teaches Real Madrid
football team. No, the definitive lure
of The Clock gyms is the commit-
ment to your overall health. Vitamin
infusions (to replenish the amino
acids lost in workouts); Trigenics (a
therapy that releases frozen joints
and simultaneously activates lazy
muscles) and dishes that subscribe
to their no-nonsense meal plans can
all be included in the 12-day pro-
grammes that will see you shed
eight pounds of fat and build four
pounds of muscle.
Classes, POA, theclock.co.ukHighly commended:
Dan Roberts, Soho
A much in-demand PT to the likes
of Georgia May Jagger and Suki
Waterhouse, Dan Roberts’ £200-
per-hour sessions are kind but ef-
fective. There is no brandishing of
calipers; instead, he assesses your
posture, running style and thresh-
old for weight-lifting, before you
move on to strengthening and fat-
burning exercises packaged as
martial-arts training. Classes fly by
in a flurry of right kicks and left
hooks (super effective, judging by
the next day’s aching muscles). If you
can’t get a spot at one of his sessions,
he does online training, too. Try
Methodology X or the new Nuk
Soo from the comfort of your own
home. The 45-minute, 60-day
routine combines one-handedburpees, squats and kicks, all of
which lead to a leaner body – and a
calmer mind. From £200 per hour.
Nuk Soo 90-day online programme,
£497. danrobertsgroup.comBEST FOR...
THE RECOVERYWinner: Lanserhof at Arts Club
Lanserhof has finally touched
down in London, in a colossal four-
storey townhouse opposite the Arts
Club. It’s the city’s most dazzling
fitness offering yet: a fusion of
functional training and medical
excellence, with a first-in-class
team (and raspberry-infused water
on tap). Past the glossy gym, with
its innovative Technogym Bio Cir-
cuit (log in via an app and ma-
chines automatically adjust yourweights, circuits and seat height), is
some seriously space-age equipment.
Like the Movement Lab: 360-de-
gree cameras film you on a tread-
mill, to determine skeletal imbal-
ances; an MRI, to analyse the body
and measure visceral fat; and a dual
cryotherapy chamber to reduce
inflammation. Cleverer still is the
Spine Lab, which tests, trains and
treats joints (strap into the ‘Cen-
taur’, which assesses and strength-
ens the back, by tilting you at all
angles to engage supporting mus-
cles). Don’t leave without trying
the ‘Icarus’ – an ingenious core
workout, which uses video gaming
technology to simulate a real flight.
A 20-minute ride, steering through
mountains and lakes, is so much
more fun than doing crunches.Annual membership from £6,500 (^) ]
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