In January, thousands of people flock to sign up to their nearest gym with the ‘new year, new me’ mantra in their heads and new memberships go through the roof. But if you’re hoping to join one New York gym then you better be prepared to be waitlisted for years … and fork out $10,000 a month.
Continuum in Manhattan is a paradise for ‘biohackers’ — people who use scientific methods essentially hack their body to improve or enhance it. For example, Bryan Johnson, the tech millionaire who wants to live forever and who went viral in 2023 for using his son’s blood in transfusions to slow his ageing process.
But Continuum isn’t quite that extreme. With its limit of 250 members and a waitlist ten times as long, the centre for the superrich puts new members through dozens of tests. So while you may be popping to the gym for a workout on the treadmill, these gym-goers are having their aerobic threshold, resting heart rate, cell health, gut health, brain chemistry, REM sleep cycles and toxic load analysed.
This is put into Continuum’s AI model which, along with data from an Oura tracking ring worn by the gym-goer, creates exercise, sleep and diet guidelines as well as suggestions for therapies and services.
The gym may sound over-the-top but it states that “every measurable aspect of an individual’s physical wellbeing is taken into account—mobility, strength, endurance, recovery, genetics, and sleep”. Achieving our true ideal form is a “continuous journey worthy of pursuit”. Is it worth $300 a day though? Its CEO Jeff Halevy thinks so. “I’m not saying the membership is cheap, but if you look at the price from a value perspective, it’s very easy to justify the roughly $300 a day,” he told The Times.
Split across two floors of a mansion building in the West Village, the gym offers hyperbaric chambers, cold plunges, float rooms, physical therapy, IV vitamin drips and red-light therapies. Staff wear beige and you can expect white-glove service upon entry including velvet ropes and a doorman.
Members’ wellness preferences are attended to by “academically and experientially-accomplished personal trainers, physical therapists and practitioners”. If they’re not working out or undergoing any of the therapies on offer, they can relax in the signature lounge which has been curated “to deliver a unique grounding effect that restores the mind and body”. Continuum also offers a daily curated menu, a full bar, private work spaces and nap pods.
Source : https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/inside-10k-month-gym-used-34426942
