Only 250 people are allowed to join the exclusive workout hub. (Image: Continuum)
An exclusive gym is allowing only a couple of hundred “VIP” members to join – and it may well be most the expensive in the world by some way.
Continuum, a gym-cum- retreat for the rich and powerful, opened in the Big Apple’s high-end Greenwhich Village this summer, with memberships going for an eye-watering $10,000 (around 7,980) a month.
As part of the package, members are given an “onboarding assessment” to ensure workouts are tailored to their needs.
A “knowledge set”, which includes their body composition, VO2 max (how much oxygen your body absorbs), body composition, sleep quality and blood panels, is then fed into an artificial intelligence system, from which a specialist will produce a tailored wellness plan.
The clientele, which includes stars and Wall Street bigwigs, are then given what the gym calls an “orb” or “digital twin”, a green ball that glows if all is well and fades into patches of grey if there are areas where you need to improve, as per .
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The gym is located within Greenwich Village’s historic Archive Building (Image: Continuum)
Wearable devices are used to track how members are responding to workouts and recovery facilities like the Finnish sauna, hyperbaric oxygen chamber and cold plunges.
Other space-age features include red light therapy and a floatation therapy room compared to being like being in the womb, as per the outlet.
Jeff Halevy, a former fitness tech entrepreneur, and Continuum’s chief executive and president says the gym is “very different from anything that exists”.
“Our unique value proposition to remember is the integration of all these modalities at a very high level,” he told in June.
“We’re doing the homework for everybody, not just in developing the programming but in curating the actual experts that are going to work with them.”
Halevy emphasised the importance of other broader wellness outside of exercise, saying: “All of our [trainers and physical therapists] have masters or doctorates in their respective fields and at least five years of relevant experience as well.”
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members are given an ‘onboarding assessment’ to ensure workouts are tailored to their needs. (Image: Continuum)
Continuum, located within the area’s historic Archive Building, has a maximum of 250 memberships and the gym has pledged never to exceed the cap.
It’s not the first elite facility promising a full package of tailored workout and recovery, as the “longevity economy” booms.
This year, high-end gym chain Equinox recently launched the first of its $40,000-a-year “EQX Optimise” memberships which also offer physical training, as well as testing tracking a raft of recovery tools.
Continuum’s fees put it well clear of gyms singled out as the most expensive in the world, like The Wellness Sky a luxury gym in the Serbian capital Belgrade, where a membership is $30,000 per year.
Halevy insists Continuum, where fees would amount to $120,000 per year, is unique and much more than a gym.
“We don’t have a buffet here. A lot of places have all the doodads and gadgets, and, you know, there are other locations that will have a red light and sauna and cold plunge, our model is not just simply access to a buffet, we have a blueprint and it’s a bio individual blueprint,” he told The New York Post.
“I never refer to us as a gym. We have a gym here… and it’s only one of the levers that we have available for wellness and preventive .”
“In theory, it should extend lifespan and span, but I don’t like leading with that message,” he added.