How much do you spend at the gym monthly? $30? $40? Maybe close to $100? Some people spend 100x that on longevity-focused health and wellness club memberships. Let’s take a look at some of the most notable of these ultra-fancy gyms.

MOST SCI-FI CHIC: REMEDY PLACE ($24,000 per year)

In the lower price range is Remedy Place. With 16 clubs planned nationwide, Remedy Place has opened in Los Angeles and New York City.

Remedy’s core products are “Tech Remedies.” In addition to infrared saunas, ice baths, and cryotherapy, there is a hyperbaric oxygen chamber for “oxygen-fueled healing,” which claims to accelerate healing processes in the body and reverse aging. Remedy’s “FDA-approved compression suit” aids lymphatic drainage to eliminate toxins and reduce fluid retention. The automated Remedy Roller body massage device is designed for self-myofascial release to loosen muscle tightness, increase blood flow, and improve range of motion.

For $2,000 per month, Los Angeles Resident All-Access members get unlimited ice baths and tech remedies. In Manhattan’s Flatiron District, the NYC Flagship offers the same deal for $2,250 per month. The “IV Tunnel,” a tunnel that resembles a STAR WARS spaceship hallway and an underground passageway in THE MANDALORIAN, is meant to make guests “feel inspired while being infused with the nutrients.” The 500-square-foot “Contrast Suite” has ice baths and an infrared sauna. The whole thing can be rented for six people!

MOST ZEN: LONGEVITY HOUSE ($100,000 one time fee)

If you do not want monthly payments, Toronto’s Longevity House offers pro athlete-level anti-aging diagnostics and therapies. A private, exclusive 9000 sq ft oasis on a 1/2 acre lot backing onto a ravine in west Toronto, the club offers breath training, nature walks, and AI-driven training.

The Longevity House emphasizes holistic manual therapy and movement and offers North America’s top practitioners exclusive technology to enhance your routine. They offer EMS suit weight training, red light therapy while balancing on a vibration plate, and AI-driven cardio with oxygen variability training. No pricing is listed on the site, but some reports say a lifetime membership costs $100,000.

Curiously, the website predicts a midtown location at Yonge and Eglinton in January 2022 and NYC and Miami locations in Spring 2022. However, little, if any, evidence of these sites exists, raising the question: should not a high-tech, high-end place be able to update their website more frequently and diligently?

MOST IMMERSIVE: THE WELL (Depends on whether you want to buy a condo)

Around the corner from Remedy NYC is THE WELL. Unlimited yoga, strength training, cold plunges, infrared saunas, and dedicated social and work spaces are included in $355 monthly fees.

In Miami, you can eat, breathe, and sleep THE WELL. At THE WELL’s The Residences, 54 luxury condos and 22,000 square feet of amenities include a cutting-edge fitness center. These condos cost $1,275,000–$7,000,000. For that much, you would expect a lot of property, right? Wrong—the condo tower has 924–3,291-square-foot one- to four-bedroom homes. Some of these units’ amenities seem overpriced. Diffused lighting, water filtration, and HEPA air filtration systems are all fairly common solutions available at home improvement stores such as Home Depot or Lowe’s.

MOST CLINICALLY ORIENTED: HOOKE ($10,000–$55,000+ per year)

HOOKE’s membership seems to offer medically-backed personalization of longevity programs. Each HOOKE member’s medical, fitness, nutrition, and cognitive health is assessed and monitored to create personalized longevity programs. HOOKE offers the most comprehensive testing and imaging, including blood panels, cancer screening, lung, heart, brain, eye, and ear function testing, and more. They map moles and sequence and analyze whole genomes.

HOOKE offers consistent and proactive involvement in maintaining long-term health. It provides convenient access to medical consultations, either remotely or in person in London. Additionally, HOOKE offers annual health assessments, personalized nutritional guidance for optimal health, data-backed cardio and strength programs, advanced health monitoring technology for immediate health insights, and customized supplements to meet specific health and nutritional needs.

MOST EXCLUSIVE: R360’s Wellness and Longevity Circle (Minimum Net Worth $100 Million)

R360’s Wellness and Longevity Circle is as exclusive of a club as it gets, as members are required to have a $100 million net worth minimum. This club for the ultra-rich, which has been limited to around 500 members in the U.S. and 500 from around the globe, touts scientific approaches and access to top experts, including Professor David Sinclair of Harvard’s anti-aging lab.

MOST REASONABLE: PREAMBLE ($2,500 annually)

The place that seems the most legitimate and worth the cost is PREAMBLE. Since its launch in Scottsdale, Arizona, PREAMBLE has used virtual health tracking to track and analyze patients’ well-being and personalized coaching. REMEDY and THE WELL are spa-like, but PREAMBLE is more like a medical office. Their look suggests a more clinical approach than the rest.

Their “Auto-Pilot Optimization Program” begins with a patient evaluation, which includes over 100 biomarkers in a blood test panel, an InBody scan for body composition analysis, blood pressure monitoring, and the configuration of wearable technology like a glucose monitor to understand each patient’s unique body. The evaluation details preventable death risk, metabolic health, hormones, body composition, fitness, wellbeing, and more. Customers review their report with a medical team to set priorities, build exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle strategies, and set a quarterly plan. After six months, you are retested, then given an annual physical and evaluation.

The “Co-Pilot Concierge Program,” their premium program, includes all Auto-Pilot features plus integrated and detailed tracking, more frequent evaluations, check-ins, and consults, and unlimited standard lab work.

GETTING A MEMBERSHIP

Perhaps THE WELL’s focus on “wellness equity” sums up these places. They “aspire for our community to reflect the diversity of the surrounding geographic communities of New York City” by including diverse ethnicities, races, sexual orientations, religious beliefs, gender expressions, and abilities, but only a small percentage of the population can afford a membership. 

Most clubs have careful screening and, like R360, wealth requirements. Many gyms offer a free month for a trial run, but elite clubs are different. They are probably like asking for a test drive at a Ferrari or Lamborghini dealership in a tank top and flip-flops—unlikely.