Somewhere in this world, there is an element of a gym that would be your Proustian madeleine. Rubber flooring, the smell that metal leaves on your hand, the heat of a poorly ventilated garage—it takes you back to your first junior-varsity summer. Horrible then, captivating now.
But nostalgia is a bad reason to rebuild that gym at home. If you’ve spent a huge portion of your savings on a house—and even more making it a place of respite—you want something better. Something fit for your sanctuary.
A growing market is betting that you agree. These companies care as much about how a home gym looks and feels as how it performs. They hire wellknown designers, show at design fairs, and charge vintage-car money for a Pilates reformer—both, if you ask us, valid ways to spend five figures.
This, though, is a rundown of the latter. If you’re looking to build out a dream gym, these are the brands to know, and for each we give our standout picks. The Italian brand is the go-to supplier for five-star- hotel gyms, ultra-wealthy clients’ homes, and the Olympics.
Which is to say it is, undoubtedly, the leader in this space. It’s most recent release, the current crown jewel, is its Pilates reformer in this gorgeous Sand Stone color. Honestly, this could be a one-brand story.
Go to any luxury hotel—we do it all the time, new properties and the long-standing ones—and check out the gym; I’m willing to bet it’s stocked with Technogym. From treadmills, to squat cages, to the new reformer, Technogym is best-in-class. Since it has those high-end partnerships—the Olympics, Formula 1 teams and drivers, and Italian soccer clubs—I could make the “Ferrari of gym equipment joke,” but, well...it would be too on the nose.
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