I told her Id catch up after my massage.
Ooh, she said.
Ask about aB12 shot,and then come join.
IN GOOD COMPANYFor as long as humanity has liked to sweat, we have liked to do it together. Ana Leovy,En Agua,2024, oil on fabric.
I might as wellI wasnt going anywhere.
For as long as humanity has liked to sweat, we have liked to do it together.
See: the Greek palaestra, Turkish baths, the YMCA, the contemporary preponderance of workout-minded meetups.
I just go and stay all day, one stylist friend told me.
I take a Pilates class, take a meeting, go to the sauna, get lunch.
(In LA, this may be the biggest perk of all.)
In the marble-lined dry sauna, a pair of 20-something friends were trading dating-app war stories.
Faced with all this communal activity, the gym seemed almost beside the point.
They also have a killer pickleball setup.
(Ive probably made ahundredfriends since I started playingpickleball, Mackey tells me.)
Call it the millennial and Gen Z answer to the country club.
Theres a million places to go drink, Jeff Halevy tells me.
But how about spending a dayoptimizing?
(This is a more robust market than it sounds.)
Continuum drew headlines for its serene interiors and its eye-watering price tag ($10,000 a month).
Halevy says it was a surprise how many were under 40.
Were not ending up with 250 finance bros. My goal was to change the narrative of how people socialize, Leary tells me.
But maybe the possibility of some friendly faces is what gets you there.
People make fun of me for joining a fancy gym, she said.
But everyone Ive met there is kind ofgreat.
The next morning I signed up for Heimat; Ive already started booking post-workout lunch meetings.
You know what they say: Membership has its privileges.
