It has a simple-to-move foot bar that lifts and clicks into place to reduce transition time between exercises, patent-pending collars on the springs to make them easier to grip when changing settings and a rope system that lets you adjust length with the pull of a lever.

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Other luxury services on offer include massages, gourmet meals prepared by the on-site chef, and hampers, delivered, the way breakfast is, via a Rapunzel-esque rope-and-basket system.

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The training system, often called combat or battling rope, was first developed for combat sports such as mixed martial arts, as a means to work out at a higher level of intensity.

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There was a fun pitch under a huge roof where I had to climb into a corner, then lower myself down the rope and run back and forth on the wall until I could catch the edge of the next crack system.

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