An exercise physiologist-led model.
Programmed in blocks.
Designed for the next two decades, not the next twelve weeks.
Training built for the long game.
Exercise physiology, not personal training.
The science behind the room.
Every programme at ZAR is built by an exercise physiologist. EPs are university-trained clinicians. Four years of physiology, biomechanics, and clinical reasoning, registered with ESSA.
They're trained to understand how the body adapts to load: how strength is built, how the cardiovascular system improves, how joints last, how recovery actually works. The practical difference shows up in the programming. The person designing your training understands why each movement is prescribed, what adaptation it's driving, and what comes next.
Nothing is random. Nothing is in the session to fill time.
Programmed in blocks. Progressed week to week.
How we programme. Strength is the foundation of everything we do, but strength built thoughtfully, in blocks, with progression and recovery designed in from the start.
Each block runs six to eight weeks and has a specific intent: building work capacity, building strength, peaking, or restoring. The training week is structured around that intent, so every session has a job. Conditioning sits alongside strength, not in opposition to it.
We prescribe aerobic work because it improves recovery, supports healthspan, and lets you keep training hard for longer. We don't prescribe conditioning to make you tired. Mobility is built into every week as its own session, not bolted on at the end of a workout. Hips, thoracic spine, and ankles. The joints that decide how the rest of the week goes.
A week at ZAR.
What a typical week looks like. For most members, the training week looks something like this:
• Three strength sessions, Upper, Lower, and Whole Body
• One conditioning session intervals on bike, rower, ski erg, paired with lifting
• One Reformer Pilates session for control, length, and trunk work
• One EP Stretch session for mobility and recovery. Five sessions, programmed to work together.
The volume, intensity, and exercise selection in each one are dictated by where you are in the current block, not by what's trending or what creates the most sweat.
What we don't do.
We don't build classes around producing a feeling.
We don't programme conditioning for the sake of sweat.
We don't run bootcamps, group challenges, or anything designed to grind you down.
We don't sell supplements, scales, or transformations.
If a session doesn't have a clear training purpose, we don't run it.
The team behind the programming.
ZAR is led by Svet Borojevic, exercise physiologist and director.
Every programme on the floor is built or supervised by the EP team, and every coach delivering a session works to those programming standards. The coaches are part of the reason members stay.
Get to know them
Membership is by consultation.
We don't list a price publicly. The reason is straightforward: until we understand what you're training for, what your training history looks like, and what your week realistically allows, any number we quote would be a guess. The starting point is a free 30-minute consult with an exercise physiologist.
It's a conversation about what you're after, what's worked and what hasn't, and whether ZAR is the right room for the work you're trying to do.
There's no obligation to join afterwards. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so.