Critical aspects were to create something which was easy to handle, stow and of course was safe and fun to use. Not easy when considering the size of this! Features such as LED solar powered floodlights and removable interlinking astro turf were also provided. All the poles and dyneema netting are rated to an equivalent impact of 3 adults hitting it in a tackle situation and it being strong enough to support their weight. All poles were made to go into removable deck sockets normally used by the railings around the bow.

Fitness and Wellbeing Multi-Activity Spaces

In the hotel and the gym market there is a change from traditional indoor personal training sessions using fixed gear and cardio towards more dynamic multi-activity fitness and wellbeing solutions. Yachts often break boundaries in terms of luxury and design, but often fall short in fitness and guests onboard are offered quite a stale fitness environment due to many new build supply companies not specialising and having knowledge in this area. Many superyacht gyms are beautiful, and are designed by the yachts designer but the equipment used is often quite dated in its concept.

SYTT believe it is time to break away from stand-alone equipment and introduce owners and guests to entertaining, effective and multi-sensory fitness. Welcome to the age of innovation and motivational experiences!

The use of folding training walls, specialist flooring, interactive floors and walls, and the use of music to link to fitness and workouts really helps to improve and motivate the experience for clients. Let’s face it, we all require more motivation at times!

Bringing into online racing and training against other competitors onboard, with real time data such as power output, heart rate and speed can be really motivational and fun. This also enables clients to review their performance and upload it to their own personal training programs such as Strava, Training Peaks etc. This is possible over a wide range of sports such as cycling, rowing, running, circuits and more.

Virtual or live instructor options can be provided here and there is not always a need to have a personal trainer onboard. A lot of online training programs can bring in some very high-end professional tuition and training goals to help tailor programs to individuals needs.

Creating indoor spaces which can convert to open spaces are important too, with equipment stowing away neatly and leaving spaces for activities like yoga, suspension training, circuits, boxing and cross training. Training walls, offering a huge amount of different exercises are the new must have equipment on yachts.

Superyacht Tenders and Toys are creating some amazing gyms on board yachts as well as outdoor games decks, watch this space! Notable gyms provided recently to the magnificent MY Ulysses, MY Elandess and MY GO to name but a few.

*This article is published courtesy of The Islander magazine. All images courtesy of Superyacht Tenders & Toys.