Boxer Moses Itauma is among a star-studded team behind the new gym at Chatham Maritime<\/p>\n
Described as an \u201celite performance and lifestyle centre\u201d, membership fees will start at \u00a379 per month and rise to \u00a3199.<\/p>\n
Facilities include cryotherapy treatments – where extreme cold is used to treat injuries – and hyperbaric oxygen chambers, which see 100% oxygen breathed to aid recovery.<\/p>\n
The team behind the gym include Moses Itauma<\/a>, 21, the hotly-tipped heavyweight who goes head-to-head with Filip Hrgovic in a headline clash at London\u2019s O2 Arena on August 29<\/a>. A win should ensure he gets a crack at the world title. He has lived in Chatham since he was four.<\/p>\n He\u2019s joined by his brother Karol Itauma – a former light-heavyweight boxer and Youth Olympic gold medalist – who was also raised in Medway.<\/p>\n Anis Mehmeti, who plays for newly-promoted Premier League team Ipswich Town and unbeaten featherweight boxing prospect Frankie Wood, round-off the star-studded team behind the gym.<\/p>\n The gym will bring together \u201cadvanced training, recovery therapies, lifestyle medicine and premium hospitality, all under one roof\u201d.<\/p>\n Karol told KentOnline he believes there \u201cisn\u2019t another gym like this\u201d in Kent.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s about creating a unique facility that Medway hasn\u2019t seen yet,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n \u201cYour longevity amenities, your vitamin protocols, your travel and testing, all under one roof. I think that\u2019s such a unique offer.<\/p>\n \u201cThis gym is the gym for the individual that\u2019s truly, truly focused on their health, their well-being, and for their future self\u201d.<\/p>\n An active air filtration system will allow the gym to be one of the cleanest around, combatting the extreme bacteria the fitness enthusiast says is usually found in gyms.<\/p>\n After suffering a heart attack in his early twenties, Karol pivoted from his sporting career, resulting in the start of his journey into his latest entrepreneurial endeavours.<\/p>\n Now 25, he explained: \u201cI\u2019m trying to take the skills I\u2019ve learnt from the world of sport and try to put that it into business\u201d.<\/p>\n Karol believes Chatham Dockside is a perfect location for such a venture with good footfall and being in an area of meaning to both him and his younger brother who were born in Slovakia before moving to Kent.<\/p>\n \u201cI’m still pretty much in town,\u201d Karol added. \u201cAnd that’s kind of why, well, probably one of the reasons why we wanted to start at Chatham.<\/p>\n \u201cIt kind of had an impact on how we were brought up and has kind of been a natural progression. So for us to give back to Chatham as well, it’s great.\u201d<\/p>\n After suffering a heart attack in his early twenties, Karol pivoted from his sporting career, resulting in the start of his journey into entrepreneurial endeavours.<\/p>\n He explained: \u201cI\u2019m trying to take the skills I\u2019ve learnt from the world of sport and try to put that it into business\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThis gym is the gym for the individual that\u2019s truly, truly focused on their health, their well-being, and for their future self\u201d.<\/p>\n Brother Moses said: \u201cWe\u2019re hugely excited to be giving back to the area that moulded us through Club Eight\u00b3.<\/p>\n \u201cChatham has always been home, and we wanted to create something that raises standards for health fitness and recovery in Kent.<\/p>\n \u201cThe aim is to give people access to the same quality of facilities that elite athletes use.\u201d<\/p>\n Facilities include a strength gym, cardio zone, functional training, pilates studio, sauna and outdoor spa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Additional reporting by Emma Townsend Three professional boxers – including an unbeaten British heavyweight who could be one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,84,192,188,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-695210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-business","tag-human-interest","tag-medway","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}TruGym at Chatham Maritime closed earlier this year<\/p>\n
Club Eight will offer a variety of different sports and treatments to members
Inside how the changing rooms will look at the Club Eight fitness suite planned for Chatham
Inside the facilities at the plush Club Eight gym coming to Chatham Dockside<\/p>\n
Karol Itauma, pictured from when he won his gold medal at the Youth Olympics. Picture: Andy Jones.<\/p>\n