The lights before the dumbbells.
When she opened her first sports club, Chloé Bouscatel, co-founder of Punch Boxing Studio in Paris, first recruited a lighting specialist who usually works for television sets!
“The staging of the room counts just as much as the course itself
, says the one whose sessions mix boxing and boot camp in near darkness.
As soon as the client enters, the light falls, its intensity and color vary according to the progress of the sequences.
The coach has at his disposal a dozen light modes that he chooses as he speeds up or slows down the pace of the exercises, from red neon and flashing on fast tempos for example, to more soothing blue when the heart rate slows down to the end of the course."
Imported from the United States, and from the famous New York club Soul Cycle - which launched the first, in the 2000s, these cycling sessions in the dark -, this new way of conceiving sport is experiencing a…
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