DIY Wellness camp?

tn3sport
tn3sport Posts: 18 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Has anyone ever designed a DIY wellness camp? Professional retreats and weightloss programs are crazy expensive.

Seems like you could DIY this by picking an affordable location like Tampa or Hilton Head; book a week at a hotel; hire a nutritionist and trainer for a couple hours a day. Split the cost between like 4 people.

Sound doable? Anyone ever tried this?

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  • MikePTY
    MikePTY Posts: 3,814 Member
    I'd go one step further and ask why you would need to do this at all? Why not save the money and invest in a good gym membership or some home equipment that you could use long term and have wellness become part of your daily life?
  • tn3sport
    tn3sport Posts: 18 Member
    MikePTY wrote: »
    I'd go one step further and ask why you would need to do this at all? Why not save the money and invest in a good gym membership or some home equipment that you could use long term and have wellness become part of your daily life?

    If that worked I think everyone that bought a Norditrack would be fit...

    Why do it? Closed environment for Professional meal planning and education from a nutritionist, fitness instructor, and peer support. Plus, a destination gets you out of your environment and allows you to objectively examine what it takes to address better food and lifestyle choices and habits.

  • puffbrat
    puffbrat Posts: 2,806 Member
    Is what you are describing really that much cheaper than a professional retreat (I've never looked into them so I don't know how much they cost). I agree with @MikePTY that it seems like it would be cheaper and more beneficial to do at home. You need to learn to address those lifestyle and habit changes IN your life, not outside of it. It's easy to get outside your normal routine, say you are going to make a bunch of changes, and then find those really difficult to implement when you are back to living your "normal" life.
  • Duck_Puddle
    Duck_Puddle Posts: 3,237 Member
    I think an all-in wellness retreat/camp/deal involves a largely remote setting where you have a chef preparing your healthy meals so you don’t have to source your own guava bean extract for that soup while you’re in the middle of the desert, coordinated fitness/wellness activities 24/7 including hikes/outdoor things as well as yoga and probably meditation and stuff (perhaps massage and spa treatments too), full time staff instructing on the actual happenings as well as how to bring those things into your day to day life. There’s a reason they are expensive. They are an all inclusive resort that happens to focus on health/fitness/wellness activities and food.

    Could you do it yourself? Sort of.

    You’re going to a location you’re not familiar with so you can only do so much vetting for the people you want to come in. You’re going to be paying a lot for these people to come in. You’re going to need to have access to fitness equipment or decide what activities you want to do (and whether or not you want to pay the trainer person to be there for them). You’re going to need to pay for all the food and the way to prepare it/cook it (do you usually bring a blender on vacation-it seems like smoothies would be required). You’ll also need to avoid any and all typical vacation temptations while in a vacation setting. You’ll also need to hope that all the people you hire have shared views on health and wellness or your food person may insist on fruit smoothies and your ttainer says that you can’t eat a carb and bananas make you fat.

    So CAN you? Sure.

    But I don’t think you’ll really end up saving all that much, and I don’t think you’ll have the same cohesive experience. And I would argue that a cohesive, fully immersed experience where you can relax and be 100% focused on doing the wellness without the hassle is really the value of the experience.
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