Performance
Fitness Conservatory
Your journey is composed with unhurried care, share your intention and we will place you beside the lake, the thermal path, or the open studio.
A glass-walled gym at 2,030 metres, wrapped in Lake Hayk — strength, cardio and movement in the clear, thin air of the Ethiopian highlands.
Tell our concierge your preferred time and we will arrange a coach.
Biocentric index
Performance specifications
Athletic attributes mapped with editorial precision, equipment, environment, and recovery telemetry where available.
Cardio (treadmills, ellipticals, exercise bikes), resistance machines, free-weight and dumbbell racks, flat and incline benches, and an open functional and stretching area. Warm timber and rubberised flooring with integrated shelving for towels, foam rollers and accessories. No cold-plunge, oxygen-enrichment or metabolic-profiling equipment is installed; at 2,030 m, the altitude itself is the performance variable.
Performance narrative
The training floor
Ethiopia's highlands are the home of distance running, and the gym sits squarely within that inheritance — at 2,030 metres on the shore of Lake Hayk, in the thin, clear air of the Wollo highlands. It is a single, generous, daylit room, wrapped floor-to-ceiling in glass so the lake is present in every direction; the wall-mounted screens are set deliberately low to keep that horizon clear. The floor moves from cardio — treadmills, ellipticals and exercise bikes ranged along the glass — through resistance machines to a free-weight and dumbbell zone with flat and incline benches, and on to an open functional and stretching area. Mirror detailing and a mix of warm timber and rubberised flooring hold the room together, with integrated shelving for towels, foam rollers and accessories close at hand. There is no spectacle here, and none is needed: the altitude does its quiet work, the lake steadies the eye, and the room asks only for movement. Guests of the Presidential Suite will find a private gym nook within their residence; everyone else has the whole glass room, and the highland morning, to themselves.
Open to resident guests as a complimentary amenity. Presidential Suite guests also have a private gym nook within their residence. Personal training and the programs above are arranged through the concierge.