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His body, with its honey tan and tribal tattoo on the left, sculpted bicep, is one that I – and his 138k followers – know well, thanks to a grid consisting largely of topless workout pictures. I’ve not gone to those lengths quite yet, but after a recent break-up I have been hitting the gym a lot more often, in outfits a lot more revealing than when I was with my ex.Īlex Crockford, 27, has the freshly shaved face, chiselled cheekbones and perfectly styled quiff reminiscent of a ’90s boy-band member.

The personal trainer has become today’s trophy conquest. Hot and botheredĪ friend of mine always turns Happn on whenever she’s close to a gym, while another picks her classes based on what the instructor looks like.

And where there are celebrities, there are invariably groupies. (The Beckhams’ favourite spin studio, SoulCycle, was the first fitness studio to set up with the idea that you would book classes for the instructor rather than the class.) In the world of fitness, instructors are celebrities. You set your alarm so you can be the first to bag a spot at Rich’s HIIT class. Now, gyms and fitness studios across the land sell classes through the person taking them. Gone are the days when you only knew the name of your instructor before you turned up to your aerobics class. Go into any gym or fitness class today and the instructors look like demigods – all tans and teeth and six-packs that bulge like a bag of onions. The wellness industry is worth £2.9 trillion, and if sex sells, then on the gym floor the current crop of trainers are only too happy to indulge their client’s fantasies. Will that make hundreds of thousands of us more likely to follow his exercises? Judging by the fact that the three books he’s released in the last 18 months have all sold more than any other UK weight-loss title since records began, the answer is yes. But can he look a whole lot better doing it? You bet. Can Joe Wicks do a better forward lunge than Mr Motivator? Probably not. Our fitness idols are Joe Wicks, a chest-baring 31-year-old who looks like a cross between Justin Bieber and the world’s most beautiful labradoodle, Kayla Itsines and Jen Selter, an Instagram star who paps pictures of her cantilevered backside in varying degrees of squat. Wellness meant ‘Dr’ Gillian McKeith poking around the general public’s toilet detritus, or Mr Motivator doing grapevines in Day-Glo legwarmers and a bandana.īut today things look very different.

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Ten years ago, fitness was something to be done with the curtains drawn, and Jillian Michaels’ Shred-It DVD on your TV screen. Fast forward about 20 minutes and we were at it in her car.' Warming up 'She told me she lived a 45-minute drive away, but loved coming to my class just to see me. 'One time, a girl from my class waited outside the gym for me and offered me a lift home,' adds spin instructor Luke*, 31. I found her in the shower with the bathroom door open – I was happy to go with it.'

Recently, a client disappeared upstairs, then called my name. 'I meet most of them on the gym floor, but we train at theirs and that’s where it turns into something else. 'Clients hit on me all the time,' Ashley*, 27, a personal trainer for a well-known nationwide gym chain, tells me. Across the country, his female counterparts are doing the same – and if they’re not, their clients are wishing that they would.

But with a different woman, plucked from a different class, is how Rich spends his Tuesdays. ' I found her in the shower with the bathroom door open - I was happy to go with it'

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