Meet London’s Hottest New Fitness Fanatic

Since he was eight, Artur Zolkiewicz has been mad about health, wellness and wholesome residing. A few many years later, he has an enviable listing of fashions and moguls that he trains frequently, and is setting companies up left, proper and centre. With all of them going from energy to energy, V.F. sat down with the legendary coach, to debate inspirations and aspirations—and the place to start for these desirous to kickstart a more healthy way of life. 

V.F. : What led you to health?

A.Z. : I’ve been enthusiastic about health, wellness and efficiency for greater than 20 years. My ardour for motion and efficiency started once I began coaching and competing in martial arts on the age of eight. My curiosity in diet had began even earlier in life—I used to be raised as a vegetarian in Poland, a rustic identified for its meat-eating tradition. This expertise made me be taught extra concerning the significance of diet and discover out extra concerning the relationships folks have with meals, but additionally as a manner we categorical feelings, socialise with others and the way strongly we determine with the best way we eat.

I began coaching trend fashions whereas travelling and dealing as a mannequin myself. I concurrently labored as a contract journalist and it didn’t take lengthy for me to begin gravitating in the direction of writing about well being and health. I then dedicated to being a full-time coach once I moved to London seven years in the past. Since then I’ve managed to work with a number of A-List celebrities, billionaires, and fashions. Working with my shoppers now, I see myself extra as a Performance and Health coach quite than “simply” a private coach.

I consider coaching as a efficiency system quite than simply entering into nice form. This can also be the strategy I take advantage of with my shoppers. That ranges from teaching them within the areas of sleep, diet, restoration and extra.

V.F. : What’s your favorite methodology of train?

A.Z. : My personal coaching routine is a mixture of some completely different disciplines. I do a number of weightlifting, in addition to martial arts periods per week. I additionally spend a major period of time stretching and mobilising. I’ve additionally not too long ago launched scorching yoga to my weekly schedule which has been an important addition and has helped me to chill out each bodily and mentally.

I strongly imagine that you just can’t obtain long-lasting and sustainable outcomes with out incorporating a adequate restoration observe. Personally, I begin day-after-day with an infrared mild session and mix it with a couple of minutes of a selected respiration method that enables me to mentally focus and prepare for the day. I often meditate/nap throughout the day and use self-hypnosis or meditation to modify off at evening. I additionally commonly interact in varied sorts of distinction remedy that features chilly (cryotherapy chamber, chilly showers, ice baths) and warmth (sauna, infrared sauna and so forth).

V.F. : What are your massive plans for the longer term?

A.Z. : The future is unquestionably very thrilling. I’ve partnered up with some wonderful folks to open a brand new, ultra-luxe personal wellness/well being membership in London’s Mayfair. We purpose to redefine the best way folks see and eat well being and wellness. I’m at the moment travelling all over the world visiting varied wonderful amenities, attending well being/ wellness occasions and constructing the idea. It’s a problem to innovate within the wellness house, particularly in a market as saturated as London. However, I’m assured that, with the unbelievable workforce we’ve got in our nook, we will construct one thing actually distinctive.

Apart from that I’ve additionally co-founded a start-up known as ZoopScoop and we’re about to launch our first product. ZoopScoop is an modern resolution that vastly improves the meting out, portability, hygiene, and measurement of powdered dietary supplements equivalent to collagen, greens, protein powders and so forth. My dream has all the time been to construct a enterprise that improves folks’s well being while being economically viable. I’m planning on doing precisely that with the few tasks I’m engaged on!

V.F. : What is the proper exercise with no tools?

AZ: It very a lot is dependent upon your targets, what you take pleasure in and what you need to get out of it. I personally like combining a number of completely different motion programs and coaching strategies to attain one of the best outcomes. My equipment-free periods would often incorporate workout routines and actions impressed by martial arts, yoga and Pilates, to call just some. Our physique is so versatile, and we will achieve this a lot with it. There is that this quote I like from Baz Luhrmann’s “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)”: “Use your physique any manner you’ll be able to, it’s the best instrument you’ll ever personal”. I couldn’t agree extra. The human physique was designed to maneuver, and we have to hold it that manner.