{"id":5853,"date":"2023-07-21T21:15:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T14:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=5853"},"modified":"2023-07-21T21:15:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T14:15:58","slug":"inside-a-torchd-retreat-with-isaac-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=5853","title":{"rendered":"Inside a Torch\u2019d Retreat With Isaac Boots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"drop-cap text-big text-gray\"> <span class=\"drop-cap__first text-dropcap \">I<\/span>\u2019m doing everything I can to keep my leg continually raising and lowering in time with the music when trainer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/isaacboots\/?hl=en\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-vars-event=\"body text\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/isaacboots\/?hl=en\">Isaac Boots<\/a> issues an only semi-joking instruction: \u201cBe aware of the very expensive face behind you.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>My fellow suffering leg lifters and I laugh, but Boots has a point. All manner of beautiful faces belonging to mature women further beautified by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellandgood.com\/quick-fix-culture\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-vars-event=\"body text\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.wellandgood.com\/quick-fix-culture\/\">tweakments<\/a>\u00a0and cosmetic procedures surround me on the gorgeous Hamptons spa deck where Boots is leading us in his signature <a href=\"https:\/\/isaacboots.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-vars-event=\"body text\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/isaacboots.com\/\">Torch\u2019d<\/a> workout. I most certainly would not want to accidentally clock one of them in the face.<\/p>\n<p>This is a typical comment from Boots, a celebrity trainer who dislikes the term \u201ccelebrity trainer,\u201d because he says his non-industry clients are just as important to him as the actresses and public figures whom he personally trains or who tune into his morning Torch\u2019d live streams.<\/p>\n<p>Still, recognizable clients, including Jessica Chastain, Naomi Watts, and Vanessa Hudgens, and several &#8220;Real Housewives&#8221; like Lisa Rinna, Ramona Singer, Margaret Josephs, are happy to say they\u2019re Isaac devotees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to be a little subversive,\u201d Boots says. \u201cIt attracts people who don&#8217;t take things too seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-content \" style=\"\" data-module-init=\"related-content\" data-module-immediate=\"\" v-cloak=\"\">\n<div class=\"related-content__wrapper \" v-cloak=\"\" :class=\"{'is-loaded':isLoaded}\">\n<p> <span class=\"inline pr-6 text-seafoam-dark\">Related Stories<\/span> <\/p>\n<p> <related-content class=\"related-content__links\" parent-article-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wellandgood.com\/isaac-boots-torchd-retreat\/\" current-title=\"What It\u2019s Like To Spend 48 Hours in the Hamptons Working Out Like a \u2018Real Housewife\u2019\" current-image=\"torchd-retreat-425x285.jpg\" v-on:parsely-posts-loaded=\"onPostsLoaded\" start-date=\"2023-01-21\" tag=\"div\" inline-template=\"\" url=\"https:\/\/www.wellandgood.com\/isaac-boots-torchd-retreat\/\" secret=\"w5ztterVB03LGZJLfXS0hf3EvQBuFFIWew9hmVQxthU\" apikey=\"wellandgood.com\" limit=\"3\"> <\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"related-content__card mb-[10px] sm:mb-[20px]\" :class=\"{'related-content__card--full':posts.length === 1}\" v-for=\"(post, key) in posts\"> <a v-on:click.prevent=\"trackLinkGA($event, key)\" :href=\"https:\/\/www.wellandgood.com\/isaac-boots-torchd-retreat\/post.url\" data-url-source=\"related-content\" class=\"related-content__link\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-vars-event=\"body text\" data-vars-click-url=\"\"> <\/p>\n<div class=\"related-content__card--image bg-tan\" :style=\"{ backgroundImage: 'url(' + post.image_url + ')' }\"> <img decoding=\"async\" :src=\"https:\/\/www.wellandgood.com\/isaac-boots-torchd-retreat\/post.image_url\" :alt=\"post.title\" class=\" js-inline-lazy-load\" src=\"\"\/> <\/div>\n<p> <\/a>  <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <\/related-content> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>His cheekiness, along with the absolutely killer classes he leads, is part of his charm. And that\u2019s even more true at an event like the one I attended\u2014a multi-day Torch\u2019d retreat at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gurneysresorts.com\/montauk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-vars-event=\"body text\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.gurneysresorts.com\/montauk\">Gurney\u2019s Montauk<\/a> in the Hamptons, attended by fit and bejeweled women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s, and even one Real Housewife of New Jersey\u2014where Boots can play to the crowd in an intimate, in-the-know bosom buddy kind of way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUse your hips,\u201d Boots says in a later class. \u201cThis is the Hamptons\u2014you\u2019ve gotta hold onto your houses somehow.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Inside a Torch&#8217;d retreat<\/h2>\n<p>Up a winding road nine minutes from the Montauk train station, Gurney\u2019s Montauk Resort and Seawater Spa is the only year-round resort in Montauk that is actually right on the beach. That makes it \u201chauntingly beautiful\u201d in the winter, says Boots, who likes to visit year round. But this is June and the sun is out on the beach club, even if the wind is a bit biting.<\/p>\n<p>I arrived on a Monday for a 48-hour look at the co-hosted Gurney\u2019s x Torch\u2019d retreat, which other attendees were doing for five days. The retreat\u2019s devil\u2019s bargain is that you stay in a beautiful beachfront room, eat delicious meals, spend your day at the beach or the spa\u2014and you do at least one Torch\u2019d class, every single day. This is of course the draw for the Torch\u2019d crowd who do classes online every day, anyway. This week, they get to do their daily workout on the deck of a spa overlooking the ocean, with their teacher delivering his sassy instructions directly to them.<\/p>\n<p>I got thrown in right away. A Torch\u2019d class began at 5:30 p.m. on the first evening of the retreat. Then we were back at it the next morning at 9:30 a.m., and every morning thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>Boots\u2019 Torch\u2019d method is a bodyweight-based strength and muscle endurance class where you do leg lifts on your hands and knees, pulsing squats, crunch variations, arm flutters, and other small but targeted moves for a seemingly endless amount of time. In other fitness classes I\u2019ve done, strengthening sections might go on for the length of a song, and then you get a break. Not so in Torch\u2019d, where diva tunes spur on near constant motion, while Boots encourages swift transitions saying \u201cquick quick, no time to waste.\u201d Boots also doesn&#8217;t believe in modifications; if you can&#8217;t do a push-up, don&#8217;t get on your knees or find an incline. Simply hold a plank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like saying no dusty asses, ever,\u201d Boots says. \u201cWho doesn\u2019t love a tight ass?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1094437\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1094437\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1094437 js-inline-lazy-load\" alt=\"A man in a white tank top and bright blue shorts leading an exercise class while he yells encouragement.\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wellandgood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Isaac-Boots-Retreat-at-Gurneys-Montauk-Resort-Seawater-Spa-1-267x400_falsexfalse_true_70.webp\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1094437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Isaac Boots\/Torch&#8217;d\/Gurney&#8217;s Montauk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>When I ask Boots about the intensity, he says being in tune with your body, checking in, and taking a rest when you need one, and then coming back to the moves, is important to him. But you wouldn\u2019t know it from watching the Torch\u2019d retreat students, women of a certain age who absolutely crush every set of push-ups, tripod leg sweeps, and single-leg hip thrusts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proof is in the pudding,\u201d Boots says of the efficacy of his method, which he developed while working <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellandgood.com\/benefits-of-plies\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-vars-event=\"body text\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.wellandgood.com\/benefits-of-plies\/\">as a Broadway dancer<\/a> to stay in shape. \u201cIt works for my clients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, working out is not the only activity on a Torch\u2019d retreat\u2014although multiple attendees do book private sessions with Boots in the afternoons, completing two or even three Torch\u2019d classes per day. But while not in class, we\u2019re free to lay on the beach, explore town, or do a spa treatment (I got the most relaxing facial of my life, thanks to the Seawater Spa). In the evenings, we have group dinners where the wine flows and waiters bring out plates of perfectly tender steak and fresh seafood. One night, we end the evening with a beach bonfire as one of Boots\u2019 friends, a professional singer, serenades us.<\/p>\n<p>Boots says he designs his retreats to deliver for his clients what he considers a \u201cperfect day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou push your body to its limit in the morning, and then refresh yourself with beautiful fruits and vegetables, and breads that were just cooked, and avocados,\u201d Boots says. \u201cAnd if you want an Aperol spritz, have it. If not, don&#8217;t. And have your dogs here, and run on the beach, and then have a clambake, and have my friends sing to you. You know, that, to me, that&#8217;s joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s joy for Boots\u2019 clients, too. Multiple attendees were repeat Torch\u2019d retreaters, and everyone told me the reason was Isaac Boots: His personality, his energy, his friendship, his verve. The people he attracts were finding each other, too. A mother from New Jersey was becoming fast friends with an interior designer from Newport, Rhode Island, (where she used to have a \u201creally big house,\u201d but post-divorce, now has something more modest next to a neighbor&#8217;s helipad), since they were both doing Torch\u2019d Tuscany and Montauk back-to-back. A corporate attorney told me she liked to come to focus on wellness, while also meeting new people and having activities planned that she didn\u2019t have to do alone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not anti-aging,&#8221; says Boots. &#8220;I&#8217;m pro-vitality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Working out for 48 hours like a &#8220;real housewife&#8221; means getting to spend your days devoted to feeling good in the pursuit of both looking good and supporting your health. You\u2019re living in luxury while making friends with women who prioritize the same things you do. You\u2019re talking about how you really don\u2019t eat carbs, while going for that martini. You bust your ass in the morning, and maybe also in the afternoon. You have a teacher who seems to understand you, poking fun with love, while also reminding you to squeeze, squeeze, squeeze.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of my clients, a lot of my close, close friends, are mothers who are in their fifties and sixties, and they&#8217;re so inspiring,\u201d Boots says. \u201cTo see that at any age, taking care of yourself and challenging yourself and being curious about how their body can maintain strength, I think it&#8217;s a beautiful thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1675549\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m doing everything I can to keep my leg continually raising and lowering in time with the music when trainer Isaac Boots issues an only semi-joking instruction: \u201cBe aware of the very expensive face behind you.\u201d My fellow suffering leg lifters and I laugh, but Boots has a point. 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