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Fitness tips, weight loss advice and training guides from the team at Lamai Fitness Retreat. Real insight from 15+ years of coaching on Koh Samui.
20 Things to Do on Koh Samui (From People Who Actually Live Here)
You've done your morning training. You're back at the retreat. You've got an afternoon, maybe a full day, maybe a couple of days you've tacked onto the end of the trip. Now what? This isn't a TripAdvisor list. We live here. A few of us have been on Samui for years now — one of…
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Best Fitness Camp in Koh Samui, Thailand
There are a lot of fitness camps on Koh Samui. Some are great, most are average, and a few are basically just a hotel gym with a timetable pinned to the wall. So how do you tell the difference? And more importantly, how do you find the one that's actually going to work for you?…
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Thailand Retreats for Older Adults
Right. Let's talk about this properly. We've had a bloke turn up here at 63 who hadn't exercised since Thatcher was in power. Couldn't touch his toes. Couldn't run 200 metres. Four weeks later he did his first 8K and cried at the finish line. We've had a woman in her late fifties who'd been…
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Best Weight Loss Camp Thailand
There are dozens of weight loss camps in Thailand. Phuket, Chiang Mai, Bangkok, Koh Samui — they're everywhere now. Some are brilliant. Some are glorified boot camps that'll run you into the ground for two weeks and send you home with nothing but sore knees and a tan. So how do you actually tell the…
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Functional Fitness Koh Samui
Here's a question nobody wants to hear. Can you get up off the floor without using your hands? Not from a chair. From the floor. Flat on your back, up to standing, without grabbing onto anything. If you can, great. If you had to think about it, or you know the answer is no —…
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Fitness Street Samui
If you've been researching fitness retreats on Koh Samui, you've probably come across the name "Fitness Street." It sounds made up. Like something a marketing person invented. But it's a real place — a stretch of road in Lamai where, over the past fifteen-odd years, a cluster of gyms, wellness centres, healthy cafés and training…
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Wellness Retreat Koh Samui
Wellness is one of those words that gets thrown around so much it's almost lost its meaning. Stick a candle next to a yoga mat and suddenly it's a "wellness experience." We think that's rubbish, frankly. Proper wellness — the kind that actually changes how you feel — takes more than aromatherapy and a green…
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Weight loss retreat Koh Samui
You've probably seen those before-and-after photos online and thought, "yeah right." We get it. Most of them look too good to be true. But the ones on our wall? They're real — and the people in them will happily tell you their story. At Lamai Fitness Retreat on Koh Samui, we've been helping people lose…
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