Imagine your fantasy fitness club. Machines that allow you to complete your entire cross-training regimen while standing on the spot. Personal iPod docks and satellite TV to take your mind off the treadmill. A chill-out café and on-call massages. Perhaps even Mr Manhunt playing personal trainer.

Shanghai’s new boutique lifestyle club One Wellness, in a stylishly restored warehouse, offers all that and more – including, and we kid you not, Turkey's Mr Manhunt himself.

One Wellness founder David Barr has worked in the fitness manufacturing industry in China for 12 years, and has his own line of yoga and wellness products under the brand Ziva. His industry connections allowed him to negotiate a collaboration with Italian giant Technogym – the exclusive 2008 Beijing Olympic equipment supplier – to showcase their latest models and innovations at One Wellness.

Among the high-tech machinery currently on-site are cardio machines with built-in iPod docks (a first in Asia); weights that count your reps and let you know if you are going too fast or too slow; and a personal electronic key hooked up to Wellness System software that designs your daily programme. It then downloads information from each machine after use to monitor the intensity of your workout and provide an overview of progress.

Perhaps the most cutting-edge item of all is the 'Kinesis Space,' invented by Technogym in 2005. Kinesis utilises a unique pivoting pulley system, allowing smooth movement in all dimensions. More than 200 exercises are possible, incorporating aerobic and anaerobic activity, stability and balance – with the added benefit of burning 30 per cent more calories than traditional exercise.

But there's more to the centre than just working out. Barr's intent was to develop "a new fitness model – a healthy lifestyle option that doesn't feel like a chore."
Moving downstairs, a glass-clad studio offers Zen tai chi, yoga, Pilates, ballet and kung fu classes, along with a café and bamboo-spiked sun deck. There are also separate areas for lounging, therapeutic treatments and checking emails – all in a Wallpaper*-worthy space that contrasts the original rustic warehouse beams with sleek high-tech equipment and designer furnishings.

As an added healthy bonus, One Wellness lays claim to being Asia's first carbon-neutral fitness club, using reclaimed building materials and offsetting the carbon footprint of the gym and business through Emissions Zero.

Now that’s something to jump up and down about.