With endless queues and members fighting over machines, weights and sunbeds at the pool, the club often resembled an overcrowded package holiday hotel at the height of summer.

Only 600 were ever made. Now the long-discontinued leg press machine has become a meme—and lifters are traveling to far-flung gyms just to try it.

Can you do these 5 morning exercises without rest after 50? A CSCS trainer says completing them puts your fitness in the top 10%.