Train in the morning.
Compete in the afternoon.
Disappear into Goa in the evening.
Four days in a private villa in Assagaon with a group of people you have not met yet, a coach who will make you stronger, and a championship that will make you competitive about things you did not know you could be competitive about.
No sport to learn. No experience required. Bring a willingness to lose at something in front of strangers.
Most fitness trips are a workout schedule in a nice location. The workout is the product, and the people are incidental.
We built this the other way round.
The mornings are real training, coached properly, and you will feel them. But the reason people come back is what happens between the sessions: a house full of teams competing for a trophy, a leaderboard on the wall that nobody admits to caring about but everybody checks, and four days of doing slightly ridiculous things with people who stop being strangers somewhere around Friday afternoon.
You will arrive on Thursday not knowing anyone. You will leave on Sunday in a group chat that is still going in March.
Teams drafted on the day of arrival.
From that point, everything scores. The championship blocks in the afternoon, the standing challenges on the board, the events at night. Some of it is fitness. Some of it is not. All of it counts.
Points are weighted so that turning up matters more than winning. This is deliberate. The fittest person in the house is not going to carry their team, and the person who has never set foot in a gym is not going to be a liability. That is the only way a format like this works.
The standing challenges – run from the moment you arrive until the moment you leave. The dead hang. The wall sits. The loaded carry around the pool. A cumulative plank ledger that rewards stubbornness over strength.
The championship blocks – are the organised rounds. Team events in and around the villa and the pool, run in the middle of the day. Some are physical. Some are tactical.
Ravi Sharma @ragingreformist (The Reform Lab) runs the mornings. Strength and conditioning, inversions, mobility, coached in a small group, scaled to whoever is standing in front of him. So by Sunday he knows how you move and what you are avoiding.
Vaibhavi @yogawithvaibhavi takes the Saturday evening yoga, meditation and breathwork session at the villa. It lands on the day you will need it most, which is not an accident.
A private five-bedroom villa in Assagaon, the quiet inland pocket of North Goa between Anjuna and Mapusa. Old Portuguese houses, banyan trees, and the best food in the state within a ten-minute drive.
The whole villa is yours. Pool, garden, indoor and outdoor common areas. Rooms on twin or double sharing.
Everything on the training side is a short ride away.
Afternoon
Arrive at the villa from 2 PM. Welcome drink and light refreshments. Check in, settle, meet the house.
Evening
Bouldering, 5:30 to 7:00 PM. An indoor wall, coached, with routes set for people who have never climbed. This is the fastest way to break the ice in a group of strangers, because everyone is bad at it on day one and everyone gets better by the end of the session.
Night
Out in Anjuna, 9 to 11 PM. Team captains are drafted before you leave.
Morning
Strength and conditioning
Breakfast at the villa.
Midday
Championship round one at the villa.
Afternoon and evening
Depart 3:00 PM for the picnic. A trek out to a spot we are not naming, Goan food, local feni, and the sun going down over water. Back by 9:00 PM.
Night
Free.
Morning
Inversions with Ravi
Breakfast at the villa.
Midday
Championship round two.
Afternoon
Free. Pool, beach, spa, or a long lunch in Assagaon.
Evening
Yoga at the villa with Vaibhavi.
Night
Dinner at the villa, board games, and the closing of the championship. Trophy and awards.
Morning
Mobility with Ravi
Breakfast at the villa.
11:00 AM
Checkout.
On the meals. We include breakfast every day, the picnic, and the closing dinner, and then we leave you alone. Assagaonn and Anjuna have some of the best restaurants in India within ten minutes of the villa, and locking you into a fixed meal plan would be the single fastest way to waste that. Eat with the group, eat with two people you met yesterday, or take yourself out.
People who train a bit, or used to, or have been meaning to start again. There is no minimum fitness level and no sport to already know.
It suits solo travellers particularly well. Most of the house arrives alone, the teams are drawn on night one, and by Friday evening the question of who came with whom has stopped being relevant.
It is not for you if you want a silent retreat, a spa weekend, or four days of being left entirely alone. There is a lot of group in this trip, and that is the point.
Early starts. Training runs 7:00 AM on three mornings.
Late November in Goa. Daytime highs of around 31 to 33°C with humidity well down from the monsoon months, and evenings around 22 to 23°C. The middle of the day is hot, which is why the championship rounds are built for shade and water, and the good weather is in the mornings and after dark.
Group size. Capped at the size of the house. Small enough that Ravi coaches you individually and the team format works.
Getting there. Manohar International Airport at Mopa is the closer of the two Goa airports to Assagaon. Book your outbound flight for Sunday afternoon or later.
What to bring. Training kit for three sessions, swimwear, something for a night out, and shoes you do not mind getting dusty on the trek. Climbing shoes for bouldering are provided.
The house holds a fixed number of people and we do not oversell it. Rates and availability on the booking page.
Pricing for this retreat follows a dynamic tier system based on occupancy:
Early Bird (Limited) – Best price
Price Increase #1: Once 50% of the retreat is booked
Price Increase #2: Once 75% of the retreat is booked
The sooner you enquire and lock your spot, the better your pricing. Rates increase automatically as capacity fills.
Location
Goa, India
Price Includes
Price Excludes
Fit Escapades exclusive. This is a curated Fit Escapades retreat, and the cancellation terms differ from those on other platforms or the hotel’s own website.
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Sample flow for the day:
Mornings: Fitness sessions with the Reform Lab
Afternoons: Villa championship games/Beach/Pool/Leisure time
Evenings: Fun fitness/adventure activities
Nights: Scheduled dinners/Leisure time
