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Protect the one asset you cannot replace.

A private practice for strength, resilience and longevity.

LONDONKENSINGTON
TEN PLACESONE ARCHITECT
STRENGTHRESILIENCELONGEVITY
01Premise

Everything important has stewardship.Why not the body?

Everything you own is measured, managed and protected by someone you trust.

Only one asset has been managed differently.

The body.

DECEM exists to change that.

The body, under authorship.

A treatise page titled De Architectura Corporis, showing an anatomical figure with proportional measurements and a ten-point circle.
PlateDe Architectura Corporis

The ambition isn't simply to live longer.It's to remain capable for longer.

  1. Strong enough to move well.
  2. Resilient enough to adapt.
  3. Clear enough to keep deciding what comes next.

Because the cost of declining health is rarely only physical.

Capacity narrows.

Options diminish.

Freedom contracts.

Yet health is still handled in fragments. Competing opinions. No single view.

DECEM replaces fragmentation with continuity.

02Practice

One method.Four stages.

Not another programme to complete. A practice built to stay with you.

  1. Survey

    Every system is measured and understood before anything changes.

  2. Design

    One strategy. Designed for the next decade, not the next season.

  3. Build

    The right specialists are commissioned and coordinated around one strategy.

  4. Continue

    The strategy becomes a practice. Your Architect delivers it personally, continually refining it as you progress.

03Ecosystem

Everything required.Nothing disconnected.

  • Strength
  • Movement
  • Recovery
  • Cognition
  • Nutrition
  • Data
  • Guidance

DECEM brings every element together around one strategy.

The right disciplines, specialists and technology work together, with progress continually measured and personally interpreted.

Every quarter, the picture is brought together in a private record of where you are, what has changed and what comes next.

You don't manage the parts.

They work as one.

04Architect

For everything else that matters, you retain a named principal.

  • Your wealth.
  • Your legal affairs.
  • Your property.

But not your health. Until now.

The Architect sees the whole picture.

  • Designs the rituals.
  • Delivers them personally.
  • Guides the work.
  • Holds the strategy to account.

One person responsible for the direction of your practice.

One relationship.

One strategy.

05Residency

Not a subscription.An enduring relationship.

Ten places. One Architect.

A private practice centred on the Kensington atelier.

Three times a week. Ninety minutes dedicated to strength, movement, recovery and progress.

Personally delivered. Continually refined.

Your strategy evolves with you.

A protected ritual within a demanding life.

The DECEM threshold: a timber pivot door standing open beside an engraved medallion on a travertine wall.
PlateThe Threshold, London
06The One

A life of many dimensions.One point of responsibility.

For those whose lives extend beyond one place, one routine or one set of demands.

An individually commissioned partnership, personally directed by the Architect.

Across residences, borders and the people who matter.

Not a practice you fit into your life.
A practice built around the entirety of it.

If that's relevant to you, we'll explain it in person.

07Meet the Architect

Three decades.One point of view.

DECEM was created by Mark Anthony after three decades of innovation within strength, physiology and human performance.

Not to create another fitness system.
To connect what had too often been treated separately.

Strength matters.Sleep matters.Recovery matters.Nutrition matters.Cognition matters.The nervous system matters.

So too does the life around them.

No element operates in isolation.
Everything is connected.

Because strength is not simply what the body can carry.

It is what a person can carry through life.

Mark AnthonyThe Architect
Mark Anthony, founder of DECEM, photographed against a dark background.
08Application

Two distinct relationships.One shared philosophy.

The Residency offers a place within the practice.

The One is individually commissioned around a life.

Both begin with a private conversation.