Our Story
Est. 1993. Over three decades of raising the standard for fitness in Bangalore.
When The Zone opened in 1993, there was no template to follow. We built one.
What began as Bangalore's most comprehensive group fitness studio has evolved — deliberately, over three decades — into a specialised personal training studio
with a depth of expertise few can match.
Every programme we offer today is built on that accumulated knowledge — refined across decades, and always calibrated to the individual in front of us. .
This is not a studio that follows trends. It is one that has set them.
Our Journey
The 1990s
The Zone launched in 1993 as a group exercise studio that brought together fitness, dance, martial arts, and yoga under one roof — a breadth of disciplines that was, at the time, unprecedented in the country.
The 2000s
We were the first fitness studio in India to offer customised personal training on the widest range of international strength and cardiovascular equipment. We added an intelligent dimension to exercise – a computerised personal tracking system for real-time performance feedback. We anticipated the data-driven fitness conversation by well over a decade.
In 2005, Anjali and Sharat Sareen introduced India's first fully equipped Pilates studio, bringing both fitness and rehabilitation programming to equipment that had never before been available in the country. The Zone simultaneously pioneered Pilates Teacher Training Certification in India — establishing not just a studio, but a standard for the discipline nationwide.
In 2013, Anjali Sareen designed H.I.C.C. — High Intensity and Core Challenge — a one-of-a-kind personal training programme integrating strength and conditioning, Pilates resistance training, core work, and interval training. Fully customised for each individual, it remains a signature Zone offering today.
The present
The Zone is Bangalore's leading personal training studio — specialising in Pilates, functional fitness, rehabilitation, sports performance, and prenatal and postpartum programming.
Anjali Sareen continues as India's original Pilates master trainer and educator.
The Zone is also the sole distributor in India of Elina Pilates equipment, a premium Spanish brand — placing us at the intersection of instruction and the industry we helped build.
What This Means For You
Thirty-plus years of experience is only valuable if it shows up in your programme.
At The Zone, it does. Every session is custom-built, not a template. Your goals, your history, your body — these determine your programme. It adapts as you progress. Nothing is off-the-shelf.
You train one-on-one. You work with instructors who are trained and mentored rigorously, and whose continuing education never stops. And behind every programme is a body of knowledge built across more disciplines, more populations, and more decades than you will find anywhere else in Bangalore.
This is what it means to train at The Zone.
“The Zone Studio to me is Anjali Sareen and Sharat Sareen. They are those rare individuals — dedicated professionals who are passionate and totally involved in what they do."
— Sunitha R
