Respect Group founder opens body reboot center in Prague

The founder and head of insurance brokerage group Respect Group, Zdeněk Rajbl, has opened an unusual project called RehaGym in Prague's Krč district — a center straddling rehabilitation, sport and wellness, where businesspeople and athletes are offered not bigger muscles but a “reprogramming” of their body's disrupted movement patterns.

The idea didn't come to the entrepreneur by chance. Running one of the Czech Republic's largest family-owned companies, with revenues in the billions of crowns, Rajbl experienced firsthand how quickly the body starts sending reminders: lower-back pain, a stiff neck, chronic fatigue that doesn't go away even after a full night's sleep. “RehaGym grew out of the conviction that only a healthy person can run a healthy company. My own health problems pushed me to create a place where people can not only stretch their bodies but also find the right balance,” Rajbl says.

He sees movement as a strategic investment — and he built the center's concept around that same approach, combining physical activity with medical care, active rehabilitation, proper nutrition and mindfulness practices. All of it revolves around the idea of longevity, a word that has become trendy in Silicon Valley in recent years but essentially means a practical goal: keeping the body in working order not just today, but ten or thirty years from now.

The center's flagship program is called RE.CODE — a 90-day course of individual transformation that includes a comprehensive assessment of posture and gait, personal training focused on restoring natural movement patterns, and a full recovery program: physiotherapy, relaxation protocols, and nutrition and psychohygiene consultations.

According to the center's trainer Petr Skokan, the program attracts not only athletes but also entrepreneurs, business leaders and top executives — people whose bodies work at the limit, like a machine, even though they aren't one. For Zdeněk Rajbl, the project is a logical extension of his philosophy: to run a successful business, you first need to take care of your own resources — both physical and psychological.

By the Around Prague newsroom