RSG

Founded by RSG, which also acquired Gold’s Gym in 2020, John Reed’s downtown L.A. branch became the gym’s first American location.

Sebastian Schoepe, the president and chief executive of RSG Group North America, which owns Heimat, said he was very specific about the types of people he wanted — and didn’t want — in his fitness center.

The 56-year-old founded RSG, a not-for-profit institute based in New York, in 2000 "to examine and execute innovative approaches to healing the injuries of exploited and oppressed people".

The legal proceedings floundered in the end in the 2000s as RSG ran out of funding.

RSG Group, whose outlets include Gold’s Gym and McFit, confirmed shortly afterward that Schaller, family and friends had been on board.