Barcelona launches public fitness lab focused on performance and longevity
Barcelona’s CEM Joan Miró opened MiróLab, a public fitness lab that turns blood pressure, glucose and strength testing into municipal training prescriptions.
Barcelona has put performance testing inside a municipal gym. At CEM Joan Miró, MiróLab opened on March 2 as a city-backed space for functional health and longevity, pairing screening, nutrition support and personalized training in one public setting. The Scan 360 assessment costs 120 euros for the general public and 90 euros for subscribers to Barcelona’s municipal sports network, bringing a level of physiological testing that usually sits in private clubs into a city facility.
MiróLab is not trying to look like a conventional weight room or a medical clinic. The center says it works from objective data and continuous follow-up, and it organizes its model around six physiological systems: oxidative, cardiovascular-respiratory, neurovegetative, metabolic, structural-muscular and inflammatory-endocrine. That framework is the point. Instead of selling access alone, the lab aims to evaluate users more precisely, prescribe training with more evidence and then turn those methods into something other municipal centers across Barcelona can copy.
The timing makes sense. Barcelona’s municipal fitness network reached a record 212,136 subscribers in September 2025 and finished 2025 with 205,373, spread across 41 Centros Deportivos Municipales and 83 specialized installations. Women made up 50.13% of CEM subscribers in December 2025, a small but telling sign that the public system is no longer serving a narrow slice of the market. A city that large, and that full, can afford to experiment with higher-value services, but it also has to prove that those services do not become a premium lane inside a public network.
That tension sits at the center of MiróLab. The project has public-private backing with financial support from Barcelona’s city government, and TecnoSport says the setup includes Keiser, Voltra and Eliga technology. The first-entry Scan 360 combines blood pressure, bioimpedance, glucose, stress, strength and indirect calorimetry testing with an interview on habits, pathologies and medical history. Andreu Fadó, TecnoSport’s CEO, framed the launch as part of a broader move toward more measurable, evidence-based training models.
If MiróLab works, Barcelona will have more than a showpiece. It will have a repeatable model for bringing physiological testing, nutrition guidance and data-driven coaching into municipal sports centers without losing the public mission that makes those centers matter in the first place.
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