Lloyds bankers relax at luxury spa Lloyds bank executives were given advice on latest developments in "physique management" as part of bootcamp treatment. It's a tough job working for a bailed-out bank that owes the taxpayer about £20bn - so exhausting, indeed, that Lloyds Banking Group dispatched a dozen top bosses on a luxury spa break at Champneys designed to teach them to eat like an executive and learn how to be more effective "hunter-gatherers in the corporate jungle." The celebrity spa resort created a "bespoke programme" to prevent the executives from "bail out, burn out or being booted out." The bank is just under 40% owned by the UK taxpayer. Champneys, well known for hosting Premier League footballers and celebrities and the odd Metropolitan police chief, tutored Lloyds bosses in the "little-known, but highly effective methods of the UK's leading physique and corporate longevity specialists." Tim Bean, the celebrity trainer who designed Lloyds' personally tailored programme, said the two-day trip last November was designed to teach the bankers "how to manage their chaotic lives." Bean, who promotes himself with the nickname "The Merciless Mr Bean," said he created a personal workout programme for each of the 12 bankers and tutored them on "executive nutrition." Bean said one seminar, called Hunter-Gatherers in the Corporate Jungle, was designed to "re-equip them with the skills of alpha males and females." The executives were also given advice on the latest developments in "physique management" and even "anti-ageing." A spokesman for Lloyds said: "It is important to stress that this was a free one-off event that a small group attended last year at the request of a customer who wanted feedback on a new programme they planned to launch. It was arranged by a senior executive who no longer works for the group. However, the chief executive of Champneys, Stephen Purdew, said: "Of course they bloody paid for it." He declined to state how much the event cost, but similar stays start at £995 per person. According to the event programme, available on the Guardian website here, the bankers arrived at Champneys' Tring resort, set in 170 acres of Hertfordshire parkland, on 3 November - the day after Lloyds' chief executive, António Horta-Osório, took a month's sick leave owing to fatigue. The next day they rose at 6am for a "dawn-breaker exercise class," and after breakfast attended a "build before you burn" class encouraging them not to rush into heavy workouts. After a gruelling day's exercise they were invited to "de-stress or detox in our top-rated spa" where they could pick from "over 100 relaxing, energising and rejuvenating spa treatments." Lloyds, Champneys and Bean declined to identify any of the employees on the trip, but Bean described them as an "executive team from Lloyds." He added: "I'm not sure how much more I can tell you. We offer our clients a pretty comprehensive NDA [non disclosure agreement] - it's about half an inch thick. Champneys has attracted attention for offering high-profile figures freebies at the resort. Sir Paul Stephenson resigned as commissioner of the Met after it was revealed that he had accepted £12,000 of free hospitality from the spa, which was then using Neil Wallis, the former deputy editor of the News of the World arrested in connection with the phone-hacking scandal, for public relations work. Purdew is also a close friend of Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of the NoW and chief executive of News International. Brooks was a guest at Purdew's wedding at Claridges in 2009, along with Liam Gallagher, Piers Morgan, the EastEnders actor Samantha Janus, the late Stephen Gately from Boyzone, several ex-Arsenal footballers, Frank Bruno and Jimmy Savile.