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The main programme

Small Group Strength

The session most members do most weeks. Your own plan, written for you, run alongside seven other people and a coach.

Eight people, one coach Sixty minutes, on the hour through the timetable
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Three lifters training side by side in a small group
£15a session, or from £65 a month on membership
8People in the room, one coach
60 minWarm up, main lift, supporting work, writing it down

Who it is for

Anyone who has finished Foundations, or who has trained somewhere before and knows their way around a barbell.

  • Everybody in the room is on a different plan. Nothing here is a class doing the same thing in unison.
  • You are never made to lift in front of the room, and there is no leaderboard on the wall.
  • Sessions are capped at eight because past that a coach cannot honestly watch everybody.

What a session looks like

  1. You arrive, look at your own page in the log, and start the warm up while people filter in.
  2. One main lift for the day, working up in small steps to the weight written down for you.
  3. Two or three supporting exercises, usually paired so the session keeps moving.
  4. A short finisher, which is not a punishment and is sometimes just carrying something heavy across the floor.
  5. The coach writes next week's numbers next to today's before you leave.

When it runs

Sessions are bookable a week ahead and every one of them is capped. The full week is on the timetable.

Who coaches it

All three of us have been here since 2017. There is more about each of them on the coaches page.

The other four programmes

Where to next

If this one sounds like you

Ask us whether this is the right oneOne email, and we will tell you honestly if something else suits you better. How the prices workSession rates, membership tiers and how pausing works. What to do in your first monthWorth reading before your first session rather than after it.