Assess. Program. Progress.
Three racks, a turf lane, and honest numbers logged session to session. Here’s how the room works.
I learned coaching by rebuilding my own training from scratch.
A decade of competitive rowing left old aches in my back, shoulder and both knees. What actually got me moving well again wasn’t more rest — it was getting strong properly, under a bar, with someone watching the technique. So I spent five years learning how, one credential and one experiment at a time.
That’s the coach you get: someone who assumes you have history, programs around it without drama, and thinks strong at eighty is a more interesting goal than fast right now.
How the work actually starts.
The assessment — free, 45 minutes
How you move, what hurts, what you’ve tried, where you’re going. You leave with honest advice even if you never come back.
The starting program
Built from the assessment, not a template — the first block is deliberately conservative, because the fastest progress comes from not restarting.
The review at week four — numbers logged, form checked against week one, program adjusted. This is the meeting where people realise it’s working.
Four things every program in the room obeys.
Every program in the room obeys these, whatever the goal.
Form first
Load waits for technique. Always. The bar doesn’t care how motivated you are.
Progressive
Small numbers, added relentlessly. Strength is compound interest with a barbell.
Measured
Everything is logged, filmed and compared. Feelings lie; the log book doesn’t.
Sustainable
The program fits your life or it fails. Three honest sessions beat six imaginary ones.
A Tuesday at the studio.
What the room looks like mid-session.
The racks
Three, never queued
The turf lane
Sleds, carries, conditioning
The kit wall
Everything in kilos
Group hour
Six lifters, one coach
Chalk
Encouraged, swept nightly
The rack wall
Everything racked and ready
Come move for 45 minutes.
The assessment costs nothing and commits you to nothing — worst case, you leave with a clearer picture of your own body.