6-Week Strong Start · 12 spots this intake
Forge Athletics is a coached strength gym for busy adults who are out of practice. Six weeks, three 45-minute sessions a week, groups capped at six. You test on day one, you retest in week six, and you see the difference on paper.
6:1
Cap per group
18
Coached sessions
45min
Per session
5
Numbers retested
Why people come to us
Most people who walk in here have already tried. A membership used twice in January. A class that left them sore for three days but no stronger by March. Nothing was wrong with the effort. There was just nobody watching, and no number to point at.
In a room of forty, a coach can't see your back round on rep eight. In a group of six, that's the whole job.
If you never measured week one, week six is a feeling. Feelings are why people quit in February.
A program off the internet doesn't know about the shoulder. Ours gets written after we look at yours.
The Forge Method
Three phases across six weeks. The last one is the reason people stay.
01
Week 1
A movement screen and five baseline lifts: squat, hinge, press, row, carry. We write them in your file where you can see them. Nothing gets programmed until we know how you actually move and what hurts.
02
Weeks 2–5
Three 45-minute sessions a week against a written progression that belongs to you. Up to six people train at once and each is running their own sheet. The coach is watching the bar, not the clock.
03
Week 6
The same five lifts, the same standards, measured the same way. Your coach turns the sheet round and shows you both columns. That is the entire point of the six weeks.
A real week-six sheet
Dan started at 38 after nine years away from a barbell. Both columns are his, measured six weeks apart.
Week 1
60kg
Week 6
90kg
Week 1
45kg
Week 6
70kg
Week 1
25kg
Week 6
35kg
Week 1
40kg
Week 6
60kg
One member's sheet, shown with permission. Starting points and rates of progress vary.
Free 20-minute Strength Session
This tells your coach what to set up before you arrive, which is why the first session is a real session and not a sales tour. It takes about a minute.
Members
Deadlift 60 → 90kg
“I hadn't deadlifted since university and honestly I was embarrassed on day one. Week six I pulled 90 kilos and the coach just turned the sheet round and showed me the two numbers. That was the moment.”
Dan R.
38 · two kids · back after 9 years off
Squat 25 → 45kg
“Six people and a coach who knows my knee. I've paid more for a gym where nobody learned my name in a year.”
Priya S.
44 · joined after a class programme left her sore but not stronger
Press 20 → 32.5kg
“45 minutes, three mornings a week, done before the school run. The retest was the first time I've had proof a gym worked instead of just hoping.”
Marcus T.
51 · lapsed member of three previous gyms
Risk reversal
No forms and no argument. You did your part, so we keep coaching until the numbers move.
The Retest Guarantee
No gain · Next six weeks free
Before you book
Twenty minutes with a coach. A short movement screen, your five baseline numbers if you're up for it, and a straight conversation about what six weeks would look like for you. You leave with your numbers whether you join or not.
The 6-Week Strong Start is $197 for all 18 coached sessions. If you carry on after week six it's $179 a month, month to month, cancel whenever. There is no joining fee and no contract to sign.
Most people who start here haven't trained in years. That's the normal case, not the exception. Groups are capped at six precisely so the coach can give you a different weight, a different range or a different exercise on the spot.
Make 15 of your 18 sessions. If your week-six retest doesn't beat your week-one numbers, your next six weeks are free. No forms and no argument. You did your part, so we keep coaching until the numbers move.
No. Up to six people train in the same room at the same time, but each person is running their own written program with a coach on the floor watching the bar.
Say so on the call. Twice a week still works for plenty of people, it just means the guarantee's 15-session requirement doesn't apply to you. We'd rather be straight about that up front than sell you something you can't use.
Groups are capped at six and coaches only have so many hours on the floor. When the intake fills, the next one starts a few weeks later.
Twenty minutes, a coach, and five baseline lifts. You walk out with your numbers written down whether you join or not.
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