FXM

Not much to say about this one.

Just a normal week on the floor. Someone loading a bar for the first time. Someone getting a hand on the pull-up bar. Someone pulling heavy off the floor. Someone who has been coming for years working next to someone who started last month.

Different weights. Different starting points. Same room.

Nobody is performing for anyone here. You turn up, you do the work, someone gives you a hand when you need it, and you get on with your day.

If you’ve been putting it off because you reckon you’d be the least fit person in the room, have another look at these photos

It's the question everyone asks and almost nobody gets a straight answer to. How long is this actually going to take?

6 weeks will change something. It just won't change everything, and it won't hold if the 6 weeks were the whole plan.

Here's the honest shape of it. The first fortnight is learning how to move. Sleep and energy shift before anything looks different. Around month three other people start saying something. Somewhere past six months it stops being a program and turns into how you live.

Melvin will tell you all of that before you pay for anything. It's a worse pitch. It's a much better start.

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You can join a gym, tap a card, find a machine, and go a full hour without anyone saying a word to you. That works for some people. It's not what we do here.

Every session at FXM is coached. Someone runs it start to finish. Sets it up, watches how you move, changes it when it needs changing.

Melvin has been coaching since 2014. He took this on because he got sick of watching people get nowhere, or get somewhere and lose the lot three months later. So you'll get it straight. No six week promises. What the goal actually takes, and that you're capable of it.

Have a swipe through and see who you'd actually be training with.

Watch the room on a heavy day and you'll see the same thing. Everyone fights to push the weight up. Then they let it drop straight back down.

Every rep has two halves. The lift and the lower. Both matter, but only one of them gets rushed.

The way down is where the muscle stays under real tension, and it's the half most people give away without thinking about it.

So slow it down. Count three on the way down. Pause for a beat at the bottom. Drive up with control. Same weight in your hands, a lot more work getting done.

Control it and you get more strength, better stability through the whole range, and a lot less chance of getting hurt on the rep you weren't paying attention to.

That's the kind of thing a coach catches when you get tired and your tempo starts to slip. In class we're watching how you move, not just how much you lift. No one's reps go unseen here.

Want eyes on your own reps? Send us a message and we'll get you in for a session