Open Gym Membership
Fourteen platforms, six racks, a full dumbbell run to 60kg, a competition deadlift bar and chalk you are actually allowed to use. Staffed hours 5am to 10pm, seven days.
$79/month · no joining fee14 platforms · staffed 5am–10pm · coach on the floor
Nobody here is
watching you.
A strength gym for people who want to get genuinely stronger, with a compulsory six-week onboarding included in every membership. No supplements at the desk, no transformation packages, no contract.
14Lifting platforms
41Average member age
$79Per month, no contract
4.9 / 5.0
684 verified Google reviews
11 years
On Dray Street since 2015
Ranked #1
Best Strength Gym, City Sport Awards
9
National qualifying totals last year
Training
Six ways to train here.
Every one of them starts from the same place: a programme written for you, and a coach who knows what is in it.
Six-Week Onboarding
Every new member gets it, included. Movement screen, technique coaching on the five main lifts, a starting programme written for you, and three sessions with a coach on the floor.
Included with membershipOne-to-One Coaching
Sixty-minute sessions with a coach who writes your programme between them, not one who counts your reps and looks at their phone. Twelve-week blocks with a review at week six.
$85/session · $780 per blockSmall Group Strength
Four people, one coach, individual programmes running side by side. The accountability of a class with the actual programming of one-to-one, at a third of the cost.
$46/session · 2× weekly $340/moPowerlifting & Competition Prep
Meet prep, attempt selection, peaking blocks and handling on the platform. Nine of our members took national qualifying totals last year and one of them was fifty-eight.
$220/month coachingNutrition Coaching
No meal plans, no supplements sold at the desk, no eliminating food groups. Habit-based coaching with weekly check-ins and honest arithmetic about what a deficit actually feels like.
$140/monthThe week
Coached sessions, seven days.
Open gym runs 5am to 10pm throughout. Everything below is included in membership except Small Group, which is a separate booking.
Mon
- 06:00Strength Foundations
- 12:15Lunch Lift
- 18:30Small Group A
Tue
- 06:00Conditioning
- 17:30Barbell Club
- 19:00Small Group B
Wed
- 06:00Strength Foundations
- 12:15Lunch Lift
- 18:30Small Group A
Thu
- 06:00Conditioning
- 17:30Barbell Club
- 19:00Small Group B
Fri
- 06:00Strength Foundations
- 16:30Open Platform
- 18:00Deadlift Night
Sat
- 08:00Weekend Strength
- 10:00Beginners' Intro
- 11:30Barbell Club
Sun
- 09:00Open Gym
- 10:30Mobility & Recovery
The gym
Built by people who got sick of gyms.
I coached at two commercial chains before this one, and in both of them the job was quietly to sell things. The industry makes its money from people who join in January and stop in March, which is exactly backwards from what a gym should want.
Ironhouse makes its money from people who are still here in year four. That is why onboarding is compulsory and free, why there is a coach on the floor during every staffed hour, why nothing is sold at the desk, and why you can cancel by text.
14Platforms
6Coaches on staff
5–10Staffed hours daily
0Supplements sold
Deshi OkonkwoFounder & Head Coach · CSCS · USAPL Coach · 15 years on the floor
Why Ironhouse
Six things we will not do.
Onboarding is compulsory and free
Six weeks, a movement screen, technique coaching on five lifts and a written programme — every new member, included. Selling access to equipment somebody does not know how to use is the whole reason gyms have a churn problem.
Coaches on the floor, always
There is a coach on the gym floor during every staffed hour, and they are paid to correct your setup whether or not you are a coaching client. Ask them anything; that is what they are there for.
Nothing is sold at the desk
No supplements, no fat burners, no twelve-week transformation packages. We sell training. Everything else in this industry exists because training is slow and honest and hard to upsell.
Real equipment, maintained
Calibrated plates, competition bars, benches that do not wobble, and a maintenance log on the wall. Fourteen platforms means you are never waiting forty minutes to squat at six o'clock.
Cancel by text
One message, no retention call, no thirty-day notice buried in the terms. If we cannot keep you by being good, a contract will not keep you either.
Everyone is welcome on the platform
The average age here is forty-one and our strongest deadlifter is a sixty-two-year-old retired nurse. Nobody is looking at you, and if anyone ever behaves as though they are, tell us.
Free session
Get a real plan before you get a membership.
This builds the same split a coach would put you on in week one. Take it away and run it, here or anywhere — we would rather you train properly somewhere else than badly here.
→Free session and a look around, no card and no tour script
→Six-week onboarding included with every membership
→No contract — cancel by text, one message
→Coach on the gym floor during every staffed hour
AI Training Plan Builder
What are you training for?
Goal
3
Experience
Your splitFull Body ×3
- Day 1Full body A — squat
- Day 2Full body B — press
- Day 3Full body C — deadlift
- Session length70–85 minutes
- Hard sets per week≈ 12
- EmphasisLow-rep barbell work with heavy top sets and back-off volume.
- ConditioningOptional. Keep it short and off your heavy days.
Progression. Add 2.5kg to the bar every session you complete all your reps. That will work for months, and it is the only progression you need right now.
At your stage. Everything works right now. What matters is turning up and adding weight.
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Members, mostly still here.
Straight answers
What people ask at the door.
This is the single most common thing people say at the door, and it is exactly what the six-week onboarding exists for. It is included with every membership and it is compulsory: a movement screen, coaching on the five main lifts, three sessions with a coach on the gym floor, and a written programme so you know what you are doing every time you walk in. The average member here is forty-one and a very large proportion of them started with no experience at all.
Membership is $79 a month with no joining fee and no contract — cancel by text, one message, no retention call and no notice period. Coaching sits on top: one-to-one is $85 a session or $780 for a twelve-week block, small group is $46 a session, and nutrition coaching is $140 a month. Nothing else is sold here.
Three is the honest answer for almost everyone. Two will make you meaningfully stronger if the programme is right and you are consistent; four is better if you can genuinely sustain it; five or six is only worth it for people with a competitive reason. What matters far more than frequency is doing the same programme for twelve weeks instead of changing it every fortnight.
Some, deliberately. Leg press, cable stacks, chest-supported row, lat pulldown, plus assault bikes, rowers and a curved treadmill. What we do not have is three rows of machines nobody uses, because that floor space is fourteen lifting platforms instead. If your training is entirely machine-based, we are probably not the right gym and we will say so.
Yes, during every staffed hour. There is a coach on the floor whose job includes answering questions from members who are not paying for coaching. Walk up and ask. Nobody here thinks less of a person for checking their setup, and the coaches would much rather fix a deadlift on rep one than treat a back on week six.
Usually, and it is a large part of what our coaches do. We work alongside two local physiotherapists and a chiropractor, and if what you describe needs assessment rather than programming we will send you to them first. What we will not do is tell you to push through pain or promise to fix something we are not qualified to treat.
Come in
Free session. No card, no tour script.
Turn up during staffed hours or book below and a coach will be expecting you. You will train, not be walked around a building while somebody talks about the sauna.
(555) 486-1120Desk, 5am–10pm, seven days
train@ironhousestrength.comCoaches answer these themselves
Unit 4, The Fabric Works, Dray StreetParking on site · secure bike storage