Coached 45-minute classes in a small Blackheath studio where the movements scale to you, the coaches learn your name, and nobody assumes you already know what a kettlebell swing is.
The hardest part of joining a gym isn't the training. It's the idea that everyone else already knows what they're doing and you'll be the one who doesn't. At a studio this size, that assumption falls apart in about ten minutes.
Week one: your free class. Pick Stronger, the most coached session we run.
Week two: come back for a couple of classes at £20 each. Try two or three different sessions and see which you look forward to.
Then decide. £149.99 a month for every class on the timetable, or keep dropping in at £20 a class. No contract either way.
Book My Free ClassOur dedicated strength session. You work through the key lifts and supporting exercises with coaching the whole way, so you improve how you move before you worry about what's on the bar. Runs as full body, lower or upper.
Endurance work built from base, threshold and speed training. Intervals on the cardio kit, running and simple movements, with your coach telling you exactly how hard you should be working.
Mixed-modal conditioning. Circuits, intervals, rounds, partner work and AMRAPs, so the format changes but the purpose doesn't. Every exercise is demonstrated and scaled.
A small group strength session for over 40s, led by Rachel, a personal trainer and health journalist who specialises in exactly this. Learn to lift safely while building strength, balance, mobility and bone health. More about this session
Strength, fitness and functional movement for mums getting back to training, adapted to where you are postnatally. Your baby stays with you, and feeding, cuddles and nappy changes are all completely welcome. More about this session
Core has been on Delacourt Road since October 2021 and the membership is mostly local and mostly women, across a wide spread of ages and starting points.
It's also an explicitly LGBTQ+ friendly studio and a transgender safe space. That's on our Google listing because it matters more than it should have to.
Seven coaches, 30 years of coaching between them, two of whom own the place and are on the floor most days.
No. Classes are capped and coached, and every movement has a scaled version. Tell the coach on the way in that it's your first one and the session gets set up around that.
No, and that's backwards. It's the single most common thing that stops people starting. Coming back after years off, after an injury, or from nothing at all are all normal starting points here.
Then you do the version you can. The coach will give you it before you have to ask. Nobody is left standing there working out what to do.
45 minutes. That's deliberate: short enough to fit around work and family, long enough to be worth showing up for.
No. The membership is mostly local and mostly women, across a wide range of ages and abilities. It's a small studio, not a big-box gym floor.
Your first class is free. After that a single class is £20, or The Core Membership is £149.99 a month for every class, with no contract.
Come down, take a class, and see whether Core is your kind of place. No card, no contract, no sales pitch.
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