Lift for Longevity is a small group strength session for over 40s at 7 Delacourt Road. Learn to lift safely and confidently, with strength, balance, mobility and bone health as the point rather than the numbers. Your first one is free.
A small group strength session built for people over 40 who want to learn how to lift safely and confidently, rather than guess their way around a gym floor.
If you'll come once a week, drop-ins work out cheaper than the membership. We'd rather say so.
Book Your Free ClassLift for Longevity is led by Rachel Dobson, a personal trainer and health journalist who specialises in helping over 40s.
The ones people are slightly embarrassed to ask about joints, backs, hormones and starting late. They get a straight answer rather than a shrug.
You'll learn how to use resistance training properly first. What's on the bar follows, at a pace that suits you.
Core's membership is mostly local and mostly women, across a wide range of ages. Nobody is going to make you feel out of place.
It's also almost never true. Coming to strength training in your forties, fifties or sixties is a completely normal starting point, and it's the one this session was designed around.
Resistance training is widely recommended for maintaining strength, balance and bone health as we age, and that's the thinking behind this session. We're coaches, not clinicians though. If you have a medical condition, an injury or anything you're unsure about, speak to your GP first and then tell us what they said, so we can build the session around it.
7 Delacourt Road, Blackheath, London SE3 8XA, a few minutes from Blackheath station and walkable from Greenwich, Lee, Kidbrooke, Charlton and Shooters Hill.
Trainers, water, and whatever you're comfortable moving in. Come five minutes early on your first visit and someone will show you round rather than pointing at a rack and walking off.
7 Delacourt Road, Blackheath, London SE3 8XA
07894 522063
It's designed around people over 40, and that's who it's written for. If you're close to that and it sounds like the right fit, get in touch and we'll tell you honestly whether it is or whether another session suits you better.
No. It assumes no experience at all. The whole point is learning how to lift safely and confidently, so turning up knowing nothing is the expected starting point rather than a problem.
Not in this session. It's a small group of over 40s. Core's membership overall is mostly local and mostly women, across a wide range of ages and abilities, so it's a mixed room rather than a competitive one.
Resistance training is widely recommended for maintaining muscle, strength, balance and bone health as we get older, and that's the thinking behind the session. We're coaches rather than clinicians, so for anything specific to your own health, your GP is the right person to ask.
Tell us. Speak to your GP first if you're unsure, then let the coach know what they said. Movements get adapted around you, which is far easier in a small group than it would be in a big class.
Your first class is free with no card details taken. After that a single class is £20, or The Core Membership is £149.99 a month for every class on the timetable. There's no joining fee and no minimum term.
Yes. Ten one-to-one sessions are £400 and stay valid for three months. Plenty of people use a class for structure and PT to work on something specific.
7 Delacourt Road, Blackheath, London SE3 8XA, a few minutes from Blackheath station with free street parking outside. We're open Monday to Saturday.
Come down, take the class, and see whether Core is your kind of place. No card, no contract, no sales pitch.
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