Two athletes lifting barbells on a dark gym floor

Est. 2011 — Two floors, no mirrors selfies

Train hard.Recoverharder.

A coach-led strength gym. Every member gets a program written for them, reviewed every six weeks — not a wall of machines and good luck.

Door access
24/7
Classes a week
38
Coach to floor
1:6
  • Strength
  • Conditioning
  • Olympic Lifting
  • Hyrox
  • Boxing
  • Mobility
  • Powerlifting
  • Recovery
Athlete pressing a barbell overhead in a squat rack

Why Forge

No contracts. No queues. No nonsense.

We cap membership at 400 so the racks are free when you get here. If the floor is busy at 6pm, that is our problem to fix — not yours to work around.

  • Programmed, not improvisedYou leave your first session with a written twelve-week block and a coach who checks it.
  • Capped membership400 members, 18 racks. We stop selling when the floor gets tight, and we mean it.
  • Recovery on siteSauna, plunge and two physio rooms. Included, not an upsell at the door.
Members capped
400
Squat racks
18
Coaches on staff
14
Renew each year
96%

Programs

Pick your fight

Six tracks, all coach-led. Switch whenever you like — your membership covers every one.

Not sure where to start

Four questions, one programme

Most people join a gym and then guess. Tell us what you are training for and what you have actually done, and a coach will tell you which programme is yours — and what it costs.

  • About a minute, no account
  • Real programme, real session count, real price
  • A coach reads every answer before replying
1 / 5

Question 1 of 5

What are you actually training for?

The honest answer, not the one that sounds best.

Timetable

This week on the floor

Book from the app up to seven days ahead. Classes release at 6am daily.

  • 06:00Strength — LowerDessa
    4 spots leftBook
  • 07:15ConditioningMarco
    9 spots leftBook
  • 12:30Mobility & RecoveryInes
    12 spots leftBook
  • 18:00Olympic LiftingKofi
  • 19:15BoxingMarco
    6 spots leftBook

The coaches

Who's on the floor

Fourteen on staff, four leads. Every one of them still trains here on their day off.

Coach sitting on the gym turf between sets

Dessa Fontaine

Head of Strength

IPF referee · 12 yrs

Coach crouching on the floor of a dark gym

Kofi Mensah

Olympic Lifting & Hyrox

L3 weightlifting · 9 yrs

Coach curling a heavy dumbbell in a dark gym

Marco Bellini

Conditioning & Boxing

Ex-amateur, 22 fights

Coach mid-set with a battle rope in a dark gym

Ines Duarte

Mobility & Rehab

MSc physiotherapy

Membership

One price, everything open

No joining fee, no contract, cancel in the app. Freeze for up to three months a year at no cost.

Off-Peak

$59/month

Floor and classes before 4pm on weekdays, all day weekends.

  • Open gym before 4pm
  • All off-peak classes
  • Recovery suite
  • App programming
Choose plan
Most picked

Full

$89/month

Everything, any hour, including 24/7 door access to the main floor.

  • 24/7 door access
  • Every class, no cap
  • Recovery suite & sauna
  • Coach check-in, 2× monthly
  • Bring a guest monthly
Choose plan

Coached

$189/month

Full membership plus a weekly one-to-one and a program written around your meet or race.

  • Everything in Full
  • Weekly 1:1 session
  • Bespoke competition block
  • Nutrition review, monthly
  • Physio, 1× monthly
Choose plan

All plans include recovery suite, app programming and two coach check-ins a month.

Members

Six months in

“First gym where somebody actually corrected my deadlift instead of letting me hurt myself quietly for a year.”

Deadlift 70 → 132 kg

Portrait of Priya RamanPriya RamanMember since 2023
“I came for Hyrox prep and stayed because the 6am crew is the reason I get out of bed. Nobody is precious here.”

Hyrox 1:42 → 1:19

Portrait of Tom IversenTom IversenMember since 2022
“Blew my shoulder out in year one. Their physio and the mobility class got me back under a bar in four months.”

Back to press 45 kg

Portrait of Amara ColeAmara ColeMember since 2021

Questions

Before you sign up

It is the right one. Every membership starts with a 90-minute assessment and a beginner block. Roughly a third of our members had never touched a barbell before joining.

Free trial

Three days. No card.

Book the trial, turn up, train. If it is not for you, we will not chase you — you will not hear from us again.

We reply within the hour, 6am to 9pm.