Coached small-group strength in an 1890s Providence mill. $175 a month, flat for a year. Your first hour is free.
60 minutes with a coach. You leave with three numbers to beat.
What $15 can't buy
Nobody there will notice you skipped Thursday. Here, someone will. That's most of what $175 buys, and it's the part that gets people strong.
Who knows you're there
$15 gymA door scanner.
CorlissYour coach, by first name, and the people on the next rack.
Your program
$15 gymWhatever you found online.
CorlissWritten for you on Day One. Adjusted at weeks 2, 6 and 10.
Your form
$15 gymYour reflection.
CorlissA coach's eyes on your sets, and your deadlift on video at day 1 and day 90.
Your progress
$15 gymA guess.
CorlissThree numbers, written down, tested again on day 90.
If you stop coming
$15 gymNothing happens.
CorlissYour coach texts you inside a week.
$175 a month, flat for a year. It buys a coach, not a key card.
An 1890s mill, six black racks, chalk in the air.
Four coaches
You'll meet all four in your first two weeks. By the third, they'll know what you pulled last Tuesday.
Your first 90 days
Jess runs every Day One and owns every new member's first 90 days. She takes your three numbers, films your first deadlift, and texts you that night with what you pulled. She's 27, from Pawtucket, and she's very hard to ghost.
Ask her aboutthe card. Everyone gets one.
Head coach
Frank competed as a powerlifter for years and has coached more deadlifts than he can count. He's 52, he carries a stopwatch on a cord, and he talks quietly enough that the whole room leans in. He sets how every test at Corliss is run, so day 90 means the same thing for everyone.
Ask him aboutthe one cue he gives everybody.
Barbell and Olympic lifting
Marisol threw shot put in college and grew up in Providence. She coaches the squat, the clean and anything with a barbell on your back. She's 34 and she's the laugh you hear from the other end of the mill, usually right after somebody's best set.
Ask her aboutwhy your squat stops halfway.
Knees, comebacks, and members over 60
Kofi was a physical therapist before he was a coach. Bad knees, old surgeries, a back that's been "fine, mostly" for ten years: that's his lane. He's 41, he keeps a pencil behind his ear, and he'll write down exactly where you start without making a face about it.
Ask him aboutthe box squat. It's how most comebacks start.
The First 90
Most people don't quit a gym in a week. They fade around month two, when nobody's measuring and nobody notices. So we measure, and somebody notices. Here's exactly what happens.
A trap-bar deadlift, your heaviest clean set of 5. Not a max.
Push-ups, as many clean ones as you have. Off a box is fine; we write down the height.
A 500 m row for time, or a farmer's carry.
Plus one number we don't test.On Day One you tell Jess what you want to be able to do. "Carry both kids up the stairs." "Deadlift my bodyweight." She writes it down in your words. On day 90 she reads it back to you.
60 minutes with Jess. One lift taught properly, filmed on your phone. Three numbers on your card. Your first two classes booked before you leave.
A text from Jess with your numbers in it.
You're introduced to the room by name and paired with someone who's been here a while.
15 minutes. Is the schedule working, does anything hurt, one form fix on video.
One number re-tested in class. Usually the push-ups. Usually up.
Your day-1 deadlift next to today's, on the same phone.
Your re-test goes on the calendar. Jess tells you what's coming. She's usually smiling.
Same three tests, same way, same coach. Then the two videos side by side.
On day 90 we don't ask you to renew. We show you what you built and ask what's next.
You leave day 90 with three new numbers, a new date, and a coach who expects you. That's the whole renewal.
Before you book
Good. Most Day Ones start with an empty bar, and you'll learn it right the first time. Nobody here will laugh.
Tell us on the booking form. Kofi was a physical therapist; he'll know your Day One plan before you walk in, and he'll be on the floor for it.
Because $15 buys the room and $175 buys the coaching. If you want the room, go there; it's a fine room. If you want someone to know your name and fix your deadlift, come here.
No. It's month to month. The price stays $175 for a year.
Day One
60 minutes with Jess. One lift taught properly, three numbers on a card, and your first two classes booked if you want them. If you don't, you leave with the numbers anyway.