Core programme
Barbell Strength
Squat, press, deadlift, on a written programme that changes every eight weeks. Where most members spend most of their time.
Leeds · Max 12 per class
Get strong. Stay boring.
No transformation packages, no leaderboards, no one filming themselves in the squat rack. Just the same six lifts, coached properly, twice a week, for years.
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people per class, hard cap
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years in the same arch
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coaches, all full-time
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mirrors on the floor
What we run
Three classes. That is the whole offering.
We could run fifteen. We would coach all of them worse.
Conditioning
Engine
Intervals on bikes, ropes and sleds. Hard, short, and finished before you have time to negotiate with yourself.
One to one
Coaching Block
Six private sessions for people coming back from injury, or anyone who would rather learn the lifts without an audience.
Your first session
Nobody is going to make you sick on day one
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Twenty minutes talking, before anything is lifted
02
A movement screen — ankles, hips, shoulders
03
The lifts, with an empty bar, until they look right
04
You leave with a written plan for eight weeks
Who coaches
Four coaches, all here full-time
No rotating freelancers. The person who taught you to deadlift will still be here in two years to tell you to stop rounding your back.
Ravik Onwe
Head coach
Opened the arch in 2017. Programming and barbell technique.
Thalia Quen
Strength coach
Return-to-training after injury. Very hard to impress.
Morden Brask
Conditioning
Runs Engine. Will tell you when to stop, and mean it.
Isolde Frejn
Coaching blocks
One-to-one work, beginners and nervous starters.
Members
What they said after a year
I have been to gyms where the class is a workout. Here it is a lesson. Two years in, I am still being corrected, which is the point.
Wren AstleyMember since 2023
Came back after a slipped disc. They spent six weeks not letting me load the bar. Frustrating then, obviously right now.
Calder NyxMember since 2022
No mirrors, no music you have to shout over, and nobody has ever tried to sell me a supplement. That is genuinely all I wanted.
Perrin ValeMember since 2024
First session is free and always will be
No card details, no trial that auto-converts. Come in, get assessed, decide afterwards.