White — 5 kg

Foundations

Where everyone starts: the lifts taught from a wooden dowel up.

  • 60 min
  • Up to 6 people
  • Everyone
  • Coached
A wooden dowel held at the hips during a technique drill

About Foundations

Four weeks, eight sessions, small groups. Foundations teaches the squat, hinge, press and pull from a dowel to a loaded bar, so you arrive in Barbell Club knowing what you are doing and why.

How the hour runs

  1. Welcome and warm-up
    Names, goals, how the floor works.
    10 min
  2. Movement
    One pattern per session, dowel to bar.
    30 min
  3. Practice
    Light sets with the coach beside you.
    15 min
  4. Next steps
    What to practise before the next session.
    5 min

60 minutes in all.

An athlete rehearses a lift with a dowel in front of the dumbbell rack

Who it's for

  • Everyone new to the club
  • Lifters returning after a long break
  • Anyone who has never been coached on the barbell

Bring

  • Trainers
  • Curiosity — no experience needed

When

3 times a week

Book Foundations
  • 17:30to 18:30
    Monday
    Mara QuinnBook
  • 17:30to 18:30
    Wednesday
    Mara QuinnBook
  • 08:30to 09:30
    Saturday
    Mara QuinnBook