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Free first session
Ancoats, Manchester M4 Open 05:00 – 22:00 weekdays Staffed 06:00 – 20:00 No contract, no joining fee

This week on
the floor.

Every class is coached, capped at twelve, and included in membership. Turn up five minutes early and tell the coach it is your first one.

Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
06:00
BarbellSquat focus
Conditioning45 min
BarbellPress focus
Conditioning45 min
BarbellDeadlift
Open gymFrom 07:00
09:30
Strength 50+Coached, slower
BeginnersSix week block
Strength 50+Coached, slower
BeginnersSix week block
Strength 50+Coached, slower
BarbellFull session
Open gym09:00 – 14:00
12:15
Express 30In and out
Express 30In and out
Express 30In and out
Express 30In and out
Express 30In and out
17:45
BarbellSquat focus
Conditioning45 min
BarbellPress focus
Conditioning45 min
Friday liftHeavy, social
19:00
BeginnersSix week block
BarbellTechnique
BeginnersSix week block
BarbellTechnique

Swipe the table sideways on a phone. Bank holidays run the Saturday timetable. Classes are released a week ahead and booked in the app.

We are a gym for people who want to get strong, not a gym with a juice bar.

Fourteen racks, two platforms, a sled track and enough bumper plates that you never queue. No mirrors wall, no class with a DJ, no twelve month contract you have to write a letter to leave.
The gym floor at Apex, racks and benches under low light
Membership

Three ways in

Off peak

£32
per month
  • 09:30 to 16:00, weekdays
  • All weekend
  • Classes included
  • Cancel any month

Full

£46
per month
  • Every hour we are open
  • All classes included
  • Programme written for you
  • Cancel any month

Pay as you go

£9
per session
  • Drop in, no sign up
  • Classes if there is space
  • Ten for £75
  • Never expires

No joining fee, ever. If you cancel, it stops at the end of that month and we do not ring you about it. Students and NHS, £6 off the full membership with an ID.

Coaching

Who is on the floor

A lifter pulling a loaded barbell in the gym

Nadia

Beginners block and the 50+ sessions. Spent nine years coaching in a council leisure centre and has taught more first squats than anyone here.

Mon · Wed · Fri mornings
A lifter mid squat with a barbell across the shoulders

Deniz

Barbell technique and the Friday lift. Competes at 93kg, which mostly means he will tell you your bar path is fine and your bracing is not.

Evenings · Saturday
A loaded barbell resting on the gym floor

Open gym

Unstaffed early mornings and late evenings, fob entry, cameras on. If you already know what you are doing, the place is yours.

05:00 – 06:00 · 20:00 – 22:00

First session is free and it is not a sales pitch

You train. Someone shows you where things are. Nobody takes your card details at the door and nobody rings you afterwards.

Book the first one