Forty-two a week, included in unlimited, £7 drop-in for everyone else
Classes
Strength, circuits, boxing, spin, yoga, mobility, a beginners' class and the Sunday hill run, forty-two sessions a week from 6:15am to 7:30pm, capped at sixteen so the coach can see everyone, booked in the app up to a week ahead or walked into if there is space.
Classes are where the gym gets its reputation, because a class with sixteen people and a coach who knows your name is a different thing from forty people and a microphone. Every class is capped, every coach is one of our four trainers, and the timetable has not changed its shape in three years because it works.
The week: Forge Strength (barbell, coached, three levels) on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings and evenings; Circuits every lunchtime and most evenings; Boxing Fitness on Tuesday and Thursday nights with the bags and pads; Spin at 6:15 three mornings; Yoga on Tuesday and Thursday mornings and Sunday afternoon; Mobility on Wednesday and Saturday; First Steps, the beginners' class, on Monday and Thursday at ten and Saturday at nine; and the Sunday Hill Run up the Taff Trail to Cefn at eight, back for coffee by nine-thirty.
Book in the app up to a week ahead and cancel up to two hours before; a no-show without cancelling three times in a month pauses booking for a week, which keeps spaces real. Unlimited members book free; full and off-peak members and non-members pay £7 a class or buy ten for £60. First Steps is free for anyone in their free trial week, and we would rather you came to that than to Forge Strength on your first day.
What is included
- Forty-two classes a week, 6:15am to 7:30pm
- Capped at sixteen, coached by our own trainers
- Booked in the app a week ahead, or walk in
- Free in the unlimited membership
- £7 drop-in, ten for £60
- First Steps, the beginners' class, free in the trial week
What it costs
Included in the unlimited membership (£44 a month, £28 for students). £7 a class for other members and non-members. The timetable is on its own page. The membership page has the three memberships side by side, personal training prices and every extra. No contract, no joining fee.
Questions about classes
Do I need to be fit already?
No. Every class has a scaled version and the coach will give it to you without being asked. First Steps exists for exactly this, and Mobility and Yoga suit anyone.
What if a class is full?
Join the waiting list in the app; most spaces come back within the two-hour cancellation window. If a class is full every week we add another, which is how Tuesday boxing became Tuesday and Thursday.
A free week. All of it. No card details.
Seven days of the floor, every class on the timetable and an induction with a trainer, booked with a name and an email. Join afterwards at the website price with no joining fee, or do not, and nobody rings you. About six in ten people join.