Your first visit
You don’t have to be fit to start.
Here is exactly what happens the first time you walk in. Then, if it sounds like your room, ask us for a session.
It takes a name and an email. Leave a mobile and you will get a text straight back.
The rooms
What people tell us they were worried about.
They come from both directions.
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I’ll be the least fit person in there.
The people in there are in their thirties, forties, fifties and sixties, and every one of them is working on something different to the person beside them. Nobody is counting your reps except the coach, and the coach is counting to help you. Classes are booked rather than turned up to, so it is never a crowd and never a queue.
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I won’t know what I’m doing.
You won’t on day one, and the session is built on that assumption. A coach is in the room for every session. They show you the movement, give you somewhere to start, and change it on the spot if it is wrong. You are never handed a workout and left to it.
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It’ll wreck me.
Only if we ignore what your week has already done to you, and we ask about that before you begin. Some days the answer is heavy. Some days it is the mat and your breath. Both of those are the practice, and neither one is the consolation prize.
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It won’t push me.
The work is written to progress: what you do this week is built on what you did last week, aimed at where it should be in three months. Nobody is shuffling a fresh workout each morning. The coach moves the weight up as readily as down. Calm is how the room runs. It is not a description of how hard you work in it.
A note from the founder
I’ve had the same conversation for twenty-two years. Someone tells me they want to train properly, then tells me they’ll start once they’re a bit fitter.
I have never once watched anyone finish that sentence.
There is no getting fit enough first. There is this week, and whether you spend it in a room that is set up for you.
Bryan Beinke, Founder
The first session, start to finish.
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Getting here
32 Magill Road, Norwood. There is a car park at the back of the building, in off Magill Road or off Chapel Street. Look for the bright blue fence. There is street parking on Magill Road as well, but it is a clearway between 7.30am and 9am, so leave that one alone in the morning.
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Ten minutes early
Come a little before your first session. Someone meets you at the door and walks you through the rooms, so you know where everything is before anyone asks you to do anything with it.
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Before you start
The coach asks what your week has done to you. Sleep, work, the knee that has an opinion, how long it has been since you trained. That is not small talk. The answer changes what you are given, which is the whole reason for asking it.
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The session
You train with everyone else, at your own level. Each movement gets shown to you and you get a starting point that suits you. If it is too much it comes down, and if it is too easy it goes up. Most sessions finish with breath and restore work, which is the part people say they did not expect and then will not give up.
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On the way out
We tell you honestly what we think would suit you, and you go home and think about it. Nothing is signed on a first visit and nobody chases you.
Coaching in the room
Every session has a coach in it. That is not a line, it is the roster.
That is the whole of it. Ask us for a session and we will find you a time.
The questions we actually get asked.
- I haven’t trained in years.
- Then say so when you get in touch, and we will start you somewhere that reflects it. Coming back after a long time off is the most common first session we run, not the unusual one.
- I’ve got an injury, or something that flares up.
- Tell us before you come rather than after. It changes what we put in front of you, and sometimes it means we start you in a smaller session of up to three people instead of a class. We would much rather know.
- Do I have to pick the gym or the studio?
- Not to come in. One conversation covers both, and we will tell you honestly which room suits what you are after. They run on their own memberships, so nothing you decide now locks anything.
- What does it cost?
- Every price is published, on the gym page and the studio page, if you want the numbers before you speak to anyone. Nothing is signed on a first visit, and we will not ask you for a payment method to have a conversation.
- When do sessions run, and what do I bring?
- Monday to Saturday. In the gym that is Hybrid, Traditional Strength, Functional Strength, Karma, Vinyasa Yoga, Mat Pilates and Yin Yoga, and the studio runs Reformer. The live timetable is on the week. Bring whatever you would normally train in and a water bottle. If a session needs anything else we will tell you before you come.
One practice, met wherever the week left you.
How to start.
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Leave your details.
Tell us a little about where you are at, or nothing at all beyond a name and an email. It takes about thirty seconds.
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We find you a time.
We answer your questions, and we fit the session to your day and your level. If you left a mobile you will get a text straight back.
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You come in.
Exactly as described above. Ten minutes early, a look around, and a session fitted to you. Nothing is signed and nobody chases you.
Ask for a first session.
Tell us where you are at and we will find you a session that fits your week and your level. No pressure and no hard sell.
We built CMC for people who want to train well, not to be wrecked. The easiest first step is to ask for one session.
Bryan, founder
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