Group Training

Perfect for broad, mid- to long-term goals like weight-loss, strength & conditioning for sports and life, and healthy aging.

What to expect

Structured, progressive programming

You wouldn’t take lessons from a piano teacher who showed up with a different instrument every day or advice from a financial planner who changed your investment strategy at each meeting. Likewise, you shouldn’t expect your performance coach to guide you through exercise regimens that lack session-to-session continuity.

That’s why we structure each day’s training to fit into a larger plan that ebbs and flows from week to week and month to month. Each session provides the consistency that’s needed to nudge your strength and endurance capabilities forward and enough variability to keep things interesting.

Human movement can be broadly broken down into a few categories—pushing, pulling, squatting, hinging, rotating, and carrying.

We not only write training programs that regularly incorporate all of those movements, but also offer comparable alternatives when you’re unable to do a planned exercise for any reason.

Our members and coaches have a variety of backgrounds, interests, and goals. But we all happily support each other in our individual pursuits—cheering after successes, lifting up after setbacks, and providing accountability throughout the process.

So whether you’re training to lose a few (or a hundred) pounds, run a 5k, climb a mountain, hike 60+ miles through the woods in the middle of winter, break a world record, or anything in between, you’ll have an army of TNT friends at both your back and your side.

Getting started

We offer a variety of options for getting started with group training based on your prior experience and intended frequency.

You can learn the basics in one of three primary ways. Similar material is covered in each type of session, although to varying depths.

Regardless of the method you choose, you’ll learn and practice enough technique to be able to safely participate in our ongoing group training sessions:

  1. Attend a group introductory session on the first or third Wednesday of the month (45 minutes).
  2. Schedule a private introductory session Monday – Saturday (45 minutes).
  3. Attend a quarterly Kettlebell 101 workshop (4 hours).

After attending one of these sessions, you can pick from any of the 6-week intro options in the I Have Some Experience tab below.

All of our introductory options:

  • Run for six weeks.
  • Can be used to attend group training or jiu jitsu sessions.
  • Include use of our infrared saunas and showers before or after training.
  • Can be placed on hold for illness, travel, etc.

Why six weeks, and why not a free drop-in class like lots of other gyms offer? For two primary reasons:

First, six weeks is long enough to see progress but short enough that you hopefully won’t feel locked in for the long-term if you decide our style of training isn’t your thing.

Second, since the difficulty of our training program ebbs and flows—a format which produces great long-term results—we prefer that you make a decision about ongoing training after experiencing that fluctuation instead of after a single session.

FAQs

That depends on what you want to accomplish.

Your strength and endurance will improve if you consistently train twice per week, especially if you regularly participate in other physical activities throughout the week.

While 4-5 times per week will produce the fastest results, what leads to the most enduring progress is consistency over time. And we’d much rather see you begin with a frequency you’re confident you can maintain than to start strong but fizzle out after a couple of weeks.

So three times per week seems to be the sweet spot for most people and is what we most commonly recommend, especially if training with us will be your primary activity.

The majority of people we coach had never touched a kettlebell prior to training with us. A few of them even told us that they didn’t consider themselves to be particularly strong or coordinated.

But we have plenty of practical teaching tools to help even the most unathletic learn and enjoy the process. So as long as you’re able to show up at our door using your own power of locomotion, then, yes, we’re fairly certain you’ll be able to do this.

We lift kettlebells, our body weight, and the occasional barbell.

Sure, kettlebells are unique tools that naturally provide some unexpected benefits compared to dumbbells, barbells, or machines. But, ultimately, they’re still just weights, and the results you get depend upon their size and how you use them.

Ours range in size from 4 kilograms (9 pounds) to 56 kilograms (125 pounds), and we use them to improve mobility, endurance, power, and strength.

See our answer to the prior question.

One of our favorite sayings is, “Every exercise is a back exercise, if you do it wrong enough.”

A similar concept applies equally to kettlebells, barbells, yoga, or hopscotch. If you don’t know what you’re doing and you move poorly, then a variety of potential injuries are possible.

But the opposite is also true. If you learn how to move well and emphasize the use of proper technique when you lift, then your body—including your back, knees, and shoulders—will actually become more resilient.

We’ll send you an email detailing the ongoing training options about a week before your introductory membership ends. If you plan to continue training with us, you can set up an ongoing membership from the links provided in that message. Otherwise, you won’t have to do anything as the introductory option simply expires.

You can request that we place your membership on hold for an upcoming week by sending us a message from the contact page. Also let us know if you missed a week due to illness, and we’ll comp you a week.

Yes, there’s a 30% discount for the second person in a couple’s membership—because it’s not only more fun but also better for adherence when you train with your significant other. (You don’t need to attend the same training sessions, although we recommend it at least occasionally if your schedules align.)

Unfortunately, there’s not a simple way for you to set up a couple’s membership online. So send us a message from the contact page, and we’ll get things set up on the back end of the system.

During COVID we coached all of our training sessions online using Google Meet. After COVID we figured it was an easy enough process to continue as a convenience for members whose schedule sometimes prevented them from making it to a session.

So if you have an active membership, an internet connection, and a kettlebell or two of your own, you can log on during regularly scheduled training sessions and participate almost like you were here!

(Google Meet provides two-way communication capabilities, so we can chat back and forth during the session.)

Yes, there are two individual showers in each of the men’s and women’s restrooms.

Send us a message from the contact page. We’re happy to either answer your questions via email or schedule a brief virtual chat or tour.