Classes · What the blocks mean
Everything on the grid is one of these. Coached classes cap at eight because that’s how many people one coach can actually coach — nobody disappears in the back row.
13 blocks a week · cap of 8
Barbell work in a class of eight — squat, press, pull, on a program that repeats long enough to prove itself. Your numbers live in a notebook on the shelf with your name on it, not in an app.
Your first time: You’ll work with an empty bar until the movement looks right, then load it. You leave with three numbers written down and a sore spot you expected.
11 blocks a week · cap of 8
Intervals on the turf lane — sleds, carries, jumps, a clock. Scored, hard, and over inside the hour. No choreography, no shouting playlist theater.
Your first time: Every piece scales by load and distance. You finish the same workout as everyone else, sized to day one instead of day four hundred.
2 blocks a week · cap of 8
Six weeks, twice a week, the same eight people and the same coach. The main lifts from zero, at half the room’s usual volume — by week six you slot into the regular classes without ceremony.
Your first time: This is the class built for you. Groups start every six weeks; the next start date is on the whiteboard, or text us and we’ll hold a spot.
7 blocks a week · no cap
The racks, the bars, the turf lane — no class running, a coach on the floor for questions and spotting. Bring your own program or ask for one to borrow.
Your first time: Take a coached class first. Open gym assumes you already know your way around a barbell — the free first class is the better front door.
The coaches · Two of them, on purpose
Portrait slot — the real coach, photographed in this gym
Owner · head coach · 15 years coaching
Writes the strength cycles and coaches most of the mornings. Started in a garage that hit twenty degrees every January, and built Splitrock so nobody has to train alone in the cold.
On the floor: weekday mornings, noon strength, Saturday.
Portrait slot — the real coach, photographed in this gym
Coach · conditioning & the six-week group · 9 years coaching
Runs the conditioning template and every beginners’ group. Holds that the hardest rep is the front door, and coaches accordingly — nobody gets lost in the back of his room.
On the floor: weekday evenings, the 4:30 group, Saturday.
Every class above has a free first one in it.