We're a barbell gym off Woodland Street with chalk on the floor and rubber on the wall. Four coaches, six classes a day, no mirrors, no music videos, no transformation photos. If you want serious training inside a small class, you'll fit here.
Posted on the whiteboard by 5:15am every morning. Coaches scale every movement — sub a ring row for a pull-up, drop the bar to a PVC if it's your first week. Showing up is the only part that doesn't scale.
Sit down with Reno or Marisol at the gym. We'll walk you through the space, ask about your training history, look at your squat, and figure out whether we're a fit. No sales pitch — if we're not the right gym we'll say so and point you somewhere good.
A private one-on-one plus two coach-led group classes built for first-timers. You'll learn the air squat, deadlift, press, kettlebell swing, and the row stroke. By session three you'll do a real (scaled) workout with the regular crowd.
Pick a plan, lock in. Most people start on 3x/week because life is busy and Tue/Thu/Sat is plenty. Upgrade or downshift any month — no annual contracts, no cancellation fee, ever.
Opened Iron & Oak after nine years coaching out of two other Nashville affiliates. Tractor mechanic before that. Coaches the 5:30am crew and the Barbell Club.
Former D-I rower. Knows more about pacing than anyone in the building. Runs the 6:30am and most evening classes. Will yell at you to breathe.
Was a Five Points line cook before coaching full-time. Quietest person on the floor; the one who sees what your right hip is doing before you do.
Came up through On-Ramp three years ago. Now runs the after-work classes. Day job is welding at a fab shop in Madison — yes, he made the rig.
Old warehouse on Woodland, two blocks east of Five Points and a five-minute drive from Riverside Village. Park on the street or in the gravel lot behind the building. The door is the unmarked black one with the green strip — you'll know it.