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Where to sweat, and how.
The gyms, studios and coaches worth your money, the programming worth your time, and an honest word on which membership actually makes sense.
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Your first four weeks of strength
Three sessions a week, five movements, and the patience to add a little at a time. That's the whole secret.
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Luxury gym, class packs or ClassPass: the honest maths
What a month of training really costs three ways, and how to choose without regret.
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Where we'd send you first.
The Low Room
Forty-five minutes of treadmill and floor in near darkness. You'll leave humbled and slightly in love.
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The Red Hour
The WeHo classic: treadmill, floor, red light and a front row that came to be seen.
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South End Strength
Small-group strength classes where the coach actually watches your form. Very South End: warm, social, and fitted.
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Fourteenth Street Sweat
A dark, loud, intensely social interval class on DC's busiest corridor. Book a week ahead.
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Train, in full.
Everything Train covers. Some of it is here now; the rest is arriving, in this order.
- Gyms and studiosLuxury gyms, boutique studios, reformer Pilates, spin, rowing, boxing, climbing, pools, and the tennis, padel and pickleball clubs.
- ProgrammingStrength, hypertrophy and body-part training explained in plain language, plus yoga, mobility and running.
- Free programsFour-week beginner strength, the pre-vacation plan and the reformer-to-weights transition, saved to your account.
- CoachesPersonal trainers, small-group coaching, online programs and the apps that are actually good.
- Travel weeksHotel-room and park workouts for when the gym is a treadmill facing a wall.
- The money questionLuxury gym, class packs or ClassPass: what each really costs a month, side by side.
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