CELEBRATING six years in business this week, Nick Scott, founder of StrengthBox Gym attributes their success to the team’s professional approach.
Based in the Hogwood Industrial Estate in Finchampstead, the gym is kitted-out with top range equipment to help clients reach their goals.
The most important part of that, Nick says, is the team’s core mission to bridge the gap between professional sports coaching and personal training offered in gyms.
“We focus on high-quality training, with highly-qualified coaches,” he explains. “That’s really our core message, delivering expert-led results.”
With a master’s degree in sport and exercise psychology, and previous work with Harlequins FC in their premiership winning season, Nick has the skills to help.
“Instead of just getting clients to jump up and down, do a load of burpees and wear themselves out for an hour, we take a more holistic approach to their whole day, in and outside of the gym,” he explains.
“We help people to move more and become healthier in the process. And we can help to deconstruct their diet and analyse it to become much more healthy.”
Nick says clients vary in their goals, from those with little to no exercising experience, to more experienced athletes who thrive from goal-setting training programmes. And may people fall somewhere in between.
“Most people come to us looking to drop body fat and become more confident,” Nick says. “We can help them to change their body composition for the better.
“In the gym, we focus on setting targets and beating challenges. This is a really key part of our training. Research suggests that those people who focus more on the process than the end goal have much better outcomes.”
Clients have trained with Nick’s team from anywhere between six weeks to six years, with Nick’s longest client sticking with him for the past 11 years.
“For a lot of people, it’s more of a lifestyle thing,” he says. “And unless you’re a world record holder, there’s always more you can achieve. Even Olympians aim to beat their own scores. We just keep on moving the goalposts.”
StrengthBox has three dedicated personal trainers, all of whom offer one-to-one and group sessions.
“All sessions have to be booked, and are coach-led,” explains Nick. “Research looking at the way that coronavirus has spread shows that gyms are incredibly safe places due to the high standards we uphold.
“Each client is given a bottle of disinfectant when they arrive to clean and wipe down equipment before and after use, and we are routinely cleaning everything on site.”
At the moment, the gym is allowing 10 clients into the facility at one time, joined by either one or two coaches, depending on the day and sessions being run.
If Wokingham borough enters Tier 2, for a high coronavirus alert level, the gym will decrease visitor numbers to six per session. And if the borough reaches Tier 3, only one-to-one sessions will continue.
Group training costs £160 per month, and includes 25 hours of bookable time slots each week. Personal training sessions cost £599 for a six-week programme and £999 for a 12-week programme.
For more information, and to join StrengthBox Gym, visit: strengthboxgym.uk
Unit 11 Marino Way, Hogwood Industrial Estate, Wokingham, RG40 4RF
0118 327 3132
strengthboxgym.uk
