Strength & movement coaching
Ribbon House is a one-room studio for people who want to get stronger without guessing. Every block is coached in person, written down, and adjusted as your week changes.
First session is a conversation and a movement screen — no programme is written before that.
One room. One coach.
Programmes
Each programme runs as a block of sessions with a plan for the days in between. Blocks can be paused, and you can move between them as your goals shift.
New to lifting
Twelve sessions spent building the six movements everything else is made of, at a pace that lets technique settle.
From £58 / session
Lifting already
An eight-week progression written around the lifts you care about, with loads reviewed every fortnight.
From £62 / session
Returning after a break
A gentler on-ramp for anyone coming back from time off, with load added only once range and confidence are there.
From £58 / session
Two people, one plan
Train with a partner or friend on matched plans, sharing the hour and splitting the cost of the session.
From £38 / person
The method
Nothing is sold before it is understood. The first four steps are the same for everyone, whatever they end up training for.
Twenty minutes on what you want to be able to do, what your week looks like and anything that currently hurts.
A simple session of squatting, hinging and pressing so we both see where you're starting from before anything is written.
You train in blocks of sessions with a written plan for the days between. Every session is coached, not counted.
At the end of a block we look at the log together, keep what worked and change what didn't before the next one starts.
The coach
I started Ribbon House because most people don't need a new sport — they need someone to watch the first ten reps and tell them the truth. I coach one person at a time, in a room quiet enough to hear a cue.
A programme you can repeat next month beats a perfect one you abandon next week.
Questions
No. Foundations exists for people who have never picked up a barbell, and the first block assumes nothing. If you've trained before, we start from what you can already do rather than resetting you.
Clothes you can move in, flat shoes and a water bottle. Everything else — bars, plates, dumbbells, mats, bands — is in the studio.
An hour, including the warm-up and a few minutes at the end to write down what you lifted. Pair sessions run the same hour.
Usually, yes, and it's worth mentioning it in your enquiry. If you're under the care of a clinician I'll work to their guidance and keep loads inside whatever range they've set.
Let me know at least a day ahead and we'll find another slot in the same week where one exists. Blocks can also be paused if you're away.
Enquire
Tell me what you'd like to work on and I'll reply with a couple of times for a consultation. No commitment to a block until after the movement screen.