Rock
Strength
Club
Make Yourself Strong.
Our purpose
To create a strength-minded community and give our clients the coaching, the tools, and the space to make themselves stronger than they ever thought possible.
Our promise
Our clients will:
Increase their lean body mass, quickly and safely.
Feel the camaraderie of a strength-minded community.
Become adept in using their bodies the way they were mechanically designed.
Experience a level of well-being and vitality that they likely haven't before.
Our method
Focuses on fundamental barbell strength training, performed perfectly and done heavy.
This “back to the basics” approach is the quickest, safest and most effective way to get strong.
Right now
We are gauging interest in our concept, with the aim of opening in 2021 or 2022.
RSC is different than "normal" gyms, and we believe the results will prove it.
PLEASE click "RSC Questionnaire" below, to help us with your thoughts and input, and get 50% off your first month's membership, if and when we open for business.
Why is strength so important?
Our bodies are meant to be strong.
Throughout history, people's lives depended on strength.
At RSC we believe much still depends on it.
Strength is the nucleus. Strength is the fundamental building block to health and fitness.
Quality of life. Trainees can achieve freedom from pain, better posture and balance, improvements to bone-density and circulation, better sleep and appetite, more vitality – the list goes on and on.
Performance. All physical ability emerges from strength. When you are strong, your speed, agility, power, balance, coordination, and overall athletic performance all improve.
Confidence. Few things in life are as certain as getting stronger as you train more. Few things breed as much self-confidence as conquering a lift that you once thought impossible.
Stronger with age. As we age, much of our decline in health and well-being can be traced to lack of strength. Strength is critical to mobility and independence, and its importance only increases as we age.
Strength is for everyone. Young, old, women, men, athletes, and beginners. If you've never touched weights before, that's why you need to!
The basics - what is this all about?
Our RSC flagship membership offering is based on Starting Strength.
Structure.
Small class "studio-like" format (no more than 12 people)
Led by professional strength coaches
Generally, 3 workout sessions per week – usually M-W-F or Tu-Th-Sa.
Workout sessions take as long as they take, typically 45-75 minutes.
Exercises.
Exercise number, complexity and variation are
NOT
the key.
The right exercises, performed correctly,
ARE
the key.
Simple, effective compound barbell movements. For example: Squat, Deadlift, Overhead Press, Bench Press, Power Clean.
Coaching & programming.
Learn perfect technique from highly-trained, certified professionals to get optimal results, quickly and safely.
Progressive stress
, followed by
proper recovery
drives
adaptation
.
Loads increase in challenging but manageable increments with each workout.
Optimal workout intervals, adequate rest, and proper nutrition are essential!
Why RSC?
We do it the right way.
Method.
Based on the proven Starting Strength methodology, founded by Mark Rippetoe.
Watch this video to learn more.
Environment.
A clean, studio-like facility.
Distinctly NOT your typical "muscle-head" gym.
Only the highest quality equipment.
Coaches.
Highly trained, certified strength coaches who are passionate about helping you make yourself strong.
Community.
Train with people you like to be with, and get stronger together.
Value.
Everyone will make significant, measurable progress, for less than $30 per session.
About our facility.
Environment.
Fresh, tidy studio-like environment. White walls, clean lines, blonde wood.
Multiple workout stations and 1 Olympic platform.
Dedicated stretching and conditioning area.
Equipment.
Simple, quality, time-tested, no-nonsense steel.
Workout stations each equipped with a platform, Rogue power rack, bench, barbell, plates and collars
Conditioning equipment including Concept2 rowing machines, Rogue Echo bikes.
Not sure if
this is for you?
We get it.
Consider the following...
Women
The biggest concern women typically have about strength training is that they want to lose weight (more specifically, fat), look more toned, but DON'T want to get "big and bulky". This is an unfounded concern. The vast majority of women can not and will not get big, bulky "masculine looking" muscles by following our strength training program. Women WILL, however, get stronger, increase their metabolism, feel better, sleep better, and significantly rebalance their body composition through strength training with barbells. Give us 10 weeks and see if you're still concerned.
Read this article to understand more: "Re-informing a Misinformed Female Lifter about Strength Training"
Seniors
As we age, strength only becomes more important. For seniors, RSC believes that strength is fundamental to longevity, health and quality of life. Strength training makes daily physical tasks easier, improves mobility, improves bone density, circulation, appetite, and vitality. Obviously, it takes special care to empower older people to strength train with a barbell, but if you think the risks outweigh the benefits, think again.
Read this article "Strength Training Seniors" to understand more.
Men
Experienced.
If you already lift weights or have before, you likely don't need to be convinced of the benefits. But consider whether you've really achieved the results you want, as efficiently as you'd like. If not, then our program is for you. You will gain more lean muscle, in a more efficient, simpler and safer way than you have in other programs. You will likely be amazed at how much you've been overcomplicating things!
Newbie.
If you've never tried strength training, there's no time like the present! We welcome newbies, and in fact, we love nothing more than to help a new trainee learn how to train and to see the astonishment in his eyes as the transformation unfolds. You will gain lean muscle and strength rapidly! Give us 10 weeks, and watch yourself transform!
Either way, watch this video to hear more about the method.
Adolescents
"Kids shouldn't strength train -- it'll stunt their growth!" It's nonsense. Strength training for adolescents takes a different type of approach, and greater care with increasing of load, but these barbell exercises are the epitome of natural, human anatomical movement. Adolescents can and SHOULD strength train!
Read this article to learn more: "Can You Put Your Kids on a Strength Training Program?"
Athletes
All things being equal in a sport or physical endeavor, the stronger competitor will prevail. Strength is the core of all athletics. If you're stronger, you'll be faster, you'll be quicker, you'll jump higher, you'll hit harder. Strength training with barbells not only makes your muscles stronger, and not only allows you to produce more force and power, but it strengthens your bones, your ligaments and tendons and fascia. It makes you more structurally solid and less injury prone. And there is no better way to get strong than to train with us.
Read this article by Mark Rippetoe (the founder of Starting Strength) to learn more about strength and athletic performance: "The Two Factor Model of Sports Performance".
Our offerings
There are various ways to get strong at RSC.
RSC flagship membership
Train with a skilled coach, 3x per week (optional: 2x per week).
Small group sessions to enable high-quality coaching.
Real-time feedback to ensure safe and effective technique.
Everyone makes measurable progress.
Customized individual programming - each trainee gets his or her own training plan.
Less than $30 per session, billed monthly.
"Book a workout station" key-card access to facility outside of classes (up to 4x per week).
No hidden fees. No contract. Cancel any time.
Basic membership
Access to open stations for "on your own" workouts, up to 4x per week.
Book a workout station online - no waiting for equipment!
Peak and off-peak monthly pricing options.
Group intro session included to teach you the lifts and to get you acquainted with the gym.
Note to third-party personal trainers: each client must have at least basic membership.
Other options
Private and semi-private training sessions available; per hour pricing.
Workshops "a la carte"; per workshop pricing.
Subscriptions for third-party personal trainers.
Contact us
RSC's concept is different than "normal" gyms, and we believe the results will prove it.
We are aiming to open in 2021 or 2022.
We are currently assessing market interest.
Please take our short questionnaire to help us with your thoughts and input, and get 50% off your first month's membership, if and when we open for business.Feel free to contact us by email with your thoughts and questions!
Mike Weinberg
Our founder
In my early teens, I was a tubby kid with low self-esteem. My father taught me how to lift weights down in the cold, unfinished part of our basement using my grandfather's rusty old barbell set.
I got stronger, and as my muscles grew, so did my self-confidence.
In college, I really blossomed as a weight-trainer. I found a sense of kinship and community in the weight room. And I definitely got big and strong. I competed in amateur bodybuilding contests
(I am in fact Mr. University of Pennsyslvania, 1996. Check it out here). To say I'm passionate about strength and weight-training is an understatement. It is part of the fabric of who I am.
Over the years I have seen fitness trends grow and wane. I've worked part-time in "big box" gyms, and I've watched people waste their time and risk injury doing things wrong and overcomplicating everything. CrossFit is interesting and impressive, but to me it's too much, and too injury-prone, which is contrary to the whole reason I'm in the gym in the first place.
I've always wanted to own a gym, and to help people benefit from my experience and from the results that weight-training delivers. But nothing out there really appealed to me, until I discovered Starting Strength. The simplicity and certainty is really amazing.
I love it, and I want to help you love it too!