Every lift starts with an empty bar.
Tally is an independent barbell gym in a railway arch in Leeds. Eight platforms, a coach on the floor every hour we are open, and a training log with your name on it from your first session.
Learn the lift, then load it.
Your first weeks are spent on positions: squat, hinge, press and pull. The big plates go on when your coach is happy with how you move, not when the calendar says.
A card with your name on it.
Your coach writes every session on a programme card. It lives in the box by the door. You tick it off, and they adjust it each week.
Some weeks it goes up. Some weeks it doesn’t.
Every set goes in your log, the hard ones too. The tally shows a trend that no single session can.
A platform when you need one.
Eight platforms, each with its own rack, bar and full set of calibrated plates. The chart further down shows when they are free.
Someone always watching the bar.
A coach is on the floor whenever we are open. Ask for a spot, a cue or a second look at your bar path.
The small plates do the work.
Two and a half kilos at a time is how strength gets built. This is one example log; the numbers you write will be your own.
20kg
on the bar
- Wk 1 the empty bar 20
- Wk 6 first plates 70
- Wk 14 110
- Wk 26 a slow month 140
- Wk 40 160
- Wk 52 170
- Wk 60 small plates 175
An example log for back squats, not a promise.
Load the bar.
Type the weight on your card. You get the plates for each side, heaviest on first, and the bar loads itself.
Each side
Come when it’s quiet.
How full the floor usually is, hour by hour. Pick a day, then an hour.
Pick a class.
A sample timetable. Every class is capped at eight, one lifter to a platform.
Under the arch.
One long brick vault under the viaduct, five minutes from the station. Daylight at both ends, chalk on every rack, and nothing on the walls but plate trees.
- 8 platforms, each with a rack, a bar and calibrated plates
- 06:00 to 22:00 on weekdays, 08:00 to 18:00 at weekends
- 1 strip of turf with a sled, rowers and rings
- 1 box of programme cards by the door, plus showers and lockers
Pick your card.
No joining fee and a month’s notice to leave. Every card comes with your log book.
