Where it started

One rack, one
unit, one rule

Courage began in 2016 in a cold unit on an industrial estate, with a single squat rack, a car-boot set of plates and eleven people who kept turning up. There was no sign on the door. People found it because someone told them about it.

What grew from that wasn't a gym chain. It was a group of people who wanted the same thing in four different shapes: coaching for the ones rebuilding themselves, kit that holds up to real training, a football club for the lads and lasses who'd aged out of everywhere else, and a community arm for the people who could never have afforded the door fee.

Courage isn't the absence of fear. It's turning up anyway.