Mara Kovač
Head Coach · Level 3 · MCIMSPA
Competed at the British Masters and still gets more excited about a member's first 60kg squat than any lift of her own.
KG coached off the floor: 4,180,250
Strongis aSkill.
First session free. No joining fee. No contract. Coached every hour.
We teach it. Foundry is an independent strength and conditioning gym in Guildford where every hour is coached and nobody is left guessing at a machine.
Book your free first session ↓Monday
Today's timetable
Tap a class, give us a first name and a mobile, and you're booked. No account, no app, no login. Your first session is free, whichever class you pick.
Can't see a class that suits? Open floor is included in every membership and there's a coach on the floor every open hour.
Read this before you visit
Your first session
Walking into a gym you've never seen is the hardest set you'll do here. So here's the whole thing, start to finish, before you've left your sofa.
- 01
Where to park
Twelve free spaces in the yard, right outside the big yellow door. If they're full, the station car park is a four-minute walk. You can sit in the car for a minute first. Everyone does.
- 02
What to wear
Anything you can move in. An old t-shirt, joggers, whatever trainers you own. There's no dress code and nobody here is dressed for the camera. Forget your water bottle? We have a fridge and a kettle.
- 03
The first 10 minutes
Priya meets you at the door. On purpose, every time. She'll show you where the changing rooms, the loos and the chalk are, then take you through a warm-up at your speed. No fitness test, no clipboard, no measuring tape.
- 04
Nobody will make you do a burpee on day one
Promise. You'll learn two lifts with an empty bar, find out what a sensible first week looks like, and finish feeling like you could have done more. That's deliberate. You'll come back.
05
Priya, who'll greet you
Priya Sharma runs our Foundations classes and has greeted every first-timer through that door since 2023. She has taught 312 people their first deadlift, most of whom arrived saying “I'm not really a gym person”. She'd argue there's no such thing.
What it costs
The price on this page is the price. There's no tour-then-pressure chat.
Day pass
£12
Turn up, train, leave. Full access to the floor and any coached hour that day.
No joining fee. No contract.
Most members pick this
Monthly
£54/mo
Rolling month to month, cancel anytime with a text. Every class and the open floor included.
No joining fee. No contract.
Coached unlimited
£89/mo
Everything in Monthly, plus your own programme and a monthly one-to-one check-in with Mara or Danny.
No joining fee. No contract.
The coaches
Three of us, on the floor every open hour. You will never train here unsupervised and unsure.
Danny Aluko
Strength Coach · Level 3
Wrote the Engine programme on a napkin in 2022 and has been apologising for it every Thursday since.
KG coached off the floor: 2,966,400
Priya Sharma
Foundations Coach · Level 3
Greets every first-timer at the door and keeps a wall of Polaroids of first deadlifts. There are 312 of them.
KG coached off the floor: 1,408,750
The floor
Have a look round before you've been. Knowing where things are is half the nerves dealt with.
2,400 square feet, one room, no maze of machines. If you ever look lost for more than ten seconds, a coach will appear. We've timed it.
Members, verbatim
“I hadn't lifted since school. Twelve weeks in I deadlifted 100kg and rang my mum from the car park.”
“I paid for a chain gym for two years and went four times. I've been at Foundry three mornings a week since my taster.”
“The 6am crew clapped my first chin-up. Grown adults, clapping at sunrise. I nearly cried.”
4.9 on Google from 87 reviews. Go and read the long ones.
Imagine this with your name on it.
Foundry isn't real, but everything on this page works and could be live for your gym in a few weeks. One fixed price, no jargon, and you own the site outright. No platform holding your timetable hostage for a monthly fee.