Innerform Pilates
04 - SMALL GROUP PERSONAL TRAINING

Small Group Personal Training

8 in class 50 min £33 intro offer trainers

Small Group Personal Training is strength and conditioning in a group of eight, with a coach picking your weights and watching your form the whole way. Dumbbells, resistance bands, your own bodyweight - the building blocks of real strength training, in a room that doesn’t feel like a gym.

It’s where members come to actually get stronger. To lift heavier over time, build the kind of strength that protects your joints and bones, and learn how to move under load without picking up an injury. You’ll be pushed, and you’ll always be moving safely while you are. Everyone works the same plan, at their own tempo, with their own weights - and there’s an easier alternative for any movement if you’re carrying an injury.

A coach who knows your name, picks your load, watches your form, and pushes you exactly as hard as you can safely go. Open to every level - no gym background or experience needed. Just turn up in trainers, ready to work!

A Small Group Personal Training session at Innerform's Lewisham studio, members lifting dumbbells mid-rep with the coach calling out form.

The energy of a group. The attention of a coach.

WHAT TO KNOW

What to know.

What to expect

Fifty minutes of strength and conditioning, coached. The coach takes the room through the session - dumbbells, resistance bands, your own bodyweight - calling out the form, the count and the rest. It’s not a gym floor and there’s no barbell; it’s controlled work, and you get stronger the honest way, by gradually doing more over time - a heavier weight, a longer hold, an extra round. Wear trainers and bring water. Be ready to work - this is the harder end of what we teach, and if you mostly do Reformer it’ll feel like a step up in intensity. That’s the point, and we’ll keep you safe in it.

How often

It sits alongside everything else really well. One session a week keeps the strength side of your week ticking over; one or two if you’re chasing real progress. Plenty of members pair it with Reformer Pilates, Mat Pilates, Barre or Yoga across the week - the harder sessions build the strength, the rest of the timetable keeps you mobile and recovered. All five disciplines are in the same membership, so you don’t have to choose.

Who teaches it

The Innerform teaching roster - coaches from different schools and different backgrounds, who trained properly before they taught and did teach-backs in front of the rest of us before they ran a room of their own. In Small Group Personal Training that depth is the whole point: the coach is watching everyone’s form, picking the load that’s right for each person, and pushing you exactly as hard as you can safely go. You’ll have the same coach in your slot week to week, so they get to know how you move. See who’s coaching this week on the schedule, or meet the full roster on our teachers page.

QUESTIONS

About Small Group Personal Training.

What is Small Group Personal Training?

It's strength and conditioning in a group of eight, with a coach picking your weights and watching your form the whole way. You work with dumbbells, resistance bands and your own bodyweight - the building blocks of real strength training, in a room that doesn't feel like a gym. It's where members come to actually get stronger: to lift heavier over time, build the kind of strength that protects your joints and bones, and learn how to move under load without picking up an injury. No assessment or intro session first - your first class is your first class.

How is it different from a regular class?

A regular class follows a set discipline - Reformer Pilates, Barre, Yoga - and the teacher takes the room through that. Small Group Personal Training is built around strength training: dumbbells, bands, bodyweight, getting you stronger over time by gradually doing a bit more - a heavier weight, a longer hold, an extra round. Because the group's capped at eight, the coach has the room to set each person's weights and check each person's form, the way a one-to-one session would - just with the energy of other people working next to you. Everyone does the same plan; everyone does it at their own tempo, with an easier alternative for any movement if you're carrying an injury.

How big are the groups?

Eight people, maximum - that's what "small group" means. The cap is the whole design: with eight, the coach can set everyone's weights, watch everyone's form, and push each person as hard as they can safely go. It's the difference between a coached session and a busy class - and it's why "small group" is in the name, not just "group training".

Is it harder than Reformer Pilates?

Yes - it's the harder end of what we teach. If you mostly do Reformer Pilates, the first Small Group Personal Training session can be a bit of a shock: the intensity is higher, the rest is shorter, and you'll feel it. That's by design, and a coach is watching your form and picking your weights the whole way, so "harder" never means you're left to struggle. Barre is the other class that pushes you like this - high-intensity, low-impact, the teacher counting the room through it. If you want the strength side of your week to bite a bit more, Small Group Personal Training and Barre are where you'll find it.
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INTRO OFFER

Try three classes for £33.

The intro offer is three classes for £33, good for fourteen days, and you can use it on Small Group Personal Training or any of our other four disciplines. Open to every level - no experience needed, and nothing to do before your first session but turn up in trainers.

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