Add life to your years.
Barley Mow Centre, Chiswick
Small-group classes to help you keep doing the things that matter to you. Strength, balance, mobility & more. Designed by physios.
- Classes starting January 2027
- Free assessment before January 2027 Limited offer
Our approach
Designed around you.
We built a safe and progressive group exercise programme, designed around you.
Safe by design
We designed our assessment with a physiotherapist and a GP. Before starting anything, you will go through it, so we can understand your health, fitness level, injuries and everyday niggles.
Science-backed
We bring together the types of exercise that matter most for lifelong health, based on the latest evidence. Not over optimised, not too gentle, just the right dose.
Practised together
We believe movement should be practised together. You get expert coaching and a programme tailored to your level, alongside people who make turning up something to look forward to.
Where you start
We start with a complete assessment.
Designed with a physio and GP, we built this assessment to help you understand where you start and how to progress. It takes 1 hour and you leave with an in-depth personalised report.
The classes
4 classes, designed for long-term health.
Your coach helps you pick the classes that suit your goals.
Foundation
Technique for every class
Lift
Strength and Bone health
Control
Mobility, Stability and Balance
Pulse
Cardio
The studio
Find us in Chiswick.
Unit 1.04, Barley Mow Centre Chiswick, London W4 4PH
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How to start
You don’t need experience to start.
01Start here
The Forge Life Assessment
1 hour, just you and a coach. You leave with your own report and a plan. No membership needed.
02Next
1 month trial
New to training
Join a small group and learn the fundamental movements of Forge training. Build confidence and good technique, and see progress.
Already experienced
Try the different Forge classes for a month, and decide if Forge is right for you.
From £129
03Then
Train for life
After your first 4 weeks, we’ll recommend the membership and classes best suited to your level, health and goals.
Our team
The people behind the programme.
Ines
Founder
Ines held executive roles in tech, then founded Forge Life after she saw the impact of strength training on her parents, who were in their 60s. She built what she thought was missing in the market: an experience entirely designed for the second half of life.
Appoline
Physio in residence
Appoline is a physiotherapist and former elite tennis player who represented the French junior national team. As a physio, she has supported national Olympic track cycling teams and trained Ines's parents.
What our members say
In their words.
“The biggest difference is how I feel outside of class. I have more energy, I feel stronger playing tennis, and I'm much less worried about what my body will be able to do as I get older.”
Questions
Common questions.
What is the Forge Life Assessment?
1 hour, 1-to-1, at our Chiswick studio. We talk about your goals, and you do 17 tests of strength, balance, joint mobility and stability, and cardio, each adapted to you. Then we go through your report together, and you leave with a clear plan. The goal of the assessment is to identify the weaknesses and conditions we need to adapt to in class, and to help you understand your body better.
Is the assessment free?
Yes, until the classes start in January 2027, and you don’t have to join. After that it’s £75, which we take off your first month if you become a member.
Is it safe if I have a health condition or an injury?
Tell us about it in the questionnaire before your assessment, and your coach will adapt each test or leave it out. In the classes, your coaches use your results to adapt the exercises. If we think a physio or your GP should see you first, we’ll tell you.
What do members get?
Unlimited classes, plus 3 pauses a year, check-ins and reassessments each quarter, 1 free physio consultation a year, weight management consultations and check-ins, a Forge Life Assessment to offer a friend and exclusive member events, for £219 a month.
See the membershipWhat is the founding membership?
Everything in the membership for £179 a month, not £219, fixed for as long as you stay. It’s for the first 100 members.
Will the classes be too hard for me?
They’ll challenge you at your level, and just enough for your body to adapt and progress. Your coaches set your starting point from your assessment, adapt each exercise to you, and make it harder as you get stronger, at your own pace.
Your first step
See where you stand.
Book the Forge Life Assessment, for yourself or someone you love. There’s nothing to sign up to after it.