Platform Fitness Studio

Platform is such a brilliant gym. Holly and Sara are experienced and caring coaches. They really know what they’re talking about and are always ready to listen and make adjustments to your training if needed. The atmosphere at Platform is welcoming, friendly and inclusive. The members who train there, as well as coaches Sara and Holly, are also what make Platform the great place that it is. I always leave feeling better than I arrived. I love it!

I've been training with Holly for over 7 years on and off and she has never failed to be encouraging, highly knowledgeable and inspiring. Her PT sessions are fun and challenging, but always at the right level and her technical expertise with lifting means you know you are in safe hands. So much so that she is now teaching my 10 year old the fundamentals of strength training too! The studio is a friendly and welcoming space and I highly recommend it for anyone wanting to work on their strength and fitness.

I’ve been training with Holly around a year, I chose Holly specifically, because I knew she had the valuable experience I needed to ensure i would move well and build a solid foundation for getting back to heavy lifting. Post lockdown my body was a wreck, I wanted guidance and supervision for correct technique and With Hollys excellent knowledge I’ll soon be ready to hit those PB goals. She is specific, brilliant and extremely good at her job. I also refer my one. Clients to her for very specific body work.

I went to Platform Fitness because it was 4mins walk from home and found an incredibly welcoming place. I haven’t used a gym in years, I’m over 60 and needed to do strength work to offset health issues. I chose to have Personal Training as I didn’t think I’d be able to keep up with the classes.I booked an initial session with Sara who made me feel instantly comfortable. She made sure she knew what I wanted to achieve, what level of work I could manage and what my health issues were. My sessions with Sara were great, hard work and challenging, and all with kindness and a lot of positive encouragement and recipe swapping and laughs.In the last couple of months I have surpassed my first objective (to be able to get off the floor) and now lift weights safely and feel stronger already. Recently, I have joined the classes and despite being older and less fit (but getting fitter) than all the others, everyone is friendly and positive.I always leave the gym feeling uplifted and stronger. Thanks Sara (and Holly)

Love training with Holly and Sara at Platform. I’ve always been fairly active but never done any kind of weight training before. I started at Platform 6 months ago and get so much more from it than pounding the pavement. I’m definitely much stronger and less injury prone now. The small group nature of the training means it is super personalised and Holly and Sara know every client’s strengths or niggles and tailor exercises to suit them. More than all that they’ve created an inclusive space for all genders and bodies in the heart of Seven Dials.

I highly recommend Sara as an online coach. Previously, I’d been training hard for over a decade and recognised I’d got stuck in a rut with it all, overtraining and falling out of love with the gym. I started with Sara specifically because of her high level and breadth of subject knowledge. Trusting their coaching was the starting point but what’s made our work together truly transformative for me is this in combination with her empathy, ability to get alongside me and understand me, their passion for my fitness journey and holistic approach to how things like hormones, life, stress, physical and mental health interact. Sara’s programming is incredibly clever and attuned to where I am in my training and in my head. I enter the gym with confidence instead of trepidation, feeling both challenged and engaged and leave feeling energised and even proud of myself.

Highly recommend! I’ve been training with Sara for a few months and am blown away by their inclusive and personalised approach. As a disabled person, it’s difficult to find an appropriate trainer but Sara is well-informed & health-focused, at a reasonable price.