Stronger Together is a barbell-focused studio running Olympic weightlifting and progressive strength programmes, with a sixty-minute drop-in session sold to non-members and booked through its own schedule. It is a registered non-profit and coaches on a trauma-informed model.
Stronger Together is a strength studio on Sussex Street in Woodstock, built around barbell training rather than machines or cardio. The two standing programmes are Olympic weightlifting, covering the snatch and the clean and jerk from first principles up to competition technique, and a progressive strength programme aimed at building muscle and physical capacity.
For a visitor, the useful thing is the drop-in. The studio sells a single sixty-minute strength session to non-members, bookable through its own online schedule, and it is advertised specifically at people visiting Cape Town. Anyone considering membership can take a first session free instead.
The coaching approach is described by the studio as trauma-informed, which in practice means sessions are structured to be scalable and unintimidating rather than performance-first. It is a small room with coaches on the floor, not a gym you are left alone in.
Stronger Together is a registered non-profit company that uses resistance training as its vehicle, so paying for a session supports that work rather than a commercial chain.
Sessions must be booked in advance through the studio's schedule, which lists the available drop-in slots for the week.
Highlights
- An Olympic weightlifting programme in 90 minute sessions
- A strength programme in 60 minute sessions
- Mobility work
- Drop-in sessions bookable by non-members
- A first class free for anyone trying the studio
- A registered non-profit using resistance training with a trauma-informed approach