one to one only · no gym membership needed · 06:30 to 19:00 Prestwich · the old print works on Fairfax Road

Second Set

Somebody’s hands under the bar.

One-to-one strength coaching in Prestwich. The whole price is on this page and the programme is written down — and session one is a conversation and a warm-up, not a fitness test you can fail.

Currently coaching — 19 people, 3 slots open

the third set, which is the one that counts — drawn, not photographed, and nobody here has their top off

One session
£42
Block of ten
£380
Gym membership
not needed
Oldest client
74
Telephone
0161 496 0194

The programme

You leave with the card

Written down, in your handwriting or mine, with last week’s numbers next to this week’s. If a session cannot be written down before it starts, it was not a programme.

Block 2 · week 5 of 8 · lower Tue 06:30 · 55 min
ExerciseSetsRepsLast weekToday
Back squat45 52.5 kg55.0 kg
Romanian deadlift38 60 kg60 kg
Split squat, each side310 12 kg14 kg
Calf raise315 bodyweightbodyweight
Dead hang3max 24 s31 s

Plate maths

What goes on the bar

The maths you stop doing in your head after week two — written down because week one is the one that scares people off.

Load the bar 20 kg bar · plates per side · competition colours
40 kg: a 20 kg bar with 10 kg on each side10

40 kg on the bar · per side: 10 — 20 kg bar + 2 × 10

60 kg: a 20 kg bar with 20 kg on each side20

60 kg on the bar · per side: 20 — 20 kg bar + 2 × 20

80 kg: a 20 kg bar with 25 + 5 kg on each side255

80 kg on the bar · per side: 25 + 5 — 20 kg bar + 2 × 25 + 5

100 kg: a 20 kg bar with 25 + 15 kg on each side2515

100 kg on the bar · per side: 25 + 15 — 20 kg bar + 2 × 25 + 15

120 kg: a 20 kg bar with 25 + 25 kg on each side2525

120 kg on the bar · per side: 25 + 25 — 20 kg bar + 2 × 25 + 25

252015105kg · change plates from 2.5 kg down when the jump is smaller

What it costs

All of it, on the page

The whole of it, on one card, in the same hand the programme is written in. The number below is the number.

What it costs · one to one four ways · per session worked out · nothing else to pay
Single session55 minutes, one to one, paid on the day. Useful if you want to see whether you can stand me before committing to anything. sessions 1 weeks 1 per session £42 total £42
Block of tenThe block most people take, usually twice a week. Programme written, reviewed at week five. No expiry date on them. sessions 10 weeks 5 per session £38 total £380
Two a week, ongoingWhere people end up once they know it works. Monthly, and you cancel with two weeks’ notice. sessions 8 weeks 4 per session £37 total £296 /mo
Programme onlyYou train on your own somewhere else and I write and review the block, with one session a month to check the lifts. sessions 1 weeks 4 per session total £60 /mo

Per session is the total divided by the sessions beside it — check it.Programme only is not sold by the session, so it has no per-session figure.A longer month gives you more sessions, not a bigger bill.No membership, no joining fee, no assessment charge, no meal plan.

Who I am

One coach, one room

Second Set is Nadia Rahman. I coach out of a single room in the old print works on Fairfax Road — a rack, a platform, some dumbbells and a kettle. It is not a gym and you will not be sharing it.

I came to this late and badly. I spent four years doing classes and getting nowhere, then somebody put a barbell in front of me and wrote the numbers down, and everything changed in about eight weeks. That is the whole of my sales pitch and it is the entire method.

I am registered with CIMSPA and insured, and I will show you either without being asked. What I am not is a nutritionist, a physiotherapist or a doctor, and when something needs one of those I will say so.

Nadia Rahman · coach Second Set · one room, Fairfax Road
Coaching since 2018
Clients right now 1819
Longest standing 6 years
People in the room two

one of them is me — the room takes one person at a time and the door is shut

Registered practitioner

CIMSPA · public liability £5,000,000

Both shown at session one without being asked, and on any day after it.

Specimen

Signed · N. Rahman

Start here

Book session one

If it is not for you I would rather find that out in week one than week six.

  1. A conversation

    Where you are starting from, whether anything hurts, and when you can actually train. All three answers are common and none of them is a problem — they just change what week one looks like. starting from · anything that hurts · mornings or evenings

  2. A warm-up

    No weigh-in, no calipers, no photographs. Nobody is watching you: the room takes one person at a time and the door is shut.

  3. About four lifts with an empty bar

    So I can see how you move. There is nothing in any of it you can fail, and the bar stays empty for as long as it needs to.

  4. You leave with the card

    Week one written down before you go, in your handwriting or mine — the same card the programme above is written on.

Text or ring — 0161 496 0194. I answer between sessions, so it may be forty minutes. If you would rather not ring, the form is fine: it comes to my phone and I reply the same day.

The oldest person I coach is 74 and started at 71. The strongest started with an empty bar. Neither of them was fit when they walked in, and that was rather the point.

Session one 55 min · £42 on the day · no obligation to book a second

Straight to my phone. No newsletter, no follow-up sequence, no call from anybody else.