Fitness Fraternity

There’s something powerful about training inside history. Fitness Fraternity Gym sits in a building that has stood for 133 years . Originally built in 1892 as a Co-Operative , it has lived through eras, generations, and entire shifts in the way people work, live and move. And now, in 2025, it has become the home of an independent strength gym with a culture rooted in the past…because some things never needed changing. When we say old school , it isn’t a marketing line. We mean bricks, steel...

To understand where we are today, and why the “perfect split” still doesn’t exist, you have to look back at where bodybuilding has come from.   1920s - 1960s: The Olympic Lifting Era Before “bodybuilding splits” were even a phrase, the early gym goers trained like weightlifters. Clean & press. Snatch. Heavy Deadlifts. Full-body training. Three days per week. Strength, power, athleticism. Bodies were built on big movements , not isolation. The priority was performance. Takeaway:  Training was...

Why You Don’t Need to Live Like a Physique Athlete to Have a Great Life   Last week we ran The Blueprint to Stage Workshop,  and it was everything it promised to be. A room full of aspiring competitors. People who want  to take their physique to extremes. People who want  discipline, structure, sacrifice and precision. And that’s perfect… if that’s your bag. If you want  to step on stage, you must live differently. But what if that isn’t  you?   What if you enjoy training, love the gym, care...