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Programs · Frisco, TX

Everything
we coach.

Four ways to train, one standard: a coach who knows your name. Strength & Conditioning classes are the flagship. Personal training, nutrition coaching, and open gym cover the rest of your week. A recovery room opens with the new building in October 2026.

The flagship

Strength & Conditioning.
Coached every rep.

One hour, programmed weeks ahead. Cycled strength progressions, planned intensity, and conditioning balanced against the barbell work — never a random workout of the day.

We spent over a decade as a CrossFit affiliate before we built something better. The intensity and the camaraderie stayed. The randomness and the wear-and-tear didn’t. If you’ve been searching for a CrossFit alternative in Frisco, this is the class.

Programmed, not random

Strength and conditioning balanced every single week, on a plan you can see coming.

A coach on every rep

Form first, load second. We push when you need it and pull you back when you’re getting ahead of yourself.

Built for decades

Longevity is the backbone. You’re here to pick up your kids at 60, not to get hurt at 35.

Group class warming up together on the training floor
Three levels, one floor

Every class is programmed at three levels. Same movement pattern, same clock, different target — so a first-month beginner and a 10-year athlete train side by side without either one compromising. The system flexes so the member doesn’t have to.

Level 1 · Learn it

New, or coming back after years off. Own the movement before you load it. Nobody rushes you.

Level 2 · Build it

Solid mechanics, growing engine. Where most members live — and get strong for years.

Level 3 · Test it

For the seasoned athlete chasing an edge. Bigger loads, same standard, a coach watching anyway.

“It’s where I go when I’m feeling strong, when I’m struggling, when I need to clear my head, or when I simply want to invest in becoming a better version of myself.”
— Asher B., member
How we program

Programmed.
Not random.

Most gyms write a workout the night before. We write ten weeks at a time. You repeat the lifts long enough to actually adapt to them, and you retest at the end so the progress is a number, not a feeling.

A recent cycle · “Last Rep” 10 weeks · Test → Build → Deload → Build → Retest
W1IntroLearn the lifts
W2TestSet your numbers
W3Build5s
W4Build3s
W5Build5/3/1
W6DeloadBack to school
W7Build5s · +5%
W8Build3s · +5%
W9Build5/3/1 · +5%
W10RetestBeat week 2
Intro Test & retest Build Deload

Your training max stays the same all ten weeks. The second wave runs every percentage five points heavier than the first. Week ten retests every lift and all three benchmarks against the numbers you set in week two — same movements, same standards, so the comparison is honest.

Why the deload lands where it does

Week six of that cycle was back-to-school week. That was not an accident. We plan the lighter week for the week your life gets heavier — so nothing gets missed, nothing gets skipped, and you come back in week seven ready to push instead of digging out of a hole.

Three tests. Ours. Same ones, every cycle.

Written in house, run in week two, run again in week ten. Your only competition is the number you set eight weeks earlier.

Humble BeginningsDescending ladder

Dumbbell thrusters, box jump overs, pull-ups. The reps come down as the fatigue climbs.

Forged in FireAscending ladder

Rower calories and burpees, climbing every round. A pacing test, start to finish.

Breaking GroundHeavy plus skill

Deadlifts, double unders, handstand push-ups. Strength held together under fatigue.

Every week has the same shape

The lifts and the conditioning change. The rhythm does not. You always know what you are walking into.

MonOlympic lifting
Warm-up

10 min

Skill

Clean progressions · 6 min

Strength

Clean & jerk, wave sets · 30 min

Conditioning

Short AMRAP · 10 min

TueGymnastics
Warm-up

10 min

Gymnastics

Pulling strength, midline · 20 min

Conditioning

Intervals, work-to-rest · 18 min

WedUpper body strength
Warm-up

10 min

Strength

Bench press, wave sets · 25 min

Conditioning

EMOM · 16 min

ThuMuscle & aerobic
Warm-up

4 min

Gymnastics

Handstand work · 12 min

Body building

Accessory volume · 20 min

Conditioning

Zone 2, conversational · 15 min

FriSquat
Warm-up

10 min

Strength

Front squat, wave sets · 25 min

Conditioning

Rounds for effort · 15 min

SatPartner day
Warm-up

10 min

Strength

Pressing · 20 min

Conditioning

Long partner workout · 16–45 min

Thursday is deliberately the light day. Zone 2 means you can hold a conversation the whole time — that is the point, not a suggestion.

One-on-one

Personal training.
One coach, one plan.

Dedicated one-on-one time with a coach who writes every session for your body, your goals, and your calendar.

Your program

Customized, progressive programming — written for you, rewritten as you progress. No templates.

Accountability

One coach who knows your numbers, tracks your progress, and notices when you go quiet.

Nutrition

Guidance on the eating part comes with it, so the training and the fuel pull in the same direction.

The price

$120–150 per hour, depending on the coach and the plan. See pricing for the full breakdown.

Coach working one-on-one with a member during a personal training session
The other 23 hours

Nutrition coaching.
A real coach. Our own app.

Training is one hour. What you do with the other 23 decides most of your results.

You get a real human coach: weekly check-ins, honest feedback, and targets that adjust as life happens. Not a plan emailed once and never mentioned again.

You also get FuelPath, the nutrition app our own team built. It helps you track what you eat, learn what your body actually needs, and see your progress as it happens. It keeps your coach in the loop too, so they can see how your week went and step in where it helps. The app does the legwork. The coach does the coaching.

And because it lives on your phone, it works anywhere. You don’t have to train at Black Iron to be coached by us.

Founding rate $200/mo

Open now, while the founding group fills.

Coaching runs month to month, with or without a gym membership.

Member laughing on the gym floor after a session
On your schedule

Open gym.
Seven days a week.

The floor is yours between classes and after hours, seven days a week. Self-directed training with the whole facility behind it.

Access

Seven days a week, between classes and after hours. Key fob entry, climate-controlled, no front desk to wait on.

Programming

Every open gym member gets our full structured programming. Follow it at your own pace, or run your own plan.

Olympic weightlifting · seasonal

Snatch, clean & jerk, and the barbell work behind them are in our programming year-round. The dedicated weightlifting block is a seasonal specialty — it runs a few times a year, and it goes fast. Ask when the next one opens.

HYROX affiliate programming

Official HYROX programming, straight from HYROX HQ — the same race-day prep their competitive athletes run. It is in our programming continuously, seven days a week on the open gym floor.

Open Gym Only is $50 a month. Or pair open gym with unlimited classes for $240. See pricing.

Member mid-snatch during open gym at Black Iron Athletics
Opening October 2026

Recovery.
A room of its own.

Most gyms fit recovery in wherever there’s space left over. In the new building it gets its own room.

Cold plunges

Two of them, so nobody’s standing around waiting a turn after class lets out.

The sauna

One sauna, five seats. Infrared and red light therapy are built in, and it’s still a traditional heat sauna — so it does get hot.

Opening

It opens with the new gym in October 2026 at 279 Main St, Suite 110, one door down from where we train today. Nothing pauses while we build it.

Pricing

Not set yet. We’ll publish it closer to opening day.

Rendering of the new recovery room at Suite 110, with two cold plunges and a five-person sauna
The recovery room · Rendering — details may change

The 23 hours matter more than the one. This is part of that.

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Not sure which
program fits?

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Every membership starts with a free consultation and the Foundations week.