Coached, not just supervised

Every session at Ironhouse is run by a coach who knows your lifts.

The full coaching team

Between them, over thirty years on the floor

Dean Fillis

Head Coach & Founder

Started Ironhouse in 2017 after years coaching at bigger commercial gyms and getting tired of watching people get hurt from bad programming.

Amahle Ndlovu

Strength Coach

Competed at provincial level in powerlifting; now focused on building confident lifters from scratch.

Ruan Botha

Conditioning Coach

Runs our conditioning classes and open floor, with an eye for making hard training sustainable.

Priya Govender

Strength Coach

Joined as a member in 2019, now coaches Small-Group Strength three days a week.

Our standard

Why every class has a coach on the floor

We don't run classes off a screen or a playlist. Every session, someone qualified is watching bar path, depth and bracing — and adjusting programming for the person in front of them, not a spreadsheet.

✓Certified strength & conditioning coaches

✓Ongoing internal technique reviews

✓Max 8 members per coached class

Train with a coach who knows your name

Come meet the team on your free trial class.

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