Monday Strength A
- Strength A
- Lunch 45
- Strength A
2970 Avenue U · Sheepshead Bay
Lift heavy things on Avenue U
Move U Fitness is a small-group strength studio in Sheepshead Bay. Six people to a coach, real barbells and kettlebells, and the whole week printed on the wall so you always know what you are walking into.
- 6people per coach
- 60 minevery session
- 6 daysMon–Sat
- Freefirst class
Thursday, 6:45pm — small-group strength
No mirrors, no machines
Small groups, loud coaching
This is a training room, not a gym floor you wander around alone. You get told what to lift, how heavy, and what to fix — every single set.
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Squat, hinge, push, pull, carry
Barbells, kettlebells, dumbbells, sled. Five patterns loaded properly beat twenty machines used badly, and everything we program comes back to something you do outside — stairs, groceries, kids, ladders.
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Six people, one coach, same hour
Groups cap at six so the coach can put hands on every lift. Everyone works the same movement with their own weight, so a first-timer and a two-year member train side by side without either one waiting.
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Form gets fixed on set one
Nobody grinds through a bad hinge for eight weeks here. If the back rounds, the weight comes down and the pattern gets rebuilt that day. Bring an old shoulder or a cranky knee and we scale around it instead of skipping you.
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Month to month, no sales desk
No contracts, no annual fee, nobody chasing you with an upgrade. You pay for the month, you come to the sessions on the board, and if life gets loud you pause by telling Mark at the door.
Photocopied every Monday
The week, printed on the wall
Strength days rotate A, B and C so the whole body gets loaded across the week. Conditioning days are short, sweaty and easy on the joints. Saturday is open floor plus the intro class for anyone new.
Tuesday Conditioning
- Engine work
- Engine work
Wednesday Strength B
- Strength B
- Lunch 45
- Strength B
Thursday Conditioning
- Engine work
- Carries & core
Friday Strength C
- Strength C
- Heavy Friday
Saturday Open + intro
- Open floor
- Intro class
- Sunday the room rests
The floor set for a 6:30 am group
Miss a day and nothing is lost — the next session picks up the same pattern with a little more weight. Sessions run 60 minutes door to door, so the 6:30 am crowd is showered and on the Q by 7:40.
You will meet Mark first
Who counts your reps
Mark runs the room and coaches most mornings. Two more coaches take the evening and conditioning groups — their names are on the board inside, and you will know all three within a week.
Mark Izhak
Owner · head coach
Mark opens the door at 6 am, writes the board, and coaches the morning and 6:45 pm strength groups. He is the one who will scale a lift for your shoulder and the one who notices when you have quietly stopped showing up.
Conditioning coach
Tue & Thu groups
Runs engine work and the carry-and-core hour. Keeps the pace honest without turning the session into a competition, and will hand you a lighter bell without making a thing of it.
Evening strength coach
Wed & Heavy Friday
Takes the after-work groups and Heavy Friday. Big on setup: brace, stack, breathe, then move. Most first pull-ups in this room happened on his hour.
Members, first initial only
Taped to the wall
Notes members left at the desk. We keep them anonymous the way they wrote them.
“I signed up for two months before a wedding and never left. The 6:30 group is my alarm clock now.”
“First time I had ever touched a barbell. Nobody laughed, somebody fixed my back angle, and by spring I was pulling more than I weigh.”
“The coaches remember what I lifted last week. That is the entire trick, and no big gym on Kings Highway has ever done it.”
Month to month
What it costs to train here
One page, no tiers with silly names, no joining fee. Everything below is per person, tax included.
Intro class
Forty-five minutes on a Saturday morning. We teach the five patterns, watch you move, and tell you honestly which group fits.
Freefirst one on us
Drop-in class
Any session on the board when you are in the neighbourhood. Visiting lifters welcome.
$35per class
Ten-class card
A punch card for people whose weeks never look the same. Good for four months from the first punch.
$300$30 a class
Small group · 2× a week
The one most people pick. Two fixed slots, same coach, same six faces.
$189per month
Small group · 3× a week
Strength A, B and C every week. This is where the numbers move fastest.
$249per month
Unlimited board
Any session, any day, including open floor and conditioning.
$299per month
1:1 reset session
An hour alone with a coach to rebuild one lift, or to come back after time off or an injury.
$95$340 for four
Card, cash or Zelle at the desk. Pausing or cancelling takes one conversation with Mark — no forms, no retention call. Rates are confirmed at your intro class before anything is charged.
Sheet goes up Monday
Put your name on the board
Pick a slot, leave a number, and Mark calls you back the same day to confirm the spot. Nothing is charged online.
Move U Fitness — class roster
2970 Avenue U