Strength & Conditioning — Brighton, Michigan

Strength that
holds upoutside the gym

Small-group barbell and conditioning sessions, coached in person by someone who knows your name and your knees.

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✓ Coached every rep, every session
✓ Programs that build week to week
✓ A crew that notices when you're gone

Why Ironhold

Train for strength.
Stay for the people.

Ironhold isn't a big-box floor of machines and headphones. It's a coached room: twelve people max, a barbell each, and a coach who watched your squat last Tuesday and remembers what your knee was doing.

Whether you've never touched a bar or you're chasing a plate milestone, the program meets you where you are — on Main Street in downtown Brighton, five minutes from the Mill Pond.

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Programs for every athlete

Pick your lane

Close grip on a loaded barbell

CrossFit

Ideal for: Adults (18+) and teens (13+)Focus: Strength and conditioning
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Dumbbell rack on the Ironhold gym floor

Open Gym

Ideal for: Experienced, self-directed liftersFocus: Your program, our floor
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Athlete doing conditioning work on a mat

HYROX

Ideal for: Adults (18+)Focus: Race-specific endurance and strength
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4.9

From 87 Google reviews in Brighton

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No contracts. No sales pitch.

Why wait to get strong?

Come in, meet a coach, move a little. If it's not your place, no hard feelings — but it usually is.

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Start your journey in

Three easy steps

Book your free intro

Thirty minutes with a coach. Talk goals, tour the room, get a feel for how we train. No workout clothes required.

Meet your coach

We map a starting point around your experience, your schedule, and whatever your body's been through.

Choose your membership

Pick the track that fits — CrossFit, open gym, or HYROX. Change lanes anytime. Cancel anytime.

Common questions

Answers, straight up

Do I need to be in shape before I start?

No — that's what we're for. Every movement scales. The person learning to hinge for the first time works as hard as the one pulling triple bodyweight, just at their own level.

I've never lifted a barbell. Is that a problem?

It's the best place to start. You'll learn the lifts from scratch with a coach on the floor — no guessing, no YouTube form checks, no getting hurt in week two.

How big are the groups?

Twelve people max, always with a coach on the floor. Big enough to have energy, small enough that your name gets used a lot.

What does it cost?

Memberships run by track and frequency. Hit the Pricing button up top and we'll send you the current options — the price doesn't change based on how well you negotiate.

Our story

Built in Brighton

Ironhold opened in 2019 with one rack, one bar, and a stubborn belief: most people don't need a bigger gym, they need a better hour. Six years later the room holds twelve lifters at a time and the belief hasn't changed.

We're a coached gym. Nobody wanders. Every session has a plan that builds on last week, a coach who watched you do last week, and a whiteboard that doesn't care what anyone else lifted. Strength is the backbone — squat, hinge, press, carry — with conditioning that serves it, not the other way around.

And it's a Brighton gym on purpose. Main Street, five minutes from the Mill Pond, same faces at Friday classes and Saturday coffee. Come be one of them.

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What Brighton says

4.9
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SSarah K.2 weeks agoG
★★★★★

I was terrified to walk in and by minute ten I was part of the room. Dana scaled everything to my level without making it feel like the kids' table. Eight months in and I've deadlifted more than my dad ever did.

MMike R.1 month agoG
★★★★★

Trained at four gyms in Livingston County before this one. The difference is coaching — actual coaching, every class, not a person with a clipboard. My squat went up 60 lbs in a year and my back stopped hurting.

JJenna T.1 month agoG
★★★★★

Joined for the HYROX program — first race last spring, negative-split the back half exactly like Priya drilled. The squad shows up for each other's races. It's a team, not a membership.

DDave P.2 months agoG
★★★★★

62 years old, two knee surgeries, told I should "stick to the recumbent bike." Tom had me hinging pain-free in a month. This place takes comebacks seriously.

AAisha B.3 months agoG
★★★★★

Open gym is exactly what it should be: real platforms, comp bars, people who load their own plates. I run my meet prep here and the Saturday morning crew has become my favorite part of the week.

CChris & Amy L.3 months agoG
★★★★★

My wife and I joined together as total beginners. The 3-step intro made it painless and the coaches remembered our goals from the first conversation. Best money we spend every month.

The people on the floor

Meet your coaches

Dana Reyes

Dana Reyes

Head Coach / Owner

Dana founded Ironhold after a decade coaching in Detroit-area boxes and one too many globo-gym Januaries. She writes the programming, coaches the 5 AM crew, and can spot a caved knee from across the room. Former collegiate rower; current problem for the masters weightlifting circuit.

CF-L3 · USAW L2 · 12 yrs

Marcus Hale

Marcus Hale

Coach / Strength

Marcus runs the barbell club and the HYROX squad's strength blocks. Ten years under the bar, four national-qualifier lifters coached, and a firm rule that nobody maxes out on a Monday. If your snatch suddenly makes sense, that was Marcus.

USAW-L2 · 10 yrs

Priya Nandakumar

Priya Nandakumar

Coach / Engine

Priya builds the engine work — the intervals you love to hate and the pacing brain you didn't know you needed. Marathoner turned CrossFitter, she's the reason our HYROX crew negative-splits their races and our beginners stop redlining in week one.

CF-L2 · Endurance Cert · 7 yrs

Tom Okafor

Tom Okafor

Coach / Onboarding

Tom coaches evenings and owns the on-ramp program. He came to Ironhold as a member rehabbing a back injury, got strong, got certified, and never left. Nobody is better with first-timers, returners, or anyone convinced the gym isn't for them.

CF-L1 · 4 yrs

Program

CrossFit

Ideal forAdults (18+) and teens (13+), any experience level
FocusStrength and conditioning, coached in groups of 12

One coached hour: dynamic warm-up, a strength piece that builds week to week, and a conditioning workout that scales to exactly where you are. No two days the same, no session unplanned.

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Structured, not random. Programming runs in cycles — squat and press blocks, pulling volume, capacity waves — so PRs happen on purpose.

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Scaled every day. Every movement has a version for you today. The workout meets you; you don't chase it.

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A coach on the floor, always. Form fixed mid-set, loads adjusted mid-workout, names known by day two.

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Open Gym

Ideal forExperienced, self-directed lifters
FocusYour program on a fully equipped floor

Racks, platforms, bars that spin, and room to work. Open Gym is for lifters who already know their program and need a serious place to run it — with a coach in the room if you want a second set of eyes.

✓

Full floor access. Six platforms, comp bars, specialty bars, sleds, and the good kind of chalk.

✓

Bring any program. Powerlifting meet prep, oly cycles, your coach's remote programming — all welcome.

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Not a lonely garage. Train solo without training alone. The room has standards and it has people.

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Program

HYROX

Ideal forAdults (18+) chasing a race — or race-level fitness
FocusRace-specific endurance and strength

Eight stations, eight kilometers, one very honest scoreboard. Our HYROX program trains the exact demands of race day — sleds, wall balls, burpee broad jumps, and the running that ties it all together.

✓

Race simulations monthly. Full and half sims so the first time you feel the race isn't at the race.

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Pacing that sticks. Priya's interval work teaches you to negative-split instead of blowing up at station four.

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Strength that carries. Sled and carry strength built in Marcus's blocks, not borrowed from luck.

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Privacy policy

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By using this site and our services you agree to train at your own risk, follow coach instruction on the floor, and treat equipment and people with respect. Memberships are personal and non-transferable.

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Cancellation policy

We don't do contracts, so we don't do exit mazes. Cancel anytime with 30 days' written notice — the form below counts as written notice. Your membership stays active through the end of the notice period, and you're welcome in every class until then.

Changed your mind about quitting entirely? A membership hold keeps your rate locked while you're away.

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