Forma

The UK's Premiere Gymnastic Fitness Gym - bodyweight training, calisthenics, flexibility, mobility, handstands and more. Fitness classes at their best!
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With our Professional Osteopathy & Massage Clinic also, we have your physical health covered. We were the first to offer Gymnastic Fitness classes in the UK and Europe back in 2013 and have since helped hundreds of members to achieve excellent levels of health and fitness. Tried, tested and proven on thousands of everyday people from across the globe from everyday Mums and Dads to Elite Professional level athletes. Be a part of a true revolution in fitness and join us.

02/09/2025

Press Handstand Workshop
Saturday 20th September 10am-1pm
DM for bookings Cost £60

All things gymnastic come together in a Press Handstand… you have one body capable of more than you may think, but it only goes where the mind directs 🙃

01/08/2025

Tuscany Wellness Retreat July 2025
Dates for 2026 July 20th-27th - put it in your calendar!!! 📅

We had such an amazing time, we went for a reset, a digital detox, for inspiration, relaxation, movement, handstands, sunshine, community and fun… we got all of it and some 🙏🏽❤️

We stretched, swam, moved, massaged, ate, communed, laughed, had joy, inverted, watsu-ed, had a beach day, learned, shared, listened, relaxed, sunbathed, reset, got close to nature, practiced presence and slept 😴

We’ll be back next year for more 🌅

19/06/2025

There are numerous ways to effectively increase ranges of motion, here are a few drills we’ve been exploring with to improve her straddle and pancake positions specifically but also the mobility of the hips in general.

Both the resistance bands exercises incorporate spinal flexion and then extension. Whilst we want the movement to come from the hips ultimately, these movements help the athlete to distinguish between hip and spinal movement, build awareness but also control in both.

Give them a go and let us know how you get on 😎

26/04/2025

Gareth had back surgery (microdiscectomy at L5/S1) a few weeks before Christmas.

PT sessions with Gareth have been a lot fun since his return with a mixture of specific work on back extension range/strength and a mixture of general strength work including planche progressions, handstand pushups progressions, single leg squat progressions.

We’ve also introduced specific work on jumping mechanics with an aim of improving Achilles tendon elasticity/stiffness to improve shock absorption with an aim to return to running with improved kinetic efficiency - pogo jumps, isometrics, depth jumps…

01/03/2025

Friday’s are filling up with Personal Training clients, each one unique with various personal goals, but one goal they all have in common is a wish to fortify their bodies for the long term… the second half of life so to speak 😊

Freedom of movement, strength, coordination, balance are all important aspects of physical health, with most fitness programmes overly focused on strength and cardiovascular fitness only… what does your training look like?

Gareth is 12 weeks post surgery for a microdiscectomy at L5/S1 - we did 8 weeks of PT session pre op and managed to on get his level of function well up. His surgeon was amazed at his level of function despite the level of nerve compression he found.

If your body functions well globally - all major joints having a large range of motion with good strength and control levels - the body can handle quite significant injuries whilst maintaining surprising levels of function.

Perhaps I’ll expound on this concept in later posts 🤔

Address

Griffin Mill, 14 London Road, Thrupp
Stroud
GL52AZ

Telephone

+447792510682

Website

https://formagym.co.uk/

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Spearheading a fitness revolution

We are the UK’s premiere Gymnastic Fitness facility based in Gloucester and Stroud.

We teach and promote a totally new approach to fitness and training that simply gets you fitter, stronger and more flexible than you will have ever been before. Utilising methods of flexibility and strength training from the world of elite level gymnastics but reformulated for everyday normal adults, our eclectic community of average adults are fast becoming bonafide high level athletes!

Led by a team of highly experienced Osteopaths in Wesley Tan and Claire Berthier, our team of expert instructors are themselves a testimony to the results of the training methods we use. Each one of us has been a student of the system ourselves for at at least 3 years and we continue to progress and refine our understanding day by day.

The emphasis of Gymnastic Fitness is on restoring our natural joint ranges of motion and balanced muscular strength, that most adults have lost since childhood. Flexibility and strength are trained in equal measure and quality of movement is always paramount. In all of our classes students will receive expert guidance and coaching in all of the exercises. We have an extensive library of exercises that start form beginner level all the way to advanced, and we move forward step by step building resilience in the bodies joints, tendons, ligaments and muscles methodically and in line with our bodies natural physiological time frame.