What It Costs to Start at Timber & Steel
You want the number before you get on a call with anyone. That's fair, and you shouldn't have to ask twice for it.
Starting at Timber & Steel costs between $253 and $545 a month for your first 90 days. Which one you land on depends on how much coaching you want in a week.
Starting at Timber & Steel costs between $253 and $545 a month for your first 90 days. Which one you land on depends on how much coaching you want in a week.
The rest of this page explains what that money buys and why the first 90 days cost more than what comes after. Which program is right for you isn't something you can settle from a webpage, and we won't pretend otherwise. That part gets worked out on a free intro call. What this page can do is give you the numbers before you ever get on one.
There's no enrollment fee hiding at the bottom, and nothing here waits until we get you on the phone.
Why the first 90 days cost what they do
Most people who call us have started over before. Not once or twice. More like four or five times, going back years.
That pattern usually gets blamed on discipline. It's almost never discipline. What's missing is a structure that holds up when the week goes sideways, and nobody has ever sat down and built one with you.
The first 90 days is where we build it. That's why it costs more than what comes later.
You start with four one-on-one sessions before you train alongside anybody else, so a coach learns how you move and what you're working around. From there you're on a schedule with your name on it, in a group small enough that somebody notices when you don't show up. There's a progress check at 30 days, a call at 60, and a full goal review at 90.
That's a lot of coach attention, and attention is the expensive part of what we do. It's also the part that was missing every other time you started.
The Three Ways to Start
Every program runs 90 days, and every one of them includes On-Ramp: four one-on-one sessions with a coach before you join anything else.
What separates them is the level of structure and accountability. Which one is right depends on what you have done before, what your body is ready for, and what kind of accountability actually keeps you showing up.
Premium
$545 per month for three months, or $289 every two weeks
Two Semi-Private Training sessions per week. Semi-Private is three people or fewer with one coach, and each person follows programming written for them. You might be doing something completely different from the person next to you. This is the highest level of coaching in our 90-day programs.
Standard
$433 per month for three months, or $233 every two weeks
One Semi-Private session and two Group sessions per week. You get an individualized anchor in your week, plus the training volume and the people that come with Group.
Basic
$253 per month for three months, or $143 every two weeks
Three Group Training sessions per week. Group runs eight people or fewer, everybody works through the same session, and the coach adjusts the movements and the loads for you specifically.
One note on biweekly billing. That's a payment every 14 days, not two payments per calendar month. This adds some flexibility that some people appreciate but it also adds to our administrative overhead and thus costs more in total.
Who each program tends to fit
We can't tell you which one is yours from a webpage, and we're not going to try. What follows is the kind of thinking that goes into a recommendation, so you know what the conversation will actually be about.
Most of what a coach listens for comes down to two things. How much training your body is ready for right now, and what kind of accountability actually works on you. Some people keep a commitment because there's an appointment on the calendar with a specific coach at a specific time. Others keep it because there's a group that notices when they're gone. Neither one is better than the other, but the wrong one won't hold.
Premium tends to fit someone newer to training, or someone coming back after years away with an old injury or two on their mind. The standing appointment is what makes it real. Two Semi-Private sessions a week is a serious amount of coaching, and it's plenty to build from when the job is learning to move well and turning up reliably.
Standard tends to fit someone who wants the individual programming and the set appointment, and who can already handle being in the gym three days a week. The Semi-Private session anchors the week, and the two Group sessions add frequency and people.
Basic tends to fit someone who has trained recently, isn't working around anything significant, and knows from experience that a group is what keeps them honest. It's the right answer less often than people assume. Most people starting out need more structure than they think they do, which is why these conversations usually land on Premium or Standard.
If you read all three and still don't know, that's the normal outcome. That's what the call is for.
What if you'd rather not train around other people?
Some people would rather not, and that's a real reason, not something we'll try to talk you out of. We have members who train one-on-one and nothing else, because it's what they're comfortable with and it's what keeps them coming back.
That path sits outside the 90-day programs. Ongoing Personal Training runs $312 a month for one session a week, $624 for two, and $936 for three. There's no On-Ramp to buy on top of it, because On-Ramp is one-on-one personal training already.
Those numbers are worth seeing even if you never choose them, because they show what undivided coach attention actually costs. It's also why the 90-day programs are priced where they are. In Semi-Private you're sharing a coach with two other people at most, and in Group with seven at most, and the price follows that.
What we've found is that the 90-day programs give most people enough structure on their own, and they come with training partners and the kind of accountability that only exists when other people expect you. Most people do better with that than without it. Not everybody, though. If one-on-one is what you need, say so on the call and we'll price it out with you.
What the first 90 days actually looks like
Your first four sessions
You start one-on-one with a coach. They ask about your training history, old injuries, what's bothering you now, and what you actually want your fitness to let you do. Then you move, and they watch.
The point isn't to find out whether you can survive a hard workout. It's to find a safe starting place and make sure you both know what comes next. You also learn how we run a session and how to speak up when something needs to change.
The rest of month one
You move into the training your program includes. Your days go on the calendar and the coaches know when you're supposed to be there. You stop deciding what to do every time you walk in, which is a bigger relief than most people expect.
Around day 30
You and your coach look at how the month went. Attendance, how your body is responding, whether the schedule survives your actual life. If something needs to change, it changes now instead of quietly getting worse for another two months.
Month two
The movements start feeling familiar and your coach can build on what you've learned instead of treating every session like a first day. This is usually where people stop thinking of it as a fitness attempt.
Around day 60
A check-in call. A direct conversation about what's working and what isn't. If you're missing sessions or something hurts or your work schedule flipped, we need to hear it. A plan only works when it fits the life you're actually living.
Month three
You keep training and building. By now you know the coaches and they know you, and you have enough real experience to make a good decision about what you need next.
Day 90
A goal review. You look at why you started, what changed, and where you still need help. Then you choose what comes next, together.
What happens after 90 days
Your cost goes down after the first 90 days. That isn't a promotion. It's how this is supposed to work.
The first three months are priced for a high level of accountability, because that's what it takes to build a habit that holds. Once the habit is actually running, you don't need the same amount of coach attention to keep it running. Paying for accountability you've outgrown would be a waste of your money, and we'd be the ones taking it.
So at day 90 you sit down with a coach and go through what changed, what your schedule looks like now, and how much structure you genuinely need going forward. Then you pick an ongoing membership together.
Some people stay right where they are, because that level is working and they know it. Some step down to a lighter mix and watch their monthly cost drop by a lot. Some go the other way for a season, when a vacation or a surgery or a new job changes what they need for a while.
It’s a decision that’s best made with your coach after you’ve had 90 days of growth and building habits. What we can tell you now is that ongoing membership costs less than your starting program, and depending on where you land, it can be considerably less.
That conversation doesn't end at day 90 either. For as long as you're a member here, part of what you're paying for is somebody helping you find the right level of training and accountability for the life you're actually living. That changes over the years. It's supposed to.
Is it worth it?
That depends on what's actually been missing.
If you know what to do in a gym and you'll go do it on your own, you don't need us. A cheaper membership will serve you fine, and we'll tell you that on the call rather than take your money.
But most people we talk to already solved the access problem. There's a rec center membership getting billed every month, or a garage full of equipment, or a bike with a screen that hasn't come on since spring. Access was never the thing.
What's worth pricing out is the cycle itself. Every restart costs you a signup, a few weeks of motivation, and some amount of belief that you're the kind of person who follows through. Four rounds of that is expensive in ways that never show up on a bank statement.
Timber & Steel costs more per month than a gym that hands you a key card. What you're paying for is a coach who knows where you started, a spot on a schedule that holds, and somebody paying attention to whether any of it is working.
If that's the piece that keeps going missing, the math looks different than it does at first glance.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Because a regular gym sells you access to a building. We're selling coach attention, and attention has a real cost per hour. Your first 90 days include four one-on-one sessions, a coach who knows your history and changes your training because of it, and three scheduled conversations about how it's going. If what you need is equipment and a door code, a cheaper membership honestly is the better buy. If equipment was never the missing piece, the lower price doesn't fix anything.
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The starting program has a three-month minimum, because it's built as one 90-day process and half of it doesn't produce the result. You have three days after you start to cancel with no penalty and get your money back the way you paid it, within 30 days. After that window, leaving early means paying the balance of the three months. Once the 90 days are finished, membership runs month to month.
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Tell us immediately, inside that three-day window, and you get your money back. We'd much rather hear it on day two than watch somebody quietly stop showing up in week six. When that happens it's usually because the schedule didn't survive real life, and that's a fixable problem if we find out about it.
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Rates can increase by up to 4 percent on annually. That applies to everyone and covers rising coaching and operating costs. The prices on this page are current.
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Say so at the goal review, or earlier if you already know.
Ongoing membership costs less than the starting program, and there's usually a level that works. If there isn't one, we'll tell you that honestly instead of putting you in something you'll resent paying for every month.
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No. The price reflects coaching hours and a hard limit on how many people we can serve well, and discounting it would mean cutting into one of those. There's no volume discount either, which is why three Personal Training sessions a week costs exactly three times what one does.
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You can pause once per calendar year for one month. Anything longer becomes a cancellation.
Canceling takes 30 days of notice by email to contact@timberandsteelgym.com. Without the full notice there's a $50 fee. Membership fees aren't prorated or refunded. -
Because a coach can't program for you before seeing you move.
Four one-on-one sessions gets us your injury history, your training background, and a real look at how you squat, hinge, press, pull, and carry. It gets you the movements and the rhythm of a session without doing it for the first time in a room full of people who already know the drill. Skipping it saves you two weeks and costs you considerably more than that later.
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Then Basic probably isn't your program, and it's better to sort that out before you start than after. Bring your real schedule to the intro call, including the parts that are unpredictable. We'd rather build around the week you actually have than the one you're hoping for.
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Group Training is eight people or fewer working through the same session, with the coach adjusting movements and loads for each person in the room.
Semi-Private is three people or fewer, and each person runs programming written for them specifically. Same room, same hour, different workouts. Semi-Private costs more because the coach's attention is split fewer ways and the programming is individual.
Before You Book
Timber & Steel is more expensive than a gym membership, and we're not going to talk you out of noticing that.
What you're buying is structure. A coach who knows where you started, a place on a schedule, and somebody paying attention to whether it's working. If you've started over three or four times already, that's the part that keeps going missing.
If the number is a stretch right now, say so on the call. We'd rather tell you this isn't the right season than sign you up for something that puts more pressure on a life that already has plenty.
The Free Intro Call is a conversation about what you need, what we do, and whether the two line up.