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Women-only sessions and starting from zero.

Women's training

Women-only sessions have been part of this gym from the beginning. These answers cover how they run, who they're for, and what happens at the first one.


About Women's training

Women-only sessions have been part of Rock N Roll Fight Company since 2008. This shelf covers how they run, what the first one is like when you have never trained anything, whether somebody can be in the room with you, and what training looks like if you are pregnant, just had a baby, or coming back from something that frightened you.

Start with the answer on women-only sessions, then the one on where to start from zero. The thing worth knowing before you read anything else is that you set the pace. Nothing happens that you have not agreed to, and anything you do not want stops the second you say so. Your friend, your partner or your mother can sit there the whole time. You never have to spar to get the self-defense out of this, and plenty of women here never do.

Rex coaches women the same way he coaches everyone, which means position and leverage rather than strength, because the person you are worried about is bigger than you. Women train here on their own, with a friend, in a small group, and with their daughters. If you are reading this page instead of sending the message, that is a normal place to be standing. Read the answers, then ask him the question that is actually stopping you.