Starting Strength Houston

Fantastic experience: I love, love, love this place! Individualized training, coaches that listen to your goals, and working out with the other members is so much fun!

Fantastic experience: Addicting! Love this place. Never been able to increase muscle mass before. Great coaches and great program!

Fantastic experience: I derive half the value from the actual workouts, the other half from a great culture and atmosphere. Coaches are subject matter experts and a pleasure to work with. Training is tailored to individual motivations and quickly adapt to any of life's circumstances that arise. If you're in to lifting or simply want to get strong this is the place to be.

Fantastic experience: Great personalized programming and coaching.

Fantastic experience: I'm having a blast here. The coach staff is really great!

Fantastic experience: I started this program to nurse a shoulder injury. I didn’t think it would work. Boy was I wrong. The pain from the injury was gone after a couple weeks so now I’m a big fan of the program (what can I say, it’s fun) and I decided to keep doing it to see what kinda progress I get after a couple of months. Halfway there and already seeing huge gains.

Fantastic experience: There is no better better setup for getting strong and improving your life, whether 18 or 80. And there are absolutely no better educated, better skilled coaches than the Starting Strength coaches. I don't even know how they see what they see when the coach human movement, but they're amazing.

Fantastic experience: I love all of the coaches at Starting Strength & JD too! John & Tony are my regular coaches & I absolutely love those guys, but I’ve also had Josh, Matt & Dan & they’re great too. They write your plan out specifically for you & give feedback each set. I highly recommend SS to anyone.

Fantastic experience: Every coach I’ve had at Starting Strength has been outstanding. They know how to tailor the program to each individual, whether you’re a 65 year old guy like myself, or a 40 year old mom, or a 20 old athlete.

Fantastic experience: I just got a body composition exam. In 2.5 years, I've lost 39lbs of fat and gained 19lbs of muscle. My diet is awful. The only thing that's changed in that time is that I go to Starting Strength three times a week and work the program they give me. Even if I didn't enjoy being stronger, I'd keep going just for that.

Fantastic experience: Amazing instructors and latest machines.

Fantastic experience: I can't say enough about my 6+ months as a member of SS-Houston. I never learned how to lift properly and would get stuck and frustrated when trying to make progress on my own. Every goal, issue, and ache I've brought up were listened to by the highly knowledgeable coaches. The program is truly for everyone. Come in and get stronger. Oh and you'll have fun too.

Fantastic experience: Starting Strength is an amazing program. Its gets you strong efficiently, effectively, and with no added nonsense. The coaches are very knowledgeable, and will help you with the proper form, and programming. I had back pain, neck pain, and foot pain from my military service, and the program relieved it all. The only time the pain comes back is when I stop the program.

Fantastic experience: The best physical training program I've ever done!

Fantastic experience: Starting Strength-Houston is a great place to work out and to get stronger. I trained there for about nine months before moving away for work. My only regret was not staying longer and learning the Olympic lifts from Josh Wells. I more than doubled my strength in all the major lifts in my first year of training under their tutelage. Now, I squat consistently in the mid-300s lbs, bench press 250+ lbs, deadlift 400+ lbs, overhead press 180+ lbs at 198 lbs body weight. I highly recommend this gym. Now, if only I could get my younger brother to join a starting strength gym.

Fantastic experience: Get strong. Get personal attention. I've been a member for about 2 years. I'm 50+ and I'd never done any of these lifts before. I've been amazed at the results. The coaches are awesome - they do a great job meeting clients where they are, at any age or capability. I was in general not particularly comfortable with my body and what it could do, and they have absolutely made the training program and progression something I could understand and do. Joining was one of the best decisions I've ever made. At an age when my peers are slowing down and becoming less active, I am demonstrably stronger than I've ever been in my life.

Fantastic experience: Great program, excellent coaching by all four coaches. I really like the Starting Strength program. I have made more strength gains with the personal coaching than I could have done otherwise on my own. I recommend this gym. It is centrally located, clean, well equipped and organized. This has been my home gym for three and a half months. The structure with a personal coach is good, because it is tailored to the client I'm an older guy and my programming is different than for younger folks. The sessions here are fixed at the same time each week. I was not intimidated by the other lifters. The age ranges over the weeks I trained at this gym were from 18 to 69 and include men and women. It's great to be inspired by folks that are stronger than you. When you walk in the door the first thing you hear is HELLO. My new home is the Katy, TX Starting Strength gym as of January 2022.

Fantastic experience: Positive: Communication , Quality The best gym in town! The coaching is excellent. I worked with Josh the most. You learn the fundamentals of weight lifting and you are consistently building on prior workouts. They help motivate you by setting goals for the next session and are attentive to your form so that you don't injure yourself. Highly recommend this place!

Fantastic experience: The name says it all. Do you want to get stronger in a systematic fashion with proper training so you do it right and avoid injuries. This is a FANTASTIC way to do it. I worked with the crew 3 days a week from February 2021 to January 2022 and it was something that helped me attain a level of strength that would have been almost impossible left to my own devices. They just opened a new branch in Katy for those on the West side of Houston. Good luck!

Fantastic experience: Starting Strength is the BEST for effective and consistent coaching. Regardless of your experience in the gym, the coaches (Josh and JD rock) are patient and ensure that each workout is meaningful. I feel more confident about myself and my ability to continue building muscle after working with Starting Strength. I can't recommend this gym enough!

Fantastic experience: If you want a place to feel comfortable and improve yourself, this is it. The trainers here are the embodiment of the Starting Strength philosophies that "Anyone can get strong and getting strong will improve many aspects of your life." Or something along those lines. They're right. I never in a million years thought I'd be able to squat properly but these guys made it possible. Whats better, I enjoyed the journey.

Fantastic experience: Chase, Tony and the rest of the coaches at Starting Strength Houston are simply the best. My goals were to develop a pure strength base to enhance seasonal sports specific training later in the year, and to prevent future injury. Unsurprisingly, I found that I had been doing most of the major lifts incorrectly and improperly loading the wrong parts of the body. Correcting the bad habits and re-learning the lifts correctly mean building strength and greatly reducing the risk for injury. SS has exceeded my expectations and I’ve learned a ton about strength and physiology. I plan to continue at Starting Strength Houston indefinitely.

Fantastic experience: Awesome place to train and get strong.

Fantastic experience: Did a one-off session while in town for business. Mostly coached by Josh, but chatted with some of the other coaches a bit. Wow, super valuable. I found time for one more session before I leave, and I'm looking forward to it. I've been doing barbell training for a few years now, and I read a lot. But I learned more than I expected from the session. Most of the other trainees I saw seemed pretty new, but I was super impressed with how good their form was. Clearly the product of excellent coaching. Highly recommended for everyone, especially new trainees.

Fantastic experience: The coaches at Starting Strength (Josh, Shelley, JD, Chase, Andrew, David & Tony) have taken me from no weight training whatsoever to squatting 83 pounds, benching 55 pounds and dead lifting 130 pounds within 2 1/2 months and that's with a two week break that caused me to have to "reset". Here's what I love about the coaching - they make sure you're using the proper form and your safety is their first priority. They get to know each person and make it fun while pushing you to improve. SO glad we joined!!

Fantastic experience: The coaching is excellent.

Fantastic experience: I'm thoroughly enjoying my Starting Strength experience so far (Intro session on August 14th, just finished my 2nd full week of training). I've believed in the methodology for some time now, through the books and web resources, and am grateful for the opportunity to have an easily accessible franchise gym to fully explore my own training potential in. This is the type of training that I've long been looking for, although I couldn't have known it earlier, since navigating the hype and constant pursuit of health and fitness fads among many of my friends and coworkers is nearly another full-time job. My main goal is to see just how far I can go on the Novice Linear Progression before programming alterations have to be made, and how that progress is reflected in my own appearance and overall physical ability. My biggest concern prior to beginning group training with the Monday, August 19th session (my first after my Intro the previous week), was the Bench Press. I incurred a Grade 2 AC joint injury in my right shoulder several years ago, with surgery not really an option, due to its lack of severity and no major lingering deficits, regarding pain or range of motion limitations. Unfortunately with every subsequent attempt at resuming the bench press, the pain returned, as if a spike was being driven up into the AC joint from underneath. Looking back now, I can attribute this to a combination of poor-to-nonexistent technical proficiency and instruction, and the decision to work around benching with machine-oriented exercises, such as the seated chest press, "pec-deck" adduction, and inclined presses, all of which, regardless of weight or frequency, always resulted in the same pain that lasted for the better part of a week. However, the Bench Press has now become my biggest source of excitement. I completed each and every set on Monday night, paying as careful attention as I could to positioning and alignment for every rep, and apart from the resulting soreness in those unchallenged muscles, there is absolutely no pain. Thanks to Starting Strength, I can now Bench again, without the fear of being nearly incapacitated with shoulder pain in my dominant arm for days afterward. This is honestly something I never thought I'd reclaim, and to know that I have (and can now build upon it), has been a tremendous source of relief and satisfaction. I'm looking forward to continuing my training, and am grateful to the staff at SSH (JD, Josh, Shelley, Chase, Andrew, Tony, and Nathan) for their knowledge, support, and encouragement. Thanks, guys!