A coaching-led gym in the heart of Crosby.

Crew42 is an independent personal training studio on Moor Lane in Crosby, Liverpool. We run 1:1 personal training, small group personal training capped at eight people, kids fitness classes, and a 42-day challenge for anyone who wants a clear starting point. Everything we do is led by a coach — there are no unattended machines, no members left to figure it out alone, and no hard sell at the door.

We built Crew42 for the people who have tried the big gyms and quietly given up. Beginners who feel out of place. Parents who can only train at 6am or after school pick-up. People in their forties and fifties who want to feel strong again, and younger members who want to compete. Whatever your starting point, the programme is scaled to you and the coaching stays with you week after week.

Crew42 is owned and run by Michelle and Jay, who coach on the floor every day and each bring over 12 years' coaching experience. Between them they have built the studio from scratch, and Jay is a two-time winner of the Fitness Awards for Fitness Instructor. Alongside them, Kate and Millie coach one-to-one and group sessions — Millie competes as the World's Strongest Woman under 23. You'll be coached by the same faces every week: the people who built this place, not a rotating door of staff.

Michelle is a busy mum of two, so she knows first-hand how hard it is to fit training into an already full life. She has juggled early sessions, school runs, work and family life herself, and it is exactly that experience that shapes how Crew42 is run. Sessions are built around the week you actually have — not an ideal one you'll never get. If you can only train at 6am, or after the school pick-up, or between shifts, that is the starting point, and the coaching is planned around it. She has also made a point of building a gym where nobody feels judged for where they are starting from — because she has been there herself.