2025 at Beyond Walls: The Year You Showed Up

If you've been around Beyond Walls for a while, you'll know we like data. Not because spreadsheets are thrilling (they are a little bit!), but because numbers help us understand what's really going on, not just what we think is going on.

Looking back at 2025, one thing stands out very clearly.

You showed up.

So, let's take a little wander through the year and see what the numbers tell us.

Who We Are

• 67% of our members are female
• The average age is 41.5
• On average, members live 3.1 miles from the gym

The Committed Club and the Great Sticker Panic

Let's start with one of our favourites… Committed Club. At the beginning of 2025, we confidently ordered 50 Committed Club stickers per month. In December 2024 we'd run our first manual version of Committed Club and had 18 members qualify… so 50 seemed sensible and reasonable.

Well, you lot soon messed that up for us. In February, 42 of you qualified, and by March (54) we admitted defeat and upped the order to the next band — 100 stickers. That has done us so far through 2025, but as December (a normally quieter month) saw 78 members qualify, I'm not sure how long that's going to last.

I'm holding my nerve and only ordering 100 for January… I challenge you lot to make me regret this decision.

Let's talk about the Alex's

In total last year we gave out 770 Committed Club stickers, and 44 of them went to members called Alex. That is almost twice the next name, with Andrews and Mikes on 24… and it really depends on how strict we are with George, Georgi, Georgina and Georgia, who collectively got 24 as well.

Want to get fit? Change your name to Alex… according to the data.

Milestones That Add Up

Alongside monthly consistency, 2025 also saw some big long-term milestones. 94 of you earned your 100-class mug, and an amazing 11 of you earned a 250-class T-shirt. That's a lot of training hours layered into busy lives. Congratulations:

• Ozma A.
• Paddy B.
• Rosetta D.
• Kerstin H.
• Tim F.
• Tom S.
• Joanna H.
• Jayne C.
• Jenny B.
• Michael S.
• Rachel R.

12 members achieved Committed Club every month throughout 2025. 28 members made Committed Club 10+ times and are now in the 2025 Annual Prize Draw.

Coming up, and tantalisingly close, there's a one-off golden 100-class mug. It hasn't been claimed yet. It is, however, very close. I wonder if we'll hit the 100th 250 T-shirt during 2026?

How Much Training Actually Happened

Across 2025, when we added everything together — classes, Open Gym, events and appointments — there were 21,297 check-ins at Beyond Walls. That's 21,297 separate decisions to walk through the door and move.

If we strip it right back and look only at classes and Open Gym, there were 19,775 training check-ins across the year. That's nearly twenty thousand hours of members making time for their health. To put it in perspective, that's the equivalent of almost 10 years of full-time work, or over two years of continuous time, deliberately invested in moving better, getting stronger and feeling healthier.

Popular Days, Busy Weeks

The busiest training week of the year, counting only classes and Open Gym, was the week of 14 December, with 465 check-ins. Yes, that was the same week as our big Christmas weekend. In a month where it would be easy to slow up, you did the opposite. That made us quietly very proud.

The busiest training day of the year? 27 August — 97 class and Open Gym check-ins. In person and participating in the Summer Buddy Challenge… just a lot of people deciding that Wednesday was a good day to train.

When You Like to Train

Looking at when people train paints a clear rhythm. Mondays sit firmly at the top, with 3,489 check-ins, around 18% of all training sessions. Tuesdays and Wednesdays followed closely at roughly 16% each, creating a strong midweek core. Thursdays and Fridays held steady at around 14%. Saturdays and Sundays were amazingly symmetrical with 2,123 and 2,168 — around 11% each.

The Most Popular Class

During December we delivered 40 classes per week — a number that will soon increase to 47 as our 2026 timetable comes on stream.

From Day 1 our 6am Crew have been committed and have again claimed the top spot for most popular weekday class, averaging 15 members per class. Which tells us three things:

• You're a mad bunch of morning larks
• Wayne's Coffee is clearly worth getting out of bed for
• The 6 a.m. crew continue to confuse and impress Julie in equal measure

The next busiest slot was 9:15 a.m., averaging 13 people per class. This one grew more organically with a steady build of regular daytime attendees. Across the entire weekday timetable, our average class fill now sits at 11.2 people. Classes are lively, social and energising — with enough space for coaching to stay personal.

What Happens Around the Edges

Classes and Open Gym sit at the heart of what we do, but they're not the whole picture. Across 2025 there were 1,522 check-ins to things that weren't classes at all — Athlete Check-Ins, personal training, massage, seminars and events. From our Women's Health day to Men's Health Month (don't worry girls… your month is coming), to nutrition and habit setting — those check-ins really matter.

From Showing Up to Seeing Results

Everything you've read so far — the Committed Club stickers, the growing membership, the busy Mondays, the Christmas-week training — those are inputs. Our goal is based around outcomes: Measurably Improve the Health of our Community, and InBody scans are one way we measure that metric.

Across 2025 there were 560 InBody scans, taken by 251 different people. That gave us a significant data set of 134 people who completed 2 or more scans for comparison. In total, they lost 135.9 kg of body fat and gained 24.2 kg of muscle.

To give that context, the average female in the UK weighs around 70 kg, which means the gym collectively shed almost two adults' weight of body fat over the year while still gaining muscle. Alongside this were improved InBody scores (on average +2 points) and reductions in visceral fat.

What we know: the inputs worked, the outputs followed, and this is exactly the direction we want to keep heading.

Let's Do It All Again

While I've been writing this, I've been thinking about how to close the blog… and it slowly dawned on me — no finish line here. A year-end feels significant, but wonderfully it's just a staging point on a journey that continues.

We get to do this all over again, with this amazing community growing bigger and better. Julie and I are so excited to see what these numbers look like in 12 months' time.