Versus Gravity

250+ people coached

Go From Complete Beginner To Pull‑Ups, Handstands And Muscle‑Ups In 90 Minutes A Week

Start coaching$197 a month, cancel anytime. If it's not for you in the first 30 days you get your money back.

You're not lazy, and you're not short on effort. You've been training without a plan that survives a bad week.

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What you get

A training plan built for you, with feedback every week.

You start making progress from your first session instead of guessing. Your onboarding call tells us your level, goals, schedule and injuries, and we build your plan around them in the app. Every week you check in and get written feedback on your progress from us, and your workouts scale as you progress. 30–45 minute workouts that scale as you progress, laid out in order towards pull-ups, a handstand, a muscle-up and beyond.

A beginner session in the Versus Gravity appIhsan's written feedback on a client's weekly check-in

Weekly group coaching calls and video form reviews with Ihsan and Sam.

Bad weeks get fixed instead of ending everything. Bring your schedule, your questions and any old injury to the call, and send us videos of your sets so we can review your form every week and catch small problems before they become injuries.

Ihsan on a weekly live group coaching call with clients

A personalised nutrition plan.

Leaner and stronger without living on a diet. Your plan is built around your goals and your day, with recipes built around food you like and short nutrition course modules so you understand why it works.

This week's meal plan in the app with calories and macros

A private coaching community, and every course and program.

A private Discord full of people just like you training around jobs, kids and shifts, with us in there answering questions and checking form. Plus full access to every course and training program we've built. You stop doing this alone.

Sam giving form feedback on a client's dip video in Discord
Start coaching$197 a month. No minimum term. 30-day money back guarantee.

How it works

Step 1You book your onboarding call.

As soon as you sign up, you book a 1:1 onboarding call with us straight from the app, and we go through your level, goals, injuries, schedule and anything that's worried you about training.

Step 2We build your plan and you start training.

We use your call to build your personalised training and nutrition plan in the app, so you can start training straight away, and from then on you're on the live group call with us every week.

Step 3You train, check in and keep progressing.

30–45 minute workouts that scale as you progress, built towards your first pull-up, then a handstand, then a muscle-up. Every week you check in for written feedback and join the live group call, so a bad week gets fixed and you never go back to Day One. Most clients hit their first visible win in weeks 3 to 5.

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We built this with jobs and young families. Neither of us had spare hours either.

Ihsan

  • Finished university at 88kg, the heaviest and most out of shape he'd ever been, just before starting his career at IBM. He'd grown up playing football and boxing, and none of it was left. He knew he had to sort his life out.
  • Worked at Domino's for the free pizza, because there wasn't money for proper food.
  • Couldn't afford a gym. Found pull-up and dip bars in his local park and went three mornings a week at 6am, through a British winter.
  • Started at 3 pull-ups, 5 dips and 10 push-ups. Four months later he was 78kg.
  • Built Versus Gravity alongside a corporate career, first management consulting at IBM, then sales. Became a dad before going full-time at 31.

Sam

  • Six foot and 55kg. The skinny kid, no sports, smoking every day by the end of university.
  • In the worst shape of his life working in sales at the New York Stock Exchange. A photo Ihsan took of him was what made him see it.
  • Did his first pull-ups on the stairs at his nan's house at 24, with bad form and no progress for months. Then it started to click.
  • Got his dream job at Bloomberg and kept Versus Gravity running alongside it by switching to 30-minute sessions.

Why that matters to you

Every session is short because that's what worked for us when we had the same jobs and the same lack of time you do. Between us we've coached over 250 people, including software engineers, lawyers, dentists, consultants, insurance professionals and a business owner in his sixties.

Why we do this

Calisthenics changed more than our body. It changed how we think, and gave us the confidence to leave stable corporate careers and build a business doing what we love. Even though we're 31 and busy as hell, we feel young, strong and full of energy. We want you to feel the same.

What happens when the plan fits your life

Nikhil, 36

Partner at a London professional services firm, father of two

Before: Ten to fifteen years teaching himself calisthenics off YouTube with no structured plan. Two long-term injuries. 8 pull-ups on a good day, no muscle-up, no handstand, and afraid to kick up off a wall. "So many rounds of different PTs and coaches."

What changed: A structured plan built around his injuries.

Results:

  • 3 sets of 15 pull-ups within two months
  • 30kg weighted pull-ups for 5 reps
  • His first unassisted muscle-up, after chasing it for a decade
  • A 10-second freestanding handstand
  • A metabolic age 16 years younger than his actual age

He's since completed the London Marathon and four half marathons, and won a wellbeing and health advocate award at his firm.

"I feel like my health and fitness and structure has gone through the roof. Something I've got to do as part of work is check what my health is looking like... My metabolic age has gone down by about 15 to 20 years."

Lauren, 34

Midwife, single mother of three

Before: 12.5-hour rotating shifts. A folder on her phone called "Day 1 Photos" with 47 pictures in it: 47 separate mornings she'd decided this was the week. She'd concluded the problem was her. No push-ups, no pull-ups.

What changed: The plan was built around her shift pattern instead of asking her to fit a fixed schedule.

Results:

  • First push-ups in week three
  • 5kg down and 12 full push-ups by week five
  • 87.5kg to 77kg, 10.5kg down

Nothing about her changed. The plan did.

"Sam and Ihsan helped me to really find some structure with a program that worked for me, without blame, without being so rigid and not being able to adjust. Your mindset is a massive thing that changes working with Versus Gravity."

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L-sits, weighted pistol squats and muscle-ups in his first 16 weeks

"Before I joined, I was just doing stuff I thought I should do, no structure, no real goal, and there was minimal progress, a lot of plateau. Within the first month of starting the program, the progress I made was insane, L-sits, weighted pistol squats, muscle-ups, now working on handstands and front levers. It's only after starting an actual structured program that I realized what I was doing before was not the right thing."

Arshad

From zero pull-ups to eight in a few months

"When I started with them, met them in the park on my first calisthenic sessions, I couldn't do one pull-up, and I still struggled with consistency. They were always ready to be on call, to give me advice, give me support. I ended up getting up to eight pull-ups within a few months, which for me was a miracle to be honest with you."

David

Coaches who walk the talk

"These guys walk the talk despite their own busy lives. They show up, stay committed and lead by example. It made me believe I could do the same as well... and I did."

Nevin

The Forged Forever System

Everything you need to build strength, muscle and calisthenics skills, with both of us coaching you every week.

Monthly coaching
$197 a month
  • A 1:1 onboarding call with Ihsan and Sam to set your goals and plan
  • Personalised training plan, built around your level, goals, schedule and injuries
  • Personalised nutrition plan, built around your goals and your day
  • Weekly written feedback on your progress
  • Weekly group video form reviews
  • Weekly live group coaching call with Ihsan and Sam
  • Full access to every course and training program
  • Private Discord coaching community
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No minimum term. Cancel any month. 30-day money back guarantee. No setup fees.

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Train with us for 30 days. If you don't feel stronger, you get every penny back. No questions asked.

Do the sessions and come to the calls. If after 30 days you don't feel stronger, email [email protected] and we'll refund you in full. You don't have to explain or prove anything.

There's no minimum term after that. You can cancel any month.

So you can join, get on your onboarding call with us, train with your new plan, and decide from there.

Questions

I can't do a single pull-up. Is this for me?

Yes. That's the most common starting point. The plan builds you up to your first one with the steps laid out in order.

I don't have time.

It's about 90 minutes a week in short sessions, wherever you train. Ihsan built this around consulting and sales with a young family. Sam ran it alongside a job at Bloomberg on 30-minute sessions.

I've tried everything and nothing has worked. Why would this?

You've tried plans built for someone else's life. When your week went wrong, there was nobody to change the plan, so it ended. Here, a bad week goes to the call, and you leave knowing exactly how to pick back up.

I've got an old injury or a bad back.

You start at your actual level with bodyweight movements, and you can raise anything on the weekly call before it becomes a problem. Nikhil came to us with two long-term injuries and built up to 30kg weighted pull-ups and a muscle-up. Training around an injury isn't the same as ignoring it.

Is $197 a month worth it?

You get a 1:1 onboarding call with us, a training plan and a nutrition plan built for you, written feedback on your progress every week, weekly video form reviews and a weekly coaching call with both of us, plus every course and program we've built and the Discord. A personal trainer charges about that for a few sessions and isn't there for the rest of the week. The 30-day guarantee means you can find out for yourself.

I've been burned before.

The 30-day guarantee puts the risk on us, and there's no minimum term. Your first step is a 1:1 call with us.

I need to talk to my partner first.

Join and get on your onboarding call with us. Then have the conversation knowing exactly what it is. If it's a no, the guarantee covers you.

Do I need any equipment?

At the gym, you already have everything you need. At home, a pull-up bar and a set of resistance bands. Dip bars are optional.

Six months from now, you could be someone who trains instead of someone starting again.

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