2 November 2026 · By Dan Sissons

Unity 4 Turns One: Our First Birthday in Photos

One year of Unity 4 Performance. We marked our first birthday the best way we know: a big workout together, a barbecue outside the gym and a room full of the people who've made this place what it is. Here's the day in photos.

Thank you for year one

Unity 4 Performance started with four friends who wanted Oswestry to have a gym built around coaching, community and fun. A year on, it's the members who make it. You turn up at 6am, cheer each other through the last rep and stay for a chat afterwards. This birthday was for you.

Barbells, wall balls and a lot of cheering

The birthday workout had something for everyone: snatches, cleans and jerks for the lifters, plus wall balls, jumps over the bar and plenty of shouting from the sidelines. Every level was in the room, from first-timers to our most experienced lifters, all training together.

Member catching a heavy snatch overhead at Unity 4 Performance's first birthday

Member setting up for a clean at Unity 4 Performance's first birthday workout

Member lifting a barbell with the shutter door open behind

Member locking out a barbell overhead in a Unity 4 birthday T-shirt

Member driving a barbell overhead during the birthday workout

Member holding a front squat in the rack position at Unity 4 Performance

Member finishing a lift overhead in the gym's main training area

Member driving a barbell overhead with a coach watching

Member pressing a barbell overhead in a teal T-shirt

Member celebrating with a barbell overhead in a lilac Unity 4 T-shirt

Member lifting a barbell from the floor during the birthday workout

Member pulling a barbell from the floor in the morning light

Member holding a barbell with yellow plates overhead

Moving fast

Member exploding off the floor mid-workout

Member jumping over a barbell during the birthday workout

Member jumping over a bar in the sunlight from the open shutter door

Member throwing a wall ball at the target

Members throwing wall balls side by side on the rig

Two members in Unity 4 T-shirts at the wall ball target

Partners working through wall balls together

Member holding a medicine ball during the workout

Member hanging from the pull-up rig mid-workout

Several members training at once on the gym floor

The people

This is what Unity 4 is really about: people who show up for each other.

Members in Unity 4 T-shirts grinning in the gym doorway

Members laughing together between lifts

Coach and member sharing a laugh at the barbell

Two members watching on intently during the birthday workout

Members in lilac Unity 4 T-shirts chatting between heats

Member celebrating after finishing the workout

Members relaxing on the benches after the workout

Member jogging back into the gym through the front door

Then the barbecue

Training done, the grill was fired up outside and everyone tucked in.

Burgers and sausages on the grill outside Unity 4 Performance

Members helping themselves to food and snacks under the gazebo

Member tucking into a burger after the birthday workout

Here's to year two

Thank you to every member, coach and friend who came along, and to everyone who's trained with us this year. We can't wait to see what you lift, learn and achieve next.

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