The Record
Spicewood, Texas · Highway 71 West
- Established
- 2009
- Shannon & Seneca Sarnella
- Texas's Strongest Man
- 2×
- Seneca Sarnella
- Coaching world titles
- 2
- Seneca Sarnella
- Pieces on the floor
- 63
- Counted, not estimated
- Machine stations
- 26
- The biggest room in the building
- Cardio stations
- 11
- No queue at six
- Doors open
- 24/7
- Every member holds a code
- A month
- $70
- No contract
- Your name
- The last row on the board is the one that matters. Three days on the whole floor, free, no card and no sales pitch.
Most people here
are not powerlifters
That is the part a gym with our history has to say out loud. The biggest department in the building is the machine floor — 26 stations, every one with a seat, a pin and a diagram on the side. There are11 cardio machines. Most of the room, most of the day, is people doing perfectly ordinary training.
Nobody is going to watch you. It is a private gym, not a chain, so the floor is quiet even at six. There is no class to keep up with and no screen ranking you against a stranger. And because members have their own code, you can come at five in the morning or eleven at night, when the building is yours.
If you would rather not work it out alone, someone is on the floor six to six on weekdays, and showing you how a machine works is not a personal training session. It is just what they are there for.
What is in the building
Coaching
Every membership includes the floor. Coaching is what you add when you would rather someone else held the plan.
Strength & Conditioning
Compound lifts taught properly, then loaded over time. The base everything else is built on, whether you are chasing a number or just want to carry your own bags.
Powerlifting
Squat, bench and deadlift, programmed toward a meet or toward a personal best. Trained on competition racks and calibrated kilo plates so the number is the real number.
Weight Loss
Training and eating handled together rather than separately, built around what your week actually looks like. No fads and no meal plan you will abandon by Thursday.
Diet & Nutrition Coaching
Practical nutrition counselling alongside your training — what to eat, when, and how to keep it going on a normal schedule.
Sport-Specific Training
Off-season and in-season work built for the demands of your sport, including the speed, agility and jump testing to measure whether it is working.
Speed & Agility
Acceleration, change of direction and vertical work, measured on the Vertec rather than guessed at.
Who is on the floor
- Seneca SarnellaCo-founderStrength training · Strongman · NutritionTexas's Strongest Man — two-time champion
- Shannon SarnellaCo-founderFitness coaching · Programming around a full scheduleFounded the gym with Seneca in 2009
- Kyle HeinePartnerPowerlifting · Muscle gain · Body compositionNearly a decade coaching in the fitness industry
- Bryan AcostaTrainerBoxing technique · Conditioning · Injury prevention and rehabOver fifteen years in the industry
- Anthony MarcelloTrainerGeneral fitness · Motivation and accountabilityEight years training clients in Austin
What it costs
- Month to month
- $70 a month
- On a one-year term
- $60 a month
- First 3 days
- Free no card
No contract on the monthly plan. The annual rate holds for a one-year term.
Where it is
19912 State Hwy 71 WSpicewood, TX 78669
- Members
- 24 hours, every day
- Staffed
- 6:00 AM – 6:00 PM, Mon–Fri
Ten to twenty-five minutes from Lakeway, Bee Cave, Westlake, Dripping Springs.