One programme, reviewed quarterly
Every member has a written programme and a coach who owns it. It is reviewed every twelve weeks against what you actually did, not against what the plan said you would do.
Coaching
Four coaches. One to one, always.
There are no classes at MERIDIAN and there never have been. Coaching is one person with one person, booked by the hour, and every member's programme is reviewed by the same coach who wrote it.
How the coaching works
Hours, not packages
Coaching hours are bought singly at €95 and never expire. There is no block of ten to commit to and no session that is lost because it was not used by March.
The coach does not change
You keep the same coach unless you ask to move. Four coaches and a hundred and twenty members means each of them knows roughly thirty people properly.
The coaches
We do not publish photographs of anybody, including ourselves. What follows is what each coach actually does with their hours.
Anselm Rothbauer
Founder · Strength
Coaching since 2004
Trained as a physiotherapist in Regensburg, spent eleven years with a Bundesliga rowing squad, opened MERIDIAN in 2016 after concluding that most people are held back by their calendar rather than their programme. Takes the heaviest lifters and the most cautious beginners, and says the two groups need the same thing.
Mirjam Kessler
Barbell · Return to lifting
Coaching since 2011
Competed in weightlifting to national level, then spent six years in a Munich rehabilitation clinic teaching people to pick things up again after surgery. Most of her hours go to members over fifty and to anybody coming back from a back injury. Writes the shortest programmes in the building.
Tobias Brenner
Conditioning · Endurance
Coaching since 2013
Sports science at the TUM, four years as a physiologist for an amateur cycling team, arrived here in 2018. Handles everything with a heart rate attached to it: rowing, carries, hill work in the English Garden when the weather allows. Owns the body composition scan and reads it conservatively.
Halina Novak
Nutrition · Recovery
Practising since 2009
Ökotrophologin, registered dietitian, ten years in clinical practice in Warsaw and Munich. Writes every nutrition plan in the building and runs the recovery suite. Refuses to sell supplements, which she describes as the most useful thing she does for most members.
Nutrition plans
Written by Halina Novak, one at a time, from a food diary rather than a questionnaire. No products are sold here and none are recommended by brand.
- Consultation
- A single hour, a fortnight of food diary read beforehand, and a written page afterwards. For most members this is all they ever need.
- €120one hour
- Written plan
- A twelve-week eating plan built around what you already cook, with a review hour at week six included. Adjusted, not replaced, when things change.
- €290one plan
- Plan with quarterly review
- The written plan plus four review hours across the year, aligned with the programme reviews so the two are never pulling in different directions.
- €480per year
Corporate wellness
We take a small number of company arrangements, usually four to eight places on the roll held by one employer. They are counted against the hundred and twenty like any other membership, because they are memberships. We do not run workshops, away days or on-site programmes.
- Four to eight named places, held by the company and reassignable once a year
- Billed annually at the founding rate per place
- Each holder is a full member and applies in the ordinary way
- No branding in the building, no group sessions, no reporting on individuals