Queering fitness.
Building stronger people, better coaches, and more inclusive fitness spaces.
🔥 HOT STREAK 🔥
Studio Gay's 8-week online fitness program for queer cuties who want to build strength and a routine that's sustainable for your lifestyle. Turns out consistency gets a lot easier when you're actually having fun.
What's inside
- Two progressive workouts every week
- Coach Nici in your pocket — training app
- A queer crew hyping you on
- Three 1:1 coaching calls
- Unlimited form checks
Queering fitness — for your organisation.
Program architecture
Strength concepts and class formats designed from the ground up.
Inclusion workshops
Workshops, talks, presentations on gender inclusion, safer spaces, and queer-affirming fitness culture — for gyms, studios, and corporate teams.
Gym consulting
Hands-on guidance for gyms/studios building inclusive and unique spaces. Everything from programming to coach education to culture.
Gay up your workouts.
Online programs
Queer-coded training programs you can run from anywhere — build strength and a routine that's sustainable for your lifestyle. HOT STREAK is enrolling now.
Explore →1:1 online coaching
Your body. Your goals. Your vibe. Strength training built around your life — not a template. Evidence-based programming, coached remotely.
Contact →Group fitness classes
Sweat together outside da klerb. Small-group, gender-affirming training — some mixed, some TIN*-only. Currently teaching at BEAT81, Lifted, Sha-La.
Why I do this.
Studio Gay emerged from my desire to make fitness fun. To make it affirming, sexy, and cute. However you define those words, I want you to feel them in your body. The one you have now and the one you're working toward. Because no matter who we are, our bodies are always in transition. Why not enjoy the ride?
At Studio Gay, I want to help you achieve the change you want while also embracing the process of change itself. Having goals can be motivational, even inspiring; but it can also generate pressure and produce feelings of failure. I want you to grow – without obsessing over outcomes. To challenge yourself – without destroying yourself. To explore your body – without judging it. And I want you to do it all in a way that lowers the stakes a bit – a way that feels fun, relaxed, and chill.
My focus is strength training, but I always incorporate breathwork, mobility, and stretch. Together, we'll define goals, leverage data, and chart progress. But we'll also celebrate where you're at in the present. Vibes are energetic, communicative, and earnest. Music is clubby. Coaching style is a mix of pushing you hard and building you up. The ultimate aim is to help you feel more confident, flexible, and joyful in your body.
Also, of course, to gay up your workouts 🍑
As a bisexual trans masc coach in a dude-dominant industry, I know all about the policing of genders, bodies, and sexualities. At Studio Gay, we throw the scripts out the window. I want to empower people, especially queers, to invent their own unique visions for physical joy, then help bring those visions to life. To that end, I always hold space for real talk about gender and sexuality – the stuff that actually shapes fitness culture, but rarely gets said out loud. How are your fitness goals related to your (or other peoples') ideas about femininity, masculinity, attractiveness, and desire? How do certain movements make you feel? What is actually driving your desire to get fit? We definitely don't have to talk about this stuff – but I strive to be a trainer you can talk to about it if you want.
What clients say
Nici is a thoughtful and affirming trainer that motivates with joy and humour. He is an antidote to the toxic cultures that pervade fitness spaces. I am never bored in Nici's sessions and I am consistently learning and challenging myself. Most importantly, they always take both my mental and physical health seriously when planning our sessions.
Nici's session on safe spaces in fitness was highly valuable. An open and thoughtful environment made it easy to engage with the topic — what stood out most was how the concept of safe spaces was connected to the real experiences of members. The session offered valuable insight into why these formats exist and the meaningful role they play in building a more inclusive training environment.
As someone who has never felt comfortable weight training in spaces where cis men were the majority, I've come to rely on FLINTA and queer classes as a safe place where I can ask questions, try new things, and generally challenge myself. Having a coach from my own community who I feel comfortable getting sweaty around completely changes the experience — it's literally made me better, faster, stronger.
Values
Queer joy & pleasure
Training should feel good. We build strength and unlock more confidence, sexuality, and joy in your body. Movement is playful, serious, and unapologetically pleasurable.
No binaries
We reject gender binaries, rigid programming, and fitness dogma. Hard workouts with compassionate coaching. Evidence-based training that adapts to real, messy queer lives. We meet you where you are.
Community is everything
Hard workouts, cute crowds. We sweat together, hype each other up, and hold space for struggles and wins. Online, in-person, hybrid — you're part of the Studio Gay fam.
Coach Nici (they/he)
Transmasc trainer, sports sociologist, and co-founder of Safer Sex Berlin. I bring an academic foundation into real-world practice — creating safer, stronger, and more joyful fitness spaces for queer and trans people.
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