During the middle of November, the Iron Knights club opens up at FHN. Iron Knights is an inclusive fitness and weightlifting club that occurs after school on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Iron Knights has been going for over two years and is mainly run by Coach Brett Bevill and Coach Matthew Couch with the assistance of various other coaches and even students who are familiar with weight training and past participants of Iron Knights. 

“I want to build my strength for baseball season and it’s fun being around my friends in the weight room,” sophomore and Iron Knights member Owen Gonzalez said. “One of my friends told me about Iron Knights and I saw posters around the school.”

Students set their current limits on the bench press, dead-lift, back squat and power clean as well as working on pushing their limits throughout the year with a plethora of different workouts using free weights and weight machines. The coaches make it clear that Iron Knights is a judgment free zone, where anyone is free to work on themselves physically.

“I think the most important thing is that it’s very welcoming and everybody is welcome to come and join,” Couch said. “We’ll never turn somebody away. The nice thing about it is kids come in here and they may have their own individual goals or they just want to better their lives through fitness. That can be accomplished here.