Amenities

What is on the floor

Equipment, environment and the things around the training that make a gym somewhere you stay.

Strength equipment

Plate-loaded Hammer Strength across press, row, pulldown and leg
Full power racks with safeties, set up for squat, bench and press
Olympic barbells and bumper plates
Dumbbells running heavy
Cable and selectorised stations for accessory work
Benches: flat, incline and adjustable

Cardio

Second-floor mezzanine cardio section
Overlooking the training floor: the best view in the house

The environment

Huge LED panels behind the training floor
Scenes that change with the session: coastline, city, forest
Full programmable overhead lighting rig
Haze and atmospheric effects
Sound system built for the room, not bolted on

Unplugged

Soundproof recording studio and recovery room
Hyperice massage guns and compression boots
Aromatherapy and white noise
Massage therapy and stretching
$30 a month on top of any membership
Members only - it is an add-on, not a standalone pass

The social floor

Dedicated workspaces throughout the facility
High-speed Wi-Fi
Protein shake bar
Meal-prep meals to take home
Space designed for staying after training

Practical

Downtown Indianapolis, 416 E Wabash Street
Walking distance from Mass Ave, Bottleworks and the Cultural Trail
Changing facilities
Personal training on site, with independent trainers, for members

Final equipment list and changing-room detail are still being confirmed as the build-out completes: Final spec TBC

Unplugged

A room with
the volume off

Unplugged is a soundproof room inside a very loud building. It is a recording studio, and it is where the recovery happens.

Inside: Hyperice massage guns and compression boots, aromatherapy and white noise, and space for massage therapy and stretching. No music bleeding through the wall, no plates hitting the floor, no one waiting for the bench you are lying on.

Most gyms treat recovery as a foam roller in the corner by the water fountain. This is a completely relaxing room with a door that shuts.

Unplugged is a $30 a month add-on to any Wabash Iron membership. You have to be a member to add it; there is no standalone Unplugged pass.

Haze filling the training floor at Wabash Iron, equipment silhouetted in purple light

Amber and yellow stage lights and a mirror ball on the ceiling truss above the gym floor

Bench and rack in front of an LED panel showing open water, with a water bottle on the floor

Pull-ups against a blue-lit LED panel at Wabash Iron

The LED panels

The room you train in
is not fixed

The panels are the thing people notice first. They are huge, they sit behind the training floor, and what is on them changes: open water, a city at night, a forest under snow.

It sounds like a gimmick until you have done a long conditioning piece staring at a blank wall. Where you think you are changes how long the set feels. That is the entire justification, and it is enough of one.

The overhead rig works the same way: colour and intensity that move with the session rather than one flat setting from open to close.