Megan Cooper opened Studio ME in 2014 with one belief: fitness, done well, gives you your life back.
Megan had been an athlete most of her life. A tennis scholarship in college, pre-dental coursework after, then a career in the nonprofit world at the National Marrow Donor Program. Somewhere in there the training fell off. She knows what burnout feels like from the inside.
What pulled her back was a small-group fitness studio: coaching, community, the unglamorous work of showing up to the same room three times a week. She got strong again. She felt like herself again. And then her older sister, twenty-six years old, was diagnosed with stage IV cancer.
“Exercise is what helped me survive that year and a half.”
Studio ME exists because of that experience. Megan opened a studio that takes strength seriously. Not as vanity, but as the thing that keeps you in your own life when things get hard. The training is precise. The coaching is patient. The community is real.
What we believe
- Strength is for everyone. Not a phase of life, not a body type, not a personality. Strength is a tool that pays compounding dividends for decades.
- Pain is not the goal. We coach intelligent progressive loading. You should leave a session feeling capable, not destroyed.
- You should never be anonymous. If we don't know your name, your goals, and what's going on in your week, we are not coaching you.
- Community is a feature, not a side effect. The relationships built in our gym keep people coming back when motivation runs out.
What we won't do
- We won't sell you a punishing workout because it feels productive.
- We'll help you find the right plan for you. Real progress takes time, so we offer 6 and 12-month memberships — and we'll work with you to figure out what actually fits your life before you sign anything.
- We won't promise a transformation in six weeks. The good results take longer and last forever.