11 years · Pune · in-person + online
A holistic fitness studio in Pune that takes everyone seriously — from 17 to 75, first-timers and lifers, in-person or online from anywhere. No quick fixes. No bro energy. Just careful coaching, food that fuels, and a life you can keep up with.
11
Years strong
65+
Active members
7
Cities reached
2.3 yrs
Avg tenure
Three pillars
Food, Fitness, Life — each side reinforces the other. None of this works in isolation.
Fuel that fits real life
The Lean Life Café — high-protein meals built for active days. Subscriptions for regulars, single meals for everyone else. No restrictive plans, no shaming.
Strength, not punishment
Twelve-class personal training packs, buddy options, group classes, dance cardio. Programmed for progressive overload, scaled to you, taught by humans who know your shoulder.
Sustainable beyond month one
Recovery, sleep, stress — the boring stuff that decides whether you're still training in five years. We coach the whole picture, not just reps and sets.
Why us
The fitness industry sells transformation. We sell capability — strength, endurance, recovery, the everyday-life things that make a 70-year-old still able to garden, a busy parent able to lift their kid without their back giving out, and a desk-bound 50-year-old able to deadlift more than they did at 30.
We don't promise weight loss.
We coach progressive strength. Body composition follows.
We don't do fitness-bro culture.
Calm, careful coaching. Form before load. Always.
We don't run cookie-cutter classes.
Programs scale to who's in front of us — 17-year-old or 75.
We don't disappear after the trial.
Average member stays 2.3 years. Some are at year eleven.
Programs
Four programs, one philosophy. All NET pricing — what you see is what we charge, GST is broken out separately.
Solo or buddy · 12-class packs
From the US, UK, Netherlands, Muscat, and across India
Functional strength · 6–8 per batch
T/T evenings · 4 + 8 packs
7
Cities reached, including online
17 → 75
Member age range
11 yrs
Same two coaches
~10
International members, online
Run by
Lean Life isn't a chain. It's Pooja and Manju — and the studio they've kept open through eleven years of changes, including the pandemic.
Founder · Head Coach
Pooja runs the in-studio personal training and the online client roster. Strength-first programming and the quiet kind of attention that makes members stay for years. The face of the brand, the voice on most of the videos.
Founder · Coach · India cricketer · Powerlifting Champion
Played for India in the cricket series vs England as a teenager, after captaining state at U-15 and U-19. Two decades later: Asian Masters Powerlifting champion (3 gold + 1 silver, Dubai), now training to represent India at the World Powerlifting Championship. The kind of coach who teaches form and progressive overload from under the bar herself — every cue she gives, she's lived. Also the brain behind The Lean Life Café.
What's next
Two coaches isn't the end state. We're hiring trainers who care about form before load, and pushing online coaching into more cities. If you train this way — or want to be coached this way — we want to hear from you.
The Lean Life Café
The other half of the strapline. Subscriptions for members who want fuel without thinking about it, single discrete meals for everyone else. Built around what actually works for people training hard, not what looks good on Instagram.
“Food + fitness done at the same place by the same people. That's the bet.”
The Lean Life operating model
Get started
Book a trial, ask about online PT, or just tell us what you're trying to fix. We'll reply ourselves — no auto-responses, no funnels.