Nickel City Athletics

SUMMER CYCLE #2 IS HERE ☀️

We’re still riding high from last night’s 5-Year Anniversary celebration and we’re ready to keep building on the absolutely insane momentum the NCA crew created in the first half of summer.

New progressive strength cycle. Same 11/10 crew. Let’s get to work 🤘

Reminder: Come celebrate 5 years of NCA with us tomorrow night! 🎉

📍Duende at Silo City
🔺Saturday, August 1 @ 7:30 PM
🔺Spouses, partners, friends, and +1s welcome

RSVP isn’t required, but it is very helpful—link in bio!

Party pants strongly encouraged 💃🪩

DAN F’N BRADY🥉 3RD FITTEST IN THE WORLD (Lower Minor Men’s) at the 2026 ADAPTIVE ATHLETE GAMES!!

Third year at the games, highest 5 individual event finishes of his career, and his first podium spot. A weekend of grit and absolute heart. Officially tied for 2nd in overall points, with the tiebreaker landing him on the podium in 3rd.

Our guy. Representing NCA, representing Buffalo, representing every athlete who’s ever refused to let adversity define what’s possible.

One of the most incredible parts of this weekend is being reminded what sport can look like when everyone has a place to compete. The Adaptive Athlete Games celebrate excellence in all its forms, and we’re incredibly grateful this community exists.

We have so much more to say (and a full Games recap coming soon), but we couldn’t let this moment pass without shouting out the entire Stephenson-Brady support crew, especially cate2526 —the true MVP of the weekend. Superwoman doesn’t even cover it.

Dan Brady ...we are so. damn. proud.

YEAR 3 AT THE ADAPTIVE ATHLETE GAMES! 🚀

We’re ready to go out here in California—Event 1 kicks off at 3:55 PM (EST) and Event 2 at 7:48 PM (EST)

Nothing to do but to do it! We’re so damn proud, Dan Brady 🤘

1000 CLASSES!!!! 🤘

We celebrated a very special Milestone Monday last week as Matt officially hit four digits on his class count.

A true 5:30 AM OG who’s been showing up through every season….rain or shine, good days and hard ones alike. No matter what’s going on outside our 4 walls, he’s here doing the work.

Matt is one of the NCA. Few who helped build the culture of NCA into what it is today, and we couldn’t be prouder.

Here’s to 1,000…and the next 1,000. 🖤

We also celebrated:
Polly - 100!
Christine - 500!
Kevin - 400!
Nicole - 300!
Eliana - 400!
Jesse - 750!!!
Sam - 300!
Courtney - 500!!
Kelsie - 300!
Annette - 200!
Gabriela - 100!
Quinn - 200!
Chris - 100!

A different kind of Milestone Monday… Happy 5 Year Anniversary, NCA 🤘🖤

5 f*cking years. It feels like 2 weeks and 17 years all at once. Looking back at the 29 year old who was so damn excited to have her own gym in the city feels almost as foreign as looking back at my 13 year old self.

The past 5 years have shaped me more than any other season of my life.

Five years of hard work. Five years of learning how to say no, how to set a boundary, how to trust people, how to trust myself, how to let things slide off my back, and how to keep going when life inevitably gets incredibly hard, both in and outside of the gym.

Five years of PRs, sweat, grief, celebration, heartbreak, life seasons, inside jokes, and the most intelligent, unhinged, witty s**t talking I have ever been lucky enough to witness. Truly, I don’t know where all of these funny AF people came from, but I have never laughed like I do every single day at NCA.

Five years of giving people a third space. A place to lift heavy, get sweaty, get stronger, be seen, be known, and have a damn good time doing it.

And five years later, the question that sits on my keychain every day still stands: “What if all the hard work pays off?”

Guess what, it does! Not always in the way I pictured. Not without cost, not without fear, and not without some “what the f*ck are we doing?” moments.

But it pays off...in dividends. In the raw strength of NCA’s culture. In the people. In the community. In a team I learn from every single day. In members who have become lifelong friends. In the OGs, the drop-ins, the people who came for one season, the people who are still here, and every single person who has ever walked through our doors.

Thank you for letting NCA be part of your life and for making this place what it is.

Thank you for every hell yeah brother, every hard workout, every laugh, every rep, every year.

5 years in, and we still know what works: Lift heavy, get sweaty, and have a damn good time doing it.

To many, many more.

Reminder: NCA will be closed for classes July 3rd through July 5th so our team can enjoy a very well-deserved long weekend 🎇

24/7 Open Gym will still be available for members who have it included in their membership.

Before we head into the long weekend, we have a killer week of workouts lined up Monday through Thursday…plus a few special surprises to help us embrace the heat wave 🔥

Book your spot, let’s get sweaty, and then enjoy the long weekend!