Strength,
hand-written.
For busy adults who are tired of running out of breath at their kid's soccer game and tired of programs written for somebody else. I coach the way the good ones used to — one client at a time, one notebook page at a time.
— L.M., filed from the gym floor
You don't have time.
You have a body.
The sentence I hear at nearly every intake is the same:
"I don't have time for this. Work takes me a lot of time."
Then, usually, they list the rest of it. Running out of breath during a pickup game. Not recognizing themselves in the wedding photos. Feeling like the version of themselves that used to be athletic is gone.
None of that is a time problem. It is a who's-actually-thinking-about-you problem. That's what I do differently.
You can, trust the process.
The process is not the sets and reps. The process is that somebody is thinking about you between sessions. Every program I write is written by hand, at my kitchen table, the night before. No app spits it out. No template gets copied. It fits you because I built it for you.
Feel good about myself again
The confidence goal comes first. Every block is aimed at the moment you look in the mirror and recognize the person there.
Stop running out of breath
Conditioning built into strength work, not tacked on as punishment. Playing soccer with your kids stops being a problem.
Look good to yourself
Physique work that respects your calendar. Lean mass, less fluff — earned in three sessions a week, not five.
The service menu, short by design.
The Foundation
Movement quality, a training rhythm, and the first honest look at what your body will do when somebody's paying attention.
Read more →The Build
The full block. Strength climbs, body composition shifts, wedding suits fit. This is what most clients come for.
Read more →Inner Circle
For clients who've earned the process and want it to keep going. Hand-written programs, standing weekly check-ins.
Read more →Filed under: received.
I look like myself again.
I entered very thin and acquired muscle mass. I felt super good.
First time a trainer asked how I actually slept before writing my session.
The soccer game with my kids doesn't wreck me anymore.
Four steps. Nothing more.
The intake call
Twenty minutes on the phone. I ask about your schedule, your history, and the sentence you'd write if you were being honest in the mirror. If we're a fit, we keep going. If we're not, I'll tell you who to talk to instead.
The movement session
One session, in person or on video. I watch how you actually move. No program gets written until I've seen you squat, hinge, and press with my own eyes.
The first notebook page
That night, I sit down and write your first four weeks. By hand. On paper. Then I photograph it and send it to you.
The block
Twelve weeks, three sessions, weekly check-ins. Every session's program is written the night before, based on how the last one went. This is the process. It works.
Before this was a coaching practice, it was professional basketball — and then a decision, ten years ago, to spend the rest of it helping other people find their body again.
Three sentences I hear a lot.
I don't have time.+
Three forty-five-minute sessions a week is what the whole method is built around. If you have three hours, you have enough. If you don't, I'll be honest with you at the intake call.
I've tried before and it didn't stick.+
Usually because the program you were given wasn't written for you — it was written for a hundred people and you were one of them. Hand-written programs are the difference. That's not marketing. That's the whole job.
I'm embarrassed to start.+
Every client I've ever coached felt some version of this on day one. Nobody feels it by day thirty. You can, trust the process.
Tomorrow's program
gets written tonight.
One conversation is what it takes. Call, email, or send a note. If we're a fit, I'll open the notebook.