What it is
Our highest level of coaching, built entirely around you.
Your training starts with understanding your goals, movement, training history, lifestyle and what you want to accomplish. From there, your coach builds a fully individualized program where every exercise, load, progression and training decision has a reason.
Every session is dedicated entirely to you. Your coach watches how you move, refines technique, manages intensity and adjusts your training in real time based on how you are progressing and how you are performing that day.
There is no generic workout to follow and no one else's program to fit into. Your training evolves with you.
When 1-on-1 is the right call
- You want the highest level of personalization: every session and progression is designed specifically around you.
- You have a specific goal: strength, performance, body composition or an important event with a clear timeline.
- You want to rebuild movement and technique: dedicated coaching allows us to work through the details that make better movement and long-term progress possible.
- You are returning to training: if you have been cleared to exercise but need greater individualization, your coach can adapt the training around your current ability.
- You want complete accountability: one coach, one appointment and a training plan built around your progress.
How it starts
It starts with understanding you, not throwing you into a workout.
We will talk through your goals, training history, lifestyle, previous experience and what has or has not worked before. From there, we will assess how you move and establish your starting point.
Your coach then creates your training plan and continues to refine it as you progress. We do not just coach the workout in front of you. We coach where your training is going next.
And when you are ready, your coach can help determine whether continuing 1-on-1, combining it with Small Group Training, or transitioning into Small Group is the best path forward.
This is coaching without compromise: your plan, your pace, your progression.
Your coach
You work with one coach, and the relationship is the product. They learn how you move on a good day and a bad one, which cues land with you, and which exercises your body quietly dislikes. That accumulated knowledge is something a single session cannot buy.
Matching happens on your consult and turns on three things: what you are training for, what your body currently objects to, and which hours you can genuinely defend. If the fit turns out to be wrong, we change it. Meet the coaches covers what every coach here is responsible for and how the matching works.
Combining 1-on-1 with group training
Most members do not stay purely private, and they should not have to. The structure that works best for a lot of people is one private session a week as the steering wheel, with small group training carrying the volume around it. The private hour fixes technique and sets direction; the group hours build the habit and the work capacity.
How to dose that as your training matures is covered in how often to see a personal trainer, and whether a single weekly session is enough on its own in personal training once a week.
Homework between sessions
When your program includes work to do on your own, every movement your coach assigns has a matching page in the exercise library, and the workouts section carries complete self-run sessions for travel weeks and busy stretches, so the plan survives the weeks the schedule does not.
Finding the studio
We are on 3rd Street West at number 142B, two blocks up the slope from the water in Lower Lonsdale. The SeaBus terminal at Lonsdale Quay is a six to eight minute walk downhill on the way home, and a slightly more honest one on the way here.
The studio runs 6:00 am to 8:00 pm every day, which gives private sessions a genuinely wide range of bookable hours rather than the usual before-work and after-work squeeze. Directions, parking and a photo tour are on Our Space.
Common questions
Do I need to get fit before starting?
That myth keeps people on the couch for years. Coaching exists for the start line, and the first session is an assessment rather than a test.
How often should I train 1-on-1?
Two to three sessions a week while you are learning. Many members later hold one private session and build the rest of the week around group training.
What does it cost?
It depends on format and package. Ask on your consult: fifteen minutes, zero pressure, real numbers.
Can I combine it with group training?
Yes, and many people do. Private sessions keep the individual eye on your technique while the group carries the consistency.
Who will my coach be?
We match you on your free consult, based on your goals, your injury history and the hours you can actually defend. Tell us if you have a preference. If the fit turns out to be wrong, say so and we will change it.
How long is a session?
Ask when you book. Session lengths are set by the schedule rather than fixed forever, and we would rather give you the current answer than print one that goes stale. Call (236) 868-9964 or raise it on your consult.
