Online is better. Full stop. Let me explain why.
Cost. When I was training clients in person in San Francisco back in 2017, my rate was $250+ per session. Today that same session would run at least $400 an hour.
That might be a bit on the high end, but any good trainer is going to run you at least a few hundred bucks a session. And there’s the added gym fees associated with it, commuting to the gym, etc. And forget it if you want the trainer to come to you. That’s even more expensive.
For most people, meaningful progress means multiple sessions per week. You're looking at $2,000+ a month just for the hours your trainer is physically next to you. Online coaching gets you more support, more frequency, and a full system for a fraction of that.
Quality of training time. Most in-person sessions turn into Q&A. You're paying premium rates for someone to watch you train, and instead you end up talking through what you ate last night, what hurt this week, and how to set up the next exercise. The actual training suffers. Online flips that. Your workout is your workout. Your questions get answered asynchronously by your coach, on video review, in the community, or over messages. No premium billable hour gets wasted on conversation.
Scope. Most in-person trainers are legally not allowed to program nutrition, or they choose not to because they specialize. So you pay one person for training and you're left on your own for everything else. With us, training, nutrition, mindset, and accountability are one integrated system delivered by one team. Nothing is outsourced. Nothing falls through the cracks.
Accountability between sessions. In-person accountability ends the second the session does. There is no check-in, no messaging, no tracking, no data review. When I was training clients in person, if they texted me with questions between sessions, I'd tell them to hold them for the next appointment. Because I didn't get paid to answer questions on my off hours. That's the model. Our model is the opposite. Weekly coaching videos. Direct messages to your team. A dedicated accountability coach watching your logs. The feedback loop runs all week, not just during the hour you're standing next to your coach.
Teaching versus dependency. Most in-person trainers don't actually teach you how to train on your own. Because if you learn, you stop showing up. That's bad for their business. This program is built on the opposite incentive. We want to be the last program you ever buy. We give you the workouts, the resources, and the skills to run it on your own after 16 weeks.
Flexibility and scale. You train on your schedule, not your trainer's availability. At home. In your gym. In a hotel. On a business trip.
You can rewatch your form review video at 10pm when the kids are asleep. You can pull up your exercise library mid-workout. You can compare month six to week one with a few taps. None of that exists with in-person.
Access. With in-person you're limited to whoever happens to be within driving distance of your gym. Online, you get to work with the best coach for you regardless of where you live.
A full team versus one person. An in-person trainer is one person. One set of biases. One opinion. When you work with us, your plan is reviewed, refined, and adjusted by a team of coaches. That's a lot of eyes on your programming, not one.
I loved training clients in person. I built my reputation doing it.
But if I were starting over today as a client trying to finally get into the best shape of my life, I'd hire an online coach every time. Same expertise. More support. More flexibility. Better results. Fraction of the cost.
In-person coaching is a Cadillac.
Online is a Ferrari.