Fitness coaches for beginners
Compare 104 fitness coaches who focus on beginners. Besides beginners, the most common focus areas are online coaching, nutrition and habits, strength and powerlifting and running and endurance. They most often work with athletes, women and professionals. Most charge $45 to $122 per hour or session.
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Lindsay Horst
Lindsay Horst is a run coach and accountability coach in Wisconsin. She helps beginners, new athletes and experienced runners reach their goals, from a first 5k to a PR marathon. She has finished three Half Ironman races and holds a run coach certification. She builds a training plan around each person's needs and stays with clients to help them follow through. Her work also reaches swimmers and triathletes.
Ben Patrick
Ben Patrick is the founder of ATG (Athletic Truth Group), an online gym that coaches exercise form and builds programs for knee pain, back pain and athletic longevity. He is known as the Knees Over Toes Guy. He has trained 1000 people in person, including some of the most famous athletes in the world. Today his app-based programs and coaches serve over 100,000 people, with form checks seven days a week.
Damian Votta
Damian Votta is a HYROX and hybrid fitness coach who founded Hybrid Heroes. He helps everyday athletes train for HYROX races and other hybrid events. He has coached for over 19 years and has worked with hundreds of athletes. He has also competed in several HYROX events himself. He hosts the HYROX Heroes Podcast and is an LSKD team athlete. His programs run online in 12-week training blocks.
Daniel Welstead
Daniel Welstead is a personal trainer and life coach in Sevenoaks, UK. He trains clients at their homes and also coaches on mindfulness and vegan nutrition. He is a former professional chef who became a trainer after a low point in 2009. He qualified as a personal trainer in 2010. He has also spent 15 years training people with brain injuries, neurological disabilities and rehabilitation needs across Kent, Sussex and Surrey.
Eddie Wardlaw
Eddie Wardlaw is a personal trainer and hybrid performance coach in Wokingham, UK. He trains HYROX and hybrid athletes, as well as beginners and busy professionals. He has over 7 years of coaching experience and competes in HYROX events across Europe. He works from ARC Gym and also coaches online. He holds a NASM Level 3 certification and is an Official HYROX Performance Coach. Some of his clients have lost over 50 kg of fat.
Ethan Ganzy
Ethan Ganzy is a HYROX performance coach and strength and conditioning coach in Pittsburgh. He runs Fox Tactical and trains hybrid athletes and people who want stronger endurance. He is a Spartan racer, martial artist and Tactical Games competitor. His programs mix endurance work, tactical firearms training and martial arts. Fox Tactical is an affiliate of The Tactical Games and uses its programming and standards.
Fitman
Fitman is a natural bodybuilding and physique coach in Abington, Pennsylvania. He trains first-time competitors, natural athletes, experienced lifters, and men and women who want their best natural shape. He is an NGA Pro and won the 2022 NGA Mr. Natural Philadelphia title. His system covers training, nutrition, peak week, and posing, and he coaches without steroids or prohormones at his private gym.
Gavin Maxwell
Gavin Maxwell is a calisthenics coach in Los Angeles who also trains clients online. He helps beginners and stuck lifters build skills like handstands, planche and front lever. Gavin is a professional calisthenics athlete with more than 10 years of experience. He won the WCO Battle of the Bars tournament and reached the American Ninja Warrior city finals. He pairs custom workout plans with nutrition coaching and weekly video calls.
Grant Bain
Grant Bain is a performance coach who trains HYROX and hybrid athletes, plus people preparing for races and other fitness goals. He runs GB Performance Coaching from the Edinburgh area. He has over 20 years in fitness and sports. Grant competed solo at the 2025 Hyrox World Championships and has podium finishes at Deka, Spartan and running events. He also competed at national level in Shotokan Karate. His programs are built around functional strength.
James Crozier
James Crozier is a strength coach who runs JC Performance Coaching in Chelmsford. He helps people build strength, move better and train with confidence, from first-time lifters to strongman and strongwoman athletes. He has coached for more than 20 years and has worked with over 300 online clients. His clients range in age from 16 to 78. He trains people face to face at his private strength gym and also coaches online.
Jamey Merkel
Jamey Merkel is a performance coach and personal trainer in Calgary, Canada. Jamey helps adults build strength, improve conditioning, and prepare for HYROX races. Work covers athletic performance, bodybuilding, strength and conditioning, and nutrition coaching. Jamey is certified by the HYROX Academy and has more than 10 years of experience. Clients train in person, online, or in a mix of both. A new studio is set to open in the Beltline in October 2026.
Jennifer Vollmann
Jennifer Vollmann is a triathlon and mindset coach who runs Finding Endurance. She works with athletes on training and mindset, and she also coaches non-athletes on mindset. She has raced at four Ironman World Championships, earned a black shirt at Norseman Xtri Worlds, and won the Starvation Extreme Triathlon. Her coaching fits training to each person's personality, motivation style, and life goals. She also leads athlete travel trips, including cycling in the Dolomites and a swim and run trip in Greece.
Karen Meier
Karen Meier is a personal trainer for women over 50 in Scottsdale. She also works as a nutrition coach and a certified life coach. She did not start working out until she was 52, so she knows what it is like to begin later in life. She designs training around strength, balance, mobility, and energy. Clients work with her one on one, and she gives them an app that shows each exercise with a timer.
Layne Norton
Layne Norton is a nutrition and fitness coach who holds a PhD in nutritional sciences. He is a professional natural bodybuilder and powerlifter. He runs Biolayne, where a team of coaches offers one-on-one nutrition coaching built on research. The team works on fat loss, muscle building, reverse dieting, contest prep, intuitive eating and habit stacking. He also hosts a science-based health and fitness podcast and publishes a monthly research review.
Scott Eckett
Scott Eckett is a personal trainer, online coach and diabetes specialist based in North Devon. He helps busy professionals, beginners and people with type 2 diabetes get fitter and healthier. He founded Evolution Fitness & Health, where he offers training, nutrition and sleep coaching. His programs are built for people who find gyms intimidating. He also holds Level 4 qualifications in diabetes control and in nutrition for weight management.
Sean Ferguson
Sean Ferguson is a HYROX and hybrid athlete coach in Los Angeles. He trains beginners and returning racers online. Sean has over 20 years as a professional fitness trainer and is a HYROX Academy certified performance coach. He has raced HYROX 16 times, including 8 in Men's Pro, and finished the World Championship in Nice in June 2024. He also has 9 marathon finishes.
Shane Duquette
Shane Duquette is a muscle-building coach who helps skinny men, hardgainers and skinny-fat guys gain weight, get stronger and build muscle. He co-founded Bony to Beastly, Bony to Bombshell and Outlift. He gained 55 pounds in a little over two years himself. His teams have helped over 13,000 skinny people build muscle. Clients range from college students to senior citizens, and from office workers to Olympic athletes.
Chris Keith
Chris Keith is a private personal trainer in San Diego. He coaches adults on weight loss, strength, fitness and nutrition. He has trained clients one-on-one for over 30 years and started in 1995. San Diego Magazine voted him Best Personal Trainer. He runs programs for adults in their 40s, 50s and 60s, beginners, and people returning to strength training after physical therapy. Some clients have trained with him for more than 10 years.
Claire Pagan
Claire Pagan is a performance coach who trains runners, lifters and HYROX athletes through Steadfast Coaching. She holds certifications as a personal trainer, run coach and nutrition coach, plus a Level 2 HYROX Performance Coach credential. She works one on one with clients in the Orlando area of Central Florida. Her coaching includes custom training plans, performance testing and running form analysis. She also builds her coaching around Christian faith.
Cristina Parr
Cristina Parr is a performance coach and personal trainer who trains HYROX and hybrid athletes in Palm Beach County, Florida. She has over 15 years of experience and holds a HYROX Academy certification. She runs FITRUK, a mobile outdoor gym in a truck with sleds, racks, ropes, row and ski ergs, dumbbells and kettlebells. She brings it to parks, schools, barns and office parks, and coaches groups of 5 to 50 people.
Granville Mayers
Granville Mayers is a fitness and performance coach in Oakville, Canada. He runs the Athletic Leaders gym and trains women and men in person and online. He coaches HYROX and hybrid athletes. He is a drug-free powerlifting champion and a world record holder. He is a StrongFirst Certified Team Leader and a HYROX Academy certified performance coach. His gym offers a 12-week program built around fat loss, strength and confidence.
Jack Bissett
Jack Bissett is a Starting Strength coach in Cardiff who teaches barbell strength training. He coaches in person and online. He has over a decade of experience with clients from elderly beginners to competitive athletes. He works only with barbell training. He coaches technique on every major lift and writes programmes around each client's goals and experience. He also runs a site with articles, videos and podcasts on strength training.
Jayne Nisbet
Jayne Nisbet is a running and performance coach in London who helps runners and HYROX athletes reach their next goal. She is a former international high jumper and has over 20 years of experience working with athletes and runners. She founded The Athlete Edge. Her plans combine running, strength work and movement guidance, and they are built around each client's daily life.
Jeff Galloway
Jeff Galloway is an Olympian and running coach based in Atlanta. He teaches the Run-Walk-Run method to beginner runners and older runners. His programs cover every level, from 5K to ultramarathon. He is the official training consultant of runDisney. His offers include one-on-one coaching with a custom training plan, local training groups in more than 30 communities, and simple nutrition guidance for runners.
Jon-Vincent Morales
Jon-Vincent Morales, also called Jonjon, is a performance coach in Katy, Texas. He coaches HYROX and hybrid athletes, and he also helps people build strength and lean muscle. He is a HYROX Academy certified coach. He holds a degree in Kinesiology with a minor in Nutrition. He founded Kønvoy Training Co., where training is tracked with data and metrics. He welcomes people who are new to HYROX and have little endurance or training experience.
Kris Oddo
Kris Oddo is an online fitness coach who trains busy professional men. He runs Gains from Geebs and works with each client one on one. He builds training, nutrition and daily accountability around the client's real week. Clients get weekly check-ins and work in 3 to 6 month coaching blocks. Kris does the coaching himself, with no assistants. He is a NASM certified personal trainer.
Louise Hurley
Louise Hurley is a fitness coach who helps mums exercise safely through pregnancy, the postpartum months and later stages of motherhood. She runs Strong Mums and hosts The Body Resilient Mum podcast. She is a MumSafe Trainer and a Pregnancy and Postnatal Exercise Specialist with a psychology degree. Her programs include small group classes, personal training and online coaching. She works with pelvic health physiotherapists when a client has one.
Lynn Sederlof-Airisto
Lynn Sederlof-Airisto is a strength training coach for women in midlife, perimenopause and menopause. She runs Be Fit After 40 and has helped hundreds of women start lifting and keep going. Her programs teach women to build muscle and strength, with options for home or gym. She hosts the Menopause Strength Training & Fitness podcast and offers a free 10-day live challenge for new lifters.
Margaret Bates
Margaret Bates is a personal trainer and strength coach who helps women stay strong through pregnancy, postpartum and menopause. She runs Strong As A Mom in Chesterland, Ohio. She has 10 years of experience training clients in person and online. She combines fitness, nutrition and mindset coaching. She also works with women trying to conceive and women who are not pre or postnatal. Her business also runs a Mom's Strength Club.
Maximum Mileage
Maximum Mileage is an online running coaching team for busy marathon and ultra runners. The coaches build training plans that adjust when work, family or life gets in the way. The team looks after 90+ athletes across the globe. Every coach is a competitive runner. The team also includes a physiotherapist, a partner nutritionist and a mental performance coach who is a veteran and ultra runner.
Miro Istvanik
Miro Istvanik is a personal trainer and performance coach who helps people build strength, lose weight, and prepare for HYROX and DEKA events. He runs Elite Edge Coaching and trains clients at Body By D Gym in Yorktown, Virginia. He holds a HYROX Academy certification. One client cut over 2 minutes from a DEKA Strong time in one month and placed 1st among men.
Rod and Kate Cortizo
Rod and Kate Cortizo run Rodsquad, a women-only strength training and nutrition coaching business in Boca Raton, Florida. They have worked with women on health and fitness since 2004. Sessions are semi-private and capped at six women, and each woman gets her own training station. The workouts are low impact, with no running or jumping. Rodsquad has three South Florida locations and builds programs for women 35 and older.
Ronnie Loaiza
Ronnie Loaiza is a health and fitness, life and performance coach in Los Angeles. Ronnie helps people who keep starting and stopping their plans for fitness, eating and productivity. The focus is habit building, accountability and steady momentum. Ronnie is a NASM certified personal trainer with training in behavior change, mental toughness, nutrition and pre and post natal fitness. Ronnie teaches that small routines last longer than big starts and short bursts of motivation.
Run2PB
Run2PB is an online running coaching service. It helps runners of all levels train for races from 5K to ultramarathon. Its coaches include Olympians, Australian representatives, national champions and state champions. Every runner gets a custom plan built around goals, experience, current fitness and lifestyle. Coaches follow each run and session on the Final Surge training platform. More than 1000 runners around the world have trained with the team.
Runners Connect
Runners Connect is an online running coaching company for runners of all levels. The team has coached runners since 2009 and was one of the first to offer online coaching for runners. It builds training plans and courses for races from the 5k to the marathon. The team has over 600 members. In the last 2 years it helped 867 runners set new personal bests.
Samuel Figueroa
Samuel Figueroa is a personal trainer in London who runs SF Personal Trainer London with a team. He coaches fat loss, muscle gain, boxing and online training. His private gym and Pilates studio sits by Tower Bridge. He builds custom training programs for busy professionals and teaches clients how to keep their results. He has trained people from university students to retirees in their late 80s.
Sohee Carpenter
Sohee Carpenter is a fitness coach and content creator who helps women build strength and improve their relationship with food, fitness, and their body. She holds a PhD in Sports Science and is a certified strength and conditioning specialist. She has advised Women's Health Magazine on fitness since 2018. Her Sohee Fit brand offers training programs, nutrition programs, and coaching built on her eat. lift. thrive. approach.
Tamara Hanegraaf
Tamara Hanegraaf is a sports nutritionist, personal trainer and HYROX performance coach in Melbourne, Australia. She runs Ember Nutrition and helps people fuel for performance or lose fat in a lasting way. Her clients include beginner endurance athletes and women who want to feel stronger. She holds HYROX Academy certification. Her coaching mixes nutrition, strength and endurance training, and mindset work. She trains for HYROX and half marathons herself.
Training Think Tank
Training Think Tank is a CrossFit coaching company that trains athletes who want to keep performing for life. It runs a gym in Roswell, Georgia, and coaches people online anywhere. Clients can get CrossFit classes, personal training, remote programming, nutrition coaching and physical therapy. The team also teaches other coaches through courses and a mentorship program, and it hosts annual training camps.
Volition Fitness
Volition Fitness is a private personal training and strength coaching practice in Boise, Idaho. The team trains busy people, beginners, and competitive athletes. Clients can train one-on-one, two-on-one, in small groups, or online. The practice also offers powerlifting coaching and InBody testing. The team has studied exercise science and nutrition since 2010. Training runs from a private facility and serves Boise, Garden City, Eagle, and Meridian.
Wanda Rodriguez
Wanda Rodriguez is a fitness and nutrition coach who helps women in their 50s, 60s and 70s get stronger and healthier. She runs FitAnyAge, which she started after a layoff during COVID when gyms closed. Her main focus is virtual personal training, so she reaches women in all states and works across time zones. She also trains some clients in person. She works with retirees, women business owners, clients on GLP-1 medications and clients with limited mobility.
Avi Silverberg
Avi Silverberg is a powerlifting coach who helps lifters improve their technique and get stronger. He served as the National Powerlifting Coach for Team Canada. He founded PowerliftingTechnique, a site that offers online coaching, on-demand courses, and articles. His team of coaches and lifters has more than 20 years in the sport. Lifters can also learn from his courses on squat, bench, and deadlift skills.
Ayren Honey
Ayren Honey is a personal trainer and HYROX coach in Edinburgh. Ayren works with busy professionals, first time gym goers and HYROX athletes. Sessions take place at The Gym Group at Waverley Gate in the city centre, and online coaching is also available. Ayren is a HYROX Academy certified performance coach. Training covers strength, engine work and race preparation, with personal programming instead of templates.
Chantal Colette
Chantal Colette is a fitness and health coach who helps people build an easy, steady relationship with movement and food. She is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor and an ACE Certified Personal Trainer. She used to work as a mental health therapist. Her coaching is not tied to a certain look or body shape. She offers both personal training and intuitive eating coaching, online or in person for clients who live near her.
Darek
Darek is an online calisthenics coach who runs Learn Calisthenics. He trains adults through one-on-one coaching and set programs, including one for people over 40. His fitness path began in 2015, when he filmed a one year progress video that now has 27,000,000 views on YouTube. For the past 9 years he has focused only on calisthenics. His method, Hybrid Calisthenics, mixes calisthenics, mobility work and skill training.
Edgar Crockett
Edgar Crockett is a performance coach who trains HYROX and hybrid athletes online through his business, The Iron Den. He holds a HYROX Academy coaching certification. He has an engineering background and uses data and problem solving to build plans. He works with new and established athletes. His plans adapt to each person's goals, schedule, and needs. He also offers running programs and daily workouts.
Jim Schmitz
Jim Schmitz is an Olympic weightlifting coach in South San Francisco, California. He teaches lifters of all levels, from beginners to serious competitors. He coached the US Olympic weightlifting team three times, in 1980, 1988 and 1992. He has more than 50 years of competition and coaching experience. Lifters train at his gym with Eleiko bars and weights. He teaches the snatch, the clean and jerk, and general strength lifts.
Lean Strong Fitness
Lean Strong Fitness is a gym and coaching team in Guelph, Canada. The coaches train adults through small group personal training, 1:1 personal training and nutrition coaching. The gym focuses on fitness for adults 50+, and it welcomes all fitness levels. The team has more than 50 years of combined coaching experience. Clients get custom programs, ongoing coach support, and habit coaching alongside their workouts.
Lionel (Leo) Isaac
Lionel (Leo) Isaac is an online Olympic weightlifting coach and author. He coaches athletes of any level, including complete beginners. He builds each athlete a training program and gives feedback on technique. He writes education resources for weightlifting coaches and athletes. His clients live in North America, Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and Australia. He also works with people in isolated places who have no access to an experienced weightlifting coach.
Nathan Martin
Nathan Martin is a triathlon, Hyrox and running coach in Wellington, New Zealand. He runs Change Fitness Coaching and works with athletes from beginners to elite. His system draws on 15+ years of experience and covers training, recovery, support and results. He is a HYROX Academy certified performance coach. He also runs a 50-minute small-group Hyrox Stations class and hosts half and full Hyrox simulations during the year.
Neil Young
Neil Young is a personal trainer and nutrition coach who works with adults in Guildford and Godalming. He builds exercise programmes and dietary advice around each client's goals and busy schedule. He has worked with hundreds of people across Guildford, Godalming and Surrey. He asks about exercise likes and dislikes in the first conversations, so a client who hates running gets a plan with no running.
Peter Walker
Peter Walker is a personal trainer and weight loss coach in Auckland, New Zealand. He works with men and women who let fitness slip down their list of priorities and want to change that. Peter lost 75kg himself, and he coaches from that experience. He offers personal training, nutrition coaching and online coaching. He is also a HYROX Academy certified performance coach who works with HYROX and hybrid athletes.
Simon Graham
Simon Graham is an online and in-person HYROX coach who helps hybrid athletes train and race stronger. He is an official HYROX Performance Coach and works from a private studio in Farnborough, Hampshire, near junction 4a of the M3. He builds plans for first-time racers and for people chasing a Worlds qualifying time. He also prepares clients for similar events, including DEKA, TRYKA and GYMRACE.
Jess
Jess runs Radical Coaching and coaches people in fitness and strength. She is a world champion powerlifter who used to avoid exercise and started training in her early twenties. She has worked with hundreds of clients over more than 10 years. She coaches online and one to one in person in Basingstoke. She also works with strongman and strongwoman athletes and strength trainees.
School of Calisthenics
School of Calisthenics is an online bodyweight training school based in Nottingham. It teaches adults calisthenics skills through video coaching and structured programmes. The programmes are written by strength and conditioning coaches who have worked with elite athletes. None of the coaches come from a gymnastics background. The school also runs a podcast. It is not currently open to new members.
Steven
Steven is the owner and head coach of Conquer Your Goals, a 24 hour private members gym in Carluke, Scotland. He coaches strength trainees and strongman and strongwoman athletes, in person and online. He changed his own health after being overweight, then made training his full-time career. He has a strong interest in strongman competition and plans to compete again. His gym won Best Health and Fitness in Lanarkshire.
Team FFLEX
Team FFLEX is an online physique coaching team for NPC and IFBB competitors, people who want to compete, and lifestyle clients. Coach Ry leads the brand. The team preps athletes for Bikini, Wellness, Figure and Fit Model divisions, plus Bodybuilding, Classic Physique and Men's Physique. It has worked with over 3000 top placing competitors and over 30,000 non-competitor clients. Clients get custom workouts, custom nutrition and their own coach.
Trevor and Angie Spinas
Trevor and Angie Spinas run Marathon Training Academy, an online coaching business for runners. They help people train for a first marathon, a half marathon or an ultra. Angie designed more than 70 training plans for members. The academy also has a podcast, courses, a members-only Facebook group and virtual challenges. Runners can hire a personal coach who builds and oversees their plan. Clients come from all over the world.
Whitney Meza
Whitney Meza is a life and fitness coach who helps clients with movement, food, and mindset. She has coached over 800 people and calls herself a movement specialist at heart. Her clients include competitive athletes, cancer survivors, grandparents, and pregnant and postpartum parents. She also works with people rehabbing injuries and people who avoid traditional gyms. She pairs training with work on time, emotions, and self-worth, including asking for a raise.
Adam Johnston
Adam Johnston is a strength coach who runs Savage Strength Coaching in Newcastle upon Tyne. He coaches strongman, Olympic weightlifting and strength and conditioning for people from beginner level to pro. He holds a Level 4 strength and conditioning qualification. He works with strongman and strongwoman athletes and other strength trainees. Clients can train with him in person or online. He also offers sports massage, which is uncommon for a strength coach.
Alex Robles
Alex Robles is a physician and NASM certified trainer who runs The White Coat Trainer. Alex coaches busy professionals on fitness, strength, and nutrition for long-term health. The focus is on the most time-efficient way to build muscle and improve healthspan. Alex works alongside Dr. Brittany Robles, and both are strength athletes. Workouts are built to fit into 30 minutes a day, either at the gym or at home.
Amanda Brooks
Amanda Brooks is an online running coach with Run to the Finish. She builds custom training programs for runners of all ages and paces. Her coaching team has 12 run coaches who work with beginners, ultra runners and masters runners. Amanda also writes a running blog with training guides for the 5K, 10K, half marathon and marathon, plus shoe and gear reviews. Runners can pick one-on-one coaching or an online running group.
Barbell Logic
Barbell Logic is an online strength coaching team that helps adults get stronger and leaner. Each client gets a Professional Barbell Coach who writes the program, reviews lifts on video, and changes training around the client's real week. The team also offers nutrition coaching and a 12-week fat loss focus. It serves busy people who travel, restart often, or feel nervous about the barbell.
Bod Squad Fitness
Bod Squad Fitness is a personal training and nutrition practice in Boise, Idaho. It focuses on adults age 50 and older. Clients can train in their own homes or live over Zoom. The practice also runs Nordic walking classes and a group strength program. Its programs are built for the 50+ body, to reduce aches and pains and help clients stay injury-free. Beginners and experienced exercisers are both welcome.
Bryce Krawczyk
Bryce Krawczyk coaches powerlifting through Calgary Barbell, a coaching team based in Calgary, Canada. The team works with people who are lifting a barbell for the first time and with lifters who compete against top athletes. Calgary Barbell has written programs for 9 years. It offers online coaching, nutrition coaching, a training app and a 16 week program. The team also makes its own powerlifting apparel.
Charlie Knight
Charlie Knight is a strength coach and the Head Coach at Red Beard Barbell Club in Maidenhead, Berkshire. He coaches weightlifting, powerlifting and strongman, and has worked as a strength coach since 2007. He trains people in person and remotely, and he works with lifters at all levels. His gym holds the largest collection of strongman gear in the home counties.
Fivex3 Training
Fivex3 Training is a strength training gym and coaching business in Baltimore. It helps people of all ages and experience levels get stronger with barbell training. The team offers in-person and online coaching, with programming built around each person's goals. The gym calls itself Baltimore's only black iron gym. It also hosts the Fivex3 Radio podcast and runs events like a Strongman partner contest and lifting camps.
Future
Future is an app-based personal training service that pairs each member with a dedicated human coach. Coaches build custom workout plans for goals like weight loss and strength training. The coach checks in, tracks progress, and adjusts the plan over time. Members can move workouts and change training days without penalty. Future has also added health coaching that covers nutrition and sleep. Members get an exercise library with video demos, voice cues, and form guidance.
Jordan Feigenbaum
Jordan Feigenbaum is a coach with Barbell Medicine, a physician-founded team that brings medicine into strength and conditioning. The team coaches strength training, nutrition, and injury and rehab. They also sell training programs, supplements and apparel. Barbell Medicine runs a podcast and a forum, and it publishes articles on topics like BMI, weight regain and exercise during pregnancy. Free programs include The Beginner Prescription and a peaking template.
Kalev Jaaguste
Kalev Jaaguste runs Kalev Fitness Solution, a personal training business in Vancouver, Canada. The studio helps beginners, busy professionals and people new to working out. Training plans are built around each person's abilities, comfort level and goals. Sessions also include simple nutrition guidance and habit building. Kalev Fitness has locations in Vancouver, Coquitlam, Burnaby and New Westminster, and a team of certified trainers.
Kathy
Kathy runs Phase Two Fitness and coaches women over 50 on weight, exercise and habits. She is over 60 herself. She teaches clients to spot the trigger patterns that make them quit and start over. Her work covers three areas: Mind and habits, meals, and miles (exercise). She offers a pattern quiz, a Skool community, and two products called The PAUSE Plan and The Willpower Reset System.
Kristy Gonzalez
Kristy Gonzalez, who goes by Kris, is a Miami performance coach for HYROX and hybrid athletes. She runs KHAOS by KRIS, which offers personal training online and in person, group fitness classes, and private yoga and Pilates. She holds a HYROX Academy coaching certification. Her training plans run 6 to 8 weeks and include weekly check-ins by text or voice memo. Many plans also add Mat Pilates or yoga for mobility and core work.
Lindsey Parry
Lindsey Parry runs Coach Parry, a running coaching business based in South Africa. The plans help runners get faster, recover better and stay free of injury. Runners range from beginners to Boston Qualifiers. Distances run from 5K to ultramarathons. Each plan balances speed, strength and recovery. Coach Parry also offers strength training, videos and podcasts. Its site says more than 10,000 runners have set personal bests with the plans.
Matt Swierzynski
Matt Swierzynski is a personal trainer in West Yorkshire. He trains clients across Kirklees and Calderdale, including Huddersfield, Holmfirth, Halifax and Elland. He works with people of all fitness levels, abilities and ages. He shows clients they do not need expensive gym equipment or memberships to reach their goals. Along with one-to-one and group training, he offers school fitness, nutritional advice and online training.
Meredith
Meredith runs Senior Fitness With Meredith, an online fitness resource for seniors and beginners. She posts free workout videos, from seated routines to advanced levels, and hosts a weekly podcast. She also teaches one livestream class each month. Her Custom 7 Day Workout Plans are built around a person's goals and fitness level and can be done at home. She also publishes articles and a monthly exercise calendar.
Rhonda Chamberlain
Rhonda Chamberlain is a physiotherapist and fitness coach who helps busy moms return to exercise. She offers pre and postnatal fitness coaching, exercise-based physiotherapy, and group classes. Her plans are built to fit into a full life and do not focus on bouncing back. She has personal experience with returning to exercise after having children while dealing with prolapse symptoms. She also runs a membership and sells do-it-yourself fitness programs.
Sal Di Stefano
Sal Di Stefano is a fitness coach and co-founder of Mind Pump Media in California. He helps men and women build muscle, lose fat and improve health. He co-hosts the Mind Pump podcast with Adam Schafer and Justin Andrews, where the trio breaks down fitness myths. Sal has worked as a trainer, coach and gym manager. Mind Pump also sells the MAPS line of online training programs and offers one-on-one online coaching.
Sally Moss
Sally Moss coaches strongman and strongwoman athletes and other strength trainees in London. She works with Strength Ambassadors, a gym that has run in the city since 2012. The gym teaches powerlifting, Olympic weightlifting and strongman training. It offers classes, workshops and personal training for all levels, from first-time lifters to people preparing to compete. The gym has a sled track and outdoor space for strongman event practice.
Steve Kamb
Steve Kamb is the face of Nerd Fitness, an online coaching program for fitness and nutrition. The program helps busy adults build fitness habits that last. Each client is matched with a coach on the team. The coach builds a plan with workouts, nutrition and mindset. Nerd Fitness has 15 years of experience and has coached more than 10,000 people. Coaches reply to questions within one business day.
Wilson Coaching
Wilson Coaching is an online fat loss and fitness coaching practice in the UK. The coach is a professional footballer who has spent 6 years helping hundreds of women build healthy habits. Clients get workout plans, custom meal plans and a mobile app for tracking. The coach knows what intense training, injuries and plateaus feel like, and uses that to help women train smart and eat well without all-or-nothing rules.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Lindsay Horst | Running and endurance and Beginners | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Ben Patrick | Mobility and injury and Over 40 and 50 | $115 to $200 an hour |
| Damian Votta | Running and endurance and Nutrition and habits | $95 to $155 an hour |
| Daniel Welstead | Mobility and injury and Nutrition and habits | $40 to $150 per session |
| Eddie Wardlaw | Fat loss and Strength and powerlifting | $80 to $175 an hour |
| Ethan Ganzy | Running and endurance and Beginners | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Fitman | Bodybuilding and physique and Nutrition and habits | $90 to $150 an hour |
| Gavin Maxwell | Strength and powerlifting and Nutrition and habits | $95 to $175 an hour |
| Grant Bain | Strength and powerlifting and Running and endurance | $80 to $175 an hour |
| James Crozier | Strength and powerlifting and Nutrition and habits | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Jamey Merkel | Strength and powerlifting and Bodybuilding and physique | $80 to $175 an hour |
| Jennifer Vollmann | Running and endurance and Beginners | $75 to $175 an hour |
| Karen Meier | Women's fitness and Over 40 and 50 | $95 to $175 an hour |
| Layne Norton | Fat loss and Strength and powerlifting | $90 to $200 an hour |
| Scott Eckett | Nutrition and habits and Busy professionals | $80 to $140 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a fitness coach for beginners cost?
Most fitness coaches charge $45 to $122 per hour or session.
Can I work with a fitness coach online?
Yes. Of the fitness coaches on this page who say how they work, 80% offer online sessions.
What else do these fitness coaches help with?
Common focus areas include online coaching, nutrition and habits, strength and powerlifting and running and endurance.
Prices and research
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- Coaching Rates Per Hour by Coach Type
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- Do Certified Coaches Charge More?
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- How Many Coaches Are There?
- How Many Coaching Sessions Do I Need?
Other focus areas
Last updated September 2026.