Certified fitness coaches
290 fitness coaches list a coaching credential or degree, 52% of all fitness coaches. Certified fitness coaches charge $75 to $150 an hour.
Key numbers
- 290 fitness coaches list a credential (52% of fitness coaches).
- 4 hold the ICF's PCC or MCC credential.
- Certified fitness coaches: $75 to $150 an hour.
- Fitness coaches with no credential: $70 to $150 an hour.
Credentials fitness coaches hold
| Credential level | Coaches (n) |
|---|---|
| Other coaching certification | 270 |
| Graduate degree | 16 |
| ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) | 3 |
| ICF Master Certified Coach (MCC) | 1 |
Most common credentials
| Credential | Coaches (n) |
|---|---|
| HYROX Academy certified performance coach | 53 |
| Certified Personal Trainer | 15 |
| NASM Certified Personal Trainer | 12 |
| Certified personal trainer | 10 |
| Certified life coach | 10 |
| ACE Certified Personal Trainer | 7 |
| Certified Health Coach | 7 |
| PhD | 7 |
| Certified Nutrition Coach | 6 |
| Certified Life Coach | 6 |
What certified fitness coaches charge
| Group | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|
| Credential listed | $75 to $150 |
| No credential listed | $70 to $150 |
Certified fitness coaches to compare
Adam Angeloff
Adam Angeloff is a strength and conditioning coach and baseball coach in Miami, Florida. He works with athletes and with private clients. He runs Mind2Matter Performance, a private coaching practice. His clients have trained for bodybuilding competitions and a multi-peak mountaineering trek across Mongolia's Altai range. At the University of Miami, he worked with NCAA Division I football and Olympic sports programs. He was on staff during a National Championship run.
Alex Robles
Alex Robles is a physician and NASM certified trainer who runs The White Coat Trainer with Dr. Brittany Robles. They help busy professionals build muscle, get stronger and improve long-term health through short workouts and simple nutrition. Alex built the approach during OBGYN residency, while working 80+ hours a week. Alex reached a deadlift of 2 times bodyweight by training 30 minutes a day. Workouts run 30 to 35 minutes.
Alexa Mckenzie
Alexa Mckenzie is a personal trainer and fitness coach in the Houston area. She coaches strength, mobility, nutrition and mindset, and works with HYROX and hybrid athletes. She has trained Police Academy and Military recruits, youth athletes, beginners, and clients in functional rehab after serious health issues. She started strength training in 2013 and became a professional trainer in 2019. She offers small group and 1:1 coaching.
Allan Misner
Allan Misner, known as Coach Allan, is a health and fitness coach for men and women over 40. He runs 40+ Fitness and hosts the 40+ Fitness Podcast, which has over 760 episodes. He also wrote The Wellness Roadmap, a book on health and fitness after 40. His coaching centers on weight loss, real strength, and being fit for the tasks of daily life. He holds certifications from NASM, Precision Nutrition, and the Functional Aging Institute.
Amanda Brooks
Amanda Brooks is an online running coach who helps everyday runners of all paces train smarter and stay healthy. She started running in 2002 and founded Run to the Finish in 2007. She has a journalism background and has written more than 2,000 running articles. She has coached hundreds of runners one on one and thousands more through group programs. She also wrote a running book and co-hosts a running podcast.
Amanda Place
Amanda Place is a weight loss and fitness coach who helps busy women lose weight without strict food rules or fad diets. She runs Sculptrition, where she offers one-on-one weight loss programs, personal training, and virtual fitness classes. She holds a kinesiology degree and a diploma in integrative health and nutrition coaching. Her work covers body confidence, mindset, and building a healthy relationship with food.
Amber Brueseke
Amber Brueseke is an online fitness and nutrition coach who helps women lose fat, build muscle, and learn to count macros. She runs Biceps After Babies and created the MACROS 101 program, which over 10,000 women have joined. She is a registered nurse and certified personal trainer. She also hosts the Biceps After Babies Radio podcast, which has passed 417 episodes.
Amy Taylor
Amy Taylor is an online HYROX performance coach and personal trainer in County Durham. She coaches people preparing for their first HYROX race, chasing a personal best, or stepping up to Pro. Amy is a hybrid athlete who has raced Solo, Mixed Doubles, Womens Doubles and Relay formats, so she knows how each one feels. Her coaching runs through Perform 365 Fitness and is built around each athlete's fitness, strengths, weaknesses and available time.
Andrea Allen
Andrea Allen is a personal trainer and nutrition coach who helps moms get fit and healthy after having babies. She runs Deliciously Fit N Healthy and holds a hormone certification. She built the Make Fit Simple Method, which looks at nutrition, hormones, the nervous system, training and core health together. She also hosts a weekly podcast and offers a Diastasis Recti core guide. Her clients include moms who are many years past having a baby.
Andy Griffiths
Andy Griffiths is an online personal trainer and nutrition coach in the UK. He helps busy people lose weight, build muscle and get fit. Andy spent five and a half years in the Royal Welsh Infantry and worked as an Army physical training instructor. He left the Army in 2014. He has more than a decade of one-to-one coaching experience and is a certified nutritionist. He runs his practice under the name Expert PT.
Ania Z.
Ania Z. is a run coach and personal trainer who helps women build strength through running and fitness. She runs Fierce Feminine Athletics in Toronto. Her training plans are built around female physiology, including the menstrual cycle when a client wants that. She works with beginner and intermediate athletes, from first-time runners to marathoners. She also teaches short strength and mobility classes and coaches all genders.
Anthony Di Paolo
Anthony Di Paolo is a HYROX and hybrid performance coach based in Melbourne. He coaches athletes online around the world. Gyms also bring him in to run HYROX sessions and workshops. He is a HYROX Academy certified coach with a Solo Pro best of 59:32. He has raced 38 times and made 13 podiums. He races at 100kg and is 6'5", so he built his methods around getting faster without breaking down.
April
April is a certified personal trainer and yoga instructor who helps older adults get stronger and stay active. She built Yes2Next in 2020 when gyms closed, and it began with free home workout videos made with her mom. Those videos have been viewed more than 75 million times, and the channel has more than 650,000 subscribers. Before training, April spent 30 years in a full-time corporate career. Her focus is balance, strength, cardio and flexibility for people over 50.
Ashley Reid
Ashley Reid is an exercise physiologist who helps moms stay active during pregnancy and after birth. Ashley runs Active Mom Fitness and wrote the book Active Mom, published by Bloomsbury. Ashley's guidance focuses on core work and strength training that fit changes in the body and in daily life. Ashley has helped hundreds of moms. Ashley's program has won Best Exercise Program for New & Expecting Moms four times.
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.
Barbell Logic
Barbell Logic is an online strength coaching practice with a team of more than 45 coaches. Each coach holds the Professional Barbell Coach credential. Clients get a custom program, video review of their lifts, and nutrition coaching. The team has coached over 791,700 workouts. Clients are matched by name to one coach after a call. Programs fit around travel, busy work weeks, and home, garage, or commercial gyms.
Brian Tabor
Brian Tabor is a personal trainer and the owner of Strong Made Simple in San Diego. He trains people in person and online to build strength, fitness, and confidence. He holds a master's degree in exercise physiology and interned with the US Navy SEALs' Tactical Athlete Program. He won the 2010 North American Strongman National Championship under 175 pounds and was California's Strongest Man under 200 pounds in 2013. The practice has served clients since 2010.
Brianna Battles
Brianna Battles is a strength and conditioning coach who works with pregnant and postpartum athletes. She founded Pregnancy & Postpartum Athleticism and has coached for over 20 years. She has taught thousands of coaches around the world how to train women through pregnancy and after birth. She runs online fitness programs and a certification course for coaches. She also co-owns a jiu jitsu gym in Eagle, Idaho, and hosts the Practice Brave Podcast.
Caro Pemberton
Caro Pemberton is a personal trainer and nutritionist in Birmingham, UK, who coaches adults on weight loss, strength and fitness. Training runs under the Supreme Fitness name and happens at home, outdoors or online. Caro has worked as a trainer for 6 years and has helped hundreds of people get fit and lose weight. Caro also has a background in MMA. Clients come from Birmingham, Solihull and Sutton Coldfield.
Casey McNutt
Casey McNutt is a fitness and nutrition coach in the Augusta, Georgia area. Casey coaches clients on training, eating, and daily habits, and works with HYROX and hybrid athletes as a HYROX Academy certified performance coach. Casey holds a degree in Kinesiology and a master's in Biomechanics and Exercise Physiology. In October 2025, Casey opened Fit & Well CSRA, a small group and personal training studio in Evans.
Ceri Cummings
Ceri Cummings is a high-performance fitness coach in Perth, Australia. Ceri coaches HYROX and hybrid athletes and also trains people for fat loss and strength. Ceri leads Bolt Fitness, the first certified HYROX training centre in Western Australia, and is the state's first Level 1 HYROX Coach. Training is personalised and runs in a team setting. Ceri also works as a fitness educator and consultant.
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.
Chris Deavin
Chris Deavin is a fitness and health coach who helps people build better nutrition, exercise and lifestyle habits. He has coached for over two decades and has worked with 100's of clients. He was Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for the England Taekwondo Squad. He takes on only a small group of clients at a time so each one gets more of his attention. He holds a BSc in Health Science from St Mary's University, London.
Chris Zaremba
Chris Zaremba is a personal trainer and fitness blogger who helps adults over 50 get fitter. He trains clients in London and South Bucks and runs online courses for people anywhere. At 50 he was obese and pre-diabetic. He then changed his lifestyle and later won British and World fitness modelling titles in over 50 categories. He also made a one-hour TV documentary about his change and created the TV series Fit Happens.
Christopher B Jung
Christopher Jung is an endurance and strength coach who works with HYROX, hybrid and multi-sport athletes. He runs Milestone Station in Fort Lauderdale, which pairs training with active travel. He holds a master's degree in exercise science and has coached triathlon since 1999. He also works as a licensed travel advisor. That lets him plan destination race weeks, training camps and outdoor adventures around a client's training.
Coral Owen
Coral Owen is an endurance and strength coach who trains women athletes. She leads Team BABE Athletics in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. She has coached female athletes since 2008 and has more than 20 years of experience. She is a certified triathlon and strength coach and a HYROX Academy certified performance coach. She also directs the Tampa Bay BABES Triathlon, the area's only women's sprint triathlon.
Danny Fierro
Danny Fierro is a personal trainer and HYROX performance coach in Fulton, New York. He runs Legacy Strength Co. and helps adults 40 and older rebuild strength, move better, and build habits that last. He also trains HYROX and hybrid athletes. Danny spent more than 23 years in ministry and leadership before he started training people. He offers a 13-week training plan and a free assessment to start.
Dylan Truesdale
Dylan Truesdale is a performance coach who trains HYROX and hybrid athletes. Dylan is a HYROX Academy certified coach, a former Army Ranger and a HYROX Pro competitor. Dylan writes fresh programming every week and delivers it online through the TrainHeroic app. Dylan's plans mix running, lifting, conditioning and recovery. Athletes get direct access to Dylan for feedback, accountability and answers.
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.
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.
Common questions
How many fitness coaches are certified?
52% of fitness coaches list a coaching credential or degree.
Do certified fitness coaches charge more?
Certified fitness coaches charge $75 to $150 an hour, compared with $70 to $150 for fitness coaches with no credential.
What is the top fitness coach credential?
The International Coaching Federation's MCC is the highest coaching credential, followed by the PCC and ACC.
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Last updated September 2026.