Online Personal Training for Women
Real Coaching, Not Another App
Custom strength programming built for your body, your equipment, and your schedule, delivered through Trainerize with weekly video form review, weekly feedback, and unlimited messaging.
For women 35-65 who travel, train at home, or live outside San Diego and still want a coach who actually knows their name.
A program written for you, not generated for a demographic
Weekly video form review - the part most online coaching skips
From $212/month, with a hybrid option for San Diego clients
Available worldwide.
ACE-Certified Personal Trainer + Master Certified Health Coach.
San Diego clients can add one in-person session per month.
What Online Personal Training Should Actually Be
The fitness industry has spent a decade flooding the market with “online coaching” that is, honestly, mostly software. You fill out a form, an app generates a program, and a coach you have never spoken to sends a templated check-in every other week. The program was built for a demographic rather than a person. The form coaching does not exist. The accountability evaporates the moment the novelty does.
What I offer is a different thing wearing the same name. Your program is written for you: your training history, your goals, your equipment, your schedule, the shoulder that has never quite been right since 2019. We start with a real conversation. I watch the videos you send of your lifts and write back about what I actually see. Trainerize is how the work gets delivered. It is not the work.
I’m Not Sure Online Training Would Work for Me
Almost every woman who books an intro call about online coaching arrives with some version of this hesitation.
I won’t know if my form is right without someone there
This is the concern I take most seriously, because form genuinely matters. In practice, video catches form issues as reliably as live coaching. You film a set, I watch it repeatedly, at half speed if needed, and write back about what your spine did on rep three. In a live session I get one look.
We also do a Zoom call your first week to cover the key lifts. And honestly, sometimes form worry is nerves rather than a real barrier. Either way, we can talk it through.
I won’t stay accountable without someone watching me
The accountability in personal training does not actually come from physical presence. It comes from the scheduled check-in, knowing someone is going to look at what you did and notice whether you did it.
Weekly check-ins, tracked progressions, and a coach who genuinely reviews your lifts replicate that, and in several ways exceed it. An in-person trainer sees you for the hour you are with them. I see every session you log, every week, including the ones you did alone at 6am.
It is not as effective as training with someone in the room
Strength comes from progressive overload, consistency, and recovery. All three are fully programmable remotely. A personalized program followed consistently, with real coach engagement through Trainerize - messaging, logged lifts, weekly check-ins, feedback you actually apply - beats an unstructured in-person session every single time.
The comparison people imagine is a perfect in-person session versus a mediocre online one. The real comparison is usually a well-designed online program you follow four times a week versus one in-person session a week with no plan for the other six days.
I don’t have the right equipment or a gym
If you are a true beginner, most programs can start with bodyweight work and a set of resistance bands. That is a genuinely small investment and enough to build a real foundation over the first several months.
If you are intermediate or advanced, then it is time for a commercial gym membership or a garage setup. Online coaching plus a commercial gym membership still costs less than one in-person training session a week, let alone the two or three sessions a week you would actually need to progress.
Equipment is a programming variable. It is not a dealbreaker.
I’ve tried online programs before and didn’t stick with it
I believe you, and I think the programs were the problem. Research shows a real human coach produces better adherence and outcomes than an app or a PDF, especially on technically demanding lifts like squats and deadlifts.
Apps fail because they have no relationship and cannot adjust. When life disrupts your week, an app keeps serving the same prescription. I change the plan. Most people do not quit because the program was wrong. They quit because life interrupted and nobody taught them how to come back.
What Online Training Solves That In-Person Cannot
Your schedule is unpredictable
If you are a working professional or a parent with variable demands, a fixed 6pm Tuesday appointment is fragile. One meeting runs long and the session is gone. With a program that lives in your pocket, the workout moves to whenever the day allows. You lose the time slot, not the training.
You need flexibility inside the session itself
In-person sessions are 60 minutes, and that is a real constraint. If you arrive late, or your hip needs fifteen minutes of attention before it will cooperate, something gets cut. Training on your own schedule means you can give the warm-up what it needs and still finish the work.
You travel
The program comes with you. Hotel gym, a friend's garage, a hotel room with nothing but a bed - modifications are straightforward and consistency stops depending on being in one building in one city.
Cost
Online training is meaningfully less expensive than in-person, which for a lot of women is the difference between training with a coach and training alone.
You take ownership of your own fitness
When you are the one loading the bar, counting your own sets, deciding today is the day to add five pounds - something shifts. You start to understand why you are doing what you are doing. You are not following along. You are building the knowledge and the confidence to make good decisions about your own training, which is the thing that actually outlasts any coaching relationship, including mine.
How the Coaching Actually Works
A program built from scratch
After a thorough intake, I design your first phase — typically four to eight weeks — from nothing. Every exercise, set, rep, and progression is a decision I made about your situation. Sessions arrive in Trainerize with video demonstrations and coaching notes throughout.
Weekly video form review
You film short clips of your lifts during the week. I send back specific written feedback — sometimes video — on bar path, bracing, where position breaks down, what to prioritize next. This is the piece most online coaching quietly omits, and it is the difference between progress and a slow accumulation of habits that will need undoing later.
Weekly Feedback
You send me a written check-in each week, and I respond with written feedback. Calls are absolutely welcome, and if you want a longer call, we will schedule it.
Unlimited messaging
Between calls you can reach me through Trainerize without limit. Substitution questions, a quick form check, a heads-up that you are traveling, a bad week you want to talk through. It gets answered.
Is This Program Right for You?
Online coaching works really well for a specific kind of client, and honestly, not so well for others. Being upfront about which is which saves us both time.
These ten quick questions help me understand where you're starting from, what you're working toward, and whether my online program is the right way to get you there. If it's not a good fit, I'll tell you — and I'll point you toward something that is.
Take a few minutes to fill it out, and I'll be in touch.
Pricing
Online training runs on a monthly basis, with savings for longer commitments. No setup fee, no software charge on top.
Month-to-month
$250 per month
3-month commitment
$675 (save 10% , $225 per month)
6-month commitment
$1,275 (save 15% , $212 per month)
You will feel a difference after the first 8 weeks. You will see a difference after the first 6 months. The results your big beautiful imagination is conjuring up is found at the end of years of dedicated strength training, healthy eating, and intentional recovery.
What Clients Say
The Hybrid Option for San Diego Clients
If you are local, there is a middle path. The hybrid package is online coaching plus one in-person session per month at the Sports Arena Blvd studio. That session is in addition to everything standard in online coaching, not a replacement for it.
An hour in the same room does some things efficiently: pressure-testing a heavy lift, working through what is not translating on video, and talking through your program face to face. For women who want online flexibility with periodic hands-on coaching, this is usually the right answer.
1:1 Personal Training in San Diego
In-person coaching at the Sports Arena Blvd studio.
The right format for clients who want hands-on form coaching, are returning to lifting after time away, or know they need an in-person appointment to stay consistent.
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What Happens Next
Every coaching relationship starts with a free 20-minute call. No pitch and no payment information — just the questions above, an honest read from me on whether online is the right format for where you are, and a clear starting point if it is.
If it is not the right fit, I will say so on the call.