Small Group Fitness Classes in San Diego.
Strength Training With a 4-Person Cap
4-person maximum - every set gets watched, every cue lands
Phased strength cycles: progressive overload over months
$49/2-week unlimited intro
Open-enrollment strength training classes
Consistent schedule
Classes at 4030B Sports Arena Blvd, San Diego. ACE-Certified Personal Trainer + Master Certified Health Coach.
Pricing and Membership Options
New Members for $49.
This is the easiest way to test-drive the format, get a sense of the programming, and see whether the class times, intensity, and group dynamic work for you.
New members only - once per person.
Two weeks of unlimited classes for $49.
Drop-in and Package Pricing
Packages are useful for clients who want flexibility - schedules that vary, summer travel, or a less-than-weekly cadence - without committing to a recurring monthly charge.
- Single class drop-in: $65
- 12-class pack: $720 ($60 per class)
- 24-class pack: $1,320 ($55 per class)
Membership Pricing
For clients who want to build consistent strength training into their week and see the strongest results.
- The Habit Builder: 2 classes a week; $420 per cycle
- The Change Maker: 3 classes a week: $540 per cycle
Both memberships include all the benefits of the package model plus the predictability of a fixed monthly rate and a reserved seat in the cap-of-four classes you’ve committed to. Two-times-per-week is the federal minimum for adult strength training; three-times-per-week is where the body composition and strength changes start showing up faster.
Class Schedule and Booking
Small Group Fitness Classes run on a consistent weekly schedule out of the studio at 4030B Sports Arena Blvd:
- Monday / Wednesday / Friday: 12:00 p.m. – 12:50 p.m.
- Tuesday / Thursday: 4:30 p.m. – 5:20 p.m.
Class booking is handled through PunchPass, a dedicated class booking platform where you can see real-time availability and reserve your spot. Most clients book their week in advance to lock in seats, since the four-person cap means classes fill quickly during peak weeks.
What Group Fitness Should Actually Look Like
Walk into a typical group fitness class in San Diego and you’ll find some version of the same scene: twenty to forty people in a dim room, music loud enough to drown out coaching cues, an instructor on a microphone yelling encouragement, and exercises that escalate in difficulty for the sake of difficulty. You’ll burn calories. You might sweat through your shirt. You will not be coached, and you will not be programming for. The class works because you showed up, not because the class did anything specific for your body.
Small Group Fitness Classes at Camryn Elyse Fitness are built on the opposite premise. The maximum class size is four. The programming is phased, progressive, and structured the same way a 1:1 strength program would be. Every set gets watched. Every cue lands on a specific person. Every progression is calibrated to the women lifting in front of me that day. The intensity is real. The coaching is real. And the results compound over months and years rather than evaporating the moment you stop showing up.
Why a Four-Person Cap
The size of a group fundamentally shapes what coaching can happen inside it. The math is simple but the consequences are large:
Form coaching scales inversely with class size
With twenty or thirty people, an instructor can demonstrate movements but cannot correct individual form. With six or eight, attention is split too thinly to catch the subtle compensations that actually matter for joint health and strength progress. With four, every set gets watched. Every cue lands on a specific person. Every position adjustment happens in real time.
Programming scales inversely with class size
A class of thirty has to use a single workout that more or less works for everyone, which means it perfectly works for nobody. A class of four can run individualized programming — the same movement patterns, calibrated to four different starting points, four different progressions, four different sets of restrictions or capacities. You’re training in a group. The work itself is still personalized.
Community scales differently than expected
Most people assume bigger classes mean more community. The opposite is closer to true. A four-person group meets the same handful of women class after class, week after week. You learn each other’s names, schedules, lifts, and quirks. You notice when someone misses a class. You celebrate when someone hits a PR. The community that builds in a small, consistent group is dramatically deeper than the loose camaraderie of a big class.
Small Group Fitness Classes are one of several formats within the broader physical fitness program at Camryn Elyse Fitness - alongside semi-private training for friends who want to train together and the broader strength and conditioning work that runs through everything. See full landscape of group programming options.
The case for community-based, group-format strength training is well documented. An NIH-published study on community-based strength training programs notes that only 17% of older adults meet the recommended two days per week of full-body strength training, and that community-based group programs are specifically recommended because they provide the supportive infrastructure that makes consistent strength training possible. Group format isn’t a compromise on individual programming, it’s often the structure that makes individual programming actually happen week after week.
How Small Group Classes Are Structured
Classes run 50 minutes and follow a consistent structure across every session, which is part of what makes the programming progressive rather than random:
Targeted warm-up and movement prep (5–10 minutes): mobility, activation, and breath work tuned to the lifts we’re working that day.
Phased strength work (30–35 minutes): compound lifts and accessory movements, progressed in deliberate cycles over weeks.
Conditioning or core integration (5–10 minutes): tied to the strength work rather than tacked on for the sake of intensity.
Cool-down and integration (5 minutes) : brief mobility and breath work to end the session well.
Every lift is tracked through Trainerize - your numbers, your progressions, your trajectory across weeks and months. You’re not just showing up to a different workout every day. You’re running a real strength program that happens to be delivered in a group setting.
Who Small Group Classes Are Right For
You Want Real Coaching Without 1:1 Pricing
1:1 personal training is the highest-touch format, but it’s also the highest cost per session. Small group classes deliver real coaching, real form correction, and real programming at roughly half the per-session price. For clients who want expert coaching at a sustainable price point, this is the format.
You Train Consistently Best With a Group
Some people thrive solo with a written program. Most don’t. Showing up for a scheduled class with three other women whose names you know is a different psychological commitment than “go to the gym after work,” and the difference shows up in adherence numbers across decades of behavioral research.
You Have Some Lifting Foundation
Small group classes assume you can be cued and progressed in a group setting. If you’re completely new to lifting and have never been coached on the major lifts, starting with a few 1:1 sessions to build a foundation often makes the group experience much more productive. We can talk through that on the intro call.
You Want Community
The four-person, consistent-schedule format builds a particular kind of community: low-key, sustained, supportive, drama-free. Most clients who come for the workouts end up staying for the women they train alongside. That’s not an accident, it’s a feature of the format.
What Makes My Coaching Different
Yoga-Informed Strength Training
Fifteen years of yoga practice and a four-year run as a Registered Yoga Teacher shape every class.
Breath, bracing, and posture are integrated from day one, not bolted on as a cool-down afterthought.
The result: stronger lifts with less injury risk, better long-term joint health, and a deeper relationship with your body.
Real Credentials, Real Continuing Education
ACE-Certified Personal Trainer (since 2023). Master Certified Health Coach (since 2025). Plus a four-year stint as a Registered Yoga Teacher and a degree from Boston University.
Your program reflects current research on strength training, female physiology, and aging - not what was trendy a decade ago.
Tracked Progress, Honest Conversations
Even in a class environment, your strength gains are tracked rep by rep through Trainerize.
You see your numbers over weeks and months, and the programming progresses based on what your body is actually doing, not on what worked for someone else.
What Clients Say
Where I Train Clients
All Small Group Fitness Classes run out of the studio at 4030B Sports Arena Blvd in San Diego’s Midway district, just minutes from Point Loma, Ocean Beach, Mission Hills, Bay Park, and Mission Valley. Clients also drive in from Hillcrest, Bankers Hill, Balboa Park, North Park, Mission Beach, Pacific Beach, Little Italy, and Downtown.
Parking is straightforward, and the location was chosen specifically so a 50-minute class doesn’t turn into a 90-minute commitment.
The Camryn Elyse Promise
I don’t make guarantees about how many pounds you’ll lift or lose, because every body is different and lasting change isn’t a 12-week sprint. What I do promise:
The four-person cap stays at four. Period. And it’s never traded for higher attendance.
Programming is phased and progressive, not improvised. You’ll know what you’re working toward and you’ll see the metrics move.
If at any point the group format isn’t the right fit - if you need 1:1 attention, if your schedule doesn’t match the class times, if the group dynamic isn’t working for you - I’ll tell you and we’ll find a format that does.
What Happens Next
Every coaching relationship starts with a 20-minute phone call. No pitch, no pressure - just a conversation about what you’re looking for, what’s worked and hasn’t worked before, and whether small group classes, semi-private, or 1:1 is the right starting point for what you need.
Strength is a long game. I’ll meet you where you are, and we’ll go from there.