Make it Personal
Let me give you a peek behind the curtain on the game being played in the fitness industry. Not-so Personal Training
Here’s an example: a coach builds a general workout, tweaks it slightly for each person, and calls it personal training. And lately, a lot of “small group training” studios are doing the same—put a few people in a session, assign them similar workouts, adjust on the fly. Slap on the label: personal training.
Let’s be real—very little of that is actually Personal.
At best, that is General/Templated Training delivered by a halfway decent coach.
Will you make some progress with this model?
Sure. Especially if you’re new to training—everything works when you’re untrained.
But here’s the hard truth: the more experience you have, the less effective general training becomes.
Eventually, that cookie-cutter approach doesn’t just stop helping—it starts holding you back. This is because of your “Training Age”
Let’s Define Training Age:
Training Age means how long—and how consistently—you’ve been training.
If you’ve been at it for a few years or more, you will require more than a generic workout with a few tweaks. You need specificity. You need a program that actually reflects your needs & your desired outcomes.
But thats not typical practice in the fitness industry.
How personal can a workout be if there’s no assessment of your mobility, injury history, or actual goals?
How tailored is your training if you're sharing it with three other people at totally different experience levels?
Will you get stronger?
It Depends.
Will your conditioning improve?
It Depends.
Will you get the exact outcome you’ve been hoping for?
Almost certainly not.
And to be clear “It depends” isn’t a satisfying answer—and it’s also not a satisfying outcome.
Let’s Zoom Out
Scenario one:
You’ve been in a group or templated training program for a year. You’re stronger, you feel better, you’ve got more energy. But…
Your body composition isn’t where you want it.
Your strength gains have slowed.
You’re starting to lose motivation.
Progress has happened but it’s SLOW and not exactly what you wanted.
Scenario two:
You’ve been training for a decade. You’re consistent, disciplined, and still showing up. But the outcome?
Nowhere close to what you really want.
What used to work… doesn’t anymore.
Progress has come to a complete standstill.
That’s not a lack of effort.
It’s a lack of personalization. The absence of specificity.
Are you stronger than if you did nothing? Of course.
Is your cardiovascular health better than if you stayed on the couch? No question, yes.
But is it the outcome you’ve actually been working toward?
Again—almost certainly not.
Why?
Because you’ve been training for general fitness. And thus, you’ve yielded general results with diminishing returns.
Here’s What I Believe Personal Training Should Be
It starts with an assessment—mobility, training history, movement quality, and personal goals both short and long term.
It’s one-on-one. Your coach writes a program for you—your strengths, limitations, outcomes—and guides you through it.
Each session adjusts to how your body is feeling that day.
It’s not just about workouts—it’s about being uncompromising on your outcomes.
That’s how we train at Basis and what we will continue to evolve the gym around.
Training for your outcomes—not general fitness.
When your gym work reflects the life you want to live, you start to see results that actually matter:
Not just on paper, but in your day-to-day life.
We’re training to live fully. To move freely. To stay in the game—for as long as possible.
If you’re putting in the work, you deserve for it to work.
So if you’ve been putting in the work but wondering why it’s not working—let’s talk.
Because real personal training doesn’t guess.
It knows. And when it’s done right—it changes everything.
