Are you looking for

a personal trainer who is available whenever your schedule has an opening (not theirs)

a local personal trainer who isn’t going to break your bank

a personal trainer who will help you, encourage you, and leave you looking forward to your next workout

training programs that are fun, exciting and keep you training consistently, even after the euphoria of the first week wanes

without making you leave your current gym (or even your living room)?

The problem

Maybe you are here because you would like to lose a few pounds.

Having tried on your own at your local gym, you probably realized that playing hamster on the treadmill, step machine or elliptical isn’t going to be something you’ll be able to keep doing for long. You may even have found out how difficult it is to know what to do to help you achieve your fitness goals. Or, maybe you’re sick of coming up with your own routines and would like to leave the responsibility to someone else.

At the same time, you have seen friends and family members start training with a personal trainer, and the pounds seem to be running off of them.

Since you are reading this, you have realized something important. You have realized that in order to be successful at achieving your fitness goals, you need to feel accountable to someone other than yourself, a spouse, a friend or a family member.

At least until you can pull yourself out of the rut, and get started. This is why you you are here, looking for a personal trainer or maybe even personal training services online.

But there are a number of questions you still need answered…

• Does the trainer you’re checking out have appointments available when your personal or professional schedule opens up for an hour?
• Can you actually get going for the coveted 5:30 am training session.
• Are there anything other than large group training sessions at that time?
• Or is that when they’re running their most popular classes, and as a result aren’t letting you schedule the types of training sessions you’re looking for?
• For how long are you willing to prioritize spending a couple of hundred dollars per week on personal or small group personal training sessions?
• How experienced is the trainer you’re going to be paying for?

And, honestly, think back to your main goal for being here again; To feel accountable to someone other than yourself, a family member or a friend…

That’s potentially an expensive accountability contact!

What you get

Workout habits are built through persistence and repetition. Because of this, we’ll have daily reminders, and offer you daily opportunities to communicate to your coach that you are, indeed, participating and crushing your workouts.

We want you to be successful, so we provide a constant stream exercise or coaching tips. The workouts run Monday through Saturday so if that is your preference, you can use our program and our daily workout every day of the week.

We don’t believe in simulating functional movement with a dumbbell, barbell or whatever the latest exercise equipment craze may be today. Our workouts are designed to strengthen and improve your ability to move in real life. Each of the daily workout routines will exercise different muscle and movement patterns to help you avoid injury due to repetitive movement. We also focus on ensuring that we maximize your body’s ability to burn fat by taxing different energy systems for every workout.

Your coach

You’ll be assigned your own experienced fitness coach. They will rely on a team of trainers who are responsible for developing your workout. This team has years of experience designing training programs for individuals and groups.

When you join the Virtual Personal Training program, if you have a minor muscle injury or a temporary physical limitation, your coach will work with you to understand your limitation and customize and can adjust the workout portions of the program to meet your needs.

We are all certified trainers who ran our own “brick and mortar” gym for years before we decided we could help a broader, more diverse group of people by taking our training business online.

We’ve tried and trained a number of workout modalities and exercise systems. In addition to being certified in nutrition coaching, personal training and group training, we have extensive experience as runners, triathletes, and weight lifters. These days, now that some of us are in our mid-40s, we have become super excited about training Parkour / Free Running.

Having a hard time motivating yourself to get to the gym? Whether you prefer e-mail, instant messaging, FaceTime, Skype or the phone, your coach can be there to help talk it through.

Your Workout

Your assigned workouts will start on the closest Monday to when you sign up. We have a number of daily workout activities available, and we can design something explicitly for you should you want it.

We typically give you a new routine every couple of weeks. Partially to prevent you from getting bored with it, but also to keep your body adapting. That said, you’ll still probably recognize parts of the workout from routine to routine.

A workout can take you anywhere from between 20 minutes to over an hour to complete. How long is dependent on a number of factors, including the stage of the program you’re in, how you’re feeling that day, what day it is, whether it’s a High Intensity Interval Training Day or a Resistance Training day, etc.

If the workout we have assigned you isn’t working for you that day, you can always do an activity of your own choice. After all, it’s up to you how you choose to go about achieving your fitness goals! Of course, our programs are designed with a specific outcome in mind, so changing it will probably lead to a different outcome than what we set out to achieve…

Your Dashboard

The Personal Training dashboard is a feedback and accountability tool we use.

The dashboard will load the current action and activity that your coach has scheduled for you on that day.

The dashboard can be used to indicate that you’ve completed your activity (workout)  as well as that you’ve completed the daily action.

You can also enter your own notes about your day, your workout or anything else you feel like recording in this context. Your notes will get encoded before they are sent to our system. That way do our best to protect your privacy.

Your Weekly Measurements

Another – optional – tool to help your goal achievement, is the Weekly Measurements entry page.

As coaches, we won’t monitor or track your entries without you requesting us to, but we believe seeing the results of your workout efforts on the scale and with the measurement tape is an opportunity you should be given.

As a result, we offer to track, save and visualize your body’s relevant metrics free of charge.

Our program makes this tracking page available to you every Saturday while you’re a member. We graph and list your metrics along with your workout history and let you monitor them on your private Progress Overview page.

Progress Overview

Our goal is to help you see the progress you’re making, identify things you can do to accelerate that progress and coach you through the steps needed to get there. To help you visualize your progress, we track and display your results from the exercises you do (reps & weights). We also track & display your assignment, activity and action consistency.

All over an encrypted connection.

As you can see, the Virtual Personal Trainer service is an extremely versatile and affordable personal training / accountability program. One you can do anywhere and everywhere. Using whatever equipment you have available (including existing gym memberships, sofas, dining tables, stair cases, etc).

No gym membership needed

We won’t be asking you to join our gym, or any gym for that matter. After all, what’s the point of having an online personal training service, if you also have to join a gym?!?

Show me a curb, and I guarantee you’ll have a hard and exhausting workout! – N. Anastasia

We want to give you a awesome and fun workout. To do that our routines will encourage you to use the natural environment around you.

Or, if you prefer, you can add the equipment in your preferred gym to your workouts. Ultimately, it’s up to you. We believe our body is an awesome instrument and workout tool all on its own, no special machines or weights needed.

Maybe you already are a “supporting member” of the local low-cost gym chain?

You know what I mean, right?

As part of your New Year Resolution – or the annual “get ready for swim suit / bikini season” promise – you signed up to for a monthly cheap local gym membership. One you hopefully used, but maybe not.

As of right now, however,  you haven’t been to the gym for weeks. Or maybe even months?

Don’t worry, you’re not alone.

This makes you a very normal human being. Would you believe that the “supporting membership” is the basic revenue model for pretty much any cheap local gym in your town or city?

That’s right; the ideal customer at the low cost gym chains, will not (ever) use their facilities once they’ve signed up…

Personal Training to fit your schedule

Using a virtual personal trainer means there are no missed classes and no other schedule than your own to adapt to. You’re a “get up and get cracking” type of person, or more in the “paint the night red” category, or maybe you prefer to squeeze the workout in during your lunch break?

It doesn’t matter when you use our online personal training services!