San Marcos · North County San Diego
Personal Trainer in San Marcos
I learned exercise science in your town. My kinesiology degree is from Cal State San Marcos, and I spent four years studying how muscle actually adapts about a mile from Discovery Lake. These days I coach from Carlsbad, fully online, and San Marcos clients train with me from whatever gym or garage they already use.
What a kinesiology degree changes about coaching
A weekend certification teaches someone what to do. A kinesiology program teaches why it works: how muscle protein synthesis responds to tension, why joint angles change which tissue takes the load, what the research says about volume and recovery. When I modify a program because your shoulder complains, that is not guesswork. That is the degree doing its job.
I coach online because it is a better product than hourly sessions. Every workout runs on a program built for you. You film working sets, I review them and tell you what to fix, and your numbers decide what next week looks like. An hourly trainer coaches you two hours a week. This model coaches all of them.
Who I coach in San Marcos
A lot of San Marcos is families and commuters: San Elijo Hills parents squeezing training between school runs, people working along the 78 corridor, students and staff around CSUSM. The common thread is a full calendar. So programs are built for three hard sessions a week or fewer, not six. Short, heavy, recoverable. That is not a compromise version of training. Done with real effort, it is the version the research supports.
Nutrition works the same way. No meal plans that fall apart at the first birthday party. You get macro targets, a protein floor, and a way of eating you can run at Old California Restaurant Row on a Friday without derailing anything.
What you get
- Custom programming for your gym, garage, or campus weight room, adjusted weekly
- Filmed-set form review with specific fixes, not "looked good"
- Macro-based nutrition coaching with a protein-first structure
- A coach who answers when the plan meets real life
Pricing
Fitness assessment: free. Training or nutrition coaching: $250 a month. Full coaching with both: $400 a month. Published because you should not have to sit through a pitch to learn a price. I take a maximum of five new clients a month.
Common questions from San Marcos
Do you meet clients in San Marcos?
Coaching is online. You train wherever you already train in San Marcos, your gym, a campus gym, or a home setup, and I handle programming, form review, and weekly adjustments remotely. It keeps my roster small and the coaching close.
I mostly hike Double Peak and want to start lifting. Where do I begin?
With less than you think. Two full-body strength sessions a week, done hard and logged, will change how the hills feel within a couple of months. Cardio you already have. The missing piece for most hikers is progressive resistance, and that is trainable at any age.
What does it cost?
Training or nutrition coaching is $250 a month, both together is $400 a month, and the fitness assessment is free. The prices are published on this site on purpose. No discounts.
Resistance Labs · Carlsbad, CA · (760) 705-4001 · Coaching online across North County and nationwide