An online personal trainer who actually coaches

Done properly, online personal training is the thinking part of coaching delivered remotely: a programme written for you, adjusted as your results come in, with a coach reviewing your lifts on video and answering when something doesn't work. The hour of someone standing next to you counting reps is the part that's removed. The judgement is the part you're paying for.

That trade works brilliantly if you can get yourself to the gym but need direction: what to do, how hard, when to change it. It works badly if you'd skip every session without someone physically waiting at the rack. I'd rather tell you that here than after you've paid.

UK online coaching runs from £30 a month to £250 and beyond, and the price tells you less than these do:

• A programme that changes because of your data. If your logged sessions don't visibly shape next week's plan, you've bought a PDF with a subscription attached.
• Form review on video. Sets filmed, watched by a human, corrected specifically. This is what protects you from grooving bad movement for months.
• Check-ins with substance. A real weekly look at training, recovery and nutrition, with decisions attached. Two emoji and "keep going!" is not a check-in.
• No guarantees. "Lose 20lb in 30 days" is the single biggest red flag in this industry. Real coaches set honest expectations; results are individual and never a sure thing.
• A coach who does the thing. Ask what they train for. Ask what they've competed in. A coach with skin in the game programmes differently.

I'm a strength and conditioning coach with a sports science degree, ten years of coaching, currently on the floor at Third Space. And I compete: sub-70 in my first Hyrox in the Pro division, ATHX Pro and qualified for the World Championship, two Ironman 70.3 finishes, plus years in physique and jiu jitsu before that. I've trained exclusively hybrid for years, and the programming I sell is the programming I stake my own races on.

Everything runs through one app. Your session arrives the night before. You train, log it, film the lifts that matter. I review, fix what needs fixing, and we speak properly every week about training, nutrition targets, and the life stuff that decides whether a plan survives contact with reality. The programme changes when your progress says it should.

1:1 coaching is application-based at £200/month with no minimum term, and one full month's written notice to stop, which you can give at any time. Your notice month is the one that starts after you tell me, so the soonest coaching can end that way is the end of your second month, unless the 30-day money-back guarantee applies. That sits where quality UK coaching genuinely lives. If that's more coaching than you need, the app programmes are £45/month with the first 7 days free: same method, self-paced, cancel any time. And the free training week costs nothing at all.