When I met Paul he was struggling to improve his performance cycling and downhill skiing.

He hadn’t lifted weights in years, didn’t know where to begin, and was confident that he had to get his legs and core a lot stronger to improve his performance doing the activities he loves.

He started out with a strength and muscular endurance test to see where he was at and so we could co-design a safe and effective program.

After 4 months of small group personal training he improved his core strength by 440% and can back squat his body weight on the bar for the first time in his life, making it easy for him to bike, ski, and even get back into running without his legs getting tired often and needing to take breaks to recover.

When I met Tim he was suffering from persistent knee pain, frozen shoulder, and low back pain after a few crossfit injuries.

He thought these problems were just part of getting old, you just learn to live with it, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

After 5 months of small group personal training he was able to squat, touch his toes, shoulders move/feel great again, and now doesn’t have to work around sore knees when working on his race car, and can wash and wax his yacht all by himself.

Long Term Goals Achieved

1. Eliminated my persistent knee pain going up stairs or ladders doing home/cabin projects

2. Can carry 75lbs in a bucket up a flight of stairs

3. Eliminated my frozen shoulder

4. Eliminated my low back pain getting up off the ground

5. Dead lift 225 lbs (where it used to be prior to covid gym closures)

6. Bench press 165 lbs (where it used to be prior to covid gym closures)

When I met Adri she couldn’t do many push ups, sit ups, or pull ups to qualify for the police academy. She got started by testing her strength and muscular endurance performance, and after completing her first 8 week program and consistently coming to small group personal training 2 times per week, she increased her push ups by 29 reps, situps 26 reps, pull ups by 11 reps, along with increased her back squat strength by 35lbs and her bench press strength by 20lbs.

Her progress helped her set the all time best women’s strength and endurance scores at the Minnesota police academy and Las Vegas police academy.

When I met my client Brock he initially just wanted to have a trainer that he could have sessions on the calendar with so that he would actually show up and just do something for a workout. We dove a lot deeper in his goal setting session and discovered that having more strength and muscular endurance so he could lift his son over his head, make water skiing and backcountry skiing easier, and just feel healthier every day was most important to him.

After 1 year of resistance training, aerobic conditioning, body fat testing, health & lifestyle coaching, and 1 on 1 personal training he has achieved 12 goals to date making lifting his son up over his head a piece of cake, skiing so much more enjoyable, and he’s very proud of his accomplishments.

1. Back squat 275 lbs (Started at 185 lbs)

2. Bench press 305 lbs (Started at 195 lbs)

3. Increase pull up strength to doing 13 pull ups (Started at 1.5” band for 10 reps)

4. Increase push ups to 55 (started at 18)

5. Increase sit ups to 115 (started at 36)

6. Increase body weight squats to 246 (started at 80)

7. Do repeat sled sprints with 175 lbs for 12 sec sprints for 10 reps (Started at 50 lbs for 6 reps)

8. Increase pull up strength to do 1 pull up with no assistance. Currently can do 13.

9. Trimmed off 6.86% (16.6 lbs) of body fat

10. Lost 7" head to toe now requiring an entire new wardrobe.

11. Added 11.9 lbs of muscle

12. Lowered his blood pressure 28 points down to 120/80, (starting at 143/85 blood pressure)

Brock’s 5 star google review:

“I've used many trainers over the years and Andrew is by far the best. He tracks everything and politely pushes you to do better. I have made more progress in three months with Andrew than I've ever made with another trainer, combined.”

When I met Kristin she was doing workouts at home with the goal of getting in better shape. She wasn’t happy with her results, so she signed up for my intro personal training workout. She loved her experience so much, signed up for small group personal training, and in just 8 weeks I increased her aerobic capacity by 96% doing light weight power endurance circuits making working out so much easier, fun, along with giving her tons of energy to get more things accomplished at work and home.

I’ve personally been where my clients are having struggled with having plenty of extra body fat, prediabetes, high blood pressure, insomnia, debilitating low back pain, completely out of shape, and the low physical performance.

My fitness, health, and coaching journey began in 2003 and to this day I coach myself just like every client doing relevant testing, setting goals, implementing lifestyle action steps, and doing structured fitness programs.

Goals Achieved:

Increase my Back Squat 290 lbs (Went from 45 to 335)

Increase my Bench Press 200 lbs (Went from 45 to 245)

Increase my Dead Lift by 180 lbs (Went from 205 to 385)

Do my 1st pull up and increase it to 30 (Went from 0 to 30)

Push ups 10 to 100

Sit ups 20 to 153

Squats 50 to 234

My client David, who just retired, has been living with bone on bone in his hip for over 10 years. We’ve strengthened his stomach, back, legs, and feet muscles and tendons to compensate for the lack of cartilage he has. 

After just 1 year of small group corrective exercise he’s gone from doing body weight on a variety of core strengthening exercises that support his hip up to 500+ lbs on them.

This has helped boost his strength on tons of other exercises, extend the lifespan of his degrading hip, and most importantly allowed him to keep up, pain free on 12 mile long hikes in the black hills with his 20 year old boys.

Long Term Goals Achieved:

Lifting 500+ pounds on a plate squat iso and calf raise iso

Back Squat my body weight on the bar

Bench Press my body weight on the bar

Dead lift my body weight on the bar

Short Term Goals Achieved:

Get piriformis hip flexion to 120 degrees (started at 100 degrees)

Eliminate upper groin tension

Abduct my hip 50 degrees with no pain

Get your hip flexors to lay flat on the floor

Current Back Squat max = 220 lbs

Current Bench Press max = 215 lbs

Current Dead Lift max = 275 lbs

Small group personal Training at Life Strength Fitness is great because I always know exactly what to do, how to do it right, and always get the best possible results. I love that my programs change over time, switch what they focus on, and the data Andrew tracks shows me that the time I spend here is actually making me measurably better! I’ve significantly improved my physical performance, helping me boost my work productivity, and have more energy to do things with my family.

My client Adam reached out for fitness coaching support because he was concerned about how long he could sustain his career as an ER nurse lifting, pulling, and pushing all of the people that were arriving at the hospital in an ambulance without suffering lower back and arm injuries.

After 3 months of small group personal training he blew his goals away and increased his overall strength by 33%, giving him the confidence that he can safely and effectively help others at work move patients around without sustaining an injury.

We also corrected some muscle dysfunction issues he was dealing like his muscles weren’t firing right, increased his hamstring mobility by 15” reducing his risk of a hamstring muscle strain, and loosened up his tight hip flexors so that they no longer were making his lower back weaker.

The intro small group personal training workout was the beginning to a life changing experience for me. I was struggling with stage 1 high blood pressure. After just my first workout with Andrew, my blood pressure dropped 27 points. I signed up for small group personal training- 3 times per week. Before I finished my first program, I dropped my blood pressure to 120/80 and haven’t needed medications to manage it since 2019.