Los Gatos Residents
Personal Trainer for Los Gatos
Private training for Los Gatos executives, longtime residents, and the weekend cyclists climbing Shannon Road. Five minutes up Highway 17 from the studio.
Drive time
~5 min
Route
Highway 17
Sessions
12,000+
Format
1:1, Semi, Group
Why Los Gatos
Los Gatos is about five minutes up Highway 17 from the studio.
A lot of my Los Gatos clients are fitting training in alongside other things they already love. Cycling up the local hills, hiking Saint Joseph's, tennis, whatever the outlet is. The job of strength work in that mix is to support those activities, not compete with them. That's how the programming's built.
Programming for a mixed client base
For the high-performer side of my Los Gatos client base, the programming looks a lot like what I do with Mountain View tech workers. Compound strength and progressive overload, with enough conditioning to support whatever else they're doing on the side. A lot of my Los Gatos clients are cycling, hiking, or playing pickleball in addition to training, so the programming has to account for that.
For my older Los Gatos clients, the approach is more careful. We focus on bone density, grip strength, balance, and the kind of functional strength that keeps somebody walking up the hills in their own neighborhood without worrying about falling. A lot of Los Gatos is hilly. Staying strong enough to handle that terrain into your seventies is not something that happens by accident.
Getting to the studio from Los Gatos
Highway 17 straight up, about five minutes in normal traffic. The 17 to 880 interchange backs up during commute hours, so I tend to book Los Gatos clients for mid-morning or early afternoon slots when possible. A handful of Los Gatos clients work from home most days and come in during flexible middle hours.
If you're closer to the eastern side of Los Gatos by the Pruneyard or University Avenue, you can also take Los Gatos Boulevard up through Campbell and skip the freeway entirely.
What's different about the work here
One thing I've noticed with Los Gatos clients is that they tend to be discerning. They've usually tried other trainers before, often at premium gyms or celebrity-adjacent studios. What they're looking for when they come to me is something more serious than that. Less performative, more programmatic.
The other thing is that a lot of my Los Gatos clients are training with me alongside the other activities they love, not instead of them. Cycling up Shannon Road on the weekends, or hiking Saint Joseph's Hill, or playing tennis at the Los Gatos Swim and Racquet Club. My job is to make sure the strength training supports all of that rather than competing with it.
Who I'm not the right fit for
Same caveats as everywhere else. The group sessions I run are small and programmed individually, not commercial-gym bootcamps. I also don't do drop-in sessions. If you want a trainer who'll push you through a viral workout for a TikTok video, that isn't what I do. The Los Gatos clients who stick with me are usually the ones who wanted the opposite of that in the first place.
When the goal is the baseline you already had
A retired physician in her early sixties came to me after she noticed she was getting winded on the Los Gatos Creek Trail walks she'd been doing for fifteen years. She wasn't interested in getting strong in the abstract. She wanted her baseline back. We worked on posterior chain strength, conditioning scaled to her age, and a lot of walking progressions. About a year later, she and her husband are doing the trail together without stopping, and she's added a short climb toward Saint Joseph's Hill a couple of times a month.
Plenty of Los Gatos clients come in the same way. There's something specific they're trying not to lose, whether it's a trail or a tennis match or a weekend cycling loop, and the training gets built around keeping that thing reachable.
What I do
Services
1:1, semi-private, or small group
Private one-on-one, two-person semi-private, or small group. Every client still gets a program built around their own body, whatever the format.
Strength, conditioning, and mobility
Sessions mix compound strength with conditioning and targeted mobility. The studio has dumbbells, kettlebells, racks, a bench, bands, cardio equipment, and mobility tools.
Programming for the days between sessions
Training you do on your own the rest of the week, at home with whatever you have or at the studio where all the equipment is included. It's how the work compounds.
Longevity-focused approach
Built for the next forty years of your body, not the next four weeks. Bone density, grip strength, balance, and practical nutrition guidance are part of the plan.
Location
The studio is close to Los Gatos.
Address
1401 Parkmoor Avenue, Suite 100
San Jose, CA 95126
Drive from Los Gatos
Five minutes straight up Highway 17. Most Los Gatos clients book mid-morning to skip the 17/880 interchange traffic.
FAQ
Questions from Los Gatos clients
Further reading
Articles I often share with Los Gatos clients
Free Consultation
Ready to start training in Los Gatos?
First conversation is free. Real conversation about where you are and whether this is the right fit. If it is, we start the following week.