Google & Castro Street
Personal Trainer for Mountain View
Training for Googlers, Waymo engineers, and Mountain View residents who want something completely separate from their office gym.
Drive time
~15-20 min
Route
85 S
Sessions
12,000+
Format
1:1, Semi, Group
Why Mountain View
Mountain View is fifteen to twenty minutes from the studio via 85 South. Mid-day and early-morning slots have the easiest commute.
Google is in Mountain View, and a number of my clients work there. Many of them have access to on-campus gyms at work but come in here because they want training that's genuinely separate from their workday. That separation matters, and it's part of what makes the work stick.
What Mountain View clients usually want
A few things come up repeatedly. The starting point is a workout space that isn't crowded or noisy. Having somebody actually watch their form matters, which is why my groups stay small enough for real attention. And the schedule has to work around long meetings and async communication.
That third one matters. Mountain View has a lot of flexible-schedule work, where somebody might have a 7 AM call with Europe and then nothing until 11 AM. I keep my calendar open for those windows specifically because training between meetings is a much easier habit to sustain than trying to squeeze it into a tight morning or evening window.
The commute situation
You're looking at fifteen to twenty minutes from Mountain View to the studio, depending on traffic. 85 South is the main route. If you're near Castro Street or Shoreline, the first couple of miles to the freeway can be slow during rush hour, which is why I typically book my Mountain View clients for either early morning or mid-day slots. The ten-to-eleven window is gold; you're going the wrong direction of traffic for both commutes.
Some of my Mountain View clients just bike or take the bus to their office and drive down to me on training days. That's worked for a few of them when they wanted to reduce their total driving time.
How I train technical people
The Mountain View population skews technical, so they tend to want to understand why we're doing what we're doing. I explain the programming logic. If you want to geek out on the science of progressive overload, sleep and recovery markers, or why we're spending ten minutes on hip mobility, I'm happy to. If you'd rather just follow the program and ask questions as they come up, that's also fine.
Either way, the core programming is consistent. Compound strength, mobility work specifically for desk workers, and careful progressive loading so we're always a little bit harder than last week without blowing you up.
The long haul
Most of my Mountain View clients stay for at least a year, often much longer, because the training evolves as their body does. Year one is mostly building baseline. Year two is where performance starts to surprise people. I don't run a fixed-endpoint program or a package deal. This is long-haul training, or it isn't anything.
Getting the hobby back
A software engineer in his late forties who works near the Googleplex came in after he'd quietly stopped running the Stevens Creek Trail on weekends. His knees would ache for two days afterward, and he'd decided it was age catching up. We spent the first couple of months on single-leg strength and the ankle and hip mobility he was clearly missing. A year in, he's back on the trail every Saturday. He isn't chasing pace records anymore, but he's running again.
That outcome gets at what a lot of Mountain View clients actually want, even if it doesn't come up in the first conversation. They want the thing they used to do without thinking about it to be available again.
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 Mountain View.
Address
1401 Parkmoor Avenue, Suite 100
San Jose, CA 95126
Drive from Mountain View
About fifteen to twenty minutes on 85 South. Morning and mid-day slots miss the worst of the commute.
FAQ
Questions from Mountain View clients
Further reading
Articles I often share with Mountain View clients
Free Consultation
Ready to start training in Mountain View?
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.