Personal Trainer in Brandon, FL

Brandon is ten minutes up the road from me, and a lot of the people I train there already have somewhere perfectly good to train. A gym membership they are still paying for. A fitness room in the neighbourhood they have walked past for two years. The problem was never access — it was not knowing what to do once you are in there, and nobody to tell you whether it is working.

I come to you. Your home, your garage, a park, or the gym you already pay for — and there is no travel fee anywhere in Brandon. You do not need a membership, and you do not need to buy equipment before we start.

Where we would actually train in Brandon

• The gym you already pay for. Bring me into it. We use the equipment that is there, and by the end you know what every piece of it is for and which ones you can ignore.
• Your community or clubhouse gym. Most of these have more than enough — a rack or a Smith machine, dumbbells to a sensible weight, a cable stack. I will build the programme around what yours actually has.
• Your house. If the gym is the thing stopping you, skip it. Bands and a few light weights in your living room will take a beginner a long way.
• A park. For calisthenics, conditioning, and anybody who would rather not train in front of people.

Making a membership you already pay for work

If you are still paying for a gym you have stopped going to, that is worth fixing before you spend anything else. Most people did not quit because they are lazy. They quit because walking in without a plan is unpleasant: you do not know what to start with, the machines are occupied, somebody is looking, and forty minutes later you leave not sure whether any of it counted.

What I do in a Brandon gym is unglamorous. We walk it once, and I tell you which pieces of equipment are worth your time and which you can ignore forever — usually most of them. Then you get a programme that uses only what is reliably free at the hour you train, so a busy rack never costs you the session. You learn the lifts properly, rep by rep, which is the part a video cannot do.

By the end you can run the session without me. That is the intention; I would rather be the reason you stopped needing a trainer than a subscription you also stop using.

What it costs

Buying a block brings the per-session price down, from $45 to as low as $32. Every session in a block can be personal training, calisthenics or boxing — mix them week to week. The full breakdown is on the main page.

When I train people

Weekday mornings from 6am right through the evening, and weekend mornings. The booking page always shows the times that are actually free — what you see there is what is left.

Who is coaching you

I am John Beaunissant, NASM-certified, CPR and First Aid certified, and I was an athlete long before I was a coach — soccer, basketball, boxing, martial arts. I bench 315 pounds and hold a freestanding handstand, and I coach both ends of that, so when your goal changes you will not have to change trainers.

Four years ago a car hit me on the driver's side: bulging discs in my lower back and neck, ligament and cartilage damage in a knee. For months the only things I could train were biceps curls and leg extensions, and I designed my own way back from there. So when you tell me your back hurts or your knee will not let you run, I am not reading it out of a textbook. More about that here.

Common questions

Is there a travel fee to Brandon?

No. Brandon is inside my area, along with Riverview, Valrico, Apollo Beach and Tampa. The price is the price wherever we train.

Can you train me in my apartment complex gym?

Yes, as long as guests are allowed — most let a trainer in with a resident, but it is worth checking with your office first. If they say no, your apartment or a park works just as well.

I have a membership I never use. Is that a waste?

Not if we use it. Most people do not quit the gym because they are lazy — they quit because they walk in with no plan and leave feeling stupid. A plan and somebody next to you fixes both.