Strength coaching for women who want to get strong

You do not need to be fit before you start. Almost nobody believes that, which is why so many people spend months getting ready to begin instead of beginning.

If you have never trained, strength training for beginners is mostly a matter of learning six or seven movements well enough to repeat them. That is less complicated than the internet makes it sound, and nothing gets loaded before it has been taught. Plenty of the women I work with arrive having only ever been pointed toward cardio, and are surprised how quickly a barbell stops feeling like somebody else's equipment.

If you already lift, the problem is usually the opposite. You know what to do, and either progress has stalled or your week changed and the programme never bent with it. Neither of those means you have gone backwards.

From where I sit both are the same job. Work out where you actually are, choose the next sensible step, and change it when life does. That is the whole method, and it is why the first session is a conversation before it is a workout.