The problem was never the workout. It was everything around it.
I’ve been training people for two years and training myself for over twelve. That gap matters: I spent a long time on the other side of it, learning the room before I ever coached anyone in it.
I trained on the floor at 24 Hour Fitness through 2025 and into 2026, and two reasons came up again and again for why someone finally walked in. The first was confidence — they were afraid of the gym and certain everyone was watching them. The second was a doctor. They’d put fitness aside for so long that someone in a white coat told them they couldn’t wait any longer.
Those two reasons are the whole business. I want to give people their confidence back, and I want to reach them long before a doctor has to make the call for them.
Working the floor also taught me why people stop, and it isn’t willpower. It’s confidence, or it’s a life so full that fitness quietly slid to the bottom of the list. Nobody decides to stop training. They just keep deprioritising it until the habit is gone.
That’s the part I most want to teach, because it’s the part that doesn’t feel urgent. Nothing is wrong right now, so there’s no alarm going off — and that’s exactly why it’s worth starting now rather than at the age when someone else tells you to.
So we train where you’ll actually show up. In your own home gym if you have one. At O’Malley’s if you don’t, where I meet you at the door and you don’t do a single set alone until the room stops being intimidating. And you get a check-in every week and a full reassessment every four to six weeks, because the other thing the floor taught me is what happens when nobody follows up.