Online fitness coaching for people in the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim area

How the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim area trains, per the CDC’s metro survey

In 2023, an estimated 38.8% of adults in the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim area reported muscle-strengthening exercises two or more times a week (CDC SMART BRFSS, 95% CI 36.5 to 41.1). In 2024, an estimated 19.6% reported no physical activity or exercise in the past month (CDC SMART BRFSS, 95% CI 17.4 to 21.8). Metro samples are smaller than the state survey’s, so read the range in brackets more than the single number.

Daily life in the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim area, by the numbers

From the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, published value and margin of error together: about 17.5% of workers who live here work from home (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.1); commuters average 29.5 minutes to work (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.1); the median age is 38.5 years (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.1); 93.5% of households have a broadband subscription (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.1). Metro-area figures: your own city may differ.

Climate in the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim area

At the U C L A station (USC00049152, 6.3 km from Los Angeles' Census internal point), the 1991–2020 normals are a July high of 76.9 F, a January low of 51.9 F, 10.4 days a year at or above 90 F, and 17.73 inches of rain a year.

How coaching works from a distance

Diogo is based in South Florida and coaches online. Your workouts live in the Trainerize app, you weigh in twice a week, you send progress photos every two weeks, and we talk on a weekly call scheduled around your time zone. Between calls, you can message me with questions.

People here are already active. What does a strength plan add?

The part that progresses. The two survey figures above say something specific about this metro: comparatively few adults report no exercise at all, yet well under half report muscle-strengthening work twice a week. That is the profile of people who hike, run, surf and do classes, and have never had a strength program that goes anywhere. The plan keeps what you already do and adds two or three lifting sessions a week with progression written in, built around the activities you will not give up. Two of those sessions a week, done with real effort, are the core of the program, and they fit around everything else you already do.

The weather is good all year. Does the plan change by season?

Very little, and that is an advantage. The station figures above give a mild July, a mild January and few days at or above 90 F, so outdoor training is available almost every week of the year. The plan uses that: walks, runs and outdoor conditioning can sit wherever your schedule wants them, and the strength sessions go indoors or in a garage. What changes the week here is not the weather but the schedule, so the weekly call is about where the sessions go when work or traffic moves, not about the season. A steady climate makes a steady routine easier to keep.

City pages in the Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim area

• Long Beach
• Anaheim

Other metro areas

• Phoenix area
• Denver area
• Houston area

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