Online fitness coaching for people in Colorado
Colorado has one of the highest work-from-home shares on these pages, one of the lowest shares of adults who report no activity, and one of the higher shares who lift. It is a young, active, flexible state. Coaching here is rarely about starting; it is about giving a lot of movement a program that goes somewhere, and fitting it around trail days instead of competing with them. Diogo is based in South Florida and coaches online. Colorado is on Mountain time, two hours behind me, so your early evening is my late one and the call fits either way.
How Colorado trains, per the CDC's state survey
In 2023, 44.8% of adults in Colorado reported muscle-strengthening activities on 2 or more days a week (BRFSS, 95% CI 43.5 to 46.1). In 2025, 15.5% reported no leisure-time physical activity at all (BRFSS, 95% CI 14.6 to 16.3).
Daily life in Colorado, by the numbers
From the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, published value and margin of error together: about 21.0% of workers who live here work from home (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.2); commuters average 25.2 minutes to work (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.1); the median age is 37.7 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). State figures: your own city may differ.
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.
I hike, ski and ride already. What would a strength program add?
The part the mountains do not give you. The state survey puts Colorado among the lowest shares of adults reporting no activity and among the higher shares lifting twice a week, which is a state full of people who move hard on weekends and have never had a strength program with progression in it. Two or three short lifting sessions a week built around the big movements make the hiking and skiing last longer and hurt less, and the plan is written so they never compete with a trail day: the long effort is the weekend, the lifting is the week. Coaching to build muscle is the long version.
I work from home. Does the plan use that?
It is the easiest week I write. Colorado has one of the highest work-from-home shares on these pages and a short commute for the days you do go in, so most weeks here have a midday hour that an office week never does. A forty-minute session at noon beats a skipped one at seven, and the plan is written in sessions, not time slots, so you drop them where the calendar has room. The weekly call lands in your early evening, two hours ahead of my clock.
Does online coaching work for someone young who keeps starting new programs?
It is who it works best for. Colorado has one of the younger median ages on these pages, and the pattern at that age is energy without a system: a new program every month and a plan that assumes the week will hold still. Coaching gives the effort somewhere to go and keeps one program long enough to progress it. The connection most Colorado households have is all the weekly call needs, and the plan sits in an app on your phone.
Metro areas in Colorado
Neighboring states
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Sources
- CDC, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity — Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (hn4x-zwk7). Q047: BRFSS 2025; Q046: BRFSS 2023. source
- U.S. Census Bureau (data.census.gov table API) — American Community Survey 5-year 2020-2024 (ACSDP5Y2024.DP02/DP03, ACSDT5Y2024.B01002). DP03 (0024PE/PM): ACS 2020-2024 5-year, published value and 90% MOE; DP02 (0154PE/PM): ACS 2020-2024 5-year, published value and 90% MOE; B01002 (001E/M): ACS 2020-2024 5-year, published value and 90% MOE; DP03 (0025E/M): ACS 2020-2024 5-year, published value and 90% MOE. source
- Source: CDC. Materials developed by CDC; the data are available on the agency website (data.cdc.gov) at no charge. Use of this material does not imply endorsement by CDC, ATSDR, HHS or the United States Government of Diogo Fitness or its services. Reference to specific commercial products, manufacturers, companies, or trademarks does not constitute its endorsement or recommendation by the U.S. Government, Department of Health and Human Services, or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- This product uses Census Bureau data but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau. ACS figures are 2020-2024 5-year published estimates and margins of error retrieved from data.census.gov, the Census Bureau's own server (keyless table endpoint).