Online fitness coaching for people in Idaho

How Idaho trains, per the CDC's state survey

In 2023, 39.1% of adults in Idaho reported muscle-strengthening activities on 2 or more days a week (BRFSS, 95% CI 37.5 to 40.8). In 2025, 17.9% reported no leisure-time physical activity at all (BRFSS, 95% CI 16.4 to 19.5).

Daily life in Idaho, by the numbers

From the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, published value and margin of error together: about 13.3% of workers who live here work from home (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.3); commuters average 21.6 minutes to work (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.2); the median age is 37.3 years (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.1); 91.9% of households have a broadband subscription (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.2). 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 am active every weekend. Why am I not stronger?

Because active and progressing are different things. The state survey puts Idaho among the lower shares of adults reporting no activity on these pages, and a little under the middle for adults lifting twice a week, which is a state full of people who ski, climb, run and ride and have never had a strength program with progression in it. The weekend is work for the body but it does not add load on purpose. Two sessions a week around the big movements, with weights that go up when the logbook says so, are what make the weekends last. The plan puts them on the weekdays and leaves the weekend alone. Coaching to build muscle is the program.

I just moved here and everything is new. Is this a good time to start?

It is the best time, because the week has no habits yet. Idaho’s median age is below the middle of these pages and the commute is on the shorter side, and if you are in your first year in the state, you likely have a new job, a new drive and no gym routine to protect. The plan writes one before one forms by accident: two or three named sessions, forty minutes each, a daily walk with a floor, and a weekly call that moves the sessions when the week changes. Starting smaller than you think is how the people who are still training a year later started. Coaching for beginners is that first month with someone reading your numbers.

Boise is two hours behind you and Coeur d’Alene is three. Does that matter?

Only to the calendar, and the plan asks which one you are in before it schedules anything. Most of Idaho is on Mountain time, two hours behind South Florida; the north, above the Salmon River (the Panhandle, Lewiston and Moscow), is on Pacific time, three hours behind, so your evening is late in mine and quiet. A message you send at the end of your day is waiting for me when mine starts, so you usually have an answer before you train. Idaho has one of the higher household broadband shares on these pages and a middling share of people working from home, so the app and the weekly call are never the hard part; the plan is about the week, not the connection. Your first month of online coaching shows what the first weeks look like.

Neighboring states

• Montana
• Wyoming
• Washington
• Oregon
• Utah
• Nevada

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