Online fitness coaching for people in the Grand Rapids–Wyoming–Kentwood area

How the Grand Rapids–Wyoming–Kentwood area trains, per the CDC’s metro survey

In 2023, an estimated 44.3% of adults in the Grand Rapids–Wyoming–Kentwood area reported muscle-strengthening exercises two or more times a week (CDC SMART BRFSS, 95% CI 39.7 to 48.9). In 2024, an estimated 17.4% reported no physical activity or exercise in the past month (CDC SMART BRFSS, 95% CI 14.2 to 20.6). Metro samples are smaller than the state survey’s, so read the range in brackets more than the single number.

Daily life in the Grand Rapids–Wyoming–Kentwood area, by the numbers

From the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, published value and margin of error together: about 12.4% of workers who live here work from home (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.4); commuters average 22.0 minutes to work (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.2); the median age is 36.8 years (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.1); 91.4% of households have a broadband subscription (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.3). Metro-area figures: your own city may differ.

Climate in the Grand Rapids–Wyoming–Kentwood area

At the GRAND RAPIDS station (USW00094860, 11.7 km from Grand Rapids' Census internal point), the 1991–2020 normals are a July high of 83.1 F, a January low of 18.6 F, 9.9 days a year at or above 90 F, and 39.4 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.

More than four in ten adults here lift. Why would I need a coach?

Because training on your own and progressing on your own are different things. The survey figures above say more than four in ten adults in the metro do muscle-strengthening work twice a week, and fewer than one in five reported no exercise, so plenty of people here already lift. Coaching earns its place in three situations: you have trained for a year or more without much to show for it, you keep stopping and starting, or you want someone to write the next twelve weeks so you can stop guessing. In each one, what you get is the same: a program built for your week and a weekly read of your log.

How much time does this take in a normal week?

About two and a half hours, in three sessions of forty-five to fifty minutes, plus a short weekly call. With an average commute under twenty-five minutes, most workdays here have room for one of those sessions before or after work, and with about one in eight workers at home, most of those weeks run on an office schedule. So the plan is written to shrink well: a thirty-minute version of each session that keeps the main lifts, and a two-session week that still counts. You get the full version on a good week and the short one on a bad week, and neither one is a failure.

Other metro areas

• Milwaukee area
• Chicago area
• Indianapolis area

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