Online fitness coaching for people in the Nashville–Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin area

How the Nashville–Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin area trains, per the CDC’s metro survey

In 2023, an estimated 43.0% of adults in the Nashville–Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin area reported muscle-strengthening exercises two or more times a week (CDC SMART BRFSS, 95% CI 38.6 to 47.3). In 2023, an estimated 23.7% reported no physical activity or exercise in the past month (CDC SMART BRFSS, 95% CI 19.8 to 27.6). Metro samples are smaller than the state survey’s, so read the range in brackets more than the single number.

Daily life in the Nashville–Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin area, by the numbers

From the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, published value and margin of error together: about 18.2% of workers who live here work from home (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.4); commuters average 27.8 minutes to work (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.2); the median age is 36.9 years (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.1); 92.5% of households have a broadband subscription (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.2). Metro-area figures: your own city may differ.

Climate in the Nashville–Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin area

At the NASHVILLE INTL AP station (USW00013897, 10.4 km from Nashville-Davidson's Census internal point), the 1991–2020 normals are a July high of 90.9 F, a January low of 30.1 F, 54.1 days a year at or above 90 F, and 50.51 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.

My hours are all over the place. Can a plan keep up?

Yes, if it is written in sessions, not days. If your hours change week to week, with late nights, weekend work or a second job, a fixed Monday-Wednesday-Friday plan breaks the first time the schedule moves. So the plan says how many sessions the week needs, and the weekly call places them once you know your hours. Two sessions in a hard week still count, and a short home session is always an option when the gym is not. The routine survives the schedule because it never depended on it. If your schedule is fixed instead, the plan pins the sessions to the same days and times, which is even easier to keep.

Does the plan change with the seasons here?

The outdoor half does; the lifting does not. The station figures above give Nashville warm summers, January lows near freezing and a lot of rain over the year, so the best time for a walk or a run moves with the season: early or late in July, the middle of the day in January, and indoors on a wet week. The strength sessions stay on the same days all year. Routines tend to slip when the season turns, so the first weekly call of each season is where we reset the outdoor work and check that the lifting has not quietly lost a day.

Other metro areas

• Raleigh–Cary area
• Atlanta area
• Charlotte area

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