Online fitness coaching for people in the Salt Lake City–Murray area

How the Salt Lake City–Murray area trains, per the CDC’s metro survey

In 2023, an estimated 46.3% of adults in the Salt Lake City–Murray area reported muscle-strengthening exercises two or more times a week (CDC SMART BRFSS, 95% CI 44.2 to 48.5). In 2024, an estimated 18.3% reported no physical activity or exercise in the past month (CDC SMART BRFSS, 95% CI 16.9 to 19.8). Metro samples are smaller than the state survey’s, so read the range in brackets more than the single number.

Daily life in the Salt Lake City–Murray area, by the numbers

From the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, published value and margin of error together: about 19.4% of workers who live here work from home (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.5); commuters average 22.8 minutes to work (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.2); the median age is 33.9 years (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.2); 93.9% of households have a broadband subscription (90% margin of error plus or minus 0.4). Metro-area figures: your own city may differ.

Training through the heat in the Salt Lake City–Murray area

At the SALT LAKE CITY INTL AP station (USW00024127, 3.6 km from Salt Lake City's Census internal point), the 1991–2020 normal July high is 94 F, with 62.2 days a year at or above 90 F on average, an average January low of 24.2 F, and 15.52 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.

I already lift and get outside a lot. What would coaching add?

A plan that ties the two together. 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 the question here is rarely whether you train. It is whether the lifting and the outdoor days are working with each other: a heavy leg day before a long hike, or a program that stops every time the season changes, is how a year of effort goes nowhere. Coaching plans the strength work around the outdoor calendar you already have, so the lifts keep progressing through every season.

How does the plan change between summer and winter?

Summer moves the outdoor work to the edges of the day, and winter moves it indoors or to midday. The station figures above show more than sixty days a year at or above 90 F and January lows in the mid-twenties. So in the hot months, runs and hikes go to early morning or evening and water matters; in the coldest months, the daily movement goes indoors or to the middle of the day. The strength sessions stay indoors and on the same days all year, which is what keeps progress going while the outdoor half changes with the season.

Other metro areas

• Denver area
• Phoenix area
• Portland area

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