David Chiu

Is it possible to gain 10lbs of muscle in 30 days and go from 14% bodyfat down to 10%? I’m about to find out.

A couple of years ago I trained with a 6 foot tall half Korean, half African-American trainer who had the physique of a bodybuilder. Over two months I gained 10lbs of muscle and went from benching 185lbs to 225lbs. That was a couple of years ago and since then I’ve lost a lot of that strength especially after dropping 20lbs. I really enjoyed my training sessions with him even though it was hard to understand him half the time through his thick Korean accent. I’d love to train with him again but unfortunately his location is inconvenient for me. So now I’m on the hunt for a new trainer.

A few days ago I met with a few people at Velocity Fitness which happens to be a small gym located in the office building where I work. The focus of Velocity Fitness is functional training/sports performance. Every trainer that works there comes from either a coaching background or competitive sports background. Supposedly this small gym trains pro-athletes and celebrities as well as the common folk. The gym is small, but very nice - and expensive. $600 for 4 training sessions plus $50/mo membership fee. These are the kind of trainers that could definitely help me reach my goals, but I’m not quite ready to invest pro-athlete kind of money.

A few days later while I was working out at 24-Hour Fitness I noticed the “Shape Up for $99” promo flyers around the gym. The promo is for 4/20min training sessions which is a decent deal. The only negative is that most trainers at 24-Hour Fitness don’t seem to have the experience or knowledge I’m looking for. Plus, it seems kinda hypocritical for some young guy/girl who is only in mediocre shape to try to tell me how to get in shape . I want to be trained by someone who has been successful in transforming their own physique. That being said, I think I might still sign-up for the $99 deal as long as I can find a trainer who knows what they’re doing and is not going to try to sell me crappy Apex supplements or treat me like a fitness newbie.