QUESTIONS
SERIOUS CLIENTS ASK.

No. Most people who apply are starting from somewhere they’re not happy with, and that’s the point. Every client begins with a comprehensive assessment, so your training starts where you actually are instead of where a generic program assumes you should be. Strength training works at every starting point.

Tell us about it on the call. Aches, old injuries, and joints that don’t feel right are some of the most common reasons people come to us, and they shape how your training gets built. We coach around what your body can do right now and expand from there.

We’re not a medical provider. If something needs a doctor or a physical therapist, go get it looked at. Coaching works alongside that care, not instead of it.

You’ll hear from us within 24 hours. First is a short phone conversation to understand what you’re after and answer your questions.

If it’s a fit, you’ll come in for a free Transformation and Fitness Strategy Session with David. It’s a 60 minute in-person appointment that includes a tour of the studio, a conversation about your goals, training history, lifestyle, schedule, current ability, and any pain or joint concerns, a physical assessment, and a nutrition conversation. You leave with a clear starting point, a training schedule built around your week, and a plan you understand.

Training begins at the next session that fits that schedule, sometimes the following day.

Yes. Your Transformation and Fitness Strategy Session costs nothing. It’s 60 minutes in person with David, covering your goals, training history, schedule, anything that hurts, a physical assessment, a nutrition conversation, and a tour of the studio.

You leave knowing what’s actually limiting you and what we’d do about it. Here’s what happens in that appointment.

David Gryffon, founder and head coach, with more than 15 years of training and coaching experience. He coaches every client today and runs your first appointment himself. Meet David.

Most clients train three to five coached sessions a week, 60 minutes each. Where you land depends on your goals and what your week can realistically hold. We’d rather build a schedule you can actually keep than one that looks good on paper and falls apart in month two.

Included. Every active coaching client gets personalized nutrition coaching built around your goals, your schedule, the food you actually like, and what your training demands.

That means calorie and macronutrient guidance, meal structure, practical food recommendations, habit work, and adjustments as things change. Training and nutrition pull in the same direction, so we don’t sell them separately.

If you’ve got a diagnosed condition like diabetes or a GI issue, yes. That care isn’t ours, and we’ll tell you so. Nutrition coaching here is about body composition, energy, and fueling your training. It works alongside medical care when you need both.

Both, and they aren’t separate projects. Losing weight without training usually means losing muscle along with the fat, which is how people end up smaller but not stronger and still not happy with what they see. Coaching here is built to change body composition, so you’re getting leaner while building the muscle underneath.

Yes. David trains men and women, and women get the same coaching everyone gets: an assessment, a plan built around your goals and your week, and nutrition included. Lifting heavy isn’t the risk you were probably told it is. It’s how you change body composition, get stronger, and feel capable in your own body again. The long version is in our post on strength training for women.

Yes, with your doctor’s clearance. David has trained women through pregnancy and helped moms, including his own wife, get back in shape after having kids. Tell us where you are on the call, and your training gets built around it. If something needs medical care, that comes first. Coaching works alongside it.

That’s most of who we coach. Your training schedule gets built around your week during your strategy session. It isn’t handed to you as a fixed block you have to rearrange your life around.

Sessions are by appointment, and we’re open seven days a week, early through evening on weekdays.

Cancel or reschedule at least 24 hours ahead and you don’t lose the session. Inside 24 hours, or a no-show, the session counts. If you know you’ll be traveling, tell us early and we’ll build your schedule around it.

You’ll see it and you’ll be told. Progress gets reviewed and your training gets adjusted as you change, so you’re never guessing whether the work is doing anything. What worked in month one usually needs to change by month four, and that’s the point.

It depends on how many coached sessions a week you’re training, and we go over it on the phone call before you ever come in. Your first appointment is free.

Every training program includes the comprehensive assessment and personalized nutrition coaching. So what you’re comparing isn’t a per-session rate against a trainer at a big-box gym who charges separately for anything beyond the hour.

1925 E Levee Street in the Dallas Design District, inside Manifest Training Institute. It’s a private studio, fifteen thousand square feet, built for coaching and nothing else. No drop-ins and no open gym floor to work around. Parking is free and right outside the door.

Closer than most people expect. By Google Maps, it’s about 8 minutes from Uptown, about 12 from University Park and 13 from Highland Park via the Dallas North Tollway, about 13 from Bluffview, and about 14 from Preston Hollow. Traffic changes those numbers, but the drive stays short because most of it is the Tollway.

More detail for your area: Highland Park and the Park Cities, Uptown, Bluffview.

40+ five-star Google reviews. Fifteen thousand square feet, private, built for coaching and nothing else. Every client gets a comprehensive assessment and personalized nutrition, included. We give our clients the coaching and the tools to get results like nobody else in Dallas.