As someone who has spent a lot of time in gyms and with personal trainers due to being a high school and college athlete, I am pretty opinionated about trainers and training plans. I think after working with Zach I will now be even pickier… I started working with Zach in July of 2019. I had found a few trainers who looked good online and sat down with a few of them. A lot of them wanted me to do pricey body scans or showed me programs that just seemed too one-size-fits-all. When I met with Zach for a consultation he sat with me for an hour and asked me a lot of questions and took very detailed notes on my previous history, my strengths & weaknesses, as well as the areas of improvement I hoped to work on. I quickly scheduled my first session after having such a positive consultation and was not disappointed. I could tell very quickly he had listened to everything I had said and worked on building me a unique program that met my needs and exceeded my expectations. While I came in with prior athletic experience, I was not as versed in weight lifting. Zach and I worked a lot on my form, to begin with, and once that was set we quickly escalated the weights. Over the course of the first 3 months we worked together, I saw a dramatic improvement in my strength. I more than doubled what I was lifting for my upper body and was doing things in the gym I never thought I would be able to do in a million years with confidence and ease. Not only was Zach an amazing trainer and teacher while I was with him, but I was also able to easily translate what I had learned with him into my practice. Not only was Zach a great trainer but also an extremely kind, friendly, and relaxing person to be around. I always looked forward to my sessions with him and always left feeling physically stronger and mentally more at ease.