• Get results quickly

  • All workouts customized to your level

  • Most experienced trainers in LA

  • Fun, challenging, and fast

 

  • The personal trainers at Lift craft a fitness roadmap that speaks directly to your specific goals.

  • Weight loss. Strength. Mobility. Posture. Low back corrections. Muscle mass. Whatever you want to do, we know exactly how to do it. You set the target, and we lead you to it.

  • Working with weights is easily the best way to significantly change both the way your body looks and the way it functions. There's a bit of a learning curve. It's not something that you want to do badly. So it's important that you work with trainers who have a deep understanding of the mechanics of the human body.

 
 

WILL I GET BULKY?

This question is the biggest hurdle for people who want to try strength training. Around 85% of new clients, male and female, ask the bulky question. The answer is simple. You are in complete control over how much muscle mass you add to your body. If you want to get bigger, you can. If you want to get stronger without getting bigger, you can.

The first thing to understand is that adding muscle mass is by far the most challenging and time-consuming change you can make to your body. It is virtually impossible to put on “too much” muscle quickly. Mass will always be the last thing that happens.

You get strong much faster than you get big. And you get lean much faster then either. With a significant amount of effort, you can lose 10 pounds of fat in a month. With a tremendous amount of effort, it would take you a year to add 10 pounds of muscle. Out of all the things you can change about your body, adding muscle requires the most patience, and the most effort.

The bulky myth comes from the world of body building. Body building competitions don’t require drug tests. 100% of the athletes in those competitions use steroids. One hundred percent. They have to. They wouldn’t be competitive otherwise. And the tremendous muscle mass they are able to build is only possible with steroids.

Also, that field has nothing to do with strength. A body building competition is entirely visual - how do the contestants look? The goal of a body builder is to create large muscles, and they train in a very specific way to accomplish that. They do not care about how strong they are. Strength has no impact on how successful they are. Strength might be a bi-product of their work, but it is not the goal.  

Likewise, strength training has very little to do with muscle mass. Effective strength programs are built around complex, multi-joint movements, like a barbell squat. The goal is to learn how to use as much of your body as possible during any given movement.

Whereas, body building is focused on isolation. A body builder uses movements that put as much stress as possible on a single muscle. These tend to be single-joint movements, like a biceps curl. A body builder doesn’t do a lot of squats, because it distributes the work throughout the body. Instead, a body builder will use a machine, like a leg extension, because it puts the entirety of the work into the quads, thus increasing the size.

The goal of a strength program is to create strength that serves you through your day. In the end, the only reason we care about how beautifully you can deadlift, is because it is exactly the kind of strength you will need to lift that heavy box in your attic. Gym strength and functional strength are 2 very different things. At Lift, you can do either, or both. We design your training program around your priorities.