Every AFS member has one designing their program. Here is what an Exercise Physiologist is, how they work, and the people doing it at AFS.
Meet your EPsBehind your program
An Exercise Physiologist is a degreed clinician, trained in anatomy, physiology, metabolic health, and the management of chronic conditions. They use exercise to improve your health, which goes a step past the general fitness a personal trainer provides. Our founder Mike compares it to the difference between a handyman and a surgeon: both have their place, but they are not the same job.
Your EP builds your program around you, shaped by your goals, your abilities, what your body needs, and even the exercises you enjoy or want to avoid. Your plan also moves through phases over time. As your body adapts and the work starts to feel easy, the plan shifts so you keep progressing instead of stalling.
The Periodization Series
A plain-language look at how those phases work and why each one matters. New issues arrive through the summer.
Why your training plan starts lighter than you think, and what those first weeks build.
Read it →What changes when the reps drop and the load goes up.
Coming soonHeavier loads, fewer reps, and the role your nervous system plays.
Coming soonThe final phase, where every adaptation before it comes together.
Coming soonYour training has three parts, and they all run on the plan your EP built for you.
Your strength plan is built phase by phase, around your goals and abilities.
It lives in your workout app, with every exercise demonstrated and reps suggested.
EPs and Associate EPs keep you safe and on track, working from the plan your EP wrote.
Every month
Your EP sends you a Trainerize message asking for updates: changes to your goals, new injuries, preferences, or anything else that affects your training. Using that, along with your full exercise history, they begin the ExRx process, moving you to the next phase of our periodization model and adjusting your program so it keeps matching your needs and goals.
Meet your EPs
Whichever Exercise Physiologist you work with, you get the same clinical training and a plan built entirely around you. Click any photo to meet them.
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Meet Adrian →
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Meet Logan →
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Meet Will →
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Meet Karon →
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Meet Morgan →
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Meet Kristin →
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Meet Ann →
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Meet Chris →In the app
Your EP is one message away in Trainerize. Open the app, tap your EP’s photo, and write to them directly.
Sign in to your workout app on your phone.
Their face is your direct line. Tap it to open a message with them.
Share an update, ask a question, or flag a new condition, and your EP makes any adjustments your program needs.
What to tell them about
Tell them when a goal changes, when you reach one, or when something new is on your mind. Your plan follows your goals, so they will want to know.
Share any new pain, injury, surgery, or medical or orthopedic issue. Your EP can adjust your plan to keep you working safely around it.
Travel coming up, a phase that feels too hard or too easy, a movement that bothers you. The more your EP knows, the better your plan fits your life.
On the floor
Your EP designs the plan, the team on the floor brings it to life, and all of them are there for you.
See the full AFS team