$300 vs. $400 a Month for Personal Training: Which is Fair?

Author: Dennis Tew, Owner of Dennis Gym

This question is popular because these are the two most common price points potential clients compare online. The answer isn't "the $400 trainer is greedy" or "the $300 trainer is a bargain." The answer is far more practical.

To judge fairness, you must ask the provider: "What’s inside the box?"

Let’s say you find a package for *$300/month*.

This likely gives you one session per week. At that structure, you are paying around $75 per session. This price is fair if the trainer gives you a brutally honest assessment every week, adjusts your independent training plan based on your soreness and recovery, and holds you accountable via text on your off days. It is unfair if that one session a week is just a random mix of exercises with no homework given.

Now, let’s look at *$400/month*.

If this is also four sessions, you're paying $100 a session. That extra $25 must buy you something tangible. It should buy you the gym’s most senior coach, a deep-dive into biomechanics, or a complex split routine designed for a specific goal, like a powerlifting meet or serious body recomposition. At Dennis Gym, a premium investment puts you directly under my wing or one of my most senior staff, with a level of detail a generic chain gym simply cannot offer.

A Final Warning:

I’ve seen clients come to me after quitting a "cheap" $250/month deal where they were locked into a 12-month contract and ignored during sessions. That $250 was completely wasted because it produced zero results. That’s not fair.

A $400 program that transforms your body in 12 weeks and then teaches you to maintain it independently is infinitely fairer.

Fair pricing is when the value received exceeds the monetary cost. It's when you stop counting the dollars and start noticing the changes in the mirror.

Don't guess if a price is fair. Come down, watch a session, and feel the difference.

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