Private and group training each have real strengths, and the right choice depends more on your specific goals and constraints than on a blanket claim that one format beats the other.
Marketing for both formats tends to overstate its own advantages. Here's a more honest look at where each genuinely wins.
Cost per session is meaningfully lower, which matters for sustained long-term consistency on a budget. Group energy and accountability from training alongside others is a genuine motivator for some people that solo or one-to-one sessions don't replicate as naturally.
Programming built entirely around your specific goals, injury history and schedule — not averaged across a group's needs. Real-time coaching attention on every set, which matters most for technique-sensitive movements and for anyone managing an injury or specific physical limitation.
Group training generally delivers a good general fitness stimulus at lower cost. Private training delivers more precisely targeted results — faster progress toward a specific goal, more attentive injury management — at a higher cost per session. Neither is simply "better"; they solve different problems.
A specific performance goal (a Hyrox race, a golf handicap target), an injury or physical limitation needing individualised attention, or a schedule too unpredictable for fixed class times are the clearest cases where private coaching's cost premium is worth it. General fitness maintenance without those specific pressures is a case where group training can genuinely be the more efficient choice.
Some clients use private coaching to build technique and a structured plan, then maintain general conditioning through more cost-effective group or independent training — a reasonable middle path worth discussing with a coach directly. Message us to talk through what actually fits your situation and budget.
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