Personal training in South Alabama, built around you.
Serving Mobile and Baldwin counties from our Mobile and Daphne studios, with individualized coaching across fitness, nutrition, lifestyle and mindset.
The initial consultation is complimentary, at either studio.
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2
Studios, in Mobile and Daphne, serving Mobile and Baldwin counties.
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8,500
Square feet indoors in Mobile, under twenty foot ceilings, plus 2,400 square feet of covered outdoor area.
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1,750
Square feet at Personal Edge Fitness Eastern Shore in Daphne, a boutique private studio. Approximate.
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2000
Serving clients in Mobile since 2000, after approximately eight years of Garrett training clients elsewhere.
Why people come to us
Sound familiar?
- You paid for a gym membership you had stopped using by March.
- You were handed the same program as everyone else, and it ignored your knee.
- Someone who had never studied anatomy told you to push through the pain.
- You finished a program without ever learning what it was for.
Anyone can make you sore.
The fitness industry sells suffering because it is easy to prescribe. Working out what a particular body needs, at a particular age, with a particular history, is harder, and it is the part worth paying for.
So you deserve to understand your program and to feel confident asking questions about it. We explain the reasoning, adapt the work to your starting point, and help you build skills you can use well beyond the studio.
How it works
The Personal Edge Standard
The same four steps for every client, whatever you came in for.
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Talk
A complimentary consultation at either studio, with an exercise-science professional: your goals, your history, and what has made exercise difficult before.
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Design
Your program is built around your body and your goal, not a template with your name on it.
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Explain
You learn why each piece is there. People stick with training they understand.
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Adjust
The program changes as you do, and shared notes keep the whole coaching team in step with it.
Programs
Find the program that fits you
Every one of them starts with the same complimentary consultation.
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B3 weight management
A 16-week pathway coordinating PEF coaching with independent medical care for appropriate candidates. Medical charges are separate.
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Catalyst weight management
A non-medication weight-management option that generally runs for 16 weeks. Contact us for current program details.
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Strength training
Progressive loading matched to your starting point, not to a template.
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Senior fitness
Balance, strength and mobility work that protects independence.
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Prehab and post-rehab conditioning
Conditioning before surgery and training after rehabilitation, with clinical clearance.
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Athlete and speed training
Sport specific conditioning adapted to the athlete, with an emphasis on sound training habits.
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Pre and post natal training
Training through pregnancy and recovery afterwards, adjusted as things change.
The real worry
It is usually not the price or the equipment. It is not knowing whether anyone is really paying attention.
Being handed a program nobody wrote for you. Having your repetitions counted by someone looking at their phone. Explaining the shoulder you had operated on in 2019 for the third time, to the third person.
That worry is fair, and it is what the coaching team is organised to answer. Your assignments are planned rather than improvised, your program and your history are written down and shared, and the people coaching you are chosen for complementary experience. It is why the work keeps moving when the people walking in include a post-surgical knee, a first pregnancy and a seventy-year-old who has decided she is not finished yet.
The staff
Meet the Personal Edge team
- MSS Garrett Williamson Founder and president
- ATC Gary Zakutney Personal trainer
- BS Korey Self Personal trainer
- BS Hunter Steiner Personal trainer
- BS Ahmad Haji Personal trainer
- BS Andrew Sullivan Personal trainer
- BS Kaleb Blackwell Personal trainer
- Caleb Winfield Personal trainer
- Desi Denmark Contract intern and exercise specialist
- Arika Leech Administration
- Ava Willingham Administration
In their words
What people who know us say
My patients who have worked with the professional staff at Personal Edge Fitness have experienced an enhanced quality of life.
The experience and professionalism of the sport specific trainers at Personal Edge Fitness are second to none.
For the past 16 years I have entrusted my exercise regimen to the professional staff at Personal Edge Fitness.
Locations
Our two studios
On air
Personal Edge Fitness Podcast: Dispelling the Myths of Health, Fitness and Wellness
Garrett hosts the podcast himself. It is the same explaining that happens on the floor, at greater length, and a good way to decide whether this is your kind of place before you get in touch. Ask us for the current listening links.
Start with a conversation
We listen before we plan anything. Pick whichever of these suits you.
Request a consultation
Your goals, your history, and what you want to be able to do. Complimentary, at either studio.
Request a complimentary consultationJust call us
Talk to someone about whether this is the right fit before arranging anything.
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