trAnsform your body. kEEp your schEdulE.
I personally manage your training, nutrition, supplementation, recovery, and fitness strategy so you can get leaner, stronger, more muscular, and healthier without making fitness another job.
For busy professionals who care about fitness, aesthetics, health, and longevity, but don't want to become fitness experts or spend their lives optimizing it.
thErE's A problEm with high-End fitnEss.
Too many smart, busy people are surrounded by expensive measurement, elaborate routines, gadgets, supplements, and conflicting advice while doing too little of the boring stuff that actually changes the organism.
More data is not automatically more health.
Bloodwork, scans, wearables, and diagnostics can be useful. But measurement only matters when it changes what we do.
Fitness has become a part-time administrative job.
Morning protocols. Post-meal protocols. Bedtime protocols. Three devices. Fifteen supplements. 90-minute workouts. No thanks.
We're here to change the underlying physiology.
Lose excess fat. Build muscle. Get stronger. Improve conditioning. Eat better. Sleep enough. Then use measurements to verify that the engine actually improved.
"I can look at your bloodwork. But we're much more interested in doing something about it."
Optimization theater
- More metrics without a decision attached
- Complicated supplement stacks
- Fitness routines built for people with unlimited time
- Health tech because it exists
- Constant cognitive overload
High-return intervention
- Training hard enough to create adaptation
- Simple nutrition that works in the real world
- Body composition moving in the right direction
- Enough cardio, activity, and sleep to matter
- Only adding complexity when it earns its keep
mAximum fitnEss. minimum bAndwidth.
Your scarce resources are not just time. They're attention and decision-making. My job is to make every minute and every decision you spend on fitness unusually productive.
Intervene
We focus on the behaviors with the largest effect sizes: resistance training, protein intake, calorie control, activity, and sleep.
Compress
Two efficient sessions can beat hours of unfocused training. A few simple food rules can beat a nutrition hobby. We cut to the minimum effective complexity.
Filter
New diet? Wearable? Supplement? Recovery device? Training method? Ask me. If it's high ROI, safe, and useful for you, we use it. If not, forget it.
A pErsonAl fitnEss dEpArtmEnt, without thE dEpArtmEnt.
Everything is tailored to your goals, schedule, travel, equipment, preferences, and appetite for complexity. If simpler works, we stay simple.
Training
Personalized resistance training programming, technique guidance, and workout modification.
Nutrition
Calories, macros, food quality, restaurant strategy, and travel eating, without obsessive tracking.
Supplements
Evidence-based recommendations only when they add value. Usually fewer than you expect.
Recovery
Sleep, activity, cardio, stress, and fatigue management where they materially affect results.
Direct access
Message me in the RP Hypertrophy app. I respond personally, typically within 24 hours.
Live calls
Live calls when a real conversation is actually useful, not mandatory weekly check-in theater.
Real-life adaptation
Travel, hotel gyms, injuries, work crunches, and family obligations: we adjust instead of abandoning the plan.
Your team, coordinated
If you have a doctor, chef, assistant, or trainer, I'll work with them so you don't have to relay everything.
you nEvEr hAvE to figurE out fitnEss AgAin.
Part of what you're buying is a trusted filter for every health and fitness question you have now, and the ones that don't exist yet.
If something genuinely useful arrives at the cutting edge, I want you using it quickly and appropriately. If it's hype, marginal, unsafe, or irrelevant to you, you should be able to ignore it without spending three hours researching why.
"Mike, should I care about this?" → I'll tell you."Should I be using this new wearable?"
"Everyone's talking about this diet. Worth trying?"
"My doctor suggested this. How does it change the plan?"
"Is this recovery device actually worth the time?"
"I'm in Singapore with a hotel gym and three dinners. What do I do?"
trAnsformAtion is not mystErious.
My own body is not your target, and bodybuilding is not the assignment. But I've spent decades learning what actually moves body composition, muscle, strength, and performance in the real world.
The value of a before and after here is not "you will look like me." It's proof that I understand the process from both the academic side and the extremely sweaty side.
simplE on your sidE. high-touch on minE.
The goal is not to maximize how often you talk to your coach. The goal is to make sure nothing important stays unresolved while consuming as little of your time as possible.
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Tell my team about you
Fill out a short form with your goals, background and availability. My team will reach out with next steps.
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Private consultation
Book a 30 minute call with me. We decide whether the fit is right in both directions.
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Deep onboarding
If we work together, we map your goals, constraints, history, schedule, travel, and the six-month plan.
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Execute in the RP app
Your workouts, check-ins, progress, questions, and my adjustments live in one place. I review client communication daily.
fitnEss should fit Around thE thing you'rE ActuAlly building.
For many clients, dedicated resistance training can be kept to about an hour total per week. Nutrition begins with simple choices and portion rules. Calls happen when useful, not because Thursday at 2:00 is "coaching time."
If you want to do more and chase more results, wonderful. But more is optional. High return is not.
sciEncE, coAching, And A lot of timE undEr thE bAr.
I'm a sport physiologist, former professor, coach, competitive bodybuilder, and co-founder of RP Strength. My career has been spent translating exercise and nutrition science into systems people can actually execute.
The point of this service is not to impress you with complexity. It is to know enough to confidently remove most of it.
- PhD in Sport Physiology
- Co-founder, RP Strength
- Former Exercise Science professor
- Former U.S. Olympic Training Site nutrition consultant
- Competitive bodybuilder
- Designer of RP training & diet systems
book A privAtE consult With mikE
A 30 minute call with Mike directly. $500, non refundable and not applied toward coaching.
Schedule a consultNot ready for that? The form below matches you with an equally qualified RP coach.
gEt sEriously fit without mAking fitnEss AnothEr job.
I personally coach a limited number of private clients. If you want to work with me directly, book a private consult above.
If you'd rather start with one of my RP coaches, they're every bit as qualified to help you reach your goals. We're selective about who we take on, so tell us about your goals and where you're at. It takes about three minutes, and it helps us see whether you're a good fit and which coach suits you best.
We will never sell your personal information.
Important: Private fitness coaching is educational and does not provide medical diagnosis, treatment, or emergency care, and is not a substitute for care from a licensed medical professional. Consult your physician before starting a new training, nutrition, or supplement program. Individual results vary.