Allen Smith

BACKGROUND & CREDENTIALS

Allen is a Certified Personal Trainer through the American Association of Fitness Professionals and through NASM, with roughly twelve years of coaching behind him — about six years on each certification. He is prior military and prior law enforcement.

THE ORIGIN STORY

Fitness found him on the way out of the military, in a hard stretch of life, and it was the thing that gave him back a sense of control. “It made me feel really good and made me feel in control. And I wanted everybody else to feel as good as I did.” He started working in the industry in 2013.

His own training began where most people’s do — hypertrophy, bodybuilding-style. It was years of learning that moved him toward strength and conditioning, which is where he has stayed.

HIS COACHING STYLE

High energy, and he will try to make you laugh. “I want them to feel like they’ve done something and learned something” — the knowledge matters to him as much as the strength does, and he will answer any question you have.

His focus is strength and conditioning. He likes clients who want to push themselves, athletes very much included, and anyone willing to put the work in.

CLIENT SUCCESS STORIES

One older client came to him cancer-free after an aggressive brain cancer, wanting to do a single push-up inside a year. Two months in she was doing five consecutively — and was close to tears the day she got there.

Asked for a proudest moment, he would not name one: “I’m proud whenever any of my clients go above and beyond the goals that they wanted to achieve.”

BEYOND THE GYM

He competes in the Scottish Highland Games, which surprises most people, and he is an avid anime fan. His son is a diver, and between schoolwork and training they get out to the river and to the movies.