Orange County's #1 rated strength coaching team. Documented muscle gains from 8 to 33 pounds — with progressive programming, dialed-in protein, and the kind of accountability that turns a 12-month plan into a 12-month result. Starting at $60–$80 per session.
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You've watched the YouTube videos. You've tried the bro split. You've cycled creatine, swapped programs every six weeks, and bought enough whey to fill a kayak. The scale moves a little, the mirror barely changes, and you can't tell if you actually built anything.
The truth is simple but uncomfortable: real muscle is built by doing four things at the same time, every week, for a long time. Skip any one and the result is the body you've already got.
The same core lifts, week after week, with deliberate jumps in weight or reps. That's the only signal your body responds to.
A nutrition plan dialed to your maintenance calories with a protein target you can hit from real food — restaurants included.
Muscle grows during rest, not during sets. Recovery is programmed into the plan, not left to chance.
A training app for your solo days, logged lifts every session, and a coach who texts back when you're stuck. That's how 23-pound years happen.
For years the whole pitch was shrink — eat less, weigh less, chase skinny. That era is over. The people who look and feel best now aren't the smallest in the room; they're the strongest, leanest, and most capable. Shaped and athletic, not depleted.
There's a real reason for the shift. Losing weight without building muscle just makes you a smaller version of soft — "skinny-fat": lighter on the scale, but weak, shapeless, and primed to lose even more muscle. It's the trap people on GLP-1 medications are walking into right now, where up to a third of the weight lost can be muscle. Strength training is what turns weight loss into a body that actually looks and performs better — tighter, leaner, and stronger at the same weight.
And no — lifting won't make you bulky. It builds the lean, shaped, strong look most people are actually after. That's what every Train With Dave program is built to deliver: strong, not skinny.
Every transformation below is a Train With Dave client reporting their own numbers.
Muscle Build
"In one month: dropped body fat from 22% to 16%, gained over an inch of muscle mass on arms, chest and legs, and lost a pants size."
"My leg is stronger, more stable, and I'm less dependent on my ankle brace and cane. THANKS DAVE."
Muscle Build
Body Recomp
"Dave's philosophy is no shortcuts. This program feels sustainable — I enjoy my workouts and my diet is easy to keep up with."
Body Recomp
Body Recomp
Hear from clients who got the result you're after.