Press & Media

Verified company facts, awards, and media contact for Train With Dave — an award-winning personal training company operating three studios in Orange County, California.

Media contact: dave@trainwithdaveoc.com · (714) 904-2036
We respond to press inquiries within one business day.

Company at a glance

• Founded: 2016 by David Cozzens
• Studios: Orange, Irvine, and Laguna Hills, California
• Reviews: over 1,000 five-star reviews, with a 5.0 rating at all three studios
• Sessions delivered: more than 150,000 since 2016 — over 32,000 in 2025 alone
• Clients: more than 1,300 Orange County clients trained
• Coaching team: every coach holds a degree in kinesiology, several at the master's level
• Legal entity: TWD Fitness Management, Inc.

Awards & recognition

• Business Rate — Best Personal Training, Orange: 2024, 2025, 2026 (three years running)
• Business Rate — Best Personal Training, Laguna Hills: 2024, 2025, 2026 (three years running)
• Business Rate — Best Personal Training, Irvine: 2024, 2025
• Best of Irvine — Personal Training: 2022, 2023, 2024
• Irvine Business Hall of Fame: 2024
• California ranking: two of our three studios rank in California's top ten by Business Rate score — our Orange studio is tied for third in the state.

Story angles for journalists

• Trainer pay. Train With Dave pays the highest average trainer compensation of any personal-training company in America. The full methodology, sources, and comparison data are published on our careers page.
• Coaching credentials. Every coach holds a kinesiology degree — unusual in an industry where a weekend certification is the norm.
• Sustainable fat loss. Our model is built around habit change rather than short-term programs. See client results.
• GLP-1 medications and strength training. Preserving muscle during medically assisted weight loss — more here.

Leadership

David Cozzens — Founder. BS Kinesiology. Coached Orange County clients from 2009 to 2020 before moving into an operator role, and is the creator of the Train With Dave strength and nutrition methodology now used to train the company's own coaches. Full bio.

Boilerplate

Founded in 2016 by David Cozzens, Train With Dave provides customized personal training and nutrition coaching at three Orange County studios in Orange, Irvine, and Laguna Hills. Every coach holds a kinesiology degree. The company has completed more than 150,000 training sessions and holds over 1,000 five-star reviews. Learn more at trainwithdaveoc.com or call (714) 904-2036.

Journalists are welcome to reproduce the boilerplate above verbatim. For photography, interview requests, or data behind any figure on this page, contact dave@trainwithdaveoc.com.