Personal Training with Alison
Movement designed to make you strong, not shrink.
1:1 Personal Training
1-hour | €75/session
Strength training that starts with how you actually feel and how you want to move, rather than a one-size-fits-all protocol.
Most of my clients have tried training before. Some got hurt. Some stopped seeing results or stopped believing results were possible. Some were handed a program that worked for someone else's body and someone else's goals.
The answer is (this feels cheesy but true) in the details. Always. The side that fires and the side that seems to be sleeping. The movement pattern that compensates so well, you stopped noticing the change years ago. The body that is so strong in some directions and completely checked-out in others.
We start there.
Sessions combine strength-based movement with close attention to how your body actually responds, instead of how it's "supposed to" work. For women managing pain or returning from injury, training is never separate from recovery. For women in perimenopause, strength is medicine.
The rage that birthed the method
For too long, the research on women's bodies was nonexistent. Studies about strength, health, bone maintenance, mental health were done one men. Protocols were built for men. And women were handed a scaled-down version and told that was enough.
It wasn't enough.
What we're learning through the research that's finally specific to women is that our bodies respond differently. We need heavier loads, not lighter ones. Fewer reps with more intention, not endless circuits. We need mobility work that doesn't overstretch already hypermobile muscles. And we need focused heart work, not hours on the elliptical. That few minutes of jumping at the end of a session does far more for our bone density than a year of walking with a weighted vest.
Ultimately, strength isn't a means to an end for sculpted arms (although seeing strength in your own mirror is lovely), but strength is something we were built for.
This is the framework I train from. It's not for everyone or every mindset. But I have a fondness for this method not because it's a trend, but because it's what the evidence is finally confirming and I've felt the difference in my own body. Especially in this season of life.
What to Expect
Before we start training, we spend time talking about your history, your pain, tension, and injury background, the muscles that fire and the ones that have gone quiet, and your big-picture goals. I learn about how you move, what you enjoy, what joints are solid and which could move together better or align with more ease.
Every session after day 1 is built around the your unique body on that day. We begin with a check-in. Not a protocol. Also not over-thinking anything. Three minutes or so of dynamic movement that tells me where you actually are today, not where you were last week or where either of us think you "should" be. Today matters. Your body works best when you've checked in with it first.
Then we train. Heavy, intentional, multi-directional. Like you move in real life, with some added, intentional challenges. You'll lift. You'll create new muscle memory so that mobility work eventually feels easy-ish. You'll jump, not as cardio, but as a signal to both your bones and nervous system that this body is still capable of quick and powerful movements. And that you've still got your own back. My biggest intention is that you'll leave feeling strong in a way that has nothing to do with the mirror.
Is this for you?
This is for women who want to train intentionally without burning themselves out, for women who have been given a protocol that pushed them too hard in the wrong direction for too long, for women who are navigating perimenopause or hormonal shifts and want a practitioner who understand what their body needs (and what it doesn't), and for women who have chronic pain or a history of ups and downs with injuries and need someone who sees the whole picture, not just corrective exercise (although that will be a tool in our programming together).
You don't need to be "fit" to start. You just need to be ready to start with intention together.
This is for women who want to feel strong without burning themselves out or shrinking to be worthy.
A note on combining this with acupuncture
If you're also working through pain, PTSD, acute or chronic injuries, nervous system deregulation, or chronic tension, personal training pairs naturally with acupuncture at Rain. In fact, people often see faster recovery, pain relief, and neuromuscular rewiring when the two are brought together.
If you're interested in both in a single session: bodywork (acupuncture, cupping, tui na) first, then the training window that follows, that's what the 6-week Yin & Yang program provides.