One‑on‑one
The core of the practice. Programming written for you and updated every week, at the studio on Montana or in your building's gym.
Santa Monica, California · Private training since 2011
Bodies byAmanda
Stars, athletes, and everyone in between — trained one hour at a time, two blocks from the beach.
15 years coaching
20,000+ sessions
1:1 · Small group · On location
First session is a conversation
The short version
Some clients arrive with a call sheet and eleven weeks. Some arrive with a bad knee and a standing 6 a.m. Everyone gets the same hour: planned before you walk in, adjusted the second something feels off, and — this is the part people don't expect — fun.
Amanda has spent fifteen years learning that the hardest part of training isn't the training. It's walking in the first time. So the first session is mostly talking, a little moving, and zero judgment about what you can or can't do yet. Nobody gets thrown into someone else's program.
After that, the work is specific to you: what your body does all day, what it needs to do next month, and what you'll actually keep doing when the novelty wears off. Progress gets written down. So does what isn't working.
I booked one session to see if I hated it. That was four years ago, and I still have the 6:15 slot. K.M. — screenwriter, Ocean Park
Everyone in between
Find yourself
on the line
Amanda's roster runs from people who have never held a barbell to athletes in the middle of a season. Slide to where you honestly are today, and see what the first month looks like from there.
Ways to train
Four doors,
same coach
Pairs & small group
Two to four people, same attention, split rate. Best with someone who will notice when you skip. Couples and siblings do very well here.
Athlete work
Off-season blocks, in-season maintenance, and return-to-play built alongside your physio and your coaching staff — not around them.
Set, tour & travel
Short-notice prep for a role or a run of shows, sessions in trailers and hotel gyms, and remote check-ins when the schedule moves — and it will.
The coach
Fifteen years,
one block at a time
Amanda came up as a collegiate sprinter, got coached badly enough to know the difference, and has spent every year since making sure her clients get the other thing.
- 2009
Finishes four years of collegiate track. Starts coaching the teammates who asked how she recovered so fast.
- 2011
First Santa Monica clients — three of them, trained on the grass at Palisades Park before there was a studio.
- 2014
First film prep job: eleven weeks, one actor, one very specific silhouette, and a lesson in working around a shooting schedule.
- 2019
Opens the private studio on Montana Avenue. Adds return-to-play work with two local physical therapists.
- Today
Twenty thousand sessions in, still takes the 6 a.m. and still writes every program by hand.
NASM Certified Personal Trainer · Precision Nutrition L1 · FMS Level 2 · Pre & Postnatal Coaching Specialist · CPR/AED
In their words
What people say
after a year
She got me back on the field a month before anyone thought I'd be cleared, and nothing she did was a shortcut.
D.A. — professional midfielder
Eleven weeks, six days a week, and I never once dreaded going. I still don't know how she managed that.
J.R. — actor, series lead
I'm 62. I came in wanting to carry groceries up my stairs without stopping. Last month I deadlifted my body weight.
S.T. — retired teacher, Sunset Park
Start here
Book your
first hour
Tell Amanda where you're starting from. She answers every message herself, usually the same day, and the first session is a conversation before it's a workout.
- StudioMontana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA
- HoursMon–Fri 5:30a–1p · Sat 7a–11a
- Emailhello@bodiesbyamanda.com
- Phone(310) 555-0147
- Instagram@bodiesbyamanda
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