Central Athlete

Awesome place very welcoming staff! 10 out 10 i recommend stopping by when in the area!

My team and I have visited gyms, studios, and fitness facilities all over the world and I have to say that Central Athlete ranks right up there with the best. Their friendly and competent staff promote a family environment the exudes community. Looking forward to spending time there again in the future.

I have enjoyed stopping by Central Athlete every time I've traveled to Austin! It's got everything you need for a great training session and the staff are super welcoming. Definitely will be back again!

Very encouraging environment + all the essential equipment! Would totally recommend it to anyone looking to get better regardless of what you current level of fitness might be.

As someone who has trained for over 3 decades and has trained in many facilities...Central Athlete ranks right up there with the best! The gym is well structured with a great training environment. The people are down to earth and warm hearted which makes it such as positive gym to train in!

I love training at Central Athlete and see it as the best user experience for people who want to train smart. The coaches, environment, and technology are best in class. Amanda makes me feel like I’m her only client and makes training productive, effective, and fun! I wouldn’t train anywhere else.

Central Athlete emphasizes holistic lifestyle training, including exercise (the obvious one everyone is looking for), but also more subtle yet profoundly more important coaching in sleep hygiene, nutrition, and stress management. All 4 of these pieces interact to create a carefully tailored, dynamic, individualized program for each athlete to optimize his or her health, beauty, and performance. I have seen firsthand in my own life how individually designed coaching makes a huge difference over the many fitness alternatives on the market. Working with the team at Central Athlete has helped me to understand the nuances of my relationship to stress, sleep, and food, and to understand that these more than the frequency of my training were preventing me from establishing sustainable, healthy habits. In fact, my work as a Central Athlete client has inspired me to pursue a career in health, nutrition, and life coaching myself, which was not a career I saw for myself as I was finishing my graduate degree in biology when I began at CA.I began with Jesse at Central Athlete almost a year ago. In three months, I had lost almost 20 lbs of fat while gaining muscle. I’ve learned to do handstands, ring routines, and other crazy fun gymnastics. I’ve gotten stronger and more mentally tough. More importantly to me, however, I had begun to change my relationship with nutrition and fitness, to see these as lifestyle goals rather than quick fixes for a summer beach body. I began to train in gymnastics under Jesse's coaching, and have fallen in love with the sport and with performance-driven training. It's kinda the perfect package - I've finally reached the physique goals that eluded me for years by training less (counterintuitive, I know, but it makes a big difference in stress management across life's modalities), and also came to enjoy sport for its own sake. It's truly a life-changing experience that I believe many would benefit from, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.

I've been working with my Central Athlete coach for almost 3 years now and can't say enough good things about the experience. Not only have I gotten fitter and stronger, but I live a healthier life all around. My sleep, my nutrition, and my response to work stresses have all improved based on Central Athlete's guiding principles. If you feel like you've plateaued in your fitness/wellness journey and want to get to the next level and optimize your life, this is the place to be.

Jesse and Amanda have built a temple for the body in East Austin.Central Athlete really is personalized fitness at its finest. Their coaches attention to detail is unparalleled. Their programming is TOP TOP TOP. Professional athlete or someone who has never trained consistently before, CA is the place for you. The environment is very welcoming and it is not intimidating at all. Their facility is equipped with high end amenities like an IR Sauna...Cold Tub...if you are looking to make a change in your life, CA is the place to start. Can't recommend more highly!

As someone who’s been in the sports/fitness industry for over 10 years, I can honestly say that Central Athlete offers the best personal training and programming I’ve ever seen.The owners and staff have dedicated their careers to individualized fitness and this is not “just a job” to them. Unlike other coaches, Jesse and Amanda provide a FULL fitness experience for their clients and athletes, including personalized exercise programming, nutrition plans, body comp assessments, injury prevention plans, and even competition coaching when needed.Over the past 3 years that I have been training here, I have seen average joes change their lives by getting control of their health, full-time moms doing pull-ups for the first time, already-fit folks turning into fierce competitors, and everything in between.If you’re looking to invest in yourself with the guidance of people who actually care, Central Athlete is the place for you.