Set a goal. Set a pace. Follow through.
James Monroe takes a comprehensive approach to fitness, with experience stemming from over five years of helping people lose body fat, build muscle, and become more athletic overall. Whether it’s becoming wedding-ready or rehabbing an injury, James will find a path to your goals.
To move is to live, and to live is to move.
Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, James grew up playing sports from soccer to skateboarding. He started weight training at twelve and later took up boxing, Muay Thai kickboxing and yoga. His desire to coach came from having family members and close friends who struggled to build healthy habits and lose weight. After successfully helping them achieve their goals he decided coaching was the right career for him. Over the years he’s worked with clients from high school youth to senior citizens, including physique competitors, recreational athletes, and people coming back from injury, helping them lose body fat, gain muscle, and lead more active lives.
His sessions are concentrated, but also fun and enjoyable. Your goal is his goal. Whether you want to compete, recover, or just feel like yourself again, the plan gets built around you.
The current roster runs the full range: men, women, families, couples, LGBTQ+ and groups training together. From high school youth to senior citizens, beginners through competitive athletes, the goals and aspirations span just as wide: first pull-up, getting back to lifting after surgery, a stage-ready physique, a tactical selection, menopause-stage strength, a 5K under 23 minutes, or simply moving without pain again.
- NASM Certified Personal Trainer
- Hyde Park Gym, Austin TX
- Strength training, boxing, Muay Thai, skateboarding, yoga background
- High school youth to senior citizens, recreational to competitive
- Off the clock: piano, guitar, running, reading
Training with the full picture in mind.
What James coaches.
Strength
Progressive overload built to your goal, whether that's a bigger lift, athletic power, or just getting genuinely strong. Real lifts, loaded on a real schedule.
Boxing
Beginner boxing, footwork, conditioning, mitt-work drills, and explosive movement.
Body Recomposition
Lose fat and add muscle at the same time, paced for the long haul, not crash dieting.
Nutrition
Welcome back to Biology 101. Learn the ins and outs of metabolism, how and why we gain weight, how to push through plateaus, and how to eat well around your real lifestyle.
Recovery
Mobility, sleep, stress, return-from-injury. The necessary, often overlooked work that lets you train hard for years.
Coaching Training
For trainers and coaches: years of experience shared 1:1 to sharpen your skill, programming, and eye, including how to build and keep a clientele roster.
It all comes standard.
Built around your gym, schedule, and goals. Never pulled from a template.
Constant monitoring and feedback on your form, in and outside of sessions.
Identify and strengthen weak links before they become injuries.
Prescribed, not suggested. The why behind how you eat, structured to your lifestyle and dialed in to push through plateaus.
Body comp, energy, sleep, soreness, and weight, all reviewed regularly with James and trackable in your account.
Reach James between sessions when you need a quick answer.
Schedule, reschedule, log your sets, see programs, track payments, and view progress in one place. Use it as much or as little as you like.
How the work unfolds.
- 01Phase 1
Assess & build the foundation
- Intro to deep core training
- Muscular balance assessment and correction
- Intro to nutrition: the science and how to apply it
- Intro to basic strength training and muscular development
- Lifestyle habit assessment
- Goal creation
- 02Phase 2
Build strength & independence
- Goal tracking
- Continued muscular balance development
- More advanced lifting techniques
- Intro to cardio training
- Continued lifestyle habit development
- Independent homework in the gym and at home
- 03Phase 3
Power, conditioning & athleticism
- Continued progress tracking
- Maximal strength development and continued evolution of strength training
- Intro to explosive conditioning
- Continued cardiovascular development
- Speed, agility, and quickness
Transparency. Always.
Free consultation
- A full hour, no rush. We talk through what you're after and what's in the way, then run the LPHC routine so you get a real taste of training and cueing, and see where your body needs work head to toe.
1:1 Session
- Strength, boxing, recomp. Pick the focus.
- Weekly programming available
- In-person at Hyde Park Gym, Austin
Real before & afters.
BEFORE
AFTERPedro was on a quest to change his entire image and appearance when I first met him. His nutrition and training were on point, and every week like clockwork he lost at least 2 lbs by following a meal plan and weight training regimen. We did high-intensity workouts and boxing on top of that to increase his weekly calorie burn. He is now on his way to becoming a trainer himself. Congrats, Pedro!
BEFORE
AFTERWhen Samantha came to me, she already had an active lifestyle dancing regularly but had never been on a serious lifting program for gaining strength and didn't know how to go about eating to lose weight. With my help and her tenacity, we changed her eating and lifestyle habits, and she learned fundamental strength training movements as well as cardiovascular conditioning via running and sprinting. We currently train once a week to continue her gains and growth.
BEFORE
AFTERObii was in shape most of his adult life until the busyness of earning his PhD and career pursuits made it difficult to keep fit. We audited his eating and exercise habits, and I put him on a lifting program 3 days a week while we did boxing conditioning and HIIT-style workouts once or twice a week. He went from 260 lbs to 219 lbs.
BEFORE
AFTERKaty's first reason for training was to get stronger and feel better, but as we continued to train, her goals shifted toward body recomposition along with becoming as strong as possible. About 9 months into our training she got engaged, and from then on we trained for her wedding day. We trained twice a week, focusing on her diet, compound lifts and lifestyle habits so she looked and felt her best for her wedding day.
BEFORE
AFTERZach came to me with the goal of reversing his pre-diabetes, losing body fat and increasing his cardiovascular endurance. After we audited his eating, we started compound strength training and prescribed cardio sessions to improve his conditioning and endurance. We trained twice a week with a well-rounded approach to fitness: cardio, strength, balance, bodyweight training and boxing.
BEFORE
AFTERJesse, like many clients, wanted to lose body fat and also gain muscle. We had injuries to work around, but we still got him from 180 lbs to 153 lbs. After 9 months of training, we decided he was ready to train on his own, and he is still continuing his progress.
BEFORE
AFTERMax is a Portland, Oregon client and one of my first. He came to me because he had a wedding and a vacation in Mexico coming up and needed to fit into his suit and look good on the beach. From the beginning of April to the beginning of June, we trained twice a week with high-intensity cardio conditioning and boxing. He followed a full-body, 3-day strength training split that I wrote, and we got him to this lean build in just two months.
Hyde Park Gym, Austin TX.
You don’t start until you start.
Let’s find the path to your goals together. Book the call, a full hour with no pressure. I want to help you get there.
Every plan is driven by compassion, led by science.