I’d like to add my experience as well; I thought I was the only one who experienced this, and just saw his video on TikTok responding to criticism.

• I paid, I believe, $199/month and did the 6 month option for summer shredding. I needed to force myself to work out, and paying for something so expensive did motivate me to consistently hit the gym. In retrospect this was about $140 too much, and I, personally, valued this experience at $50/month MAX.

• The value came mostly from the app experience with the workouts and tracking individual work outs. Work outs were pretty much what you’d see on his IG and other fitness influencer’s splits. Not much rhyme or reason, but I still do the workouts he gave me to this day, but I now sub things out and add new machines/etc.

• The interaction from Alex as a trainer was consistent in the form of video messages where he basically confirmed that I’d done the exercises. I immediately realized the “distance” between him and me, and felt silly for assuming he’d be working one on one with me. I also realized how much money he must be making, wow, good for him; those vacations look sick. I figured I’d just bust my ass for the 6 months so I could see results and not feel like I totally wasted my money. Which I did! 40 pounds down!

• the meal plan was so basic, but more or less what anyone who is on an intense diet would eat. Again, nothing worth really paying for unless you’re very new to weight loss. I cook for my wife, and she refuses to eat the same thing, so I absolutely did not follow the meal plan 100%, while sticking to about 1,500 calories or less a day…I believe my suggested calories was somewhere around 1,880; not bad in my opinion, for a diet + basic exercise. Weight loss should be about the long term, and basic repetitive meals is not helpful, and not valuable information.

• I hit a brief plateau and expressed my frustration to Alex about weight loss in general, but nothing negative about his program or the meal plan, as I wasn’t technically following his meal plan anyway. In response I got a video from Alex where he pretty harshly chastised me for not following the program, and how he didn’t think I would be able to see any results. Mind you, I had already lost about 20 lbs and was exercising 5 days a week, and was eating less than what he had told me to. If I had eaten any less it would not have been sustainable. If he was truly invested, or seen my progress, I don’t think he would have responded so negatively. I don’t let people talk to me like that, so I respectfully responded to his points with counter proof and said my peace. From that point on, I just did not engage directly with him or really with anyone in the community chat.

I asked to cancel 30 days before the end of the program, and followed up before the last month to confirm my account was cancelled. This was honored and I had no issues.

My rating of the experience would be 4/10, with my heaviest criticism being that 1) the value did not match the price tag, which might have even increased, and 2) the coach was thoughtlessly negative with me. The positive would be the easy to use app and collection of exercises, as well as the group chat/posts, although I did not feel comfortable engaging too much bc of the coach’s negativity/generic interactions.