Private training sounds simple - turn up, train, leave. In practice a one-to-one hour has a structure worth knowing in advance, because knowing it means you take considerably more from it.
Here is what happens between your first message and having a training plan of your own.
1. The intro conversation
Before we book a time, we talk - by email, phone or in person outside the hall. It takes ten minutes and settles three things:
- What you want to achieve. “I would like to be more flexible” and “my shoulder hurts when I work overhead” are entirely different goals, though people often say them in the same breath.
- What is behind it. Injuries, surgery, chronic pain, previous training experience, how much you sit.
- How much time you realistically have. Weekly, monthly, or three hours before some specific event.
That conversation is free and carries no obligation. It produces a suggestion, not a quote.
2. The first hour: a movement assessment
The first private hour is not “a shorter version of a class”. It is above all an assessment, even though you are moving the whole time.
We look at how you stand, how you shift weight, how deep you can squat, what the shoulder does overhead, what the back does in a forward bend, and how you breathe when it gets hard. None of it is a test or a grade - it is a map.
By the end of the first hour you know two things: your biggest limitation, and the first thing we will work on. They are almost never the two things you expected.
3. The plan
After the first hour you get a simple one-page plan:
- What we do in sessions - two or three priorities, not ten.
- What you do at home - three exercises at most, five to ten minutes. Nobody does more than that.
- How often we meet - weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
- When we review it - usually after six to eight sessions.
A journey of a thousand miles begins beneath one’s feet.
4. What a typical hour looks like
First five minutes: a short check-in. How it has been, what you did at home, what hurts.
Fifteen minutes: a warm-up adapted to your body and to what we are doing that day.
Thirty minutes: the main work. One or two things, in depth. This is the part a group class cannot deliver.
Ten minutes: winding down, breath, and a summary - what you take away until next time.
5. What gets measured
Progress in private training is not measured by how many new movements you know. It is measured by three things we check every few weeks:
- Range - how much deeper you go into the same position without compensating.
- Quality - whether the movement holds up once we add speed or fatigue.
- Transfer - whether the change shows up outside the session: at work, in sleep, on the stairs.
Practical details
Where: the hall at Ziherlova 44 in Ljubljana. Outdoors by arrangement.
When: by arrangement, including mornings, daytimes and weekends.
What to bring: comfortable clothes, water, and any scans or physiotherapy instructions.
Cancellations: let us know at least a day ahead and we move the slot without fuss.
In pairs: sessions can be run for a couple or two friends with the same goal.
How to start
Write us a few sentences about what you want to achieve, what is in the way and how much time you have. We reply with a suggestion - and if we think group classes would serve you better, we say so.
