ABOUT US
San Pedro Fit Works was founded on a simple conviction: personal training should be built on education, not trends. Our founder, Matt Leu (M.S. Kinesiology, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo), personally oversees every client's programming and mentors every trainer on staff. We're an appointment-only studio serving San Pedro, the South Bay, and the greater Los Angeles area.
Every personal trainer on our team holds a degree in kinesiology, exercise science, or a related field. That's a requirement, not a hiring preference. Our group fitness instructors bring specialized certifications and years of coaching experience across cycling, suspension training, ELDOA, and more.
Our coaches stay within their professional scope. We provide generalized nutritional guidance as part of coaching, but we don't create specific meal plans, prescribe supplements, or replace a registered dietitian. When your needs go beyond exercise programming, we maintain referral relationships with trusted local professionals in nutrition, physical therapy, and sports medicine, so you're connected to the right person.
Our space: a private personal training facility on 8th Street for one-on-one and semi-private training, and two group fitness studios on 7th Street for Cycle, TRX, ELDOA, Circuit Training, Core + Mobility, and Zumba.
OUR APPROACH
Assessment First:
Every program starts with a $49 movement assessment, which applies to your first month's membership when you join. We evaluate how you move, your strengths, limitations, and goals before we prescribe how to train. Your program is built from what we find, not from a template.
Frequency Over Duration:
How often you train matters more than how long each session lasts. Most clients train in focused 30-minute sessions two to three times per week. 60-minute sessions are available when your goals or movement complexity call for more time. The science supports it, our programming reflects it, and our results confirm it.
Respect Your Reality:
Rule one: respect your reality. Showing up matters more than showing up perfect. Some days you feel great and some days you don't, so our coaches mold the session around restrictions, fatigue, or a rough week without losing the thread of your progress. We check in and pivot when your week, your stress, or your body calls for a different approach. For athletes, we periodize your program to prevent overtraining while maximizing progressive overload across your competitive calendar.
Team-Based Coaching:
Clients training two or more times per week work with multiple coaches by design. Different trainers bring different perspectives to your movement. Your programming is documented and shared across our staff so every session builds on the last, whoever is coaching it. It's how we produce better outcomes.
Coaching, Not Supervising:
Degreed trainers read your movement in real time, spot compensations, and adjust based on what they see, not just what's on a whiteboard. The difference between a coach and a supervisor is the ability to see what's actually happening and know what to do about it. That's what education provides.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Private and appointment-only. No crowded floor, no waiting for equipment. Our appointment-only model means every session happens in a controlled, focused environment built for coaching.
Maintained to a standard. We sanitize equipment, clean floors, and wipe every surface daily, and we schedule enough time between appointments for a full reset. Equipment is maintained, organized, and ready before you walk in. The details matter, and we treat the space the same way we treat your programming: with intention.
No long-term contracts. All memberships and training plans are 1 or 2 month autopay plans, with no cancellation penalties. We keep clients by earning their trust, not by locking them in.
SAN PEDRO, THROUGH AND THROUGH
We live here, we coach here, and we hire from here. Through our partnership with Cal State Long Beach's Kinesiology program, we host interns who get hands-on experience in a professional training environment, and several of our current coaches started that way.