Question 1

How to get 1-1 coaching?

Accepted Answer

Next time you're in the gym, take a short video of the movement(s) you need coaching on. Make sure that you are fully visible in the video. Generally, it's best to film a profile view so that your coach can get the most information. Then, go to the DM'ing feature, send it to Sam Leicht, and upload your video with a short description of your concerns or goals. One of our coaches will provide feedback within 48 hours!

Question 2

What is included in my Pridefit membership?

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We'll list all of our offerings below, but here's what you really need to know:

You'll get unlimited 1-1 coaching so that we can hold you accountable and help you reach your goals.
We add new workouts, programs, and recipes weekly so that you stay engaged and motivated to get results.
Full access to the Pridefit community including mini-courses, nutrition resources, live events, challenges, and MORE.

Pridefit is $35/month if you are on our monthly plan and only $25/month on our 6-month plan.

Yes, we're slightly more expensive than the AI fitness apps in the app store, but that's because we have real coaches giving you real-time feedback specifically personalized to you. We want to be there for you every single step of your fitness journey, and we can do that because we're a tight knit community who actually cares about your results. Let us prove it to you 💪

Everything included in your Pridefit membership:

NUTRITION:

Grocery Store Best Practices Blueprint: Save money & buy healthier with our grocery hacks.
4 Rules of Nutrition Guide: Simplify your nutrition to get faster, long-term results.
Protein Dense Food Guide: How to get more protein in your diet without breaking the bank.
Supplement Guide: All the supplements you DO & DON’T need in one easy guide.
Simple Breakfast Cheat Sheet: Fast, easy, HEALTHY breakfast options.
Costco Grocery Shopping List: Our Costco go-to’s and favorite treats we never leave the store without.
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Question 3

Will this help me lose/gain weight?

Accepted Answer

Absolutely. Pridefit will help you reach your weight goals, but the "how" requires some explanation.

Regardless of if you're trying to gain weight or lose weight, everyone's goal should start exactly the same:

How do we increase our lean muscle mass?

Q: Which Pridefit Program (Home, Gym or Build) you should be doing

Pridefit Home provides a complete fitness program that gives you an incredible workout without leaving your home. Pridefit Home is geared toward beginner to intermediate athletes and only requires one set of dumbbells - but the more dumbbells you have, the better. We generally suggest people start with a set of 15lb dumbbells and a set of 25-35lb dumbbells. If you're only getting one set of dumbbells, we suggest a set of 20lb dumbbells. Pridefit Gym is geared toward intermediate athletes with access to a gym. Gym provides strength &amp; cardio workouts each week with two rest days dedicated to habit training. Pridefit Build is a combination of workouts and nutrition training specifically designed to sustainably add lean muscle mass. Build is for advanced athletes and focuses more on strength &amp; hypertrophy than HIIT. Still not sure which is the best fit for you? Reach out to support@pridefit.com and provide more information on your workout history and goals, and our team will help you find the perfect program for you!

Let's start by learning about fat loss. In order to lose fat, we need to be burning more calories (calories out) each day than we consume (calories in). Many people misinterpret this statement as thinking that we need to exercise more in order to burn more calories than we eat, and this is generally unrealistic.

Even intense & extensive exercise routines only account for about 5-10% of our daily caloric expenditure per day, which means that we need to burn calories in other ways. One of the best ways to burn calories is to increase our basal metabolic rate (colloquially know as our metabolism) so that we passively burn more calories throughout the day._ The key to increasing our metabolism is to add more lean muscle mass to our frame - most effectively through weight training._

This all being said, people generally have better, more immediate results losing fat by focusing on decreasing the amount of calories they’re consuming each day. Eating less (volume) or decreasing the amount of processed and calorically dense food we eat each day so that we’re consuming less calories than we’re burning, will be the most immediate way to burn fat.

Increasing our metabolism by adding more muscle to our frame through strength train

Question 4

Getting Started Checklist

Accepted Answer

Sign up by clicking here.
Download the app here.

Make sure to click "login" instead of "continue" if you signed up through the website.

Go through the app onboarding.

This will ask you about your goals and equipment so that you can decide which program to choose. After you finish the onboarding, you'll get prompted to check out a tutorial of all the tabs of the Pridefit app.

Create your community account here.

The community can be accessed inside the Pridefit app or on your browser, but you must create an account first. We suggest you use the same login credentials that you used to sign up for Pridefit.

Sign up for your onboarding call here.

Every member goes through an onboarding call with Coach Sam to create a plan for your fitness, nutrition, and recovery. Be sure to schedule this ASAP!

Choose your signature program here.

You'll choose between our Home, Gym, or Build programs. You'll start with session 1.

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Question 5

Which Pridefit Program (Home, Gym or Build) you should be doing

Accepted Answer

Pridefit Home provides a complete fitness program that gives you an incredible workout without leaving your home. Pridefit Home is geared toward beginner to intermediate athletes and only requires one set of dumbbells - but the more dumbbells you have, the better.

We generally suggest people start with a set of 15lb dumbbells and a set of 25-35lb dumbbells. If you're only getting one set of dumbbells, we suggest a set of 20lb dumbbells.

Pridefit Gym is geared toward intermediate athletes with access to a gym. Gym provides strength & cardio workouts each week with two rest days dedicated to habit training.

Pridefit Build is a combination of workouts and nutrition training specifically designed to sustainably add lean muscle mass. Build is for advanced athletes and focuses more on strength & hypertrophy than HIIT.

Still not sure which is the best fit for you? Reach out to support@pridefit.com and provide more information on your workout history and goals, and our team will help you find the perfect program for you!

Question 6

Should I be counting my calories/macronutrients?

Accepted Answer

Nutrition is incredibly complicated. At Pridefit, our goal is to make it as simple as possible by focusing on the three objectives that will get you 80% of your results.

We don't love fixating on calories.

Which is funny because scientifically, calories are the determining factor for all of our weight goals. If we want to lose weight, we have to eat less calories than we burn. If we want to maintain, we need to eat as many calories as we burn. And if we want to gain weight, we need to eat more calories than we burn.

It’s that simple.

Hormones, genetics, exercise, eating - they all fit into this equation of calories in vs. calories out. And yet, we try not to talk about it too much.

Because behaviorally, we believe that calories in vs. calories out isn’t that helpful.

As humans, even with the incredible tech we have today, calculating how many calories we eat in a day is incredibly tedious and frustratingly inaccurate. Research shows that we underestimate the calories we eat by 20-50%.

Even more challenging is calculating the calories out or calories burned each day. Sure, we have estimates for this number based on our age, weight, height, and activity level, but getting a real approximation of your calories out is almost impossible without specialist lab equipment. Research shows that we overestimate the calories we burn by 20-30%.

If tracking calories in is inaccurate, and tracking calories out is inaccurate, then it seems to us that talking about calories i

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