Better shape
You'll move easier, recover faster, and stop dreading the gym. Your warm-up becomes your worst lift, not your best.
I just want to be healthy, feel better, and be strong — that's what every client says when they walk in. I'm Richard Kunkel. I coach busy people back into the body they actually want.

The one thing you'll leave with:
Confidence in yourself to be the best you.
I don't sell a transformation. I rebuild your relationship with your own body. In ten to fourteen weeks together you move better, get stronger, and stop flinching when you catch your reflection. The work is real. The proof is yours.
Four stops from the day you call to the day your physician asks what you've been doing.
15 minutes. We talk about your week, your body, your medical reality, and what you actually want.
I write your program around the body you walked in with. Signal (12 wks) or Operator (6 mo).
Sessions in-person in Sandy or online. Weekly Loom, real accountability, no autopilot.
Numbers go up in writing. Clothes fit. People notice. Success is your proof.
You've been coached by someone who has never been you.
Intimidated. No time. Don't know where to start. Gym anxiety. Body shame. I hear the same five sentences from almost every person who calls. They aren't character flaws — they're the natural result of being handed a program designed for a 25-year-old D1 athlete who has never had a real job.
I build for the body you have at 8 p.m. on a Tuesday in February, when you're tired, your back is tight, and you still want to be better than you were yesterday.
You'll move easier, recover faster, and stop dreading the gym. Your warm-up becomes your worst lift, not your best.
Honest food, honest training, no crash diet. Weight comes off because your body finally has a reason to let it go.
You see it in the mirror, you feel it on the stairs, and your spouse mentions it without you fishing for the compliment.
"Stood up from kneeling without using my hands for the first time in years. My cardiologist took me off three of my four BP meds. Lost 30 lbs. He told me I'm in the shape of a man twenty years younger."
"I commute 11 hours a week and have two kids under six. Richard built three 45-minute lifts around all of it. I'm down 14 lbs, my deadlift is up 70, and my back stopped hurting on month two."
"I came in scared to load anything. Richard understood my MS without making it the whole story. I trust my body again. I just hiked Mt. Olympus with my grandson. I cried at the summit."
Field reports composed from session notes with client consent. Initials and ages used to preserve privacy.
The flagship online program. Written, sequenced, and supervised week to week. Best entry point for most clients.
read full service →Closer coaching, biweekly calls, same-day messaging. Built for chronic conditions, comebacks, and major life transitions.
read full service →Hands-on, eyes-on, in the gym. Best for clients who want a coach in the room while we earn the right to load.
read full service →Defined start, defined finish, measurable proof. Built for the specific outcome you walked in for.
read full service →We train for the activity you actually love. Camping, hiking, swordsmithing — your hobby is the goal.
read full service →Movement-first youth strength and honest nutrition planning. No body shame. Ever.
read full service →Almost thirty years in the aluminum industry. Forty-eight hour weeks in 140-degree heat. I rebuilt my own body from broken and I have spent the last chapter of my life teaching other people how to do the same.


Doing your best is the norm. There is no shame here, no body too far gone, no schedule too full to start. Phone or email — both reach me directly.