Trevor Botts Broke Through Fitness Plateaus and Improved Core Strength

If you're on the fence and considering joining Alloy, I would suggest that you reflect upon how successful you've been on your own up until this point, and are you really ready to commit to your goals and accept the help of a small team that's gonna help hold you accountable to that? If you're like me, you've reached a point where you've acknowledged, "I need some accountability, I need some community, I need some one-on-one attention," but maybe you're not at that point of needing, like, a one-on-one personal trainer, but you also recognize that a large group can be a little intimidating. If that's you, then Alloy is ready for you. My name is Trevor Botts. I live in Austin, Texas, and I go to the Lakeline Alloy location. I've been fairly consistent in working out for many years, but I noticed that doing it on my own, I would oftentimes hit plateaus or kinda get into a rut. And so I found that I was just sort of going through the motions, and I had certainly stopped seeing any gains, and so that was what ultimately kinda sent me out looking for some additional support. The thing that stood out the most when I met Alloy was, first off, the approach that they take to exercise, which is very time-efficient and being able to get a really, really intense workout in a fairly short amount of time. So just noticed right off the bat that they were customizing workouts for anybody who's kind of a beginner in this world all the way up to somebody who maybe is a little more advanced within the sets that they do, and I could tell that I was gonna get a more intense workout with them in forty-five minutes than I would in twice the amount of time going to the gym. They do offer a lot of flexibility, as it turns out, around being able to modify a time if you can't make it to your set time. They have alternatives throughout the week, still get those workouts in. I've done group fitness, boot camp, I've worked out one-on-one with a personal trainer before, and I think Alloy does bring an, an interesting sort of hybrid approach in the sense that you do get sort of that accountability and community of being in a small group, but it's a small enough group that you are still getting some individual attention from a trainer. You are still being held accountable to show up, to finish the workout, and you are getting one-on-one attention from the trainer. They're coming around to check your form, to help you modify the exercises, or even help you increase the difficulty if they see you progressing. So the, the initial fitness goals that I had when I joined Alloy was really to kinda break through that plateau of strength and conditioning. I want something that's gonna consistently push me to work out harder and to get stronger, and I absolutely saw that happen because I immediately noticed that I was getting a much more robust workout, again, in a shorter period of time, and I was getting sore [chuckles] in new muscles and in areas that I clearly hadn't been working out effectively doing it on my own. And so I noticed that strength and conditioning taking place to where went from, like, shaking uncontrollably while trying to hold a plank even for thirty seconds, and then fast-forward several weeks and I'm noticing my core is getting stronger. I'm noticing the whole body conditioning taking an improvement through this approach. The number one benefit that I've experienced since joining Alloy is I am stronger. I'm more fit, I can tell I'm more conditioned, and I even got raving reviews from my doctor this morning when I went in for my annual checkup. She said that my blood looked the most oxygenated of anyone that she had ever seen, and I had just done a workout this morning with Alloy, so I got a good stamp of approval from her. I think the most positive outcome that I've seen so far from working with Alloy is I just feel more fit. I feel stronger, and I feel able to show up to those workouts, get through the workout effectively, and push myself a little bit further each time. I've yet to hit a plateau with Alloy, and I've been working out with them now for almost five months. There's a couple things that are different about this gym. The first one is you're going to be seeing the same people in your small group each time that you go in, 'cause those groups are capped at six people. So you're naturally gonna start to get to know each other, and you start kinda cheering each other on as you're working out. I see our trainer proactively going around to other people in our group and, like, acknowledging, "Hey, I know that you're dealing with such and such injury. This is what I want you to change about this exercise." So the trainer knows these things, right? They've done what's called an InBody scan, so they know your goals, they know your limitations, they know injuries. And so the-- because you're in a small group, the trainer's able to pay attention and go and assist people when they need a little bit of customization to the workout. That's what the trainer is there for, is to help you be able to feel your form correctly.