One-to-one, in your space
At the fitness center where I work independently, or I come to you — living room, courtyard, or HOA gym. No membership. Equipment stays simple: dumbbells, a kettlebell, a band, a chair.
Palm Springs · Active Older Adults · Rick Crist
Stay strong for the life you actually live.
Independent training for Active Older Adults — 50, 60, and above — at the fitness center where I work independently, in your home, or at your HOA gym.
- 2000
- ACE certified
- 1:1
- Never a crowded floor
- 60m
- Full private hour
I train people of all levels who want to look and feel better.
The method
Functional training, not a gym circuit.
This work is its own craft. We are not trying to make you 30. We are trying to keep you looking and moving like you still live here — with enough reserve that a bad night doesn’t take a week to recover from.
- 01
Strength you can use
Hinges, squats, carries, and pushes — loaded enough to change bone and muscle, scaled to the joints you have today.
- 02
Balance that holds
Single-leg work, direction changes, and getting up from the floor. Fall prevention without making the hour feel like physical therapy.
- 03
A body that rotates
Golf, pickleball, and hiking all ask the spine and hips to turn. We train that on purpose, not as an afterthought.
Who this is for
Active Older Adults. 50, 60, and above.
- You are 50, 60, or above and you still want to look and move like you live here.
- You have a joint history — replacement, stenosis, a rotator cuff — and need someone who programs around it.
- You split the year between Palm Springs and somewhere colder.
- You would rather train with an experienced professional versus a gym bro.
How we train
Private coaching that fits a desert calendar.
Partner sessions
Train with a partner or a friend in the same hour. Each of you still gets a program. The calendar only has to agree once.
Built around golf, hills, and travel
If the season is about walking 18, hiking Murray Peak, or keeping up through a long weekend, the sessions look like that — not a bodybuilding split.
Palm Springs rates · 2026
Transparent pricing for private work.
Independent one-to-one coaching in the Coachella Valley typically runs $75–$125 a session. In-home work sits higher because travel and setup are part of the hour. Mesa Range is priced in that band — not competing with semi-private studios, and not luxury-spa rates.
First session
First session
$95movement assessment
A full hour: history, balance, strength, and a plan you can use that week.
- Joint-aware movement screen
- Written notes after we finish
- No package required
Most chosen
Twelve
$100per session · 12 pack
$1,200 total
The pace that actually changes how you move. Most clients train here.
- Twelve 60-minute sessions
- $1,200 in-home in Palm Springs
- Program updated as you get stronger
- Use within 16 weeks
Winter block
Winter block
$95per session · 16 visits
$1,520 total
Eight weeks, twice a week. Built for the season you spend in the desert.
- Sixteen sessions over eight weeks
- $1,520 in-home in Palm Springs
- Home program for the months you’re away
- Hold your slot for next season
| Format | Drop-in | 8 pack | 12 pack | 24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One-to-one, in-home / HOA | $125 | $110 | $100 | $95 |
| One-to-one, Fitness Center | $115 | $100 | $92 | $88 |
| Partner, per person, in-home | $85 | $78 | $72 | $68 |
| Partner, per person, Fitness Center | $80 | $72 | $68 | $64 |
Travel is for home and HOA sessions. Palm Springs city limits include it. Cathedral City and Rancho Mirage add $15. Desert Hot Springs, Palm Desert, and La Quinta add $25. The Fitness Center has no travel fee. Packs expire in four months (eight-pack), five months (twelve), or eight months (twenty-four). Twenty-four hours’ notice to reschedule. Complimentary 20-minute consult by phone.
Rate estimator
What a season of training actually costs.
Pick how you want to train. The quote uses the pack rate that fits the number of visits — the way I actually bill.
Visits
24
Pack rate
$95/hr
Per visit
$95
~ Monthly
$823
24 sessions at the 24-pack rate. Season total $2,280.
Use this in your consultWhere these numbers sit in the valley
Semi-private studios here advertise from about $33 a session because you share the coach. That is a different product. Private independent work — especially in-home — is the $100 band, and that is the right comparison.
Group classes
Little individual coaching.
$15–$30
Semi-private studios
3–6 people, shared hour.
$33–$60
Gym-floor trainers
Plus a membership.
$50–$80
Independent 1:1
Where most private coaches sit.
$75–$125
In-home / private
Travel and setup built in.
$100–$160
Service area
Palm Springs first. The valley when it makes sense.
Most hours are in Palm Springs proper — Movie Colony, Little Tuscany, Deepwell, Canyon Corridor, Vista Las Palmas, and the south end near Palm Canyon. I schedule neighboring cities in blocks so you are not paying for my windshield time.
Palm Springs
City limits
Included
Cathedral City
15 min
+$15 / visit
Rancho Mirage
20 min
+$15 / visit
Desert Hot Springs
25 min
+$25 / visit
Palm Desert / La Quinta
30 min
+$25 / visit
Your coach
Rick Crist. Independent on purpose.
Mesa Range is a one-coach practice. That is the point. I have been an ACE-certified trainer since 2000, and I work with Active Older Adults — 50, 60, and above. Sessions are at the fitness center where I train independently, in your home, or at your HOA gym.
Strength and function for people who still hike, still play, still travel, and want a body that cooperates. I am not a physical therapist and I don’t diagnose. I do train around replacements, stenosis, osteopenia, and the usual decades of “I used to…”
Sessions are 60 minutes. We warm up, we load what is loadable, we practice the ugly useful stuff (floor transfers, carries, stairs), and you leave with one thing to do before I see you again.
- ACE Certified Personal Trainer (since 2000)
- ACE Certified Health Coach
- ACE Functional Training Specialist
- ACE Senior Fitness Specialist
- ACE Fitness Nutrition Specialist
- Functional Aging Institute — Functional Aging Specialist
- Since 2000
- Coaching adults, not college athletes
- ACE + FAI
- Senior, functional, and nutrition specialist
- No contract
- Packs, not memberships
In practice
The work shows up in ordinary days.
“I wanted someone who would let me keep golfing instead of putting me on a recumbent bike. We train in the courtyard. My drive is longer. That is the whole review.”
“After a scare on the stairs I did not want a class. Private, at home, twice a week. I can get off the floor without a production. That was the goal.”
“We take the winter block every year we come out. Partner sessions, then a simple program for Minnesota. It is the only training we have stuck with.”
Questions
Before you write.
Rick Crist — ACE Certified Personal Trainer since 2000, plus ACE Health Coach, Functional Training, Senior Fitness, and Nutrition specialist credentials, and a Functional Aging Specialist through the Functional Aging Institute. Mesa Range is a one-coach practice.
Start here
A 20-minute consult. No pitch deck.
Tell me where you live, what you want to keep doing, and what your joints have to say about it. If we are a fit, we book the first movement session. If we are not, I will say so.
- Call Rick at (954) 203-3125.
- Complimentary consult by phone or on your patio.
- First training hour is $95.
- Site: TrainerRick.com