Frequently asked questions

Most clients invest between $249 and $575 per week, or about $997 to $2,297 per four-week cycle, depending on whether they train once, twice or three times a week at our Mile-End studio. Experienced clients who want maximum support and train four times a week are at the higher end, around $749 per week. That is the whole package, built on our three pillars: personalized training, nutrition and lifestyle, and accountability and motivation.

In practice, that means a new training phase every four weeks, each one progressing from the last to keep challenging your body toward your long-term goal. Personalized nutrition coaching, along with the sleep and stress that decide how you will recover from the training stimulus, to optimize your energy and your results. And a coach measuring you weekly who notices when something stops working. Those are the three things that decide whether you still have the result a year from now.

We offer 12-week and 36-week packages, and most of what we do is built around the 36-week package. It carries the better rate, and it’s the only one that includes vitamin D and omega-3 testing. It’s also the length that matches the goal most people describe when we first speak, which is usually six to twelve months out rather than three.

The 12-week package exists so you don’t have to commit to that before you know how you respond to the coaching. Plenty of clients start there and extend into the 36 once they’ve seen it work. It’s also the right length if you’re only in Montreal for a few months.

Prices are in Canadian dollars, before tax. And if we don’t think it’s worth it for you, we’ll tell you.

We assess you before we train you, and we measure you every week after that. Everything else follows from those two things. What you’re paying for is results, the experience of being properly coached, and a coach who knows you well enough to answer for your progress.

Everything sits on 3 pillars, and we work on all 3 simultaneously. Personalized training, built on your goals, your current abilities and your injury profile, and with a new phase every 4 weeks that progresses from the last. Nutrition and lifestyle: the right foods at the right time, your sleep and your stress. Those are what decide how well you recover from your training. And accountability and motivation: we track your progress every week, the same day at the same time. Seeing how your body responds to the changes you have made is what keeps you motivated and consistent long term.

Most people arrive having had 1 of the 3, sometimes 2, rarely all 3 together. They had a personal trainer, but nutrition was left to them and their body composition was never tracked. Or they saw a nutritionist, but there was no training plan, no body composition tracking and nobody following up. The missing pillar is usually the reason it stalled.

Every week we measure you on our medical-grade InBody scanner, which separates fat, muscle and water. On our 36-week programs we also test your vitamin D and omega-3 levels, at no extra cost. You’re never left on your own with a plan you don’t use.

Most clients come to us because they wanted all 3 handled at once instead of piecing it together themselves. And because they’d rather not waste a year trying to figure out what works for them and what doesn’t.

Time is the part you can’t get back.

It starts with a free discovery call, 5 to 10 minutes, so we can understand what you’re after and whether we can genuinely help. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll tell you honestly.

If we’re a good fit, then before we begin training you we start with your first 2 assessments: $297 plus tax, total for the two, 60 minutes each. The first is your Nutrition, Lifestyle & Body Composition Assessment: what you eat, how you live, how you sleep, your energy, and your starting body composition. The second is your Posture, Movement & Injury Risk Assessment: how you stand and move today, your mobility, your left-right symmetry, and which dormant injuries and imbalances you’re carrying without knowing it. They’re sold separately from any package, and done before any program is written.

You leave these 2 assessments knowing exactly what to do for that week, so you can start seeing results right away, before you even start training with us.

This allows you to come in and experience what it’s like to work with us. You meet your coach, you spend 2 hours in the studio, and you see exactly how we coach, so you’re not guessing what your sessions will look like if you decide to continue.

What you’re paying for is the end of the guesswork. Without assessments this thorough, a trainer can spend weeks or months of frustrating trial and error working out what you can and can’t handle. We’d rather know on day one, and give your body exactly what it needs.

Afterwards, we turn what we found into a realistic plan and recommend the coaching approach that fits your goal and the way you want to get there. You decide then whether to continue.

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Yes. 3 workouts a week, in a properly equipped gym.

3 is the dose that actually works. 2 isn’t enough stimulus across a 7-day period to produce noticeable results. 4 is more than most people need, and it’s a privilege you earn rather than a place you start. A fourth session adds stress that your nutrition, your lifestyle and your recovery have to absorb. Those are what limit your results in the first place. Improving them will usually do more for you than a 4th hour of training in the gym. Adding that session before you’re ready reduces your ability to recover: more fatigue, worse results, and chasing injuries instead of progress.

Some experienced clients do start at 4. They’re already training that often, they’ve proven they recover well from it, and their goal genuinely calls for it, usually to gain more than 10 lbs of muscle.

Every session is 60 minutes or less, and it covers all of it: your warm-up, strengthening your weak points, improving mobility without spending the session stretching, and building strength. If fat loss is part of your goal, training also boosts your metabolism and works with your hormones to drive fat loss, increase muscle tone or muscle mass, and improve your cardio. All of it through weight training. That’s how 3 hours a week is enough.

Our method comes out of the Charles Poliquin lineage. François Preece trained under Poliquin, then taught the Poliquin International Certification Program for Canada, here at Elite Coaching, to coaches from across the country. He holds PICP Level 2, with Level 3 in progress.

He holds a BA in Human Kinetics and Business from the University of Ottawa, more than 40 certifications, and 21 years as a certified personal trainer. Every coach on the team is trained and mentored by him personally.

What that means for you is consistency. Whichever coach you’re matched with, you’re getting the same method. Julie Beauregard, our Elite Master Coach and Assistant to Coach Development, oversees program quality across the team, and François runs education workshops with the coaches every week. Everything that goes out to a client has to meet the Elite Coaching standard.

Yes, it’s how most of our clients arrive. Back pain, knee pain and shoulder pain are the most common.

Being injured in one limb is almost never a reason not to train. You have 4 limbs; if one is out, we train the other 3. There’s always a way. It just has to be creative and safe. Some of our best transformations have come from clients who arrived with serious limitations: back injuries, or the nagging elbow and shoulder problems that rule out whole movements for a while.

The studio is set up for it. Turf with sleds and harnesses, so someone with an elbow or shoulder injury can pull hard from the torso instead of holding weight in their hands. A pendulum squat, a reverse hyper, and a safety squat bar with 24 adjustments. Pulleys, and fat-grip dumbbells and barbells. And magnets that stick to the dumbbells and barbells so we can add as little as half a pound at a time, so you progress steadily without the jump in load that forces you to sacrifice your technique. That’s where those injuries come from. Most gyms don’t carry any of this, and it’s why a restriction in one place rarely stops us training everything else.

Before any program is written, your Posture, Movement & Injury Risk Assessment screens your posture, your structural balance, your left-right and front-to-back symmetry, and the dormant injuries almost everyone is carrying. We find them in nearly every client. That’s what lets us address the problem head on rather than work around it: we know which exercises to use and which muscles to activate and strengthen first, so the weak link gets stronger rather than louder.

If your situation could get worse with training, you’ll need medical clearance first, the same as you would anywhere else. The risk runs both ways, and that’s the part people miss: training you harder than your condition allows is one mistake, and training you so cautiously that you never get the result you came for is the other.

That’s why we work with the other health professionals involved in your care. If you’re seeing a physiotherapist, an osteopath or a chiropractor, we work directly with them. They’re experts in their field and they’re not personal trainers, and we’re the reverse. Between us, your condition and your goal both get looked after. If you don’t have anyone, we’ll refer you to someone we trust.

You’ll have an assigned coach on the floor, and your program and your coaching always meet the Elite Coaching standard. Every week we go through every client assigned to each coach: how the program is progressing, the body-composition results, and the nutrition protocols in place. Yours included. All our coaches are trained in the Elite Coaching method, which François has tested and proven over more than two decades. We don’t experiment on clients. We use what has already been proven to work.

And we’ll tell you honestly whether it’s safe for you to start. In most cases it is. In the rare case it isn’t, we’ll recommend you get another professional’s opinion first, so that when we do start, the approach and the results are the best they can be.

That fear is well founded, and it’s the most common story we hear: you start, you progress, you add weight, you get hurt, you stop. Often the same cycle 2 or 3 times over.

What breaks that cycle is finding your weak links before you load them. Your Posture, Movement & Injury Risk Assessment shows us your posture and the muscle imbalances between your left and right sides, and between the front and back of your body. Those get addressed first, before we add weight to them.

Then it comes down to how we add weight. In most gyms the smallest dumbbell increase is 5 lbs in each hand, so 10 lbs at once, or the smallest plate that fits the bar. That increase is generally too much. It sacrifices your technique, and that can be a cause of injury. We use magnets that load in increments as small as half a pound, so you never have to sacrifice your technique to handle the next increase.

From there your program progresses in clear phases rather than by guessing, with a regular rest week from weights based on your personal progression. The plan sets the direction, and every session is calibrated to what you can measurably perform that day. Some days that means adjusting the session. Some days it means the numbers say you’re ready even when you think you probably can’t.

Handled that way, the gym is the most controlled environment in sport. Nothing is unpredictable, nothing is coming at you at speed, and every variable is set before you start. People don’t get hurt because the gym is dangerous. They get hurt because nothing in their program was built for their body, and the weight increased faster than what was safe for them.

People live in pain because nobody ever showed them how to solve it, and that isn’t their fault. It takes the right people around you, with the right approach for your body. If it’s needed, we’ll work in collaboration with other health professionals who are experts at what they do, and that considerably raises the odds of improving your situation, or reversing it entirely.

A lot of our clients arrive having been in pain so long they assume it’s just how their body is now. In some cases it reverses in a few weeks. Movement comes back that they’d stopped expecting, and they get to live without the pain they’d accepted.

The scale isn’t what we measure.

Every week we measure your body composition on our medical-grade InBody scanner: fat, muscle and water, separately. A scale can’t tell you that you lost 2 lbs of fat and gained 2 lbs of muscle. It just says you stayed the same, when your body actually changed by 4 lbs.

We also use the BioSignature method, a 12-site skinfold assessment. It shows where on your body the fat is coming off, not just how much, and where you store fat correlates with your hormonal profile. That’s what tells us exactly what to adjust: your nutrition, your lifestyle, your supplementation, and potentially even your training.

Measuring weekly does something else too: you start to learn how your own body responds, and which changes actually work for you. That understanding keeps compounding the longer we work together.

It also allows us to catch problems early. If life throws something at you, or a sequence of events means you gain body fat rather than muscle, we see it that week and correct it, instead of finding out 3 weeks later with far more to undo.

Usually one of two things: you’re training too often and recovering too little, or the food isn’t right for you.

Training too often, recovering too little. 4 to 5 sessions a week on top of a demanding job can leave no room to recover, and long daily runs pull against toning or building muscle. You can gain some strength, but serious muscle gain means decreasing or stopping the long runs. This is rarely about training too hard. Most people don’t train hard enough or train optimally before they come to see us. What we see instead is a lot of exertion spread across too many days, with too little recovery.

The food isn’t right for you. Sometimes that’s simply not eating enough in a day, or years of intermittent fasting used as an excuse to skip meals. Just as often it’s the opposite: people making genuinely healthy choices that aren’t the right food choices for their body right now. Healthy doesn’t automatically mean right for you. Avocados are healthy. Eat 100 a day and you’ll become obese. We want you eating healthy food, but that doesn’t mean every healthy food belongs in your plan. Your physical condition, your body-fat percentage, your hormonal profile and your goal decide which ones do. Food timing matters too.

Underneath both is the same problem: no way to measure what’s working. You try different things with your training and your eating, but without measurement you can’t know what worked and what didn’t. It stays guesswork. Your first assessment is designed to end that, and to find out which of the two is yours.

Both are lifestyle problems before they’re training problems. Your sleep, your recovery, your energy and what you eat are what limit results, which is why we start there rather than in the gym.

Think back to where your body was 6 to 12 months ago. If it’s roughly where it is now, it usually isn’t information you’re missing. Most people who come to us have too much of it. What’s missing is knowing what to do with it for your condition, your goal and where you want to get to, and a way to measure whether it’s working. When nothing changes, the motivation usually goes with it. That’s normal. The correction is usually smaller than you expect, but you can’t guess your way to it.

Typically, clients who work with us get noticeable results within the first week, if not within the first 2 weeks.

That comes from the assessments. Before anything starts, we look at where you’re coming from, where you want to get to, why it matters to you, and what your body and your schedule can actually carry. That tells us exactly where to focus, so we change one or 2 things rather than everything at once. It isn’t a crash diet: the focus is always your health, because your health is what limits every goal you have.

Early on that shows up as improved energy, sleep, mood, digestion and how your clothes fit. The InBody picks up the body-composition change weekly from there, and every 4 weeks your program moves into a new phase that builds on the last one to keep challenging your body.

Fast doesn’t mean temporary here. You learn early what actually works for your body and what doesn’t, so that you can make better decisions long term, until it’s simply part of how you live.

2 sessions of 60 minutes, $297 plus tax, total for the two, done before any program exists. They’re where we find your weakest links: the one or 2 things doing the most to hold you back.

The first is your Nutrition, Lifestyle & Body Composition Assessment. You keep a simple food journal and a sleep log for 2 or 3 days beforehand. From there we look at your nutrition, your lifestyle, your sleep and your energy, and we measure your body composition 2 ways: our medical-grade InBody scanner, and the BioSignature method, a 12-site skinfold assessment that shows where on your body you store fat. Where you store it correlates with your hormonal profile, and that’s what tells us what to change in your nutrition, your lifestyle, your supplementation, and potentially even your training. If your body is under real stress, pushing you harder in the gym is the wrong answer, and the readings tell us that before we write your program.

The second is your Posture, Movement & Injury Risk Assessment: what your body can and can’t do today, and why. Your posture, your mobility, the muscle imbalances between your left and right sides and between the front and back of your body, and which dormant injuries you’re carrying. That’s what tells us which exercises will work for your body, which ones won’t, and which muscles to activate and strengthen first.

You also walk out with practical tips you can start applying right away, so you start seeing results before you even begin training with us.

They’re sold separately from our packages because we want to see how your body responds, so we can make the best personalized recommendation afterwards. It’s crucial to understand your body and your goals before we start training you. The 2 sessions allow us to assess you in person: where you’re starting, where you want to go, and what you’re willing and able to do in order to get there. From there we can work with you to build a plan of action that fits your schedule and your reality. It allows us to work together to find the best option for you if you decide to continue with us afterwards.

Yes, and it’s just as important as the training. Almost nobody arrives here training correctly for their body, and almost nobody arrives here eating enough to support it. Your health is what limits your results, and what you eat is the biggest lever on it.

You can’t out-train a bad diet, and most people arriving here have been trying to. What surprises people is that a bad diet often means eating too little: not enough in a day to support what their body is being asked to do, or years of intermittent fasting used as an excuse to skip meals. The result is a body that has stopped cooperating.

Correcting both is why 3 sessions a week is enough here. You train hard, but you train smart, and we don’t pile on volume to make up for what’s happening the other 6 days.

Nutrition coaching is included in every Signature package. It starts at your first assessment and it’s built as structure rather than restriction. You also get a recipe book, a restaurant guide and a travel guide, because a plan that only works at home isn’t a plan.

On 36-week programs we test your vitamin D and omega-3 at no extra cost. From October to April in Montreal your skin can’t produce vitamin D (the sun doesn’t get high enough in the sky), and low levels affect your energy, your sleep, your mood and how well you hold onto muscle while losing fat. We measure instead of guessing.

Supplementation comes into it too, as an amplifier rather than a band-aid. Natural health supplements work on top of good nutrition and lifestyle, not instead of them, and once those foundations are in place they make a real difference.

François is a member of the Association des Naturothérapeutes du Québec (ANQ), which gives us access to pharmaceutical-grade supplements that aren’t sold on retail shelves. When we recommend something, that’s the quality you get.

We may recommend natural health supplements, but only when they’re genuinely necessary, and we sell them here. Sometimes that means telling you to stop something you’re already taking. And we work within what you’re willing and able to do.

From your 2 assessments, not from a template.

Your Nutrition, Lifestyle & Body Composition Assessment and your Posture, Movement & Injury Risk Assessment are the inputs. Your program is written from what they find: which exercises, which muscles to activate and strengthen, in which order, and what your body isn’t ready for yet.

Then it progresses. Every 4 weeks you move into a new training phase, and those phases are planned months ahead of time, so each one builds on the last and there’s a logical progression from one phase to the next. As you get stronger, more mobile, better conditioned and more technically capable, the program moves with you. That’s what stops you from plateauing, keeps the training interesting, and keeps your body progressing toward your long-term goal.

A regular rest week from weights is planned in too, based on your personal progression. We build it in when your body has earned it, rather than waiting until it’s too late and you’re chasing an injury.

Program quality across the team is overseen internally by our Elite Master Coach and Assistant to Coach Development, and at times by François himself. Every program has to meet the Elite Coaching standard before it reaches you.

Your weekly measurements tell us how your body is responding to what we’ve changed. When the results are strong, we may not change anything. When they start to soften, we adjust before your progress stalls rather than after. And we may adjust before that, because experience tells us when a slowdown is coming. When life gets in the way, and it does, we course-correct that week instead of losing a month. That’s the difference between a program written for you and a program written for someone like you.

No. We also work with people who have different goals than losing weight. Fat loss transformations are our specialty, and that’s what most of our clients come to see us for, but it’s rarely the only thing that changes: clients typically experience improved muscle tone, strength, energy and mental clarity while optimizing their health.

The range here is wider than people expect. A marathon runner chasing a personal best. A return to basketball after 2 ACL reconstructions. Women who want the body they had before their kids. Muscle built for jiu-jitsu and hockey. A ballet student who lost a year to health problems and came back in better shape than anyone else in her class. A retiree whose only goal was 2 months of training without getting injured. A couple who wanted to ski a full day and lift their future grandchildren without their backs paying for it.

And a lot of our clients just want to look and feel good about themselves. Some call it vanity. It’s one of the most common reasons anyone walks through our door, and one of the least often admitted out loud. It’s a perfectly good reason, and the people who own it are some of our best clients.

Health is where we start, and that’s deliberate. What you eat, how you live, how you sleep and the energy you have throughout the day are almost always the limiting factor on your results. Improve those, and your body composition follows.

That’s also why fat loss often turns out to be the first step toward something else. If you want to tone or build muscle, you generally need to be lean enough first: your body-fat level affects your hormonal profile, and that affects how well your body responds to the training. If you want to perform better in your sport, you’ll usually need to drop some body fat, get stronger, improve your mobility, and correct the muscle imbalances quietly costing you performance.

Whether or not fat loss is your goal, the work starts the same way: we assess you and find out exactly what’s holding you back.

Every session here is one-on-one. Your coach knows your assessments, your injuries, your most recent measurements and what you did in your last session. The studio is by appointment only: no clients training by themselves, no group class, and nobody else in your session.

Those formats are built the other way around: one plan, many bodies, nobody measuring you.

That changes what happens when something isn’t working. In a group class, nobody notices. Here we measure you weekly, so a problem shows up in days rather than months.

It also changes your injury risk. A group format trains everyone the same way, regardless of their physical condition or restrictions. Many of our clients come to us injured because nothing was ever adapted to them.

And if those formats didn’t work for you, that’s not your fault. Here you get a coach who measures your progress every week and adjusts accordingly.

No, you won’t be judged. This is a private studio, by appointment only. You’re here for your session, with your coach, working through your own program, and anyone else here is doing the same with theirs.

We take the time to understand what you actually want and why it matters to you. Whatever you want to achieve, we take it seriously, and it’s what we build your plan around. One of our clients is a ballet dancer who arrived wanting to lose weight after other trainers had judged her for it. For her it was a healthy goal and a performance goal: it improved her jump height and her conditioning. We built her plan around the goal she came in with.

If you’ve been avoiding gyms, we totally get it. Several of our clients came to us after years of not going to a gym at all, or after training at odd hours of the day, just to avoid crowds.

Yes, 2. Khrystal Milot brings 14 years of experience, specializing in reconstructive conditioning, helping people move better, regain mobility and rebuild strength after injury. She is a NASM Certified Personal Trainer, F.I.T. Certified in Reconstructive Conditioning, and an ISSA Certified Nutrition Coach. Raphaëlle Côté is a kinesiologist, with a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology. Both train the full range of clients, and if you specifically want a female trainer, you can ask for either when you book.

If being coached by a woman is what makes you comfortable enough to start, say so when you book. It’s a normal request, and we’d rather match you properly than have you not come at all.

Yes, we do. A number of our clients are vegetarian, vegan or pescatarian.

It does take more planning. A plant-based diet usually means eating a greater volume of food to reach the same protein intake, and it takes more thought to get all the essential amino acids from a narrower range of foods. That’s what we work on with you.

We pay particular attention to protein adequacy, iron and B12: the things most likely to be short on a plant-based diet, and the things most likely to be limiting your results.

You won’t be handed a plan built around chicken and rice and told to improvise around it.

Yes. Coaching here is always one-on-one, so you’d each be a client with your own program and your own coach.

That’s deliberate. Two people who want to train together rarely arrive with the same goal, the same training background or the same starting point, and the assessments usually make that clear straight away.

Both work. Couples train at the same time here, and so do parents with their children. Others deliberately book different hours because they want the time to themselves. Training together depends on 2 coaches being free, so tell us which you’d prefer when you book and we’ll see what we can arrange.

Your programs are individual. Your kitchen isn’t. When 2 people at home eat with the same structure, the nutrition side gets considerably easier for both of you.

Usually you’ll be matched with one of our coaches. François takes very few clients directly, and his rate is different from the team’s.

More than one coach works on your transformation. The coach on the floor with you is the one you see. Julie Beauregard, our Elite Master Coach and Assistant to Coach Development, and François are involved too. They go through your assessments with the coach who ran them, so nothing gets missed. From there: building your program, advising on the protocols to bring in, and reviewing your measurements and your progress every week. Whichever coach you train with, you get the same method and the same standard: the best attention, the best solution and the best result we can give you.

Every coach here is trained to apply François’s method. That’s what the weekly education workshops are for, and it’s the work Julie leads with him: making sure the method is applied the same way right across the team.

Everything that goes out to a client has to meet the Elite Coaching standard.

François is on the floor regularly too. If you’re training while he’s there, he may well come over and give you a pointer to help you get more out of what you’re doing.

No. And from experience, the technique is rarely the actual problem.

There are usually 2 reasons for asking: you’re experiencing pain during an exercise, or you’ve plateaued. Both point to the same thing: an underlying weakness that hasn’t been addressed. We’re only as strong as our biggest weakness. You can be taught to move differently, but if that’s overriding the weakness rather than fixing it, it catches up with you, usually as an injury.

Fixing it properly starts with an assessment: which muscles aren’t doing their job, what imbalances are there, and what needs reactivating and strengthening first. Sometimes the answer is to stop that exercise for a training cycle or 2, address what’s underneath, and come back to it pain-free or past the plateau.

That isn’t a couple of sessions. We’d rather tell you up front than take a booking we don’t think will truly help you long term.

Not as a starting point. Everything we do is built around training with you in person, at the studio.

For clients who have already trained with us in person, we can arrange remote coaching. It’s most often for someone away for a set period who wants to keep their routine and their accountability with their coach. By then we’ve assessed you, we know how your body responds, and your program is built on measurements we took ourselves. In our experience, that’s what it takes for coaching at a distance to deliver the best results.

Possibly. Our Signature programs run 12 or 36 weeks.

If you’re in town for a specific window, tell us your dates and what you’re hoping for, and we’ll tell you if we can help.

Yes, every coach on the team is bilingual.

Whichever coach you’re with, they’ll coach you in the language you choose, and your program, your app and your written follow-up come in that language too. It matters more than it sounds: being coached is precise work, and you shouldn’t be translating in your head while you’re in the middle of an exercise. If you’d rather switch partway through, say so and we’ll arrange it.

Elite Coaching is at 5381 boulevard Saint-Laurent, in Mile-End, between Fairmount and Saint-Viateur. Métro Laurier is a 9-minute walk.

There’s metered street parking, often right at the door, and our clients rarely have trouble finding a spot. Ring the buzzer firmly; there’s a camera at the entrance. Then come up the stairs.

We plan for it. Sessions you can’t attend because of travel are banked rather than lost, and your package expiry moves accordingly. How that works depends on your situation, so we go through it with you before you start.

We work with doctors, surgeons, lawyers, consultants, CEOs and engineers who work long hours, travel a lot for business and for pleasure, and have unpredictable schedules. This is something we’re very familiar with. As long as you’re up front about your schedule, we’ll build the plan around it. And if we think your schedule is too unpredictable for us to help you properly, we’ll tell you that too.

Your program travels with you. It lives in our branded fitness app with video demonstrations, so it adapts to whatever equipment you find.

Your rest week can move to your trip. Your program includes a regular rest week from weights, planned around your personal progression and your schedule. If you’re away for a week, that’s often when we take it.

If you’re away longer than that, we’ll help you choose a gym where you can train, and we can keep coaching you remotely, so you keep the routine and the accountability with your coach while you’re gone.

Your progress keeps compounding through a month of travel.

Yes, we can help with that. Stress usually shows up in one of two ways: meals skipped through the day, then everything at night. The other is being unprepared and eating the wrong things when you’re hungry because you had to deal with the stressful event. That’s the result of a lack of structure, not a lack of willpower.

We prepare you ahead of time, so you know how to navigate through stressful situations rather than wing it while they’re happening. The protective mechanisms are already in place when life throws something unexpected at you, whether that’s a stressful afternoon or a stretch of stressful weeks, and that structure is what limits the damage. It’s something to fall back on, not a set of rules you have to remember.

We know how to solve that. What the solution looks like depends on your reality, and on what you’re willing and able to integrate, so we build the plan with you once we know the situations you’re actually up against.

That starts at your Nutrition, Lifestyle & Body Composition Assessment: what you eat, how you live, your sleep and your energy, before any plan is written. There’s a plan A and a plan B, so that you can succeed.

We measure every week, so a stressful event or a stressful stretch shows up while it’s happening.

Success relies on structure to carry you through your worst days.

Only for the sessions you don’t do with us. If you train all 3 of your weekly sessions with a coach, you don’t need one. If some are on your own, they need to happen somewhere with enough equipment for you to get the most out of your program.

The reason is what we can deliver. In a space that isn’t properly equipped, we can’t give you our best approach, or the second best, or the fifth. We’d be compromising too much to apply our method at all, and that shows up in your results. We’ve had clients arrive stuck on the same dumbbells for months, training consistently, with nothing heavier to pick up.

At Elite Coaching we carry specialized equipment adapted to our clientele, so the sessions you do here get you the most out of your program.

We’d rather tell you this before you sign up than have you find out in week 3.

Loose shorts, a T-shirt, indoor shoes, and a towel. Some exercises are done barefoot. For women, we also recommend a sports bra.

You’ll be working out and sweating, so the towel is mandatory. If you don’t have one, no problem, you can purchase a towel at the studio. There are showers on site, stocked with soap that’s paraben-free.

Before your first assessment you’ll keep a simple food journal and sleep log for 2 or 3 days: what you ate and drank, and what time you went to bed and got up. Nothing to weigh, just write it down honestly.

We’re open Monday to Friday, 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., closed Sunday. The studio runs by appointment only.

Start with a free discovery call. Book it on our appointment page, call 514-313-3270, or email info@elite-coaching.ca.

Yes. The usual one is a gift card for the 2 initial assessments, $297 plus tax, the same 2 sessions every client starts with.

A full package can be gifted too. That’s a bigger commitment, so we’d want to speak with the person receiving it first and make sure we can genuinely help them before you spend the money.

Most people simply buy it and we take care of the rest. If you’d like it presented on a physical Elite Coaching card, with a matching card to write a note in, you can pick those up at the studio. And if it’s a surprise, tell us and we’ll send all confirmations and instructions to you rather than to them.

Yes. We coach clients who are taking it, clients coming off it, and clients who’ve decided against it.

We’re not doctors and we don’t give advice about medication. That conversation belongs with your physician.

Being on it doesn’t change how we coach you. Everything we do is already built around how your body is responding, how you’re feeling, and what the measurements show. Ozempic is one more variable in that, not a different program.

What we can do is measure what you’re actually losing. Your weekly InBody scan separates fat from muscle, so you can see whether the weight coming off is the weight you wanted to lose.

What we see is that appetite suppression doesn’t teach anyone how to eat, and weight lost that way tends to take muscle with the fat. That’s the opposite of what we’re building.

You still have to learn how to eat. You’re a human body with the same requirements as anyone else, on it or off it, and that’s the part we coach.

Yes, we coach women through both: as training, not as treatment.

We take the time to assess you, the same as we do with every client. Both assessments, before any program is written: your Nutrition, Lifestyle & Body Composition Assessment and your Posture, Movement & Injury Risk Assessment. That’s what tells us where your body actually is now, and what it needs to get you where you want to go.

If you’d be more comfortable with a woman, we have 2 female coaches on the team. And Maxime Michon is a Certified Menopause Coach.

If you’re working with a doctor, a physiotherapist or a pelvic-floor specialist, we work with them directly. They know you in a way we can’t, so we build the coaching as a team, the same way we do for any client.

A private studio in Mile-End, appointment-only. Every session is one-on-one with your coach. You’re welcome to come in early to warm up and get ready.

The studio is outfitted with Atlantis equipment, built here in Quebec. Some of it is specialized, some of it custom-made, and all of it engineered around human biomechanics, the way your body is actually built to move.

That’s what lets us load a movement precisely: we can add as little as half a pound at a time. Small enough to add load the moment you’re ready for it, and small enough to keep it safe. It’s how you keep training hard and keep progressing, even when an injury means we have to train around one area.

There’s a medical-grade InBody scanner you’ll stand on every week: it measures fat, muscle and water separately, not just your weight.

There are no mirrors on the training floor, because your coach is your eyes: watching every rep so you don’t have to. Mirrors mostly make a room look bigger, and for what we do we find them more of a distraction than a help.