Randy Bramblett

I worked with Randy for almost two years before moving to NYC. He got me in phenomenal shape and challenged me appropriately to my skill level. He pushed me and educated me in each exercise, and is not only a great trainer who gets results, but a great teacher and coach who knows the details of the business.
Fun, energetic, and challenging.

Randy has been coaching me for a little bit over 6 weeks. In those six weeks he has gotten huge results fast. I have already dropped 10+ pounds and cut around 8% of my body fat. Randy is great to work with because he keeps you motivated and has a different approach to training. I am a Bartender here in SF and have crazy hours and not the healthiest environment to be around everyday. Randy teaches me how to make healthier choices while keeping my fast paced life. He understands how to have a social life and stay healthy at the same time. I would recommend him to anyone. He keeps me working hard while also making it fun. He also has introduced me to muscles i never knew i had! Every workout is different and i feel great after each one…

I approached Randy because I wanted to dramatically improve my strength and power for cycling. Prior to our workouts, I had a preconceived notion of how I would workout based on the information I have gathered over the years from many other conventional coaches and information/​books I have read. However, I soon found out that these notions were not correct or simply outdated. Randy’s approach emphasized correct form and high intensity and this has made all the difference. I definitely feel the power in my legs when I’m sprinting or attacking a steep hill. I can’t wait for the racing season to start.
Throughout our workouts, he pays attention to the details of my form and immediately corrects these flaws through demonstration and verbal encouragement. Now that I am develeping the right form, I feel that the right muscles are being worked and am therefore seeing incredible improvements in my strength and power. More importantly, I have avoided injury and have minimized any strain on my back. I feel great and am very happy with the results.
The other component of our workouts is the intesity. Like most of people today, we don’t have enough time in a day. Hence, it’s important that I maximize the time I spend training with Randy. He helps with this through the carefully planned high intensity workouts he creates for me. These workouts are challenging but realistic and I leave each workout feeling like I accomplished something. The 50 minutes I spend with him is focused and concentrated. We get a lot done and I feel super.
And more importantly, the workout are fun. They keep you engaged. Consequetnly, I look forward to the workouts.
If you’re looking for a charismatic, friendly, knowledgeable, professional trainer to help you achieve your fitness/​health goals, then you should definitely approach Randy. He really know what he’s doing.

I have been training with Randy for almost six months now and I must say that I have no complaints. I have met other personal trainers and from the moment I spoke to Randy, I just knew he was more experienced.
Each session is new, well explained and very practical to my goals of acquiring knowledge to a healthier lifestyle as well as workout habits.
I have learned so much exercises that I have not seen before.
My healthy lifestyle has changed for the better and the knowledge that I have acquired has been a worthwhile investment that I will incorporate for the rest of my days.
If you are very serious about your fitness and are willing to go hardcore in order to workout all the muscles, Randy comes highly recommended.
I am more muscle now than I was six months ago.

Randy Bramblett started coaching me two months ago, already I have noticed huge improvements. He is helping to break me of my old and set in training habits. He is also helping me to set goals with my cycling and my racing. He sets up my training schedule around my work schedule, and if things change he always has a back up plan.
His pricing is quite reasonable, well worth the investment. He is full of knowledge, with both training methods and racing tactics. Randy has made himself quite available in person, as well as the phone and through email. He has also catered to my request to move my training schedule to the Google Calendar, so I now have it in front of me every day.
Randy always has a positive attitude and shows up prepared. His advice on personal training seems well thought out and planned. He comes across very professionally.
However, the only downside I can think of is that he is really busy, and his schedule sometimes changes.

Randy Bramblett has serious character flaws which makes him unfit to do business with. Randy was my personal fitness trainer while at Gold’s Gym for over a year. This happy relationship has now been tarnished because he owes me $ 600.00 and now refuses to pay up.
Background:
Gold’s Gym hires personal fitness trainers as employees: they are paid by the gym. The client pays the gym for a block of sessions: the more they buy the cheaper they are and the trainer gets a cut. If one trainer doesn’t work out (usually they quit), the client can switch trainers to have the remaining balance fulfilled.
My Story:
After many months of training together, Randy decided to disobey his employer’s policy and ask me for direct payment because his cut would now be 100%. Despite his rationalizations as to why this was reasonable, I knew that this was not kosher. Stupidly, because I was fond of Randy, I complied as long as we only trained at Gold’s Gym. Randy had previously approached me about training at UCSF, another gym he worked at and I explained I was not interested because it was not conveniently located.
In November of 2007 Randy left a longwinded phone message explaining he had changed gyms and was now only working at BreakAway Performance gym in North Beach. Randy’s transparent hype about the new gym tried to cover the fact that he had broken our agreement. He spun how great the BreakAway Performance gym was, that it was a smart business opportunity for him and his grievances with Gold’s Gym, etc. He left out the actual truth, he had been fired from Gold’s Gym.
Previously we had discussed the North Beach gym and Randy knew it was not convenient for me and I was happy at Gold’s. So, when I got his phone message I was angry and felt manipulated. What choice did I have now?
The next time I went to Gold’s I was approached by Randy’s ex-​boss and was informed that Randy had been fired. Randy’s dishonesty didn’t bode well with me and he even denied that he had been fired when confronted. I was being played. What choice did I have but to give the gym in North Beach a try?
I trained twice at BreakAway Performance gym but the 40 minute one-​way commute from Bernal Heights was unacceptable. I also didn’t like the starkness of the new gym either — almost no machines or people. This situation was not going to work for me. I confronted Randy and told him that I was not happy and didn’t want to train at this gym. We had a friendly conversation where I asked Randy to pay me for the remaining sessions he owed me, which he claimed was $ 900.00. Randy easily agreed. We parted on good terms and he promised he would pay me in full within a few weeks. He was going to do the right thing by me and confessed that he thought I might not follow him to this new gym.
Then it took 3 months, and a few emails, to get my first payment of $ 300.00 despite his previous promises of a few weeks for total payment. I did not hound him and I was not rude, but he always had some excuse and was never responsible. Despite charging at least $ 75.00 an hour (he makes a good living), Randy would let slide his promised payment date, never notifying me and setting my expectation until I would ask again and the cycle would start over. Because of his obvious character defects, I worried that he would default on his debt and apparently my intuition was right. After 6 months he still owed me $ 600.00.
I eventually became fed up and threatened a bad Unilocal review. Here’s his response:
«When threats are involved. I’m not happy. You are the only client I have ever made an exception for with my personal training business. As with most all other PT and service oriented businesses there is a no refund policy. I am going to have to take this time to state the importance of this rule and enforce it to its fullest. From a professional standpoint and not from a friend’s point of view.»
The problem with this rationalization was that he broke the contract with me, not the other way around. I paid Randy Bramblett directly for personal training sessions as a Gold’s Gym trainer. When he left Gold’s Gym, he broke that contract with me by forcing me to drive 40 minutes (one way) to a gym I didn’t like. I now have no other recourse but to take him to small claims court. I have all our email correspondence to make my case and he will lose.
There was a time I was very happy with Randy as my personal fitness trainer, I had even written a very complimentary Unilocal review which I have now removed. But he betrayed my trust and now uses skewed logic to rationalize his default on this debt, which he had once readily agreed to.
Eventually Randy’s business partners and clients at BreakAway Performance Center will see his character defects as I have. He is only out for himself, which may be a great quality to have as a professional cyclist, but not for a personal fitness trainer.
P. S. Randy often text messaged throughout my sessions. UNPROFESSIONAL!