Top at-home personal trainers

BodyBack sessions start from R400 per session, depending on your area, how many sessions you do per week, and whether you train one on one or share the session. That price includes the trainer coming to your home with the equipment the session needs.

Yes. You can book a free trial with an at-home personal trainer in your area before committing to anything.

Yes. BodyBack is an at-home personal trainer service. A qualified trainer comes to your home at a time that suits you, with the equipment the session needs. There is no gym to drive to and no membership to hold.

Yes. Every BodyBack trainer is qualified and vetted before we place them in a client's home. Letting someone into your house is a bigger decision than walking into a gym, and we treat it that way. BodyBack is South Africa's number one at-home personal training brand.

Our trainers are managed. That is the short answer, and it is the whole difference.

Almost everywhere else in this industry, a personal trainer is an independent supplier. They find their own clients, write their own programmes, set their own standards, and answer to nobody. If sessions get repetitive, if the plan stops progressing, if the trainer starts arriving late or coasting, there is no one above them to notice and nothing behind them to fix it.

BodyBack does not work that way. Every at-home personal trainer on our books is managed, mentored and continuously developed through what we call ongoing trainer optimisation. We sit with our trainers on their client plans, review the programmes they are writing, track whether clients are actually progressing, and watch for the early signs of a session that is drifting. When we spot something, we work on it with the trainer before it becomes the client's problem.

It also means there is somebody to talk to. If something is not right, you are not stuck negotiating with a sole trader about their own performance. You call us, and we deal with it, including matching you with a different trainer if the fit is simply wrong. And we are strict about who stays: trainers who do not meet the standard do not keep working with our clients.

What you see is a personal trainer arriving at your door. What sits behind them is a company that has vetted them, trained them, reviewed their plan for you, and is still watching to make sure it is working.

It depends on why you are not training now. If the obstacle is time, travel, crowds or self-consciousness, then having a trainer come to you removes the obstacle rather than working around it. If you love the gym atmosphere and go three times a week already, a gym-based trainer may suit you better.

We place at-home personal trainers across Johannesburg, Pretoria, Centurion, Midrand, Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Hermanus, Durban, Umhlanga, Pietermaritzburg, Bloemfontein, Gqeberha, East London and George. If you are looking for a personal trainer near you, tell us your suburb and we will match you with one.

Per session, yes. Measured against a gym membership plus fuel, plus the sessions you never actually attend, it usually is not. You also get a qualified trainer's full attention for the whole session, which a gym membership does not include.