MEET CALEB SNYDER, PERSONAL TRAINER IN BEAVERTON, OR
CALEB SNYDER
Hi, I’m Caleb Snyder, NASM Certified Personal Trainer and owner of Fitness Training LLC. Most of the people I work with have tried fitness before and it didn’t stick. They’re not broken, they just haven’t been in the right room with the right coach. I run a private studio in Beaverton where you train one on one, on a program built for you, in a focused environment with no crowds. My specialties are corrective exercise, mobility, and ATG (Knees Over Toes) work, which means we can train hard without breaking you down. If you’re ready to stop starting over, book the Intro Session and let’s see if we’re a fit.
Certified Personal Trainer (NASM-CPT)
ATG Coach
(Knees Over Toes) Certified
Corrective Exercise Specialist (NASM-CES)
This isn’t just fitness.
It’s transformation,
built on the principles that changed my life.
The people I help most are the ones who feel like the standard fitness world hasn’t worked for them. They’ve tried apps, gyms, and trainers, and they’re still stuck. I get it. For a decade my own body kept failing me, and the thing that finally turned it around was the personal training process itself, in a focused environment with a coach who saw the whole picture. That’s what Fitness Training LLC is built to deliver. If you’re stuck, you don’t need a different version of what’s already failed you. You need a different room.
THE STORY BEHIND FITNESS TRAINING LLC
Long before I was a trainer, I was paying attention. I grew up in a hard family situation, and from an early age I had to watch everyone and everything around me, because nobody was going to figure things out for me. That habit never left, and it gave me an empathy you can’t fake. So when a client tells me about their pain, their setbacks, the years of trying and failing, I’m not imagining what that feels like. I’ve lived it.
Long before fitness, my body was how I earned a living. I laid foundations, built fences, installed roofs, and eventually ran my own flooring business. The work was punishing, and it added up: a 2004 head injury that cost me my sense of taste and smell, and a spine and SI joint that years of hard labor slowly wore down into constant pain.
Around 2016, the flooring store I’d been contracting with brought me in to manage the place. I worked my way up to sales manager and did well, but trading the job site for a desk and long hours of driving didn’t give my body a chance to recover. It only got worse.
So I went looking for relief. In 2017, surgeons fused my left SI joint with titanium pins. In 2018, I had two more operations to take pressure off the nerves in my lower spine. But the discs were too far gone, and a bulge pressing into my spinal cord kept me in pain I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
Out of options, I hired a personal trainer. It changed everything. Training was the one thing that consistently made me feel better, and the more I did it, the more I wanted to. One day I asked him what he thought about me changing careers and doing this for a living. He didn’t just encourage it. He took me on and mentored me at his gym. In 2019, I became a NASM Certified Personal Trainer.
In the spring of 2020, I had one more surgery: two worn discs replaced in my lower spine. I walked that same day, and I could feel right away that the sharp pain I’d carried for years was finally gone. And then the world shut down. COVID closed the gyms just as I was getting my new career off the ground.
So I adapted. I trained clients outside at a park all spring and summer, and they loved the fresh air and the privacy. When the rains came, I built my backyard deck into a covered, wind-protected studio and trained people from home. It wasn’t flashy, but it worked, and I never looked back. Even after the big gyms reopened, I had no interest in going back to a crowded box.
There is one more part of this story, and it started before all of it. When my wife was pregnant with our daughter, I made myself a quiet promise. I wanted to stay fit enough that when she grew up, I could do the things she loved right alongside her. I made that promise years before the surgeries, and I got to keep it long after them.
She turned 18 this year. My favorite question these days is the one she keeps asking me: Dad, when are we going golfing again. And at the end of August we ran the Hood to Coast relay together, 199 miles from Mt. Hood to the beach at Seaside, on the same 12-person team. She ran the leg directly ahead of mine. Three times over those two days she put the slap bracelet on my wrist and sent me out, and as our final runner I carried the last leg and crossed the finish on the sand.
I ran that race at 50, with hardware in my spine and a body that sets its own terms. I live with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, or MCAS, which means certain foods, poor sleep, stress, and the cold can trigger a reaction. Even common pain relievers are off the table. So every week of training had to be planned around my body instead of against it. I had run barely more than a single mile all year when I started in May, and I never went above about 20 miles a week. That is the whole point. Not the mirror. The moments.
That’s why Fitness Training LLC exists. I rebuilt my body the same way I’ve learned everything, by paying attention, studying what actually works, and refusing to quit. Now I do the same for other people, from a focused studio here in Beaverton, for the ones the standard fitness world has left behind: the people who feel stuck, who’ve tried and failed, who don’t know where to turn next. I’m not a drill sergeant. I’m someone who has been in real pain and found the way through. Life doesn’t always give us as much as we’d like, but there are still beams of happiness we can step into, and every one washes away a little of what we carry. Let me help you find yours.
