About Level Method

It Started With One Room Full of Different People

A 22-year-old athlete and a 55-year-old beginner, staring at the same whiteboard. One coach asking how to give both of them the right workout. Ten years and 1.9 million data points later, that question became a system used by more than 1,000 gyms. It's still the question we build everything to answer.

Our Story

Nathan Holiday created Level Method in 2016, after coaching thousands of clients in his own gym and asking one question over and over: why do some people change their lives with fitness, while others fail?

Watch enough people train and the answer stops being mysterious. The ones who got hurt or burned out were doing work their bodies weren't ready for. The ones who quit had no visible path: no way to see where they were, what was next, or whether their work was adding up to anything.

Both failures are the same failure: the person was being made to fit the program, instead of the program fitting the person.

Fixing that took years. First, a way to actually know each person: a real assessment across every dimension of fitness. That became the MAP. Then a way to match the work: seven calibrated levels, White through Black, built into every workout and inspired by the belt system that lets a black belt and a white belt train on the same mat. An eighth, Red Elite, exists for competitors. And with levels came the thing quitters never had: visible progress. A path you can see, stripe by stripe.

The MAP gave coaches a language. The levels gave members a place to stand and a next step. And every workout logged made the system smarter. That's 1.9 million calibrated data points and counting.

Where It's Going

The system outgrew the room.

Level Method spent its first decade inside gyms, fitting one shared workout to every member on the floor. That's still the heart of it. But the same system that fits a workout to a room full of strangers can fit training to one person anywhere:

Level Method for Gyms A shared measurement and scaling system for the whole gym floor. Where it all started. LM Individual Daily training matched to your level, in an app, wherever you train. Coaching A complete program built for you, one-on-one, by the people who built the system. LM Coach The software version of our coaching process, in beta, for working coaches.

Different doors. One belief underneath: know the person, match the work, make progress visible, keep the coach in the loop.

Our Mission

Build a World Where Fitness Fits the Person

Not the other way around. Every body known. Every workout matched. Every bit of progress visible, and a coach in the loop who's responsible for the judgment no data can make.

Years

1,000+

Gyms

1.9M+

Data Points

Levels

The Team