Train With Dave adds perimenopause and menopause strength training for Irvine clients

Train With Dave is offering a strength and nutrition program for women in perimenopause and menopause at its Orange County studios, including Irvine. The company is positioning the program around research showing lean mass declines and fat gain accelerates during the menopause transition, when preserving muscle can affect metabolism, bone health and long-term function.

Why it matters: - The menopause transition can bring faster fat gain and declining lean mass at the same time. - Train With Dave is aiming its Orange County program at women in that window and in the years after it. - Preserving muscle can matter for metabolism, body composition and bone health.

What happened: - Train With Dave said it runs a strength and nutrition program for women in perimenopause and menopause at its studios in Orange, Irvine and Laguna Hills, California. - The program focuses on progressive resistance training to preserve lean mass. - The company said the program is coached in-studio and paired with nutrition guidance. - Founder David Cozzens said the program is designed for women whose usual approach stops working as physiology changes.

The details: - Long-term research from the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation, or SWAN, found that a woman's rate of fat gain roughly doubles about two years before her final menstrual period. - SWAN also found lean mass begins to decline around that same point and that both changes continue until roughly two years after the final period. - Published research also finds that as estrogen falls, fat storage shifts from the hips and thighs toward the abdomen. - Train With Dave said clients train two to four times a week. - Train With Dave said every trainer holds its in-house nutrition certification. - The company said a nutritionist is on staff and the same person running training sessions coaches nutrition. - Train With Dave said protein and calorie targets are set for a client’s stage rather than using a blanket deficit. - The company said that blanket calorie cuts are the most common mistake it sees in this life stage. - The company said its coaches do not diagnose or treat medical conditions and do not manage hormone therapy. - Train With Dave said it refers clients to a physician for those decisions. - The company said its programming is informed by published research and is not a clinical protocol. - In the LIFTMOR randomized controlled trial, postmenopausal women with osteopenia or osteoporosis did twice-weekly, 30-minute supervised high-intensity resistance and impact training for eight months. - The LIFTMOR group saw significantly greater gains in lumbar spine and femoral neck bone mineral density than a low-intensity home-exercise control group. - Supervision was a defining feature of the LIFTMOR protocol. - Train With Dave said every coach holds a college degree, most in kinesiology and several at the master's level. - The company said it has completed more than 150,000 training sessions in Orange County since 2016, including more than 32,000 in 2025.

Between the lines: - The program is part health coaching, part market positioning, with Train With Dave leaning on menopause research to frame a broader fitness offer. - The company's emphasis on supervision and progressive resistance training mirrors the structure of the research it cites, but the company stops short of claiming a medical treatment role. - David Cozzens said the core idea is to protect lean mass before the metabolism trend turns more difficult to reverse.

What's next: - Details of the program are posted at personal training for women in Orange County. - Additional company information and media resources are posted at Train With Dave press materials. - Train With Dave will continue offering customized personal training and nutrition coaching at its three Orange County studios.

The bottom line: - Train With Dave is betting that menopause-focused strength training will resonate with women looking to preserve muscle, support bone health and manage body composition through midlife.