Between 40 and 150 euros per session. That is a wide gap for the same hour, so here is exactly what you pay for and how to judge whether it is worth that price.
A personal trainer in Belgium usually charges 40 to 80 euros for a one hour session. An experienced coach in Brussels, Antwerp or Ghent sits between 90 and 150 euros. Train as a pair or in a small group and you drop to 20 to 60 euros per person. A monthly package of four to eight sessions costs 200 to 600 euros per month.
Online coaching works differently and charges per week instead of per session. There the range runs from 40 to 60 euros per week.
| Format | What you pay | What that covers |
|---|---|---|
| One on one at the gym | 40 to 80 euros per session | that one hour, guided |
| Experienced coach in the city | 90 to 150 euros per session | the same hour, with more mileage |
| Pair or small group | 20 to 60 euros per person | the hour, shared with two to four people |
| Package of four to eight sessions | 200 to 600 euros per month | four to eight hours of guidance |
| Online coaching | 40 to 60 euros per week | training, nutrition, sleep and follow-up, seven days a week |
Three things set the price. Experience first: someone who has watched bodies move for ten years reads a squat faster than someone six months in. Location second, because an hour in the centre of Ghent costs more than an hour in Maldegem. Format third: a session shared with three other people logically costs less per head.
What you rarely find inside that price is what happens between the sessions. And that is exactly where it matters.
Behind “what does a personal trainer cost” sits a second question that weighs more: what are you buying per euro?
Do the maths. One session a week is one hour of guidance. The week holds 168. The other 167 you fill in yourself. That is where you eat, sleep, absorb stress and either do or do not go back to the gym. Paying 60 euros a week for that single hour means paying for 0.6 per cent of your week.
That hour has value. Your technique improves, you lift heavier, you have an appointment in your calendar that is hard to dodge. It just rarely explains why someone is still at the same weight three months later.
Do you get a plan for your nutrition, your sleep and your recovery? Or does the guidance stop at the gym door?
Without a baseline and without weekly follow-up, nobody knows after three months whether it worked.
A coach who is only there for the sessions never hears that you slept badly four nights running.
A one year contract with a coach you do not know yet is a risk you do not have to take.
You hire a personal trainer for the hours in the gym. I look at the four things that together decide what those hours deliver: your training, your nutrition, your lifestyle and your sleep, in one system and fully tailored.
That is a deliberate choice. Your progress is largely decided outside the gym. Sleep four short nights and your strength drops while your hunger climbs. That week you train against a body recovering from something else. Eat structurally too little protein and every set you do lands only halfway. Anyone who only corrects your technique never sees these things.
So I measure all four. Every week you get an evaluation of what you actually did: your sessions, your nutrition, your sleep and the habits that carry your week. Each one produces a single adjustment, so you know why something changes.
I am a historian by training, so I go to the source before I claim anything. My approach is backed by +120 scientific studies. And I lost more than 25 kilos myself, so I know what it feels like to start from zero.
I put my prices on my site, because you should be able to make that comparison without having to sit through a call first.
| What | Price | How it runs |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcheck | free | twenty questions, your report on screen and in your inbox |
| Het Fundament van de Bouwmethode | 27 euros | one off, fourteen days on your own |
| Online coaching try-out | 179 euros | one off, four weeks, free to stop afterwards |
| Online coaching | 53 euros per week | three months minimum |
| Personal training on top | 80 euros per session | only during a running programme, in my region |
Those 53 euros a week are more than a session with a starting trainer and less than an hour with an experienced coach in the city. The difference sits in what hangs underneath: your training, your nutrition, your lifestyle and your sleep in one system, with a weekly evaluation of what you actually did.
All the details per programme are on my pricing page.
The personal training at 80 euros per session sits at the top of the market. That is fair, because I only give it alongside a running programme, where I already know your numbers, your plan and your week.
One note: the content of the programme itself (the academy, the worksheets and the daily emails) is currently in Dutch. The personal coaching with me runs in English.
Whoever waits for ideal circumstances waits forever. In half an hour we map where you stand and what the logical first step is. You will walk away with something useful either way. If it is not a fit, I will tell you myself.
Half an hour via Google Meet, whenever suits you. Not a good match? I will say so myself.
TIMON DHAEZE