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Personal Gym Training
Personal Gym Training: bring the phone to PureGym, The Gym Group or Nuffield Health and a coach on screen runs your workout. £19 each, 12 for £167.
From £19 / session
Online personal trainer in Edinburgh
A coach on your screen, from Leith Links to the Braids
MakeMyFitness puts a qualified coach on your phone or laptop, live, wherever you train in Edinburgh: a Marchmont tenement, the PureGym at Quartermile, a Fringe digs in Newington. They watch each set and fix your technique while you move. We coach Edinburgh clients between 6 AM and 2:30 PM, which suits dark winter mornings, lunch hours and home-working days. A coached gym session costs £19; local trainers typically charge £45–£65.
- Good time to train
- 7 AM, before the city wakes
- Live classes from
- £12
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Personal training in Edinburgh
A personal trainer in Edinburgh
£45–£65
a session
Scottish trainer Bruce Millar’s June 2025 price guide gives this as Edinburgh’s usual range (we read it on 28 October 2026); in Leith, Lean Bodies charges £50 for an hour.
Bruce Millar MakeMyFitness, live 1:1 on video
£19
a 45-minute session
- £14 a session on a 4-week plan of 12
- Group classes from £12 per person
- A certified coach watching and correcting every rep, live
- At home, in your building gym or at the gym you already use
Live sessions, Edinburgh time
6:00 am – 2:30 pm
In winter. When the clocks go forward: 6:00 am – 3:30 pm.
Our coaches are based in India, so these are the hours we can train you live. Pick a regular slot and move it with 24 hours' notice.
Plans are charged in GBP. Foreign cards accepted.
Why Edinburgh trains online
The dark months stop outdoor plans
The Met Office station at the Royal Botanic Garden records just 49 hours of sunshine in the whole of December and 55 in January (1991–2020 averages). A run up Arthur’s Seat before work isn’t happening then. A 7 AM session in the living room, lights on, does.
August belongs to the Fringe
The 2025 Fringe ran for 25 days, sold more than 2.6 million tickets and used 301 venues. Getting across the Old Town to a gym in August is slow. If you work in the festivals or just live near the Royal Mile, a session at home keeps the routine going.
Hills outside, strength inside
Arthur’s Seat rises to 251 m in Holyrood Park and the Pentlands top out at 579 m on Scald Law. Edinburgh gives you the cardio for free. What it doesn’t give you is someone checking your squat and building the leg strength that makes those climbs easier.
727.7 mm of rainfall yearly
Cool, damp and short of winter light
Edinburgh is cool all year rather than harsh. At the Royal Botanic Garden weather station, 1991–2020 records give July highs of 19.3°C and December lows of 1.6°C, with about 43 frosty days and 128 wet days annually. October brings the most rain, 75.7 mm. Light is the bigger problem: May averages 195 hours of sunshine, December only 49. That swing is why many people here train outdoors in summer and indoors from November.
A day in Edinburgh
A few ways people fit a live session into a normal day here. Pick the slot that suits you; you can change it with notice.
- 45min
- per 1:1 session
- 12
- live slots a day
- 0km
- to travel
Ahead of the tram into town
Squats, presses and rows in a Leith front room, done and dressed for the tram at Balfour Street by quarter to eight.
Once the kids are at school
Home from the Bruntsfield or Corstorphine drop-off, a coached workout fits before the inbox does on a day working from home.
A St Andrew Square lunch hour
Book a quiet meeting room in the New Town, or walk to the PureGym on Conference Square. Forty-five minutes coached, then a sandwich at your desk.
The students’ and shift workers’ slot
Postgraduates in Newington, hospital staff off an early shift and festival crews between shows take the early afternoon, when gym floors are quiet.
Neighbourhoods
Your coach joins on video, so your neighbourhood never limits who coaches you. Check yours.
Programs
Certified coaching, live on video, priced in GBP. Every session is a live class with your coach watching.
Live video1:145 min
Personal Home Training
Personal Home Training: no-jump, neighbour-friendly sessions for tenement floors, using a mat and some dumbbells. £21 each, 12 for £191.
From £21 / session
Live video1:145 min
Rehab & Recovery
Rehab & Recovery: once a GP or physio says you’re fit to exercise, a coach rebuilds strength around the old injury. £31 each, 12 for £287.
From £31 / session
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Group Classes
Group Classes: a handful of people, one live coach, early or midday. £12 per person, 12 for £96.
From £12 / class
Book a session
Your first rep starts here.
We’ll call to confirm your coach, talk through your goals and send you a private video link.
- Live on video, from anywhere
- Coach matched to your goals
- No long-term contracts
Training online in Edinburgh
Questions people in Edinburgh ask before their first session.
Expect £45–£65 per session at most Edinburgh trainers, going by Bruce Millar’s 2025 guide to Scottish prices; gym-floor trainers sit at £40–£55 an hour and boutique studios at £60–£80. Lean Bodies in Leith lists £50 for 60 minutes. For comparison, MakeMyFitness coaches people in Edinburgh live on video at £19 per 45-minute gym session, or 12 sessions for £167.
Any slot from 6 AM until 2:30 PM, every month of the year. Between the end of March and late October, while the clocks are forward, the last slot moves to 3:30 PM. Our coaches work from India, so evenings in Scotland are out. Most Edinburgh clients choose 6:30 or 7 AM, a 12:30 PM lunch hour, or mid-morning when working from home.
Yes. Your coach can build a full session with no jumping: tempo squats, split squats, floor presses, banded rows and slow core work. Old timber floors in Marchmont and the New Town carry sound, so we plan around them from day one. Kit-wise, a phone propped up, a yoga mat and ideally two dumbbells cover it.
It will. PureGym’s Quartermile and Fort Kinnaird off-peak hours run from midnight to 15:30 on weekdays, and Craigleith’s to 16:00 (checked 28 October 2026). Our winter slots stop at 2:30 PM, so every one falls inside off-peak hours. Off-Peak at PureGym Edinburgh West on Gorgie Road was £20.99 a month.
No, and we don’t claim any UK award. Nuffield Health, for one, says its Edinburgh trainers are on the CIMSPA register. Kumar Abhishek, who leads our coaching, studied at K11 School of Fitness Sciences for a Diploma in Personal Training and a Human Performance Nutritionist qualification, and is certified in TRX Suspension Training. He and our other coaches work from India.
You pay in pounds with a UK debit or credit card, after booking through this page’s form or by WhatsApp. Rescheduling needs 24 hours’ warning, handy when a Fringe shift or a snowy morning upends the week. The 4-week plan bundles 12 sessions at three per week.
Across the UK
Moving, travelling or training with family in another city? Your sessions come with you.
Edinburgh guides
Before you train in Edinburgh
Our Edinburgh guides, from local sources: what trainers and gyms cost, the food, and where people train.
- Personal trainer costPersonal Trainer Prices in Edinburgh, 2026: Studios, Gyms and MembershipsEdinburgh personal trainer prices for 2026: usually £45–£65 per session, £50 an hour in Leith, with PureGym, Gym Group and Nuffield fees branch by branch.Read the guide
- Healthy eatingHealthy Eating in Edinburgh: Haggis, Fish Suppers and Porridge, by the NumbersCalories and protein in Edinburgh’s food: haggis, neeps and tatties, a fish supper with salt ’n’ sauce, porridge, pakora and Leith seafood, from UK tables.Read the guide
- Staying fitHow to Stay Fit in Edinburgh: Hills, Paths, Weather and the FringeStaying fit in Edinburgh: Arthur’s Seat, the 12-mile Water of Leith Walkway, the flat Union Canal, Met Office weather by month and the May 2027 marathon.Read the guide
