Kristin Johnson Fitness

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Kristin Johnson Fitness

Build strength, muscle, and confidence with just two 30-minute sessions a week. Train smart. Get strong. Live unchained.

Personal Training + Nutrition Coaching in Grand Rapids.

✨ 12+ yrs & over 15k sessions
http://www.kristinjohnsonfitness.com Kristin Johnson is a Grand Rapids Personal Trainer who helps busy people get strong in less time with efficient, high-effort 30-minute strength sessions. Her coaching blends training, nutrition, and mindset so clients can lose fat, build muscle, and finally break the patterns holding them back.

12/15/2025

Train smart. Stay strong. Rep your age.
Aging isn’t the problem. Not training is.

12/10/2025

Well that was fun. 💀😆✨

12/05/2025

Sometimes you just need receipts. 🗣️
Not inspiration.
Not motivation.
Just proof that real people (with real lives, kids, jobs, stress, and history) are getting stronger and feeling better without doing anything extreme. 👏🏻

If you’ve been sitting in that quiet spot of:
“I know I need to do something… I just don’t want to start another thing I won’t finish,”
this is your nudge.

You don’t need perfect.
You need a plan, a coach who actually gives a damn, and a strength routine that doesn’t steal your whole life.

If you’re ready to feel powerful again, build momentum, and actually stay consistent…

This is your sign. 🔥✨
📲 LINK IN BIO. Let’s make you strong.

12/02/2025

Add these into your training sesh - but for goodness sakes - put some power behind it 💪🏻.

11/21/2025

If you’re serious about getting strong and not wasting time, Dirty 30 is for you.
30 minutes → full-body strength → coached intensity → results.
✨Saturday 9AM.
Come train smarter. Shoot me a message.

11/20/2025

Do women need different training than men?

No.
But I DO coach them differently. Here’s a few differences:

1. Different goals. Men typically want a bigger chest + back. Women want glutes, posture, confidence, and feeling powerful again.

2. Different fears. A lot of women walk in scared to lift heavy. Not because they can’t… but because no one ever taught them how.

3. Different weight (and not the dumbbells). Women walk in carrying stress, guilt, overwhelm, and the mental load of everyone else’s needs.

And yes… hormones shift your strength, energy, hunger, and recovery week to week. So that martters too.

There are no gender specific exercises - squats, presses, pulls, carries - same basics.

But there IS gender specific coaching.

I meet you where you’re at. I build confidence and trust first.

And then we turn you into someone who lifts heavy and actually believes she can.

At some point (usually in your 30s, 40s, or 50s) something clicks:
You stop chasing “smaller.”
You start craving strong, capable, alive.

I know because I’ve been her.
Tired, anxious, holding back tears… or crying mid-set on the leg press.

Strength is physical and emotional.
When you move your body, the emotions you’ve been holding finally move too.

So in my gym?
Yeah, we lift heavy.
But we also laugh.
We breathe.
We talk about the stuff weighing you down.

Because moving energy IS part of the process.

If you’re tired of random workouts and group classes that don’t actually see you…I have openings for trial sessions.

Drop a comment or DM me and I’ll send you the info. 🔥👑💪🏻

11/05/2025

This is what training looks like when you’re busy but still serious.

6 strength moves + accessories. Around 30 minutes. Lil’ solo sesh for me on a fall evening.

This is how I coach here - smart programming, controlled tempo, and a focus on safety and results.

You truly don’t need “more”. You just need consistency, smart exercises choices, effort, to be active outside of the gym and eat well most of the time.

💪 If you’re local to Grand Rapids and want to train this way, message me to get started or fill out the intro form on my website.

10/16/2025

Want to try it? DM me to set up a 5 minute free demo that’ll send you wobbling out the door wondering if you’ve ever actually trained your legs properly.

Ours is one of the first Avengers ever built — medical-grade precision from the creators of

One set. Full depth. Controlled tempo.
You’ll understand why my clients only need 30 minutes twice a week.

10/08/2025

A proper warm-up shouldn’t feel easy - it should prepare you to perform.

Squat-to-press hits everything: quads, glutes, shoulders, triceps, core. It builds heat, coordination, and focus in one move.

Work smarter, not longer.

10/07/2025

Dips are one of the best upper-body movements you can do: chest, shoulders, triceps, and core all working together. 💥
They’re often called the upper-body squat for a reason.

And as a woman there’s nothing like feeling your own strength. Knowing you can push, pull, and move your body with power.

Start with assisted reps, stay consistent and do them 1-2x a week.

09/02/2025

When I told my favorite world champion powerlifter I’d done deadlifts last week, his response wasn’t what you’d expect.

“Why you doin’ that? Just don’t.”

Not exactly the hype I thought I’d get. But he’s right.

Even I forget my own advice sometimes — as a trainer, there’s this pressure to “do the big lifts” because it looks legit. But really…

👉 Your muscles don’t care if it’s a squat, trap bar, or leg press.

👉 Safer alternatives can build the same strength.

👉 Progress comes from consistency and effort, not chasing someone else’s standard.

Strong doesn’t have to mean “at any cost”. Find the lifts that let you train hard and keep moving forward.

💬 Do you feel pressure to squat/deadlift, or do you stick with what works for you?

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Grand Rapids, MI

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https://www.kristinjohnsonfitness.com/

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