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Sign-up for Personal Training at Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center! Information about packages listed below.

About Personal Training

  • Help you set both short and long term fitness goals.
  • Design a personalized exercise program to meet your goals that include cardiovascular, resistance and flexibility training.
  • Provide you with motivation and accountability.
  • Ensure variety and enjoyment during each of your workout sessions.
  • Teach you proper form and technique for resistance training and other exercises.
  • Answer your questions about proper exercise, general nutrition, or goal setting.

KU Recreation Services offers Students, Faculty, Staff, Former Students, KU Affiliates, Retirees, Spouse and Domestic partners an opportunity to work with a personal trainer. To be eligible to personal train, an individual must be an ASRFC member. The 55-minute training sessions can be purchased individually or with partners.

Typically, students, faculty, staff, affiliates, and retirees will follow these steps:

  1. Login with your single sign-on to submit all three forms online: Health history, informed consent, and liability waiver
  2. Purchase a personal training package (see packages below) in the Admin Office (room 103) at ASRFC. For those who are not a current student at KU, a current membership is required at the time of purchasing a package. Credit card and check (written out to KU Recreation Services) are accepted (cash is not accepted). Keep the receipt for proof of purchase. Multiple packages may be purchased at one time.
  3. Review the personal training policies.
  4. Once steps 1 and 2 have been completed, your personal trainer will email you within 5 business days to schedule your first meeting/session.

Typically, spouses and domestic partners will follow these steps:

  1. Submit the health history online.
  2. After completing the health history online, an email will immediately be sent to you with links to the informed consent and liability waiver forms.  Please read and sign these forms.  Then you may scan and email the forms to ptsrfc@ku.edu or drop them off in the Admin Office (room 103) at ASRFC.
  3. Next, purchase a personal training package (see packages below) in the Admin Office (room 103) at ASRFC. You will need to have a current membership to purchase a package. Credit card and check (written out to KU Recreation Services) are accepted (cash is not accepted). Keep the receipt for proof of purchase. Multiple packages may be purchased at one time.
  4. Review the personal training policies.
  5. Once your health history has been reviewed; informed consent and liability waiver received; and a package has been purchased, your personal trainer will email you within 5 business days to schedule your first meeting/session.

Personal Training Packages

Recreation Services offers a variety of personal training packages, including traditional personal training and a new service called Workout by Design, where clients obtain a 6-week workout to do on their own. Continue reading for details.

Workout by Design

A personalized and self-guided workout where a personal trainer creates a 6-week workout based on the client's goals and the client exercises following the workout plan.  The package includes a consultation with a personal trainer, 6-week personalized workout plan to guide the client to achieving their fitness goal(s), the trainer will review how to perform the exercises with client, and the trainer will periodically check-in with the client.  Clients can continue their progress by purchasing another round!  Workout by Design packages are listed below:

Type of PackageTotal CostNotes
Individual (just you)$65- Includes a Fit4U Assessment
Duo (you and a friend)$42.50/person

-Includes a Fit4U Assessment
- Clients should have the same goal(s) and availability to meet with a trainer.  Clients must attend the consultation and review the exercises with a trainer together (separate meetings cannot be scheduled).

Traditional Personal Training

Clients work directly with a personal trainer 1 to 3 times a week to achieve their health and fitness goals. Recreation Services offers the ability for just you to train with a personal trainer (individual training); for you and a friend to train with a personal trainer (duo training); and for 3 to 6 people to train with a personal trainer (group training). Packages are listed below:

Individual Personal Training Packages and Prices

Individual PackagesTotal CostNotes
Fit4U Assessment$15- Includes a body composition assessment and consultation
Fit4U Follow-Up Assessment$10- Great to measure your progress every 4-6 weeks!
Starter Package$24- Includes a Fit4U Assessment and one personal training session
1 Session$15
- New clients turning in a health history cannot purchase; only for current clients who have been working with a trainer and recently purchased sessions
3 Sessions$42

- $14/session

- For new clients, first session is a Fit4U Assessment

5 Sessions$68

- $13.60/session

- For new clients, first session is a Fit4U Assessment

10 Sessions$135

- $13.50/session

- For new clients, first session is a Fit4U Assessment

Duo Training

  • 2 people - must be purchased together
  • Ensure everyone is available to train at the same time.  
  • Sessions are non-refundable and non-transferable.
  • If only 1 client attends a training session, sessions will be deducted for both clients.
  • Sessions cannot be used for individual training.
Duo Personal Training Packages and Prices
Duo PackageTotal CostNotes
Starter Package$15.50/person- Includes a Fit4U Assessment and one personal training session
1 Session$12.50/person
- New clients turning in a health history cannot purchase; only for current clients who have been working with a trainer and recently purchased sessions
3 Sessions$36/person

- $12/session

- For new clients, first session is a Fit4U Assessment

5 Sessions$59/person

- $11.80/session

- For new clients, first session is a Fit4U Assessment

10 Sessions$117.50/person

- $11.75/session

- For new clients, first session is a Fit4U Assessment

Group Training

  • Minimum of 3 people and maximum of 6 people.
  • Ensure everyone is available to train at the same time.  
  • Sessions are non-refundable and non-transferable.
  • A session will be deducted for each client even if an individual is absent.
  • Sessions cannot be used for individual training.
Group Personal Training Packages and Prices
Group PackagesTotal CostNotes
8 Sessions$64/person

- Each person pays $8/session 

- For new clients, first session is a Fit4U Assessment

16 Sessions$112/person

- Each person pays $7/session

- For new clients, first session is a Fit4U Assessment


If you have any questions, please email Personal Training.

Personal Training Forms

  • Select one:

Forms for those with a KU login

Forms for those WITHOUT a KU login