“Get strong, mobile, and confident using your own body — without gyms, machines, or joint pain.”
No gym required
Beginner-friendly
Joint-friendly
Customized, not cookie-cutter
I work with many clients over 40 and 50
1-on-1 in-person training (Northern VA, DC, Southern MD)
Online coaching
Small group sessions at the park
Custom 8–12 week beginner programs
Free consultation
Get in touch today!
steve.rader@gmail.com
703-298-2942 (call or text)
or Book Time With Me
https://www.youtube.com/@radercalisthenics
https://www.instagram.com/radercalisthenics/
You can probably find me at Rukstuhl Park
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My home gym
TESTIMONIALS
Watching Steve work with and encourage my older teenage son has been a pleasure for both myself and particularly for him. Working just as well with motivated kids of this age as with adults, Steve creates custom tailored, holistic workout routines where form and week-over-week progression, rather than outright capability, are the only things stressed. His decades of experience are evident, but there is an casual approachability here that dispenses any notion that this is to be a chest thumping, howl-at-the-moon, power lift session. Moreover, the seemingly personal and reflective nature of calisthenic training seems well reflected if not celebrated in Steve’s very nature. Of course the practical stuff is represented as well: Keen record keeping, sharing of progress graphs, accommodating schedules and meeting locations. If calisthenics is an alternative approach to common mega-gym type workouts then Steve is the perfect alternative trainer for the task at hand. Highly recommend.
– Caroline, Arlington, VA
Steve Rader is an amazing trainer — inspiring, patient, encouraging, and super knowledgable. He’s a very kind and funny person as well.
When I started working out with Steve, I wasn’t in great shape. But I never felt intimidated or insecure. Steve is terrific at making you feel empowered, strong, and competent. He makes training sessions something you look forward to, because he’s so much fun to be with and because you feel so great after a workout with him.
The moves he’s taught me so far have paid amazing dividends—I feel and look so much stronger, and generally feel better about physically moving through the world.
I can’t say enough good things about Steve Rader as a trainer. Or as a person. His fitness course is highly recommended.
– Jessica, Washington, DC
Steve taught me the basics of calisthenics, as well as giving me a great template for progression. I’m a runner and was looking for exercises that would benefit my entire body, and the combo is working out great — a few months in, and the hills are already feeling easier!
– Shaun, McLean, VA
Form Is Everything 