ABOUT
I’m Melody.
I train women who are serious about the long game.
Not the next 12 weeks. Not the next season. The next decade — and the one after that.
I work privately, by referral, at Menlo Circus Club, Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club, and in home gyms across the Peninsula.
My client roster is small by design. That's how I maintain the standard.
WHAT I BELIEVE
Most women avoid lifting heavy because they're afraid of getting hurt. What they don't realize is that avoiding it is the injury — just a slower one.
Bone density drops. Metabolism slows. Muscle mass erodes. Mood becomes harder to regulate. These aren't inevitable signs of aging. They're the compounding cost of undertrained bodies — and they accelerate exactly when you're trying to step into the most capable decade of your life.
The women I train aren't here to look a certain way. They're here because they understand what's at stake if they don't. Strength training is not the risk.
It's the antidote.
THE METHOD
I practice what
I tell my clients.
Every single day.
I spent over a decade coaching CrossFit. I came to it as a competitive athlete — not the biggest or the strongest in the room, but someone who learned early that precision and intention matter more than power. Every rep had to be technically right. Every movement had to be earned. The discipline I developed under the bar is the same standard I bring to every client I coach.
That's still how I coach.
The women I train arrive with different stories but the same underlying need — a body that works with them, not against them. Some are rebuilding after time away. Some are navigating hormonal shifts that have quietly changed how they recover, how they feel, and how they respond to training they've done for years. All of them want to get stronger. Most of them want to feel like themselves again. What they have in common is that they've outgrown generic programming and they know it.
Every client relationship begins with an InBody 570 assessment — clinical body composition data that tells us exactly where we're starting and what we're building toward. From there, I integrate WHOOP wearable technology and continuous glucose monitoring to build a complete picture of what's actually happening inside your body between sessions. When training load, recovery data, and body composition are all visible at once, nothing is left to guesswork. We repeat the InBody assessment every 8 to 12 weeks.
I rely on data, not feelings.
Melody Sanchez
PERSONAL TRAINER
Melody Sanchez spent over a decade coaching CrossFit before turning her focus to the women who need precision the most — those navigating perimenopause, hormonal shifts, and the long game of staying well. She trains at Menlo Circus Club and Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club on the San Francisco Peninsula.
MY STORY
Women are not small versions of men. Understanding that changed everything about how I coach.
For most of my career, I coached men. I know how to teach Olympic weightlifting and powerlifting — the mechanics, the cues, the progressions — I'm good at it. But men are a relatively straightforward variable. Their hormones are stable. Their recovery is predictable. Their bodies respond to load in ways that the research has studied for decades.
Women are a different problem. A more complex one. And complexity, as it turns out, is where I do my best work.
When my own body started changing — my recovery, my energy, my response to training I had done for years — I stopped coaching by instinct and started coaching by data. I spent months reading everything I could. I found the scientists and doctors who were actually studying what happens to women's bodies hormonally, metabolically, and neurologically across their lifespan. That’s when I realized there was an entire generation of women missing out on critical information on their health.
Now I build programs that account for cycle phases, hormonal shifts, sleep quality, recovery data, and body composition — not as secondary considerations, but as the foundation. The InBody showed me what was happening to my composition. The WHOOP showed me what was happening between sessions. The data told the truth when my instincts couldn't.
That's what I bring to every client. Not just how to lift. But how to listen to the right signals — their cycle, their sleep, their body composition, and their cognition.
Who I Train
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The Athlete Who Hasn't Slowed Down
She ran in college. She's never stopped moving. Now in her late forties, she's not interested in slowing down — she's interested in doing this smarter. She has the discipline to train alone and always has. But she's found that the hard work is more enjoyable when someone she loves is in the room.
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The Woman Who's Rebuilding
Something interrupted her consistency — a surgery, a pregnancy, a season where her body needed something different. She's ready to come back. She wants to lose weight, feel stronger, and work with someone who understands that her hormones are part of the conversation, not a footnote. She's not looking for a generic plan. She's looking for someone who will actually listen.
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The Woman Who Just Turned 40
She feels something shifting. Recovery takes a little longer. The weight sits differently. The routine that worked for years is producing different results and she can't quite explain why. She's not willing to accept that as just getting older. She wants to understand what's actually happening in her body — and build a program around that understanding, not around guesswork.
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The Woman Who's Already Doing Everything Right
She's active, she eats well, and she takes her health seriously. She's on the court or the course regularly and has been for years. She lifts too — she just doesn't know yet that she's capable of so much more than she's been asking of herself. In her sixties, the goal isn't to slow down. It's to find out what happens when someone finally shows her how hard she can actually push.
