For about fifteen years I told people to work around the sore bit. I'd like that on the record before we go any further.
Every personal trainer in Denver will happily train around your bad knee. I did it too, and I had slides. Then I spent the better part of a decade learning why the knee keeps coming back into the conversation, and the short version is this: the knee is usually the messenger.
Where it hurts and why it hurts are often two different places.
So here is what I do now, in a basement on Glenarm Place, one person at a time. I train you for the thing you want to do. Ski, golf, run, lift, carry a grandchild up the stairs. And I keep one eye on the joint you're worried about the whole time. Nutrition coaching comes with it. So does the rehab work. Nobody sends you down the hall to somebody else.
6× 5280 Top of the Town winner · 2× Denver A-List winner 9NEWS fitness expert 25 years training Denver 5.0 on Google, 20 reviews
Three kinds of people walk in here
Most of them have already been somewhere else. Often several somewheres. See if one of these is you.
This is most of what I do. Training built around the joint, with someone watching it. Read more →
The PT, the chiro, the injections. The system sometimes lets people down, and where it drops off is where we begin. Read more →
On a GLP-1 or not. Strength first, so what comes off is fat and what stays is you. Read more →
What I'm bad at
Here's a question nobody asks a trainer and everybody should: what are you bad at? For years I'd have answered that with something slippery. "Well, it depends on the person!" True, and also the single most useless sentence in my industry.
So. The unflattering half. This is not urgent care and it is not a diagnosis; a small number of things that hurt need a doctor before they need me, and I'll say so in the first thirty minutes. If what you want is hands on you for an hour, I'm the wrong room, and I can name three people who are the right one. And if you want someone to count reps at you, the ab roller did that for $19.95 in 1994 and it didn't work then either.
The first thirty minutes
An assessment, $57, in the studio or on Zoom. Your story, a look at how you move, one change you can measure before you leave, and my plain read on whether I can help. Ongoing sessions are $200 for sixty minutes or $110 for thirty, one-on-one, every time. The 6:30am and 5:15pm slots are open most weeks.
★★★★★ "I met Jamie when I had maximized my physical therapy program after ACL and medial meniscus reconstruction. It was the perfect transition for a "back to sport" program. We worked a ton on functional strength and stability. Thanks to Jamie's guidance, I was able to ski 50 days in my return to skiing, 55 the following year, and 61 days in '25–'26. In addition to the results, I saw, Jamie had a good evidence based approach which really spoke to me as I am a medical doctor myself."
★★★★★ "Jamie has been my trainer for 3 1/2 years. I came to him as a 60 something woman who had never been on a workout routine. He has transformed me into a lean, mean work out machine. I am in the best shape of my life. He excels in targeted therapies. If your hip is giving you pain, he has specific exercises to relieve the pain. Joint or spine issues, he has a solution. My workouts address weight training for strength, balance, stretching and Pilates. He excels in creating individual work outs that give results. I highly recommend him as a trainer if you need rehabilitation or just need to get into shape."
5280 magazine has handed this basement six 5280 Top of the Town awards and the Denver A-List two more, which is eight more awards than I've won for anything else.
The rest of the CV, briefly: BSc Neuroscience from the Australian National University, Cognitive Functional Therapy, Applied Functional Science at the Gray Institute, NSCA-CSCS, NASM-CPT, a Certificate IV in Nutrition Coaching, the 9NEWS fitness expert, and 25 years training Denver, including a few UFC, NFL, NBA and NHL athletes I'm not allowed to name and a great many Coloradans who just wanted their knee back.
Read that back and it's fairly obvious, isn't it. The sore bit is where the argument ends up, rarely where it starts. Which makes it a bit odd that the whole industry trains around it, and odder still that I did too, for fifteen years, with confidence.
So there you have it.
Thirty-minute assessment, $57. Your story, my read on whether I can help, and if I can't, the name of who can.
Book a 30-minute assessment 1800 Glenarm Place, Basement Level, Denver 80202 · (720) 257-9328 · or on ZoomYours in health,
Jamie Atlas
PS The 6:30am crowd are a particular kind of person and I like them very much.
PPS If you're on Ozempic, Wegovy or Mounjaro and worried about losing muscle along with the weight, there's a page for exactly that. Here it is.