10 Years of Building the Best Training System in Fitness

Nathan Holiday created the Level Method in 2016 after working with thousands of clients in his own gym. His original goal was to answer a simple question: Why do some change their lives with fitness, while others fail?

The big problem is that some people push themselves to burn out or injury — striving to do things before they're ready — and others aren't consistent or motivated long enough to see results.

When people don't have a clear path or goals, when they're confused or overwhelmed, when they're not recognized for their hard work, when they get injured or feel inadequate, or when they stop making progress, they tend to quit.

After many failures, over years, and a lot of work, the team was able to create a new MAP of fitness. With it, any coach or gym owner could point and say to a client: this is where you are, and this is where we want to take you — safely, intelligently, systematically.

The karate-belt inspiration turned out to be more than a metaphor. The levels gave members a path. The MAP gave coaches a language. And the data that flowed through the system got smarter every day — calibrating 7 levels of scaling built into every workout.

It started with a simple assessment program for functional fitness. 10 years and 1.8 million data points later, Level Method is the most comprehensive training system in fitness — programming, scaling, and measurement, integrated into one platform that makes every coach effective and every member's progress visible.