The Fit Lab was founded in 2015 by former Olympian, Sean Pangelinan. His sole desire was to provide first-class personal training and the gold-standard of body composition analysis tests to the greater San Diego area. Today, Sean and The Fit Lab team continues to transform lives one training session at a time.
Our mission is to provide top-level fitness training, motivation, guidance, and education personalized to each client's goals, abilities, and capabilities. We are here to help you improve overall fitness, achieve the results you want, but ultimately, to make a true, lasting lifestyle change. Dr. Vinny T is not only a consultant for The Fit Lab but a direct product of our customized exercise and nutrition method.
Our mission is to provide top-level fitness training, motivation, guidance, and education personalized to each client's goals, abilities, and capabilities. We are here to help you improve overall fitness, achieve the results you want, but ultimately, to make a true, lasting lifestyle change. Dr. Vinny T is not only a consultant for The Fit Lab but a direct product of our customized exercise and nutrition method.
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The hydrostatic body fat testing has been around for over 50 years, and it is based on Archimedes' Principle, which states that "when a body is submerged in water, there is a buoyant counter force equal to the weight of the water which is displaced." Hydrostatic body fat testing will determine your body composition by separating your body into two masses: body fat and lean mass (bone, muscle, connective tissue).
We discuss your goals, previous personal training, injuries and overall health - a complete and thorough health assessment - before we ever begin to consider how you can most effectively accomplish your goals. With the gold standard of body composition analysis methods, we can assess your biomarkers to understand your starting point.
In order to properly develop a nutrition plan specific to your weight loss goals, we need to understand your body composition. First, we will quantify your fat mass and lean mass through hydrostatic weighing. Next, we will measure your Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR), to understand your metabolic rate, respiratory exchange ratio, and minimal caloric needs.
Reviews (9)
Kady Rhodes
Dec 30, 2021
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Sean P. is an amazing trainer. I was incredibly intimidated walking into a gym for the first time and didn’t know what to expect. Sean is so professional but at the same time easy going and makes the workout environment so comfortable. I started with Sean doing one-on-one personal training sessions and it was amazing to see myself slowly transform as a result of Sean’s guidance. I recently started the small group classes (5 people) and while everyone goes at their own pace , Sean is able to tailor the exercises and provide the skilled attention to each group members of an exercise is too difficult
Christopher Penn
Feb 02, 2021
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The Fit Lab has provided me with challenging workouts, strong accountability, and a lot of fun in the half year I've been going. Highly recommend for the personalized approached, work ethic, and care for your goals. Big shout out to Sean and Brandon for helping me forge ahead to reach my goals and improve my fitness, strength, and well-being.
Kelli Massey
Jan 15, 2021
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Sean at The Fit Lab helped transform my lifestyle into a healthy and balanced one through 3 months of personal training. I attained my goal weight and learned how to properly lift weights, as well as learn how to properly fuel my body through nutrition. The science behind his methods doesn’t lie, and I can confidently say that I will carry what Sean taught me through the rest of my life!
Sonny Olivera
Dec 26, 2020
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The fit lab has great personal training. I have had amazing results working with Sean. The science he applies behind the workouts make a big difference in the results you see. The atmosphere is family oriented. Always a good time at the fit lab! I highly recommend that you schedule a dunk test and consult with Sean to map out your goals.
Caroline Carr
Nov 01, 2020
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Sean's integrative, personal approach and alacrity adjusting to my individual goals and limitations, has proven itself in my personal physical growth and active capacity. His diet recommendations have helped me maintain and increase substantial muscle mass though I am 75 yrs. old. This has been accomplished with excellent humor and dedication. I thank him. Ken (My wife let me use her account for this review.)
Pedro Cardenas
Jul 15, 2019
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Knowledgeable coaches! Shout out to both Coach Sean and Coach Daniel for their hard work, time and dedication to the gym. Had a back injury in July which fortunately wasn't horrible, but it did keep me from exercising consistently for 3 months due to back pain. This event showed me the importance of good form when exercising, which I can say is better thanks to my coaches. To me, anything to improve my exercise technique is important since exercise is a lifestyle, sometimes like therapy. Overall, i really learned a lot about performing exercises with better form and improving my nutrition. Thanks
Annemarie Haydel
Jun 30, 2019
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The Fit Lab more than meets their tagline, “not just training, it’s personal”, thanks to the dedication of founder/owner Sean Pangelinan. He will assess your current fitness levels (one option is hydrostatic body composition testing – get ready to get dunked!) and discuss your goals with you to create a personal plan that will work (but only if you demonstrate the commitment to follow the plan). Feeling overwhelmed, frustrated at slow results or not sure you want to continue? Sean will encourage, support and reinforce good habits both with workouts and diet recommendations. He’s not about
Jeton Prince
Jan 12, 2019
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Sean at The Fit Lab has helped my change the way I live. I know, sounds dramatic, but it is true. Sean has helped me improve my paddling skills, lose weight, gain endurance, improve strength and more. The circuit training is always different but challenging. I get up early looking forward to getting my workout done. Sean is super motivational and helpful with my overall improvement. Sean never lets me slack. Thank you Paddle Synergy!
Garrett Thrasher
Jan 30, 2016
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I have been driving by The Fit Lab daily on my way to work since it opened and finally decided to look it up online. A convenient exercise plan is the only way i could make something stick and not start and stop like I have before. I called and spoke to Sean and decided to get dunked to get my body fat tested. Needless to say I thought I was much less fat but it was interesting to have a statistic to show you that you need to work on yourself. Sean was super friendly and explained the whole process and we carved out some realistic goals and a diet plan to wrap everything together.
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