The second floor
Train Unique's newest floor, on Airline Highway — free weights, turf, and the same coaching standard as the home floor in Lafayette. Newer and still growing, run exactly the same way.
Session times vary — call before your first visit and we'll set a time with a coach.
On the news
Damon in the studio for the Baton Rouge launch — what an adaptive floor actually is, where the idea started back in 2014, and why it grew to a second city. If you're deciding whether to drive over, start here.
The floor
There's no adaptive corner here and no side room. Athletes train in the middle of a real gym floor — serious equipment, real loads, coaches who expect effort — because being walled off is the thing this whole program was built against.
Everyone starts one-to-one with a coach. Where it goes from there is up to the athlete.
No separate room.
No adaptive corner.
One floor.
The coaches · Baton Rouge
Look at the pictures first. Then read how they fit together.
Her story
Linden runs the Baton Rouge floor — an LSU kinesiology graduate who ran long distance for the Tigers' track and cross country teams. Born in Tampa, raised in Lafayette, youngest of four.
She knows the other side of sport too. Hip surgery in high school. A torn labrum. Chronic Achilles pain. Epilepsy. Lung damage. Every one forced her to find a new way to move — new interests, new ways to train, a new relationship with her own body. She'll tell you plainly that's where this work started: learning to adapt her own training before she ever coached anyone else's.
The pull was always there. She grew up watching Paralympic track and field, fascinated by prosthetics, and knew early that this was the fitness she wanted to work in.
She still competes — training for a Hyrox in Chicago and two half marathons, with a 200-mile ultra relay alongside her best friends as the favorite race of her life so far.
Ask her about the athletes and two words keep coming back: privilege, and humbled. She'll tell you she learns from them every day.
It's incredible what the human body
can do with some confidence.
See her on the news
Linden on Louisiana First News for Autism Awareness Month, with two of her athletes demonstrating live on air. Cam tells his own story — from struggling with balance to sticking his landings — and Linden says on television exactly what this floor is built on: nobody gets babied, everybody gets challenged.
The coaches · Baton Rouge
Look at the pictures first. Then read how they fit together.
His story
Paul Fletcher grew up in Panama, in Central America, and moved to the United States his senior year of high school. In 1980 he walked on to the LSU football team, and that's where powerlifting and bodybuilding found him.
He competed in several men's national powerlifting championships, and in 2003 he won the IPF Masters World Championships in the super heavyweight class. His best competition lifts: an 805-pound squat, a 505-pound bench press, and a 740-pound deadlift.
He helped start powerlifting for Special Olympics International and for Louisiana Special Olympics. And for thirty years he was a special education teacher and administrator in the public school system.
He still works full time as Director of Operations for the Baton Rouge Soccer Club. When the Baton Rouge floor needed help, he figured it was a good time to get back in the game: helping athletes of all abilities get stronger and more confident in themselves.
Stronger, and more confident
in themselves.
The coaches · Baton Rouge
Look at the pictures first. Then read how they fit together.
Her story
Dyimond Friendship is twenty-three, a mom of two daughters, and from Baton Rouge. She's finishing a degree in sports management online while building on a background in physical therapy and fitness.
The plan is a certified personal trainer credential, and a following as a fitness influencer to go with it, so she can push more people toward healthier, stronger lives. The bigger plan is her own gym one day: an all-women's floor where women feel confident, supported, and pushed to reach their goals.
Off the floor she works out, tries new restaurants for the experience, and watches sports.
Confident, supported,
and empowered.
The coaches · Baton Rouge
Look at the pictures first. Then read how they fit together.
Her story
Madison Zeber Fletcher is from Baton Rouge and has been a personal trainer for a little over three years. She grew up an athlete: about fifteen years of competitive soccer, then collegiate nationals in powerlifting at UL Lafayette, where she was teammates with Coach Jessie, Coach Emily, and Coach Shannon. Her husband is a professional fighter, and through him she got into mixed martial arts. She'll tell you she's fallen in love with being active, period, and with being outside.
She found Train Unique by being friends with Damon for a long time. Her first job out of college was in ABA therapy, and everything she learned there turned out to be valuable with any human being. Once she realized she could coach people and teach them how to exercise, being part of this floor was a no-brainer.
Ask her now and she says she has the most amazing athletes she could ask for, that they inspire her every day in different ways, and that it's the most rewarding job she's ever had.
Her goals: stay active and healthy, get back into jiu-jitsu, maybe compete in another tournament one day. Beyond that, keeping herself and her athletes healthy is the goal every single day. Pushing herself, in any way, is something she loves, and she thinks it's what we're meant to do as human beings. The most beautiful part, in her words, is that we get to share our experiences.
The most beautiful part
is that we get to share it.
Programs
Personal training, small group, and group class are the core of the Baton Rouge floor, and the schedule grows as the floor does. Call and a coach will tell you exactly what's running this month and where your athlete fits.
