About Tally Body
Everyone deserves
someone in their corner.
Tally Body began with family, long before it became a business. What started as one daughter helping her mother became the foundation for a coaching practice built on honesty, courage, and progress over perfection.
Brand Overview
Tally Body began with family, long before it became a business.
Growing up playing sports, fitness and physical activity were always part of my life. But my first experience helping someone transform their health wasn't with a paying client or inside a professional training program. It was with my mom.
In 2012, my mom weighed more than 400 pounds and lived with constant physical pain. Watching someone I loved struggle every day made me believe that the knowledge, discipline, and passion I had developed through sports and fitness could be used for something much more meaningful.
I offered to help her.
What began as one daughter helping her mother became the foundation for everything Tally Body would eventually represent. We worked together through the challenges, setbacks, victories, and lifestyle changes that come with a significant transformation.
By 2016, my mom had lost approximately 200 pounds.
That experience changed both of our lives.
It taught me that transformation isn't simply about changing someone's appearance. Behind every person trying to change their body is a human being who needs someone in their corner—someone who believes in them, holds them accountable, listens to them, challenges them, celebrates their progress, and continues showing up when things become difficult.
My family believed in what I was doing before Tally Body had a name. That belief became part of the foundation of the business.
Today, I bring that same philosophy to every person I coach. Everyone deserves someone in their corner. Not simply a trainer, but a coach, advocate, and partner who believes in what they are capable of becoming.
Mission
Discover how powerful you can become.
At Tally Body, our mission is to help people discover how powerful they can become—physically, mentally, and emotionally—through strength training and intentional body transformation.
Founded in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood in 2018, Tally Body grew from a personal passion for weight training into a commitment to helping others transform their bodies and, in the process, change the way they see themselves.
After years of building a fitness brand through Instagram, competing in four bodybuilding competitions, and earning two competition victories, our founder experienced firsthand that physical transformation can extend far beyond appearance. Strength training can build discipline, confidence, resilience, and a stronger relationship with yourself.
For more than eight years, that belief has remained at the heart of Tally Body. We believe fitness should be about more than chasing a number on a scale or achieving a certain look. It should be about becoming stronger, feeling more capable, developing confidence, and creating habits that carry into every part of life.
Through personalized training, thoughtful programming, accountability, advocacy, and real-world experience, Tally Body helps clients pursue meaningful transformations designed around their individual bodies, lifestyles, and goals.
Every client should leave a Tally Body session stronger, more knowledgeable, and more confident than when they walked in.
Tally Body — Our VisionVision
A stronger body, and the confidence to understand it.
Our vision is to create a transformative coaching relationship with every Tally Body client—one that builds not only a stronger body, but the knowledge, confidence, and independence to understand what their body is capable of achieving.
Every training session should have a purpose beyond completing a workout. Through hands-on coaching, clients learn proper form, technique, movement, and training principles while developing the confidence to push beyond what they initially believed they could do.
Some clients begin their journey unsure of themselves. They may not believe they have the strength, knowledge, discipline, or confidence to achieve their goals on their own. We want to help change that belief.
Tally Body exists to meet clients where they are, help them recognize what is already within them, and provide the coaching and accountability necessary to bring that potential forward.
For some clients, success means eventually developing the confidence and knowledge to train independently. For others, it means continuing to work with a coach who can challenge them, refine their training, and help amplify increasingly ambitious goals.
Both are transformations worth celebrating.
Our Values
Transformation begins with honesty, grows through an open mind, and becomes possible when you find the courage to take the next step.
We recognize that everyone's starting point is different. There will be days when showing up feels easy and days when simply getting out of bed feels like an accomplishment. Both matter.
The moment you walk into the gym, you've already taken a step forward. Our responsibility is to help make the next step feel possible.
Honesty
Be honest about where you are and where you want to go.
Meaningful transformation starts with being honest with yourself about your goals, habits, challenges, fears, and expectations. There is no shame in your starting point.
Tally Body creates an environment where clients can be honest about what they want to change without judgment and build realistic goals around the person they are today.
Open-Mindedness
Stay open to what your body may be capable of.
You don't need to walk into the gym already believing you can do everything. You only need to be open to the possibility that you can do more than you currently believe.
Through proper coaching, education, repetition, and encouragement, movements that once seemed intimidating can become familiar, and goals that once seemed impossible can begin to feel achievable.
Courage
Sometimes the hardest part of a workout is getting there.
Courage in fitness doesn't always mean lifting the heaviest weight or completing the hardest exercise. Sometimes courage is getting out of bed. Sometimes it's walking through the gym doors for the first time. Sometimes it's trying an exercise you've been afraid to attempt. And sometimes it's coming back after you've fallen out of your routine.
Tally Body celebrates the decision to show up because every transformation begins with that first step.
Confidence
Confidence is something we build together.
We don't expect clients to arrive confident. Building that confidence is part of the work. Every movement learned, every improvement in technique, every additional repetition, and every goal achieved creates evidence of what your body can do.
Over time, uncertainty becomes knowledge. Fear becomes familiarity. And the gym can become a place where you feel capable rather than intimidated.
Progress Over Perfection
You don't have to be perfect to move forward.
Bodies change. Schedules change. Motivation changes. Life happens. Tally Body focuses on sustainable progress rather than expecting perfection from every workout, every week, or every client.
What matters is continuing to move forward—even when that progress comes one small step at a time.
Ready when you are