Meet Tim McBride, Bringing Energy, Perspective and a Little Adventure to Fitness

Personal training is about strength, mobility and health, but spend a little time talking with Tim McBride and you quickly realize his approach to fitness is also about enjoying the life all that strength allows you to live.

Tim is funny, engaging and endlessly energetic, but he also brings a thoughtful, well-read perspective to conversations about health and fitness. An avid reader and history enthusiast, he is just as comfortable talking about something he recently learned as he is talking about training. Add in a love of hiking, travel and a willingness to push himself outside his own comfort zone, and you get a personal trainer whose interests extend well beyond the walls of a gym.

For members of Greensburg Business Connection, that makes Tim an especially entertaining person to have around the breakfast table.

From a Challenge to a Career

Tim’s path into personal training began more than 12 years ago when his father-in-law encouraged him to compete in a bodybuilding show. He took the challenge, performed well, and soon found friends and family coming to him for advice on training and nutrition.

More importantly, he discovered how much he enjoyed helping them.

Tim earned his personal training certification and began working at LA Fitness, eventually striking out on his own during COVID. After working from rented space, he remodeled part of his home specifically to accommodate his personal training business. More recently, he took perhaps his biggest professional leap yet, leaving his other job behind to become a full-time personal trainer.

It is a fitting career choice for someone who genuinely believes there is value in getting outside your comfort zone.

Fitness That Makes Room for Fun

Tim's clients know him for his enthusiasm, including a level of morning cheerfulness that apparently borders on suspicious.

But underneath the fun is an experienced trainer who takes his responsibility to his clients seriously. His goal is to make training enjoyable while keeping people safe, meeting them where they are, and helping them continue to come back and make progress.

That balance matters. Fitness does not have to mean becoming a bodybuilder or spending every spare hour in a gym. For Tim, being strong and healthy is a tool for living more fully, whatever that happens to look like for the individual.

In his own life, it frequently looks like a hiking trail.

A Life Outside the Comfort Zone

Pennsylvania born and raised, Tim is also the proud father of two sons whose own paths have taken them in fascinating directions. One is studying to become a pilot, while the other trains young Navy sailors on the inner workings of nuclear submarines. Of all the things Tim has done, being their dad remains one of the roles he treasures most.

Over the past several years, he has also become an enthusiastic day-hiker and traveler, exploring trails throughout New England, the American West and the Southern Appalachians. He has ventured farther afield on his own as well, including a self-guided 10-day exploration of Prague and Budapest.

And then there are the backflips.

Tim has developed something of a habit of finding spectacular, and occasionally questionable, places to do them while hiking, all in pursuit of the perfect video. It is probably best considered an example of his philosophy rather than a personal-training recommendation.

Closer to home, Greensburg residents may recognize Tim from the Greensburg Night Market, where he can frequently be found spreading some cheer, sometimes shirtless, occasionally with a smiley face painted on his chest, and generally having a very good time.

More Than a Workout

What we appreciate about Tim at Greensburg Business Connection is that there is more to him than the boundless energy you notice first.

He is curious. He reads. He travels. He explores. He asks questions and brings a broader perspective to conversations about fitness, aging, health and what it means to build a life that you are physically able to enjoy.

Most importantly, he practices what he encourages others to do. He has been willing to make changes, take risks, try things that make him uncomfortable and pursue work he genuinely loves.

That combination of knowledge, humor and enthusiasm makes Tim a wonderful addition to Greensburg Business Connection, and probably explains why his clients keep coming back, even in the morning.