What Is ABS Training and Nutrition All About?
ABS Training and Nutrition is dedicated to helping people achieve their fitness, performance, and health goals through practical, individualized, and evidence-based training and nutrition coaching.
Founded by Coach Austin Steigerwalt in 2021, ABS has helped clients of a wide range of ages and experience levels become stronger, healthier, more confident, and more capable. From teenagers to adults over 70, our coaching is designed to meet people where they are and provide a clear, sustainable path toward where they want to be.
Our clients have achieved results across a variety of areas, including building muscle, losing body fat, improving strength, increasing mobility, reducing joint discomfort, enhancing athletic performance, and improving overall quality of life.
At ABS, we believe effective fitness coaching should go beyond simply telling you what exercises to perform or what foods to eat. Our goal is to help you understand the principles behind your training and nutrition so you can build the knowledge, skills, and habits necessary for long-term success.
ABS Coaching Is for People Who Want To:
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Get stronger through structured, progressive strength training
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Build muscle with effective resistance training and nutrition strategies
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Lose body fat while maintaining strength, muscle, and performance
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Learn the principles of evidence-based training and nutrition
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Understand how to diet intentionally for specific body composition goals
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Develop the skills needed to manage nutrition successfully for the long term
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Improve mobility, movement quality, and physical function
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Build a stronger, more resilient body that can better handle the demands of everyday life
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Improve health, longevity, and fitness at every stage of life
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Increase durability and resilience for sports, recreational activities, and hobbies
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Improve athletic performance for activities such as pickleball and other sports
Whether your goal is to gain muscle, lose body fat, improve mobility, get stronger, perform better in your sport, or simply stay active and healthy for years to come, ABS Training and Nutrition provides the coaching, education, and accountability needed to help you make meaningful, sustainable progress.
About the Owner
Meet Austin – Owner & Head Coach of ABS Training and Nutrition
Austin is the owner and head coach of ABS Training and Nutrition, where he helps clients improve their strength, fitness, nutrition, mobility, and overall health through practical, individualized coaching.
Austin’s own fitness journey began in 2011 after friends encouraged him to start going to the gym. Having grown up overweight, he experienced firsthand the challenges that low self-confidence and self-esteem can create. Strength training became an opportunity to make a meaningful change in both his physical and mental well-being.
As his interest in fitness grew, Austin developed a passion for understanding the role nutrition plays in performance, body composition, and long-term health. He went on to study Nutritional Sciences at Penn State University, combining his academic background in nutrition with years of hands-on strength and fitness training.
In 2017, Austin began his professional coaching career with a friend’s personal training business. He quickly discovered that coaching was a natural fit. Beyond helping clients achieve measurable results, Austin enjoys teaching people the principles behind effective training and nutrition so they can develop the knowledge, confidence, and habits needed for lasting success.
That passion for educating and empowering others ultimately led to the creation of ABS Training and Nutrition. Through ABS, Austin has expanded his coaching services to provide accessible, evidence-based solutions for clients with a wide range of goals and experience levels. Services have grown to include personal training, strength and fitness coaching, nutrition coaching, mobility training, pickleball coaching, and affordable training subscription options designed to make expert guidance more accessible.
Austin’s coaching philosophy centers on helping people build stronger, healthier, and more capable bodies while developing an approach to fitness and nutrition that is realistic and sustainable. Whether a client wants to improve strength, lose body fat, build muscle, move better, enhance athletic performance, improve their pickleball game, or simply become healthier and more confident, Austin focuses on creating a clear path toward long-term progress.
Austin’s Coaching Credentials
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NASM Certified Personal Trainer
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Renaissance Periodization Nutrition Coach – Level 1
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Functional Range Conditioning (FRC) Mobility Specialist
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J3U Level 1 Coach
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Nearly a Decade of Professional Coaching Experience
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B.S. background in Nutritional Sciences from Penn State University
Testimonials
ABS training and nutrition is run by an evidence based coach who has a ton of experience with a vast array of clients. I have seen dramatic improvements in my health since I started with ABS.
Austin separates himself with his ability to problem solve on the fly. He has a seemingly unlimited toolbox to help you get over hurdle after hurdle in your fitness journey whether you are a beginner or an advanced competition body builder or an athlete just looking for a competitive edge.
-Andrew Ruth
I’ve been training at ABS with Austin for several years. So, after 300+ workouts, I can easily recommend him to anyone wanting a helping hand with their fitness and nutrition goals.
As someone with a fulltime job, I’m thankful for Austin’s evidence-based knowledge and wealth of experience so that I can have productive training sessions without the mental load of designing and maintaining my own program.
Originally, I hadn’t planned to do any resistance training or hire a coach, since I was already training in BJJ and was concerned additional training would make me too tired or sore to make it to class. Then I was asked to join in dual training sessions to help save some money, and I haven’t stopped training with Austin since!
Thanks to Austin’s personalized programming, adaptability, and nutritional guidance, I’ve been able to attend even more BJJ classes, have had more success on the mats (thanks to his sport-specific programming), recover better, and am much stronger too! Occasionally, I do something silly at BJJ and end up with an injury. No problem for Austin! His adaptability and seemingly endless supply of problem solving enables us to easily shift from my normal program to recovery, getting me back on the mats faster than I ever could on my own.
-Joe Kotanchik
I’ve been working with Austin for the past three years and I can’t recommend him enough. I wanted to pursue my fitness goals more seriously but understood that I lacked the knowledge, time, and commitment to achieve those goals. That lead me to seek out the help of a personal trainer.
Austin has made reaching my fitness goals so much easier. He has a wealth of fitness and nutritional knowledge that he applies to his client’s individual needs. Whether that be achieving fitness and dietary goals or recovering from injuries.
Aside from helping me get stronger, Austin has also helped me with various injuries and physical discomforts while training. I had been plagued by knee pain that was slowing starting to interfere with my ability to train. Austin created a whole program to address my knee issues while also making sure I could train safely. I’ve been pain free for almost a year thanks to Austin’s commitment to helping his clients!
-Sara Wall