Online fitness coaching for busy dads & professionals.
Custom training, personal nutrition, and weekly accountability — built around your busy schedule. No 2-hour gym sessions. No guessing. Just a plan that fits your life and a coach who makes sure you follow through.
Free 1-on-1 call with Derek. No pressure — just a clear next step.
Watch First
Before you book anything, hear it straight from Derek — who this is for, how the coaching works, and what happens on your Discovery Call.
Watch: the DMF training overview
Who This Is For
You're a busy dad or professional. Work is demanding, the family needs you, and somewhere along the way you let yourself go. You don't need another generic program — you need a plan built for your life and someone in your corner making sure it happens.
Who you are in Christ comes before what you do in the gym.
Most fitness programs start with your body and never touch the man. DMF starts with identity. When a man knows who he is, discipline stops being a fight — it becomes who he is. Training, nutrition, and habits follow from that foundation, and that's why the change lasts.
This isn't a quick fix or a 30-day shred. It's coaching for men who want to be strong for their families for decades — in body, in faith, and in how they lead at home.
Identity first · Then intensity
Proof
Not influencers. Not 22-year-olds with no responsibilities. Husbands, wives, dads, and professionals with full lives — getting strong and staying that way.
Started training twice a week. Seven months later, they're lifting four days a week with their nutrition consistent alongside the workouts. Strength, energy, and a healthier life — built together as a couple.
“Consistency became their lifestyle.”
Cliff is 50+ lbs down and a stronger man — and it didn't stop with him. The way he leads his family changed with it. When dad gets healthy, the whole house feels it.
Karolann lost 40 lbs in 9 months without living in the gym. Short, focused training and a nutrition plan that fit her real life — proof you don't need hours a day to change your health.
Multiple couples have lost 100+ pounds together in a single year.
Clients have been set free from addiction — because this was never only about the weight.
What Clients Say
“I love how my workouts are short and intense to make it work with my busy schedule.”
Results You Can Measure
Real client tracking from inside the program. Steady, week-after-week progress — not a crash diet, not a filter.
@jd_peakbaggins · Progress photos, June 7 → October 15
JD — June to October: leaner, stronger, built in his garage gym
Actual client experiences. Individual results vary. These are real clients and real results shared with permission. Individual results vary — your outcome depends on your starting point, consistency, and effort. Coaching is not a guarantee of any specific result.
How It Works
Everything in DMF is built on three pillars. No fluff. Each pillar is built around your schedule, your equipment, and your life — then adjusted as you progress.
Custom workouts delivered in the Trainerize app — at home or in the gym, built for your equipment and your body.
Personal calorie and protein targets with practical meal guidance — real food, no starvation diets, no weird rules.
This is where most programs end and DMF begins. You're checked on, coached, and adjusted — every single week.
The Program
A full year of 1-on-1 coaching for busy dads and professionals who are done starting over. One program, everything included — built to change your health and keep it changed.
Personal coaching from Derek and his team of five — not an app subscription, not a PDF, not a group program where you're a number.
Your Discovery Call is where we talk through your goals, your schedule, and what's actually been holding you back — then map out whether the Annual Transformation Program is the right fit.
We'll discuss the coaching option, commitment, and pricing on your free Discovery Call.
Book Your Free Discovery CallFree · No obligation · A clear next step either way
For Small Businesses
The DMF Employee Wellness Program brings online training to your whole team — healthier, more energetic employees, and zero admin on your plate.
A short call to see if it fits your team — pricing and details are covered on the call.
Each team member gets a custom training program and personal nutrition targets — not a generic step challenge or a PDF nobody opens.
Weekly check-ins with the DMF team keep your people engaged and progressing long after the kickoff excitement fades.
Friendly competition that builds culture while it builds health — your team encourages each other instead of going it alone.
We run the program. You get a healthier team without another thing landing on your desk.
Trusted by teams at
Vie Magazine & Media · Black Bear Coffee + Bread Company · Engel & Völkers · Pickle's Sandbar Restaurant · lululemon
The Book — Free
A Practical Guide to Help You Walk in Lifelong Victory in Your Health and Fitness
Derek's book on the foundation underneath everything at DMF: your health changes for good when it starts with who you are in Christ.
Read it free, one chapter at a time. One full chapter lands in your email every Saturday — the complete chapter in the email, plus a link to the audiobook version — starting with the Introduction.
Audiobook Preview
Fitness with God — Chapter 3: Growth highlight (1:05), read from the audiobook
Join the free Saturday chapter series and read the whole book in your inbox, one week at a time.
One email a week, on Saturdays. Free — no card, no pitch in every chapter.
The App
Derek is a co-founder of PAIDFOR, a free app built to bring faith and fitness together in one community — workouts, encouragement, and believers pursuing health together. Partnerships with PAIDFOR are gifted: app access, content collaboration, and cross-promotion for creators and trainers who share the mission.
For creators & trainers interested in partnering with PAIDFOR.
The Brotherhood
No man grows alone. Iron Sharpens Iron is the men's faith & fitness group Derek founded in Florida — men who met Monday through Friday at 7 AM to pray, train, and fellowship before the day began.
That brotherhood is the heartbeat behind everything DMF teaches: men get sharper in the company of other men who refuse to let them stay where they are. It's the same accountability Derek brings to every coaching client — you were never meant to carry this by yourself.
“As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.”Proverbs 27:17
Speaking
Derek speaks at churches, men's events, conferences, and companies — practical, faith-forward teaching that moves men and teams from knowing to doing.
The flagship talk — why lasting health starts with who you are in Christ, not another diet.
The small daily disciplines that quietly decide a man's health, faith, and family life.
For men's groups and churches: becoming the strong, present leader your family needs.
For companies: what a healthier team is actually worth — energy, focus, and culture.
About Derek
Derek McMahon has coached for more than a decade, helping busy dads and professionals get strong, lose the dad bod, and lead their families well — with faith at the center, not bolted on.
He's a husband to Leah and dad to Malachi and Jeshua, based in Colorado. He founded Derek McMahon Fitness, co-founded PAIDFOR, founded the Iron Sharpens Iron men's group, and wrote Fitness with God — all with a team of five behind him and his studies at Charis Bible College deepening the faith foundation his coaching is built on.
Questions
Your family doesn't need a perfect man. They need a strong, healthy, present one — and that starts with one free call.
Pick a slot that works for you on the calendar — it takes less than a minute.
Tell Derek where you are, where you want to be, and what's been in the way.
Leave knowing exactly what to do next — whether we work together or not.
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