Built it for you.
Tested it on me.
Amanda Large, founder of LiveLargeWellness. ISSA-certified personal trainer. Mom. Former full-time property claims adjuster. Currently building the coaching practice she wishes had existed when she was first lost in the gym.

Before the gym.
For years I worked full-time as a property claims insurance adjuster. The pay was fine, the work was steady, the calendar was full. The only thing it lacked was anything I felt genuinely awake about.
I'd been into fitness in the casual way most people are — running, hiking, paddle-boarding when the weather cooperated — but the gym specifically only landed about two and a half years ago. I picked up a barbell, and something quiet that had been waiting in the corner of my brain stood up and said: this.
The decision moment.
I've wanted out of the adjuster role for a long time. Not because there's anything wrong with it, but because I'm not built to spend my best hours on something I'm only adequately interested in. I'm extremely passionate about fitness and health. That's the work I want to spend the next thirty years doing.
The piece that locked it in wasn't a paying client. It was my parents. Twenty-plus years of the slow slide — busy careers, then aging knees, then a default-sedentary life that just quietly settled in. I started coaching them on the side: small, sustainable changes. A twenty-minute walk after dinner. A real protein target. Two short resistance sessions a week at home.
Three weeks in, my mom had energy again in the evenings and started painting. My dad started chipping at the project list that had been gathering dust. They both got happier. That was the proof. The method worked even on the hardest case I had access to.
"You can do anything that you allow yourself to believe you can do."
The mission.
I'm all about making fitness and nutrition accessible to people who feel lost in the process — and helping more experienced women level up to places they didn't think were possible. As a full-time single mom, I know how busy life can get. I want to prove, repeatedly, that fitness and good nutrition can be manageable no matter what your schedule looks like.
That's why every program at LiveLargeWellness is built around your actual life. Not a template. Not the schedule of a 23-year-old with three free hours a day. Your calendar. Your stress baseline. Your kid pickup window. Your one good sleep night a week.
What I refuse to do.
No extreme training plans that can't be applied long-term. My methods withstand the test of time. They're meant to permanently change your life and routine — for the better, forever. If a program needs you to white-knuckle through it, it isn't a program. It's a stunt.
I will not photoshop a result. I will not post a transformation that isn't real. I will not sell you a plan I wouldn't run myself. The credibility of this brand is the entire asset, and I won't trade it for anyone's quarterly engagement bump.
— Unexpected Fact
I had only been seriously weightlifting for two and a half years before I started coaching others. Prior to that I was into fitness — but never the gym specifically.
On the record.
2026
ISSA Personal Trainer Certification
2024
Began coaching family + pilot clients pro bono
2023
First full year of structured strength training
2022
Picked up a barbell. Never put it down.

Non-negotiables.
Flex. Bonus.
Three buckets. Every week. Non-negotiables are the two or three behaviours that make the week count even if everything else falls apart. Flex is the work that happens on a normal Tuesday. Bonus is what stacks on top when energy is high and the calendar is kind.
This is why clients can travel, parent solo, get sick, host their in-laws, and still keep the streak alive. The plan was never designed to be perfect. It was designed to be resilient.