Andrew Demetre

Andrew Demetre is a physical trainer, health coach, and entrepreneur based in Charleston, South Carolina. Demetre promotes a non-traditional, home-based training program that uses strategic calisthenic movements and bodyweight training. He asserts that clients can achieve their ideal body through smart training, hard work, and dedication, without the use of weights.
==Career==
Andrew Demetre discovered a passion for fitness in the ninth grade when an athletic coach introduced him to the weight room. Since then, Demetre has pursued the idea of physical perfection through bodybuilding. 
Demetre has built a decade-long career as a fitness trainer. After spending years helping clients at the gym, Demetre’s career changed course during the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic. 
Demetre moved to Charleston, South Carolina in 2020. Quarantine isolation prompted him to consider increased versatility in training programs. He created, developed, and incorporated a variety of calisthenic movements that could help bodybuilders achieve fitness goals at home, without traditional weights. Demetre attracted clients who wanted to abandon the traditional model of gym training. Most of Demetre’s clients prefer working and exercising at home, and he holds training sessions through home visits and Zoom calls. 
Demetre is committed to innovative, home-based fitness and recently built his first home gym.
==Training Philosophy==
Demetre endorses the idea that a bodybuilder can gain hypertrophy results with advanced calisthenics, and without traditional weights and equipment. 
He is an advocate of bodyweight exercise, which uses individual body weight during training, instead of traditional gym weights. As a trainer, he stresses that clients should focus on finding a training form that works for them, then completing repetitions, vs. pursuing an elusive, “technically perfect” form.
Demetre recommends complex push ups for targeted areas in bodybuilding, including close-grip push ups, switchover push ups, offset push ups, vertical-press push ups, alternative pike push ups, yoga push ups and reverse yoga push ups.
Demetre uses and promotes a 20-minute workout, consisting of three body weight circuits, with a break between each. Each circuit includes six separate exercises with a 3-5 minutes break between each circuit.
Demetre cautions against certain risky workouts that may be dangerous for beginning bodybuilders. These include the High Box Jump, The Heavy Mixed-Grip Deadlift, and the Tire Flip.
For muscle building during workouts, Demetre recommends milk or whey isolate proteins. He encourages the use of Omega-3 fish oils.
==Entrepreneurship==
Andrew Demetre is a solopreneur, and he recommends the book Good to Great, by Jim Collins. His personal takeaways from the book include:
* “Chase your goals wherever they lead you.”
* “Document every piece of data in your business and use it to drive future growth processes.”
* “Don’t be afraid of relying on word-of-mouth marketing in certain industries.”''
When asked about failure and business, Demetre commented: 
“It’s hard to imagine a single failure, but there have been periods of slow growth where I failed to realize how clear the path forward was for many months, and I think the takeaway from that is to just understand that “failure” doesn’t exist unless you stop. As long as you’re moving forward, even if you’re going slower than you should, you’re still making progress.”
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==References==
==External links==
* Official website
* Andrew Demetre on Crunchbase
* Andrew Demetre on Facebook
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