["I've been following my own weight lifting routine, rather than hiring a coach, and I've been making great progress. I feel like research is better than paying someone to help you."]
Definitely. If you can motivate and get on a schedule yourself, you can save a lot of money.
I'm a recreational weight lifter who works out at home and designs his own strength training routines, and after hitting a personal record for amount of weight lifted I felt a great sense of pride that what I was doing was working.