My story
My passion for strength training grew out of my own experience as a footballer. I was often injured back then, which meant I spent a lot of time in the gym. As one of the smallest and leanest players on the team, I quickly noticed how much impact strength training had on me. I got stronger, felt physically better and gained more and more confidence.
What began as a way to get stronger and more resilient to injury grew into a genuine fascination with strength training. I wanted to understand why certain sessions work, how you build progression, and how you can make someone stronger and better over the long term.
During my studies I took a degree in Physical Education and later in Sport Management. While still studying, I started out as a self-employed student personal coach. That let me put my knowledge straight into practice, and step by step I began developing my own view on coaching.
After my studies I kept going deeper into strength training, coaching and performance. My expertise lies mainly in periodisation, program design, exercise selection and exercise execution: planning and structuring training, choosing exercises with purpose, and optimising how they are performed. To this day I keep taking courses, studying new insights and developing my approach further. I am convinced that as a coach you are never done learning. Learning is a lifetime process for me, driven by curiosity, growth and the ability to move with change.
Strength training as an art
Today I see strength training as an art. Not simply moving more and more weight or doing more and more repetitions, but thoughtfully developing what your body is capable of.
Getting stronger does not only mean lifting more weight. It also means learning to move better, getting stronger in different positions and developing control over your body. Strength has to be usable, and it has to translate to different movements, situations and goals.
That is why I work individually, structured and progressively. Every exercise has a function, every session a reason, and every phase builds on what came before. No random workouts, but a considered process in which we build step by step towards a stronger, better moving and more resilient body.
The ultimate goal
In the end, strength training is not only about what you can do in the gym. It is about what you can do with a stronger, better moving body outside the gym.
My goal as a coach is not just to make people stronger, but to give them more knowledge, confidence and control over their own body. So that training leads not only to better performance in the gym, but to a body you can use to its full potential in daily life and in your sport.