Personal Training
Armed with health competence and fit for a happy life, where physical fitness dictates your capabilities instead of age.
What are you looking for?
When looking for the “right” Personal Trainer, navigating through aggressive marketing campaigns and social-media-illusions can be challenging. Hence, this website is intended to prove my expertise and provide a digital, verifyable identity whilst letting my credentials speak for themselves. I encourage you to look me up (here’s my LinkedIn)!
A careful synthetization of scientific evidence, personal experience and your individual needs and abilities. Striving for efficiency, authenticity and integrity:
This service combines all aspects to achieve your goals: an extensive intake, 1-2-1 training sessions, personalized training and nutrition programs to suit your lifestyle and goals, ongoing progress assessment, support, adjustments and communications and holistic evidence-based education to form sustainable habits.
What you will get:
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During our initial assessment we will cover all the variables related to you and your goals (extensive questionnaire and consultation, measurements of heart rate, blood pressure, bodyfat percentage and movement screening).
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Based on our initial assessment, I will create a nutrition regime that suits your lifestyle and goals and step by step teach you how to take control of your weight. You will never have to ‘live off a strict meal plan’ again.
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Depending on our movement assessment and goals we have defined, I will create an exercise regime, teach you how to train safely and effectively whilst replacing myths with facts.
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To ensure you are progressing optimally and identify when adjustments need to be made, we will repeat reliable measurement methods during our frequent progress assessments.
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I will be checking upon you, keep you accountable and provide you with support that goes beyond our training sessions to ultimately help you in developing the skills in managing and maintaining your health independently.
“I will be there to listen, guide, support, advice, talk, train, motivate, remind and confront you to make sure you reach the goals we have defined together, just like all my previous clients have.”
Evidence-Based Practice
A sensible guidance for selecting an approach that yields results while considering individual circumstances:
It’s about YOU and YOUR needs and abilities
You will receive a dynamic approach, truly tailored to suit you best with constant re-evaluation.
Adhering to best current Scientific Evidence
Utilizing science, my service strives for integrity and authenticity while facilitating safe, efficacious and time-efficient methods.
Benefit from my Personal Expertise
A demonstrated history of working with a broad variety of clients enables me to adapt to your individual context and act based on your preferences, goals and needs.
Years of Experience:
12
Workshops given:
50+
Training Sessions given:
2500+
Lives changed:
100+
Time spent studying:
>15.000h
The Nutrition Fallacy
Losing weight is pretty simple: don’t eat. Unfortunately, this only works for a limited period of time before your cravings get so huge that you binge it back up (classic yo-go dieting). Often coaches hand out a simple meal plan which they would never follow themselves and wait to take a picture and share their “amazing work”, which you then get exposed to on Social Media.
Keeping your weight off long-term, though, is a different story. Only 1 out of 6 is able to sustain the lost weight after 1 year and on average, half of the lost weight is regained after one year (Kraschnewski et al., 2010). I’ve seen it happen over and over again and I’m sick of it. Keeping off the weight actually requires a professional whose goal is to make you independent of him/her.
What approach do you prefer?
The Training Fallacy
Next time you’re training at a gym, have a look around how people exercise over there, i.e. observe how hard they train and what kind of exercises they do.
You might notice that they often don’t train smart/hard ‘enough’, which we have published a paper about. Why does this matter? Well, if you train below a meaningful intensity-threshold with exercises that are not effective, your training has little to no impact on your health and physique and instead, you are basically wasting your time, money and miss out on valuable benefits that exercising can actually offer.
We get exposed to fancy exercises on Social Media and a way of training that looks good on camera and gets a lot of views, but unfortunately, don’t do much in terms of the impact on your health and physique. Do you want to look good on Social Media or learn how to train smart and hard for a meaningful impact on your health and physique? I can help and guide you with the latter.
Why are you actually exercising/training?
The Aging Fallacy
How often have you heard or thought: “ah, I’m just getting old…”. Well, the older you get, the more you will inevitably be confronted with these thoughts. People often blame ageing to be the main reason for a deterioation of both physical and mental health, decrepitude, incapacity, increases in physical complaints, loss of life quality and loss of independency.
Fortunately, correlation does not imply causality. We all get older, but changes in behaviors and lifestyles as we age are more likely to cause such effects. Elderly tend to move and exercise less and often have poor overall diets, which combined accelerate the mentioned phenomenons observed ‘with ageing’ (Cunningham et al., 2020) and not ‘because of ageing’. You could actually replace many visits to the doctor and physiotherapist by choosing to exercise and following a balanced diet. I will help you in setting you up for a healthy future.
How do you want your future to be?
“Stop wasting time on following ineffective trends, get armed with skills and tools to gain control over your body, have more energy in life, feel more happiness and strengthen your stress-resilience.”
An investment in your health – the dividend my service pays – offers a huge Return on Investment!
“Practice what you preach.”
This statement couldn’t be more applicable to medical and health professionals. How trustworthy is a doctor who doesn’t do sports, smokes, drinks and is overweight, but trying to to explain you how to be healthy?
To truly master the integrity of my skills and to pass them on authentically, I have been applying what I have learned on myself, to become even more aware of and experience all the struggles everyone has when “trying to stay healthy” first-hand.
The fact that I am a natural bodybuilder does’t mean that you need to be and I will never impose my own goals on you which, unfortunately, happens everywhere as this fitness industry has massively shifted from real-value to a toxic over-marketed wild-west, where many are competing for the best “instagram moment”.
Instead, we can utilize valuable lessons from bodybuilding such as developing discipline and consistency to get where we want to be in life.
Do you want to learn how to be in control of your weight and the way you look without starving yourself?
Do you want to get physical results, improve your health, feel and look better, be happier, more confident and scale up your life quality?
Do you want to stay healthy, fit and in shape up until high age?
Come by and train with me in an exclusive, appointment only Personal Training Studio in Amsterdam Oud-Zuid.
Comprehensively, my experience allows me to adapt to your individual context and act based on your preferences, goals and needs and tailor an approach that truly suits your lifestyle. No rigid “you can never eat/drink this or have fun”.
You can achieve your health and physique goals in a way more tolerable, fun, enjoyable and most importantly sustainable way and in fact stay in shape 365 days a year with ease.
Get in touch to find out more and let me help you to do your present- and future-self a favor. Whatever your goal might be, we will pick an approach that fits you and achieve what we have defined together.