Personal training in Dubai

The first session is mostly me watching

Not because there is nothing to do, but because a programme written before anyone has seen you squat, reach overhead or carry something heavy is a programme written for a stranger. How you move now is the only honest starting point, and it is usually more informative than what you say you want.

From there the sessions have a shape: get stronger in the positions you are weak in, get those positions back when you have lost them, and build the engine to do it for longer than you can today.

What we work on

• StrengthLoading the patterns that carry over — pushing, pulling, hinging, squatting, carrying — at a weight that is honest about where you are this week.
• MobilityRange you can control, not range you can reach. A joint you cannot own under load is not mobile, it is just loose.
• ConditioningThe capacity to keep going: for the last set, the third game, the stairs, the day.
• Habits outside the hourWhat happens in the other 167 hours decides most of it. Sleep, food, and the small shifts that survive a real week.

Who this is for

People who have never trained and do not want to start in a crowded room. People who used to train and stopped, and who are quietly annoyed about it. People who play a sport — padel in particular — and have noticed that the limiting factor is no longer skill. And people who are strong already and want someone watching who will say when a set was bad.

You do not need to be fit to start. That is the entire point of starting.

Where

In person in Dubai. The location is agreed when the session is booked, around where you are and what the training needs that week.

If you are not in Dubai

Most of the people Coach Gari works with are nowhere near him, which suits both sides. Online coaching is its own programme, not a diminished version of this one — live sessions on video, a plan built around the gym, home or outdoor space you actually have, and meal planning that starts from where you live.