The right questions first
When nothing works anymore, start with the right questions. Coaching starts with a detailed online consultation about your health, training and nutrition history, your lifestyle, your concerns and your goals.
Online strength & health coaching: One body. One plan. Yours.
Online coaching for people who are done guessing.I'm Sahra Akyol, and I have coached strength and health online for fifteen years. Every plan starts with a full assessment of how you train, eat, sleep, and move, so nothing I write for you is a guess. Wherever you live.
- 15+
- Years coaching professionally
- 1000+
- People coached
- 15,000+
- Hours of personal coaching
Plateau ProgressYou didn't stop progressing.
You didn't stop progressing.
Your program did.
Most people who come to me already train hard. They have followed programs from gyms, apps and coaches, and at some point the results stopped. A plateau usually means the plan stopped fitting the body. I start with the right questions and a full assessment, and your program comes out of what we find.
Written from your assessment.Who this is for
Better information beats more effort.
- 01You train hard and consistently, and your body has not changed in months.
- 02You have followed programs from gyms, apps and the internet. None of them were written for you.
- 03An old shoulder, knee or lower back injury makes you hold back under the bar.
- 04You want to lose fat without losing muscle, or get stronger without getting hurt.
- 05You are 40, 50 or older and want the next decade to be your strongest.
If you see yourself here, you are in the right place. The video below shows how I coach online and what working with me looks like.
How I coach
See how I coach online.
Who I take on, how a plan is built and what working with me looks like week to week.
The method
Your body is a system. Train it like one.
Assessed properly
Before I write anything, I assess you. Biomechanics, strength, body composition and neurotransmitter assessments, plus blood tests when they are needed. I want to know what moves too much, what does not move enough and where you are weak, so nothing in your program is random.
The whole picture
Training is one piece. I coach the whole picture. Your program runs in periodized phases, and nutrition, supplementation, sleep and lifestyle are planned with it. Fat loss that costs you muscle is a bad trade, and so is strength that costs you a shoulder. See the supplements I use
One phase at a time
You get one training phase at a time. You film your execution and check in at the end of each block, and I write the next phase from what your body did in the last one. Email support answers within 24 to 72 hours.
Client results
From people I coach.
1000+
people coached
I am 46 years old, and I have been going to the gym since I was 15 … I can lift weights that I had never lifted before in my life, and nothing hurts, not even after training.
L. Vasquez
Before I started working with Sahra, I had injured my lower back due to improper training. … Thanks to Sahra’s correct coaching approach, I move with confidence as if I have never had an injury in the past, and I am stronger than ever.
Ş. Özyıldız · Actor
With the goal of ‘being fitter than I have ever been in my 40th year,’ I started working with Sahra. This way, I have experienced how much effectiveness can increase with technical corrections during exercise, and I have become more aware of issues like nutrition and metabolic conditioning.
C. İkinci
Since I had surgery on both of my shoulders, I was very hesitant to do weight training, and even changing my clothes could sometimes be torment. … Thanks to Sahra, I feel much better and much stronger than the day I started.
M. Algranati · Businessman
Initially, I was merely considering starting to train, but now I feel significantly improved in every aspect. I have more energy throughout the day, sleep better, am in a better mood, and I look and feel much better overall. I’ve gained confidence!
E. Mendez · Marketing Specialist
It’s definitely not a regular type of coaching. I learned so much more than I expected. … It’s definitely one of the best investments I have made for my well-being.
P. Carmen
Plans
The best program is the one written for you.
Online coaching is six or twelve months. Every plan starts with the consultation and full assessment, then I write your training one phase at a time.
What it costs
You pay once, for the length you choose. Six months is $1,950. Twelve months is $3,000.
6-Month Coaching
$1,950
Paid once
Six-month commitment
Several full training phases, each one written from your last check-in. We correct what the assessment found first. Then we build strength and body composition on top of it.
12-Month Coaching
$3,000
Paid once
Twelve-month commitment
The long game. A full year of periodized training with nutrition, supplementation and lifestyle work planned alongside it, until you can run most of it yourself. This is the plan for getting stronger at 50 than you were at 30.
The 90-day challenge stays open until 1 January 2027.See the 90-day challenge
Not sure which plan fits?Book a call (opens in a new tab)
Media
Podcasts, talks & events
Invite me to your podcast, event or team. I talk about strength, nutrition and coaching the whole person, from fifteen years of practice.
Send an enquiry by emailNot for everyone
I coach people who stay the course.
I take on a limited number of online clients so each one gets my full attention. The people who do best with me already have a base level of fitness, commit fully and execute the plan as written.
Read the list honestly. If it describes you, this is not the right time to start.
- 01You want a full program handed over on day one. I write one phase at a time, from your data.
- 02You will not send check-ins or execution videos. Without them I would be guessing too.
- 03You are shopping for the cheapest coach.
- 04You expect a finished body in four weeks.
- 05You switch methods every time a new trend shows up in your feed.
- 06You would rather debate the plan than execute it.
- 07You want to talk about training and keep food, sleep and stress off the table.
None of this sounds like you? Good. Pick your plan
About Sahra
Designer by degree. Strength coach by choice.
I'm Sahra Akyol. I studied industrial product design, and my degree project in 2011 was training and fitness equipment. After that I went into the field I had always wanted to work in. I spent years as a personal trainer in Istanbul and now coach from the Dominican Republic, in person and online.
Design taught me to solve problems and to study how a product meets the human body. I coach the same way. When the usual methods weren't enough for my clients, I went deeper into functional medicine, nutrition, biochemistry, biomechanics and periodization.
Strength is the result. The system is the cause.
My clients are between 15 and 70 and live in more than a dozen countries, from the US and Germany to Turkey, Mexico and Australia. Some compete in tennis, MMA, jiu-jitsu or powerlifting. Others want to move without pain and get stronger.
Start the work
Next step
Do the work. I'll make sure it's the right work.
Pick your plan and we start with the consultation and full assessment. Online, wherever you live.
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