Assess first
No exercise gets written until I know how you move, what you eat and how you recover.
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Sahra Akyol: Designer by degree. Strength coach by choice.
I'm Sahra Akyol, Head of Coaching and Founder of PARC (opens in a new tab) (Performance And Recuperation Collective). I studied how products meet the body, then spent fifteen years coaching people. Every plan still starts with an assessment.
The road
Design school taught me to study the person first. I still coach that way.
I studied industrial product design. My degree project in 2011 was training and fitness equipment. After that I went into the field I had wanted all along.
I spent years as a personal trainer in Istanbul. I coach now from the Dominican Republic, in person and online.
When the usual methods were not enough for my clients, I went further into functional medicine, nutrition, biochemistry, biomechanics and periodization.
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.
- 15+
- Years
- 1,000+
- People coached
- 15,000+
- Hours of personal coaching
The work
Strength is the result. The system is the cause.
How I decide
Three rules I coach by.
One phase at a time
The next block comes from the last check-in. A plan that ignores what your body just did is a guess.
The whole picture
Training, nutrition, supplementation and sleep. Fat loss that costs you muscle is a bad trade.
How I work
The assessment comes before the program.
Biomechanics, strength, body composition and, when the case needs it, neurotransmitter testing and blood work. I want to know what moves too much, what does not move enough, and where you are weak.
Nutrition, supplementation, sleep and the training plan move together. You train a phase, you film it, and the next phase comes from that.
This page is the outline. The program is written after your assessment.
Ninety days, open until 1 January 2027.
The 90-Day Body RecompSix and twelve months stay open after that.
See the plansNext step
Start with the assessment.
Pick a plan and we start there. If you want to talk first, book a thirty-minute call.
Online · wherever you live