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Sweat. Smile. Repeat — and let someone count the reps for you.

I run a one-coach practice in Tiong Bahru, with an online option if you already have a place to train. I write each programme around the week you actually have, rather than a template that assumes you live in the gym.

12 weeks per training block
4 people max in a group
2 coach check-ins a week
60 minutes per session
Studio workspace

What this actually is

I am the only coach. When you book a session, you get me in the room for the full hour — not a rota, and not someone I briefed five minutes before you arrived. I keep the diary tight on purpose. There are only so many blocks I can write well at once, and I would rather turn a booking down than dilute the ones I already hold.

Every programme is rewritten every four weeks. The lifts may stay; the sets, the range, and the loads change with what you actually did, how your back felt on Tuesday, and how many sessions you made. I keep notes after each hour so the next one starts from the last good set, not from memory.

If you train online, the same rule holds. I watch the videos you send, I change the next session before you repeat a sloppy pattern, and I do not outsource the comments. The studio is in Tiong Bahru. The writing happens at the same desk either way.

Studio work

Programmes

All three formats share the same planning system. You choose how you want to be in the room — or whether you train elsewhere and send the work back to me.

One-to-one coaching, studio

I coach you in the studio for sixty minutes. The plan is yours: lifts, ranges and the order of work written around your week. I stay in the room for the whole session. Most people book two or three hours a week and work in twelve-week blocks.

From S$120 per session

Small-group strength, max 4

Up to four people, one hour, strength-biased. You share the pattern of the session; you do not share the loads. I write each person’s numbers before you arrive. Groups suit people who like a little company and still want their own progression.

S$55 per person per session

Online coaching with weekly check-ins

I write your week, you train where you already have kit, and I check in twice a week on notes and short videos. Every two weeks we speak. I rewrite the plan every four weeks, the same way I do in the studio.

S$320 per month

How a twelve-week block runs

A block is a stretch of work with a start, a middle I can adjust, and a retest. I do not change the goal every Monday. I change the numbers when the room tells me to.

Movement screen and conversation

We talk about your week, what has hurt, and what you want from the next three months. Then I take you through a squat to a box, a hinge, a press, a pull, and a short easy row or walk. I write as we go. The screen is not a test you pass. It is the first draft of the plan.

Block plan written for your week

I set the days you can actually protect, then I write the lifts around them. Three sessions is the usual shape. If Thursday always collapses, we do not pretend it is a training day. You get the first four weeks in writing before we start loading in earnest.

Weekly check-ins and session notes

After each studio hour I note the working weights, the RPE, and anything your back or knee said. Online, I do the same from your notes and the clips you send. Twice a week I adjust the next session if a lift stalled or a joint got loud.

Retest and the next block

In the last week we repeat the two screens I ran on day one — hips and grip — and we look at the loads from week ten. Then I write the next twelve weeks from those numbers, including a quieter deload week if you need one.

Who I work well with / Where I'm probably the wrong choice

Who I work well with

People coming back after a long break

You used to train and then life got loud. I will not start you on old working numbers. We rebuild the habit first, then the load.

Desk-heavy weeks

If you sit most of the day, we train the hinge, the upper back, and a walk you will actually do. The plan has to survive a late meeting.

A first 10 km on the calendar

I can write strength around a running block so your knees and hips stay useful. I am not a running club. I am the person who keeps the squat and the hinge in the week.

People who will tell me the truth

If you slept four hours, I need to hear it before the heavy set. The plan only works if the notes are honest.

Where I'm probably the wrong choice

Rehabilitation after surgery

That is clinical work. I will ask you to speak to your doctor or physiotherapist first, and I will not take the place of that plan.

Competitive bodybuilding

I coach strength and general conditioning. I do not run peak weeks, posing, or stage prep.

All-day messaging

I check in twice a week and I reply within a working day. I do not sit in a chat thread from 06:30 to midnight.

Someone else to do the sessions for you

I write and I coach. You still have to turn up and do the sets. If you want a plan you will not follow, this will be a short conversation.

Studio room

The studio and the online side

The room is a compact training floor of about sixty square metres at 81 Tiong Poh Road, #01-04. You will find a barbell, squat racks, kettlebells from 8 to 40 kg, a rowing machine, skip ropes and mats. There is a shower. Tiong Bahru MRT is a six-to-seven-minute walk; the entrance is on the street side and there is a bell on the door.

Online coaching uses the same twelve-week block. You send short videos of the main lifts, I mark the next session on a shared timeline, and we speak every two weeks. I write around the kit you actually have. If that is a rack in a public gym, the plan looks like a gym plan. If that is two kettlebells on a condo floor, it looks like that instead.

Both formats get two written check-ins a week. I do not disappear between sessions and I do not invent a second coach for the messages.

From the journal

I write here when a pattern keeps turning up in the room — returning to training, small groups, humidity, the two tests I repeat, and the thirty-minute day.

9 January 2026

Starting again after a long break: the first four weeks

The first month is for finding loads you can repeat and a week you will actually keep. I start with a screen, then three sixty-minute sessions that leave you trained rather than wrecked.

2 February 2026

Why I cap groups at four

Four is the largest group in which I can still see every rep, hear about a sore back before the first set, and change a lift without stopping the room.

6 March 2026

Training in Singapore humidity: what I change

Shorter warm-ups, longer rests, and the conditioning piece is the first thing I cut. The main lifts stay. The weather is part of the week, not a test of character.

If you want the next block written properly

Send a note about how you train now and what you want from the next twelve weeks. I read every message myself and I reply within one working day.

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