About me

I believe training should make you stronger, more capable, and more confident in what your body can do.

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About me

I didn’t grow up dreaming of becoming a personal trainer. Fitness became my career because life pushed me in a completely different direction.

The first time I had cancer, it changed the way I looked at pretty much everything. Until then, I had followed a very different professional path. Going through something that suddenly makes time, health and the future feel much less abstract has a way of rearranging your priorities. When I came out the other side, I knew I didn’t want to simply return to the life I had before. I wanted to do something that felt meaningful to me.

That decision eventually took me into fitness.

In 2017, I became a personal trainer in Lisbon. I loved the combination of science, problem-solving and human connection almost immediately. Training was never just about exercises to me. You have a person standing in front of you with their own body, history, insecurities, strengths, limitations and life happening outside the gym. Figuring out how to make training work for that person is the part of the job I still find fascinating.

Then, a year into my new career, cancer came back.

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Going through it for a second time gave the word health a very different meaning. It also gave me a complicated relationship with all the fitness clichés about discipline, motivation and “no excuses.” Sometimes life really does knock you sideways. Bodies change. Energy changes. Circumstances change. Starting again can be difficult.

But I also know how extraordinary the human body is.

I know what it feels like to lose strength and build it back. I know how different it feels to train because you appreciate what your body can do rather than because you are constantly trying to punish it for what it looks like. And I know that becoming stronger can change much more than the number you lift in the gym.

That perspective has stayed with me throughout my career.

Today, I live in Bergen and work as both a personal trainer and group instructor. Over the years I’ve coached people with completely different starting points: people who love training, people who are intimidated by gyms, people who want to lose weight, people who want to become seriously strong, and people who simply want their body to work better for everyday life.

I’m a strength-training person at heart. I like structure. I like understanding why we are doing something. I like programmes that have a purpose and progress that can actually be followed. I’m not interested in exhausting someone just so a workout feels difficult. Anyone can make a workout hard. Good coaching is knowing when to push, when to adjust, what to prioritise and how to build something that works over time.

At the same time, I’m definitely not the trainer who expects everyone to march silently through their sets with a serious face.

I talk. I joke. I laugh with my clients. I want people to work hard, but I also want the gym to be a part of their week they genuinely enjoy. You can take training seriously without taking yourself seriously all the time.

The same applies to nutrition. I’m interested in what people can realistically do repeatedly, not in creating a perfect plan that survives for eleven days. Food, training and health all have to coexist with work, families, holidays, dinners, bad weeks, good weeks and ordinary Tuesday evenings when you simply cannot be bothered.

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Now, approaching 42, I probably appreciate that balance more than I ever have.

I care about being strong. I care about muscle, fitness, performance and body composition. But I also care about being able to move well, carry things, travel, work, play, recover, age well and continue saying yes to things for as long as possible.

Cancer is part of my story, and it is a big part of why I chose this profession. But it isn’t my entire identity, and I don’t want my work to revolve around it.

What stayed with me is the perspective it gave me.

Our bodies deserve more than criticism. They deserve to be used.

And if I can help someone become a little stronger, a little more capable, and a little more confident in theirs, then I chose the right career.

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Strong for Life.

Training should make you stronger, more capable and more confident in your own body — not just tired.
I combine smart programming, progressive strength work and realistic nutrition to help you build results that actually last.

Work with me
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Serious about training.

Not about myself.

I care about good technique, hard work and getting results.

But I also believe training — and life — are better when there’s room to laugh, be imperfect and enjoy yourself.

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