Personalized online coaching with Amir Siddiqui for experienced lifters who train hard but have stopped making progress.

Look like a bodybuilder.
Move like an athlete.

I design your training, nutrition and supplement strategy around you, then review your progress each week and adjust the plan according to your response.

30+ years of experience. More than 2,000 clients coached.

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Your Effort. My Expertise.

You’ve put years into training. You’re willing to work. But when progress stalls, knowing what to change becomes the difficult part.

More training? Less food? Different exercises? Or more time with the program you’re already following?

That’s where I come in. All you have to do is follow my plan.

I examine how your training, nutrition and recovery fit together, then adjust your program according to your response. If the weight on your lifts is increasing but your range of motion is shrinking, for example, the training log alone won’t tell us the whole story.

It’s not just about which exercises you do. It’s how we put them together, how you perform them, and how we develop the program over time.

What working with me includes

01

Your individual training plan

Built around your experience, goals, equipment and schedule, with clear exercise selection, sequencing and progression.

02

Nutrition that supports the work

A personal nutrition plan adjusted using your body-composition trends, performance, energy and recovery.

03

Weekly reviews and adjustments

I review your check-ins, training records and exercise videos, then decide what needs changing and what needs more time.

04

Direct access to me

Your coaching comes from me personally. You have app tracking and WhatsApp and email access between check-ins.

More than 30 years spent coaching real people.

I’ve coached more than 2,000 clients, and spent approximately 25 years running high-end personal training studios.

That experience informs the decisions I make when someone’s progress doesn’t follow the textbook.

What our Dubai studio clients said

“The combination of strength and conditioning training makes you stronger and your body fitter and tighter.”
Taya Zinovchenko

“I really feel the huge difference in terms of my body shape and strength.”
Saeed Mubarak Kharbash

Excerpts from historical Google reviews of our in-person Dubai studio, Fission Fusion Fitness, formerly Symmetry Gym.

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The Science and Reasoning

Three principles shape how I coach.

1. Energy Flux

Training tells your body what to do with food.

And if you send the wrong signal, you get the wrong result. The work you perform influences where energy is used and what your body must adapt to. That’s why I design training and nutrition together, as interdependent variables, considering the intensity, type and amount of work alongside the food supporting it.

My Energy Flux framework puts that relationship at the center of program design.

For the broader biological perspective on Energy Flux and why it is so important, see Martin Picard and Nirosha Murugan’s The Energy Resistance Principle, which proposes a framework connecting energy flow, resistance and biological transformation.

2. Variance, Variability and Variety

Different phases develop different capacities.

Fission emphasizes focused body-part development. Fusion brings those capacities into whole-body training and conditioning. I organize the phases so that each can prepare you for the next.

Where appropriate, I also vary calorie intake via calorie cycling, around your training and recovery needs.

The variation has a purpose: to change the demands as your program develops while giving you enough continuity to practice, adapt and measure progress.

3. Intensity and Enjoyability

A program needs to challenge you and make you want to come back.

You are a person, not a body. Modern science based exercise coaches look only at physiology and leave the psychology up to you. I strategically use your own psychology to get you your best results.

I expect hard work. I also want you engaged in the process. Always keeping in mind the demands on the psychical as the physical progresses.

Your coaching plan translates these ideas into training and nutrition designed around you.

12 weeks of personal coaching

Your training, nutrition, weekly reviews, video analysis, app tracking and direct access to me are included in either payment option.

Pay in full: $2,000 USD

One payment for your complete 12-week coaching period.

Save $400 compared with installments.

Pay in installments: Four payments of $600 USD

$2,400 USD total.

Your first payment is due today. The remaining payments are due at weeks 4, 8 and 12. Billing ends after the fourth payment.

Applicable tax is shown at checkout.

Your 30-Day Coaching-Fit Guarantee

Follow your agreed plan, complete your weekly check-ins and provide the requested progress information.

If you don’t feel the coaching delivers the individual attention and direction promised, contact me within your first 30 days for a full refund.

This refunds all coaching fees paid and cancels remaining installments, subject to those participation conditions. It applies to both payment options.

How we begin

Choose your payment option and complete the secure Stripe checkout. Then email [email protected] so we can begin your assessment and build your plan.

Have a question before joining? Email me at the same address.

A few final questions

I already have years of training experience. Is this for me?
Yes. We begin with what you’re doing now, what’s progressing and where you’re stuck. Your experience gives us a starting point.

Will the program fit my schedule?
Your available time, equipment and recovery are part of the design from the beginning.

Do I need to follow one particular training split?
Your program’s organization depends on your goals and circumstances. We choose the structure that serves the work.

Train like a warrior. Look like a bodybuilder. Move like an athlete.