Ghent, Coupure
Strength and mobility for a body that sits all day.
Strength & Mobility | Movement coach
Private coaching in a small boutique gym at Coupure in Ghent, for adults who want to get stronger, move better and stop working around pain. One coach, one hour at a time.
A small number of private hours each week. All sixty minutes. No sales pitch on the call, and if it is not a fit I will tell you.
- Ghent, Coupure
- 1:1 and 2:1
- EN / NL / FR / TR
- Post physio friendly
- 12 group classes a week
Who you train with
I am Burak.
A personal trainer in movement, strength and mobility, born and raised in Ghent. I have worked as an actor in film and TV, and I play flamenco guitar. Both taught me the same thing: your body is your instrument. When it gets stiff, your mind follows. Movement, strength and mobility are what keep me sharp, on set, on stage and in everyday life.
That is what I coach now, at my studio at Coupure in Ghent. Most people I work with sit all day and want their body back. Some come in after physio, some after years of stop start gym. They tend to stay.
My method is simple: I read your body before I load it. Then we build movement, strength and mobility that lasts.
Sessions in English, Dutch, French or Turkish, whichever you think in.
The difference
Strength on its own gets stiff. Mobility on its own gets weak.
Trained together, in the same hour, they hold. Sessions are built on how you actually move, breathe and recover, not on a template. Slower where your body needs slow. Heavier where it can take load.
This is coaching and education, not medical or physiotherapy treatment, and I will tell you when you need one.
Sound familiar
You have done the exercises. You are still stiff, still sore.
The physio finished, the problem did not.
Acute pain is gone. Nobody told you what to do for the next ten years.
The gym never sticks.
Six weeks on, six months off, and you feel worse than when you started.
Eight hours in a chair.
Shoulders at your ears by eleven, a back that complains every time you stand up.
Getting stronger keeps backfiring.
Every time you push, something flares, so you stop pushing.
How a session works
Four steps, every time.
Read
A full assessment. Where you hold, where you avoid, what your day is doing to you.
Release
Tension comes off before strength goes on. Breath, posture, decompression.
Rebuild
Strength and mobility in the same session. Control you keep, not conditioning you lose in three weeks.
Own it
You leave with a short practice you can run without me. That is the point.
The studio this week
Six coaches, twelve group classes a week.
They run at Coupure alongside the 1:1 work, so you can train with me one to one and still come in for a class.
- BurakStrength and mobility, Strike and Release
- LilyCombat cardio, HIIT, Uechi Ryu karate
- WolfHybrid strength
- MarlaPilates
- JolienAnusara yoga
- SedaYoga and mobility
The offer
Session by session, at your pace.
Nothing to sign, nothing to lock into. You book when you want to work, and we build from where your body is now.
Private, 1:1
One to one session
The core of the gym. Sixty minutes, strength and mobility in the same hour.
- A full strength and mobility read in the first session
- Work built around your body, not a template
- A home practice that takes ten minutes, not an hour
On request, ask on the call
Three months
The Reset
Twelve sessions over three months, built as one arc rather than twelve separate hours.
- A full read in session one, then a plan built on it
- Progression tracked across the whole block
- Roughly one session a week, spaced around your life
On request, ask on the call
2:1 and groups
Duo and corporate
Train with a partner, a friend or a colleague. Same session, two people. Workshops for companies in Ghent.
- Duo sessions, two people one hour
- Corporate workshops in Ghent
- Online sessions, wherever you are
On request, ask on the call
What people say
After the sessions.
I used to go to a typical gym, but quickly realized it just was not for me. Burak’s approach is something completely different, and exactly what I needed.Stephanie
Burak gave two workshops during our Continuing Education weekend on Fasciatherapy and Elite Sports in Leuven. The sessions were a real added value for our group of 20 participants.Dominique
My experience with Burak Balci was extremely positive. His out of the box approach pushed me to go beyond my limits in ways I never expected.Pascal
Ask me
The rest, I tell you myself.
What we would do, how often, what it costs, whether it is even the right work for you. That is a conversation, not a price list.
One message is enough. I answer these myself, and if it is not a fit I will tell you.
