Ghent, 1:1 strength and mobility
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.
No sales pitch on the call. If it is not a fit, I will tell you.
Sound familiar
You have done the exercises. You are still stiff, still sore.
- 01The physio finished, the problem did not.
Acute pain is gone. Nobody told you what to do for the next ten years. - 02The gym never sticks.
Six weeks on, six months off, and you feel worse than when you started. - 03Eight hours in a chair.
Shoulders at your ears by eleven, a back that complains every time you stand up. - 04Getting stronger keeps backfiring.
Every time you push, something flares, so you stop pushing.
The difference
Strength you can use. Mobility you keep.
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.
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 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
- Book one at a time, no packages, no membership
2:1
Duo session
Train with a partner, a friend or a colleague. Same session, two people.
The Reset
A longer trajectory, ten sessions built as one arc rather than ten separate hours. Still being put together.
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.
StephanieBurak 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.
DominiqueMy 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.
PascalNext step
Twenty minutes. No pitch.
Tell me what your body is doing. I will tell you honestly whether this is the right work for you, and what I would start with.
The work
Sixty minutes of strength and mobility.
No circuits, no counting down from ten, no music telling you to push. You move, I read what I see, we change it, you feel the difference before you leave.
Every session is strength and mobility together. Open the range, then load it, so your body keeps what it just found. This is functional training in the plain sense of the words, you train what your body and your day actually ask for, getting up off the floor, carrying, reaching overhead, standing for an hour without paying for it afterwards.
The method underneath is movement based. Ground work, locomotion, breath and load, in the order your body can take them. Exercise asks your body to repeat. Movement asks it to solve.
A session, start to finish
Sixty minutes, every time.
- Check in. Two minutes. What your week did to you, where it sits now.
- Mobility. Breath, decompression, ground work. Opening the joints you are about to load.
- Strength. Real load in the ranges you just opened, which is how you keep them.
- Carry it out. One or two things for at home, ten minutes, not an hour.
Three ways in
After physio
The pain is quiet and now you need to get strong again. This is the part that comes after rehab, not rehab itself.
Desk body
Sitting, screens, shoulders at your ears. Mobility that opens it up and strength that holds it open.
Stronger
You want load and you want to be pushed. Strength and mobility in the same hour, and you will feel it tomorrow.
Pricing
One rate. No memberships, no lock in.
| Format | What it is | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Private session | 1:1 at the studio, sixty minutes | €85 |
| Duo, 2:1 | Two people, one session, same work | On request |
| Online session | Live 1:1 video | On request |
| Corporate workshop | Team building through movement | On request |
| The Reset | A ten session trajectory, built as one arc. In the making | Coming soon |
Sessions run at the studio, Raas van Gaverestraat 18A, Ghent. Weekends possible, just ask.
Who this is not for
Being clear saves us both a call.
- You are in acute pain and have not seen a doctor or physio yet
- You want a number on a bar and nothing else
- You want a plan you can follow without ever showing up
- You are looking for medical or psychological treatment
Questions
Is this physiotherapy?
I am not fit at all. Can I do this?
Do I have to commit to a block?
Can I train with someone else?
What language do we work in?
What if I cannot come to Ghent?
What if it is not a fit?
Start with the call.
Twenty minutes, free, no obligation. You will leave knowing what your body needs, whether you work with me or not.
About
Burak Balci
Personal trainer in Ghent for strength and mobility. A boutique gym at Coupure, one coach, no machines lined up against a wall.
I grew up curious about martial arts and sport, not to compete, but to learn how to move. Then I lived the way most people do, mostly sitting, until my body started sending the bill.
Movement was the way back. Not a sport, not a fitness goal, a way of being at home in my own body again. That is what I build with clients now, ground work, locomotion, strength and mobility, bodies that hold up in real life.
I work in English, Dutch, French and Turkish, plus enough Spanish to guide you through a session.
Background
Where the work comes from.
Movement practice
Locomotion, ground work, stick and partner games, brachiation. Movement as a skill you keep practising, not a workout you survive.
Systema and breath
Relaxed force, breath linked tension release, staying soft under load. Most people can produce force. Few can let go.
Somatic work
Posture, fascia, awareness. Slower work for people who need to feel their body before they can change it.
Come and train.
The fastest way to know if this is for you is twenty minutes on a call.
Free call
Book a strength and mobility call.
Twenty minutes, free. You talk, I listen, and you leave with a straight answer about what to do next.
On the call
- What is going on, in your words, not in medical language
- What I would start with, and in what order
- Whether we lead with strength, mobility, or both
- Practical things, times, the studio, cost, no surprises
Sessions are 85 euro. Duo sessions for two are available on request.
Studio
- AddressRaas van Gaverestraat 18A
9000 Ghent, Belgium - WhatsApp+32 484 40 54 52
- Emailburakfbalci@gmail.com
- Instagram@burakbalci
- LanguagesEnglish, Nederlands, Français, Türkçe
Before you book
Three things worth knowing.
I will be honest
If you need a doctor, a physio or a psychologist first, I will tell you on the call and point you somewhere.
Nothing is sold on the call
No package, no card, no pressure. You go away, you think, you decide.
Start where you are
No fitness level required. Most people arrive stiff, tired and unsure. That is the normal starting point.