Certified Personal Trainer with a wide variety of expertise in different sports and training methods. Offering virtual or delivered to your doorstep.

Find out more about Wasim

• When and why did you develop an interest in your chosen field?

  I developed an interest for fitness coaching partly through misadventure, as it happens. I suffered from chronic shoulder anterior dislocation from 2019 to 2021 and I finally was operated on. A long journey of rehabilitation led me toward greater attention to detail in the way I was training. I knew I had a talent for communication and understanding others and so I thought, why not become a trainer? It would push me in the right direction, so that I would stop cutting corners and fully commit to my training. I completed a certificate, found an entry in a local gym and started coaching on-site, I tried group classes but I ended up specializing in private personal training. After 3 years in the field, I decided to go back to school and enrolled in a Kinesiology BSc. I am now studying and working as a trainer at Nautilus Plus.

• What makes you passionate about your subject?

  I draw satisfaction from teaching. This is who I am, and it is what I tend to do, even if I'm not being paid. They say you should find a way to be paid for the union of what you are passionate about and what you are skilled in. This is a principle known in Japanese culture as ''Ikigai'', and can be translated to '' the pursuit of passion''. Teaching fitness happens to represent that for me.

• What do you like about tutoring? What makes you a "Superprof"?

  I always considered becoming a teacher, and I have always behaved like one. I just had a hard time deciding on a single subject to dedicate my life to. I knew I loved history and I was good at writing, but, to me, that was not an intrinsically good enough reason to make that decision. I ended up becoming a personal trainer and found in it a place for every interest of mine. And so, that is what I teach !

• What are your keys to success?

  I - Consciousness
  
  Paying attention to detail is a tenant of learning, and what you pay attention to tends to shape abilities, creating small subsets of skill in people. People naturally want things, and they want them now. But reality stretches out farther than you would think, and you shouldn't miss clues along the way.
  
  II - Humility
  
  Once you know what the obstacle is, you have to take the time to sit down and see things for what they are, not what you would like them to be. There are certain things you have to accept , and certains things you have to let go of. This is the hardest part in the process ; it makes you feel vulnerable.
  
  III - Will
  
  Once you can see what is in your way, and you know how to get to it, why can't you reach it? If the previous steps were not completed, the resistance is overwhelming, and pushing against it feels hopeless. This is where people generally quit, oversimplifying the reason why, as they blame themselves for their ''lack of ability''.
  
  
  IV - Agency
  
  Now you apply this wisdom to every part of your life as you become both the author and the hero of it.