The Story

I've been at the drawing board. Twice.

I'm Karim, Egyptian, based in Dubai, and a certified coach. But before any of that, I was someone who transformed his body once, and then watched it slip away.

My first transformation came at 22, right before my marriage. Ten months of pure effort. It worked, until it didn't. There was no plan for what came after, no maintenance, and no system. Just willpower, and willpower runs out.

Karim before and after his first transformation at 22, side by side in Dubai
The first transformation, ten months, right before my marriage.

In 2024 I went back to the drawing board, this time differently. I trained relentlessly, but I also built in maintenance phases every few months, on purpose, to learn how to hold a result instead of just chasing one. That lesson, losing it once and rebuilding it right, is the foundation of everything I coach.

Karim before and after: heavier in a blue polo, then lean poolside in Dubai
Back to the drawing board, the rebuild that stuck.

I spent two years building this the slow way, earning my certifications, doing the work on my own body first, and only then asking anyone to follow me. The job's never finished, but now, neither am I.

  1. Age 22

    The first transformation

    A 10-month push right before my marriage. Real results, built on a foundation that couldn't last.

  2. The fall

    No maintenance, no system

    Without a plan for 'after,' the result faded. The hardest lesson I've learned, and the most valuable.

  3. 2024

    Back to the drawing board

    Rebuilt from zero with structure: training phases, deliberate maintenance blocks, and systems over willpower.

  4. Today

    Transform With Me

    Certified, tested on myself first, and coaching clients as a team, so nobody has to learn my lesson the hard way.

The Transformations

From obese to fat, from fat to fit, from fit to jacked.

Technically, this is three transformations in one. Take the first 25 kilos, I lost them. Then the other 20. Then another 20 on top. Where you're standing, I've been standing.

Karim before his first transformation, at his heaviestKarim at his heaviest, walking on a Dubai beach

Stage 01

Obese

The first 25 kilos. This is where it started, and where I know exactly how you feel, because I've stood there.

Before and after of Karim's first transformation, side by side in Dubai

Stage 02

Fat

Another 20 kilos gone at 22, ten months of pure effort, right before my marriage. Then a broken foot, and years of it creeping back.

Karim leaner after the rebuild

Stage 03

Fit

Back to the drawing board in 2024. Another 20 on top, this time with maintenance phases built in, on purpose, so it would hold.

Karim jacked, poolside in DubaiKarim today, training in the gym

Stage 04

Jacked

Three transformations in one. Certified, tested on myself first, and still not finished. The job never is.

Real photos of Karim across a decade, no client transformations shown until launch.

In his words

"The doctor gave me 15 years. I gave myself a plan."

  • The verdict

    "You have 15 to 20 years maximum."

    At 24 the doctor looked at my x-rays after the broken foot and told me I was done. I'd transformed once before. I knew the only way I know how to do it, so I started again.

  • The setback

    "A year and a half in, boom, laid off."

    My children's tuition and medical bills were on my shoulders. I made myself a promise never to feel that helpless again, and to learn how to help people the right way.

  • The purpose

    "I'm not here to dig in your pocket."

    That would defeat the whole point of calling it Transform With Me. I built a 21-day discipline plan where I check on you every single day, so the discipline is actually built.

  • "It's never going to be easy. It's going to be painful. It's brick by brick." Broken foot, a lay-off with tuition and medical bills on my shoulders, then a freak accident to my son just before I finished the two-year rebuild. I made myself a promise never to feel that helpless again, and to learn how to help people the right way. So I double-majored, got licensed, and built Transform With Me.

    Credentials

    Qualified before I coached anyone.

    Every qualification below is independently awarded and independently verifiable. Registration numbers and certificates available on request.

    • REPs UAE

      Registered Exercise Professional

      Category A: Personal Trainer · Category I: Children's Fitness Instructor. UAE Register of Exercise Professionals, a member of ICREPS.

    • Focus Awards · Ofqual regulated

      Level 3 Diploma, Practitioner in Personal Training (RQF)

      Covers anatomy and physiology, nutritional principles, programme design, and professional practice.

    • Focus Awards · Ofqual regulated

      Level 2 Certificate in Fitness Instructing (Exercise and Physical Activity for Children) (RQF)

      Planning and instructing health-related exercise and physical activity for children.

    • Highfield Qualifications

      Level 3 International Award in Emergency First Aid and Use of AED with CPR for all Ages

      Issued under Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services permit.

    REPs UAE registration can be confirmed at repsuae.com. Focus Awards certificates are verifiable at focusawards.org.uk/verify.

    Brick by brick. The job's never finished.

    My story is the proof. Yours is the mission.