Meet Sandeep
The gym was losing the people who needed it most.
Sandeep has spent years on a Colombo gym floor. The people who could afford the best coaching in the city were often getting the worst of it: a crowded evening floor, a programme copied from the client before them, and a trainer who changed every few months.
Sandeep
Personal trainer, Colombo
- Trains
- 6 mornings a week
- First slot
- 5:30 AM
- Specialises in
- Fat loss and strength
- Travels to
- 9 areas
How he works
Mornings, one client at a time.
So he started Cold Start. He works mornings only, travels to the client, and only takes on as many people as he can train himself. Some clients have a lot of weight to lose and a doctor asking them to lose it. Others are already in decent shape and want to get lean and strong. Both get the same method.
He still coaches at the gym in the afternoons and evenings. The mornings are for this.
His method is unglamorous: turn up, lift a little more than last week, eat in a way you can keep up for a year, and write it all down so nobody has to guess. He isn't interested in a six-week transformation that has come undone by March.
A lot of the coaching happens between sets, in conversation: last night's dinner, how you slept, what knocked the week off course. The aim is that you keep eating and sleeping this way after you stop training with him.
Experience
Training background.
Ask him about any of it on the call.
- Experience coaching fat loss and strength training
- Nutrition guidance built on Sri Lankan home cooking
The approach
How the sessions run.
Mornings only
Sessions start at 5:30 AM, before your first call of the day and before the roads fill up.
Wherever you already train
The gym in your building, your home, or a quiet corner of a park. If there's no equipment where you train, Sandeep brings it.
Built on lifting, from wherever you start
Every programme is built around strength work, and the weights go up when the sheet says you're ready. The load starts at what you can control today, with joint-friendly options if you're coming back from a long way off.
Where he trains
Across Colombo, before the traffic.
Somewhere else in the Colombo district? Ask anyway. Travel beyond this list is usually possible for a small addition.
- Colombo 3
- Colombo 5
- Colombo 7
- Rajagiriya
- Nawala
- Battaramulla
- Thalawathugoda
- Nugegoda
- Dehiwala