Personal Trainer in Edinburgh

If you're searching for a personal trainer in Edinburgh, the choice usually comes down to one thing: does this person actually build a programme around you, or hand you the same plan they give everyone else? Callan Headrick has been coaching in Edinburgh for 14 years, beginners through to competitive athletes, with bespoke programming and real nutrition strategy, not templates.

Training happens at Hanuman Muay Thai, 70 Jane Street, Edinburgh EH6 5HG, a private performance facility in Leith, not a commercial gym floor. For anyone outside Edinburgh, or who prefers to train in their own gym, the same coaching is available online, worldwide.

What's Included in 1-to-1 Coaching

• A bespoke strength and conditioning programme, written for your goal, not adapted from someone else's
• Hands-on technical coaching, form corrected in real time, in a private space, not shouted across a busy gym floor
• Nutrition and supplement guidance, built into the plan from day one
• Weekly progress tracking and programme adjustments, the plan moves as you do
• Ongoing support between sessions, questions answered when they come up, not at the next appointment

Sessions are one hour and available on a limited basis, since every client's programming is written individually rather than reused.

Specialisms

Fourteen years of coaching tends to push you towards the problems you're best at solving. These are the areas most of the work falls into.

Body composition and fat loss

The most common reason people start. The approach combines resistance training that protects muscle while you lose fat with a nutrition strategy you can actually keep to, rather than an aggressive deficit that works for six weeks and then collapses. Progress is measured on more than the scales. Full detail on the fat loss coaching page.

Strength and conditioning

Callan is a strength and conditioning coach in Edinburgh as well as a personal trainer, and a large share of the work is straightforward S&C: structured progressive overload, technique that lets you keep loading joints safely for years, and programming that accounts for how well you're recovering rather than just adding weight every week regardless. That applies whether you are chasing muscle gain, general strength, or performance in a sport.

Combat sports strength and conditioning

Callan trains and competes in Muay Thai and BJJ himself, and coaches at a dedicated combat sports facility. That means strength work built to support your sport, grip endurance, rotational power, single-leg strength and work capacity, rather than a bodybuilding split that leaves you too sore to make training. Weight-cut management for competition is part of this too. There's a fuller breakdown on the BJJ and Muay Thai S&C page.

Training around injury and rehab

A bad shoulder, a rebuilt knee, or a long layoff doesn't mean waiting until you're "fully healed" to do anything. Programming is built around what you can safely load now, working towards what you want to do later. Several clients came in this way.

Beginners

Complete beginners are explicitly welcome: the programme starts from wherever you are now, not from an assumed baseline. You don't need to get fit before starting. If you are coming back to training later in life, there is a dedicated page on training over 40.