Jakob Sandström

Based at:

Metropolis gym

In Stockholm Sweden 

Street, Birger Jarlsgatan 36

Instagram: @jakob_sandstrom

A bit about Jakob

I was born in Västerås, a mid sized town in Sweden. At an early age I found that I had a great interest in sports. At the age of 25 I decided to make my passion into my job. I moved to Stockholm to start my career as a a personal trainer, and since then I have worked as an educator at Eleiko Educations, personal trainer at different types of gyms with main focus on Crossfit, and parallel to this I also work with online programming. 

And why coaching?

It was the growing need to help people improve their movements that made we want to be a coach from the beginning. My main focus with all my clients is to optimize peoples movements and skills both in everyday life and training, no matter if it is an elite athlete or someone wanting to improve their running or something else that they want to develop in everyday life. 

What are your values as a coach?

For me it's important to collaborate with people and athletes that are truly committed to their training. Pillars I believe needs to be a part of a collaboration to be able to evolve and reach goals are:

- Why. Knowing why you are training, what is your purpose?

- Process. Training is an ongoing process both physically and mentally. It is the everyday effort that will help you reach your goals. 

- Trust. I need to trust you, and you need to trust in me as a coach. 

What do you hope your future as a coach will look like?

-I want to keep on helping and develop athletes, and on that journey also develop myself as a coach.

-I want to work with athletes on a higher level within different sports.

-Expand my knowledge about training both from a physiological and physiological perspective.