PIOTR KONKOL
Personal trainer and movement diagnostics specialist. I work with people returning to activity, with climbers, and with powerlifters. In person in Gdańsk at All Time Fitness and at my place, with the option of travelling to you. Online worldwide.
- ACHIEVEMENT: WRPF deadlift world record
- LOCATION: Gdańsk — All Time Fitness, my place, or yours
Ten years of powerlifting. Now climbing, boxing, triathlon, and movement exploration — no competitive ambitions, but still progressing, and practically every day.
I set intensity through RPE, so hard is always relative to you, and I add load when technique keeps up with it. A plan you complete beats an optimal plan you can't stand.
Caution is not the goal. I coach you so that you can lift heavy, climb hard routes, run — and not pay for it with injuries.
I don't assume an exercise helps because the research says so. I check it on you with a muscle test.
I help people return to capability after injuries, once the structure has healed and what is left are deficits and compensations.
I coach so that you manage without me. If you come back, it's with something new.
Developing one quality at the cost of the rest makes sense for an athlete who gets a medal for it. For everyone else it means giving up general capability. I work on all of them and make sure none is left behind.
I have coached powerlifters competing at national level and I still take that work. A plan built around meets is a different job from a plan built around general capability — I can write both.
Where the line runs: I train the function of the movement system, I do not treat structure. If the problem is structural, I need clearance from an orthopaedist or a physiotherapist. If I suspect damage, I send you for imaging instead of guessing.
TRAINING PHILOSOPHY
Training is an adaptation tool. There is no point doing things that cannot be sustained for months or years.
- Load management matters more than blind load progression. If session cost rises faster than adaptation, the plan is wrong.
- Every exercise must have a purpose: strength, technique, neurological, or movement. No junk volume.
- Autoregulation is mandatory. RPE, video, sleep, fatigue, and life context are part of the program, not an add-on.
- Longevity beats a one-time peak. The best athletes train for years without constantly starting from zero.
- Diagnosis first, stimulus second. If the restriction is in the joint, nervous system, or coordination, we don’t brute-force volume.
CERTIFICATIONS
Certificates don’t make a coach by themselves, but they organize the toolkit. These are courses that feed into the actual coaching process.
- Lower limb and foot biomechanics — Move Strong Stand Tall (2026)
- Deep tissue massage in a clinical framework — Neuroprojekt (2026)
- Functional muscle testing — Global System Patterns (2021)
- The foot in the GSP framework — Global System Patterns (2021)
- Reactive Training Systems seminar — Strength Coach Performance (2018)
- Powerlifting coach — KFD (2016)
- Basics of training, diet, and supplementation — KFD (2016)
- Personal trainer — PAKiS (2026)
SCOPE OF WORK
Details, for anyone who wants the specifics.
Personal trainer, movement diagnostics specialist, former WRPF deadlift world record holder.
I specialize in assessing movement patterns and removing movement deficits that block progress or cause pain. I work with people returning to activity after a break, climbers, and competitive powerlifters.
I build training plans based on biomechanics and RPE autoregulation. Before every plan I run diagnostics: gait assessment, muscle testing, movement pattern evaluation. This is how I get to the source of the problem.
Motor preparation, movement re-education, foot work — that is also my scope.
I run medical training in the sense of working on the function of the movement system, though formally I am a certified personal trainer. I do not treat structural disorders.
Strength and conditioning coach for climbers and powerlifters. Off-wall preparation for climbers across the Tricity covers grip strength, hangboard loading, overuse and pain, and lining gym work up with a climbing schedule. I don't coach on the wall — climbing technique is the job of instructors and routesetters.
Powerlifting coach, Gdańsk and the Tricity. The lifters I coached made measurable progress and got on the platform. My meet planning draws on Reactive Training Systems and Emerging Strategies: RPE autoregulation, picking intensity from current readiness, and managing fatigue through a competition block.
Personal trainer who travels to you: Gdańsk, Gdynia, Sopot, Żukowo, and the whole Tricity. A home visit covers table-based diagnostics, gait assessment, and work with bodyweight and basic equipment.
Konkol Method is my movement method: movement coaching built on movement pattern assessment, finding movement deficits, biomechanics, and RPE autoregulation.