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About us
The school for trainers and future trainers.
If you want to help people feel better and perform through exercise, you need three things: knowledge that holds up, experience on the gym floor and the ability to adapt training to each person. That is what we teach, and it has been our focus since 2016. Our courses are taught in Swedish.
You can come here to become a trainer or to get better at a job you already have. We give you knowledge, practice and feedback you can use with real clients.
Wherever you start, you get a syllabus, teachers who follow you all the way, a class to grow with and a network that stays when you finish.
Many training providers count how many people they train. We have set a limit: at most 60 new personal trainers a year, in classes the teachers have time to follow. Fewer starts, more time for each student.
Success, Science and Community.
Your success is measured by your clients.
Knowledge is not enough, you need to be able to use it with the person in front of you. That is why you work on real cases with supervision and feedback throughout the course.
What we teach should hold up.
Teachers who do research at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences (GIH) and work as physiotherapists and national team coaches. What we teach comes from research and from the gym floor, and “it depends” is an honest answer when it is true.
The class stays with you.
You study in a class, and when the course ends the network remains. Alumni meetings, events and TA's trainer network for everyone who has trained with us. It is included when you study here, and we care as much about you as a trainer as we do about you as a student.
Why we started
Broader skills. More practice.
Carl Norell and Jakob Dehnisch started Tränarakademin in 2016. Carl was a physiotherapist and coach for endurance athletes, Jakob an athlete and an engineer. Both saw the same thing: a trainer meets people with different goals and starting points, and being good at one thing is not enough.
So we built a course with breadth, covering strength, endurance, mobility and coaching, with individual adaptation running through it and more room for practice and learning by doing than we had in our own education. The sessions take place at Bosön, the sports centre in Stockholm, the teachers work in the field, and every course has a syllabus, an examination and an attendance requirement.
What started with the two of us is today a team of 19 teachers with experience from both practice and research. Together we develop and run the courses.
Carl NorellPrincipal. Registered physiotherapist and running coach.
Jakob DehnischFounder. Engineer, marketing and entrepreneurship.Instead of staring at what others do, we have stuck to one thing: courses that give our students skills they can use.
The teachers
Nineteen teachers. All of them work with what they teach.
National team coaches, physiotherapists, dietitians, researchers at GIH and trainers who are on the gym floor every day. Filter by subject, or read about everyone.
Stefan Ågren
Registered physiotherapist. Coach to world champions in powerlifting.
Stefan has competed in powerlifting, weightlifting and strongman, with Nordic championship titles. Today he is a physiotherapist and coach to elite weightlifters and powerlifters, and he has helped everyone from team athletes to endurance athletes at world championship level. With us he teaches maximal strength, power and coaching.
Unni Lundblom
Registered physiotherapist and nutrition adviser. Online coaching and women's health.
Unni is a registered physiotherapist and nutrition adviser with her own online coaching business. She teaches weight loss, nutrition advice and women's health.
Joakim Svedberg
National athletics coach. Strength and conditioning coach in Allsvenskan and the SHL.
Joakim is a national team coach in athletics and has been a strength and conditioning coach in Sweden's top football league, Allsvenskan, and the Swedish Hockey League. He lectures at Mid Sweden University. With us he teaches strength training, speed and training theory.
Jimmy Englund
Registered physiotherapist and running coach. Rehabilitation and injury prevention.
Jimmy is a registered physiotherapist, personal trainer and running coach, with more than thirteen years in the industry. He teaches rehabilitation, injury prevention and sports medicine in practice.
Christian Hallberg
Personal trainer of the year at SATS. More than 13,000 PT hours, training SATS trainers since 2018.
Christian has been a personal trainer since 2016 and has more than 13,000 PT hours behind him. He has taught with us since 2018 and trains personal trainers at the gym chain SATS, where he was named personal trainer of the year. His subjects are strength training, running, mobility and the role of the personal trainer.
Louise Gottlind
Registered physiotherapist, master's in sports science. Online coaching.
Louise is a registered physiotherapist with a master's degree in sports science. She spent ten years as a personal trainer and strength and conditioning coach in elite football, and today works with digitally guided training. She teaches online coaching and behavioural psychology.
Marcus Moberg
Researcher at GIH, nutritional physiologist. Sports nutrition and supplements.
Marcus has a PhD in sports science and is a nutritional physiologist at GIH, where he researches how exercise and diet affect muscle mass. He teaches sports nutrition, physiology and training theory.
Carl Norell
Principal. Registered physiotherapist and running coach.
Carl founded Tränarakademin in 2016 and is the school's principal. He is a registered physiotherapist and has coached endurance athletes for 20 years, from recreational runners to the elite. He teaches running, endurance and mobility.
Anna Dandenell
Personal trainer and group fitness instructor for more than 15 years.
Anna has worked in personal training and group fitness for more than fifteen years, from strength and Hyrox to yoga and running. She won Sweden's Strongest Family on Swedish television (SVT) in 2020 and is nominated for Guldhjärtat, the Swedish award for group fitness instructor of the year. She teaches coaching, communication and group training.
Jonathan Grape
Personal trainer since 2014. Trains SATS trainers in weightlifting and fundamental movements.
Jonathan has been a personal trainer since 2014 and since 2018 has trained SATS trainers in fundamental movements, weightlifting and handstands. He teaches strength training, mobility and the role of the personal trainer.
Marika Wagner
Endurance personal trainer and test leader at Aktivitus. Ultrarunner.
Marika coaches endurance athletes at every level, running her own business for more than ten years and as a test leader at the Stockholm test clinic Aktivitus. She has competed in ultrarunning, adventure racing and triathlon herself. She teaches endurance, motivation and routines that last.
Jessica Unogård
Personal trainer and test leader at Aktivitus. Endurance and online coaching.
Jessica took our personal trainer programme and today runs CoachJuno, online and in person. She is also a test leader at Aktivitus in Stockholm. She teaches endurance, group training and testing.
Jakob Dehnisch
Founder. Engineer, marketing and entrepreneurship.
Jakob founded Tränarakademin together with Carl. He has an MSc in engineering, has worked in marketing and sales at some of Sweden's largest companies and has started several businesses of his own. He teaches marketing and entrepreneurship for trainers.
Anja Näslund
Health educator from GIH. Behaviour change and motivational interviewing.
Anja is a health educator from GIH and has worked with health throughout her career, in organisations, with groups and with individuals. She teaches behaviour change, motivational interviewing and sports psychology.
Marina Sjöberg
Registered dietitian. Dietitian for Swedish Athletics.
Marina is a registered dietitian with more than twenty years in healthcare and elite sport, and the federation dietitian for Swedish Athletics. She also teaches at universities and sports upper secondary schools. With us she teaches diet, sports nutrition and lifestyle change that lasts.
Mikael Flockhart
PhD in exercise physiology, GIH. Swedish championship medallist in mountain biking.
Mikael has a PhD in exercise physiology from GIH and many years as a coach. He has raced in cycling, with Swedish championship medals and national team selections in mountain biking. He teaches exercise physiology, testing and training for health.
Jeff Frydenlund
Coach in triathlon, swimming, running and cycling. Ten years of testing at Aktivitus.
Jeff has coached athletes to Swedish championship medals and has competed in triathlon at elite level himself. For ten years he has worked with testing and coaching at Aktivitus. He teaches training methods for endurance sport.
Malin Ewerlöf
Middle-distance runner with a European bronze and two Olympic Games. Running technique.
Malin ran the 1,500 metres for the Swedish national team in the 1990s, with European bronze in 1998 and the Olympics in 1996 and 2000. Since her career she has coached runners at every level. With us she teaches running drills and technique on the Löpcoach course.
Christian Ahlsen
Running coach to marathon runners at World Championships and Olympics. Training planning and strength.
Christian is a running coach and former elite runner. Runners he coaches have run the marathon at the World Championships and the Olympics, most recently in Paris 2024. With us he teaches individual training planning, session design and strength for runners on the Löpcoach course.
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