Born in Funchal, Madeira Island, Pedro’s mission is to help anyone who desires to improve their performance in sports as well as in all activities of daily living (ADL), always framed by a holistic approach that includes Movement, Nutrition, Mindset and Regeneration.

Pedro has a great passion for sports in general, but most of his career as an athlete was in swimming, where he competed at a national and international level, followed by a brief incursion in water polo. Pedro enjoys lifting weights (heavy ones) and has a great interest in the fields of study related to performance (sports and ADL) and health, such as movement quality, training methodology, strength training, nutrition and functional anatomy.

Professionally, Pedro has worked as a sports manager at Clube de Golf do Santo da Serra (Madeira), where he developed projects related to golf education and local competitions. Later, he worked at the Spanish Golf Federation in Madrid as a coordinator of the national golf school Joaquín Blume, helping the technical team in various components of golf performance as well as players in their academic and sports career.  Unfulfilled with his role due to a rather limited room to intervene, Pedro left the Spanish Golf Federation and decided to deepen his knowledge in the field of training / performance. This led him to work in Barcelona in a high performance sports center as a fitness and golf performance specialist. During this period, Pedro coached more than 50 people (both adolescents and adults) and collaborated with various local schools and golf clubs.

Pedro’s concern with health became more amplified due to his struggle against cancer (Hodgkin’s lymphoma), which he considers to have been the hardest battle of his life until today. Pedro’s restlessness and everlasting doubts about the cause of this disease led him to question the status quo, to deepen his knowledge in the field of nutrition (a field that has always been of his interest) and to study which could be the environmental triggers contributing for the development of cancer and other diseases. Because immediate answers to his queries were not readily available, Pedro went in search for this knowledge. And he is still looking!

Pedro completed his Bachelor Degree in Sports and Physical Education at University of Madeira and his Master in Golf Course Management at Universidad Europea de Madrid. Pedro’s complementary education in the fields of movement and performance undertaken in some of the best sports centers in the USA (EXOS, Titleist Performance Institute, Parisi Speed School, Mike Boyle Strength & Conditioning, Results Fitness), as well as in the field of nutrition (Precision Nutrition, NutriScience, Tudor Bompa Institute), led him to embrace a more comprehensive work philosophy which distinguishes itself by incorporating an integrated functional approach to disease prevention, health improvement and performance optimisation. Based on this philosophy, and already living in Lisbon, Pedro has created the program Fat Burn Boot Camp, through which he has helped over one hundred people improving their functional capacity, losing weight and improving their body composition.

In the last few years, Pedro has been working in Lisbon as a Performance Specialist and Nutrition Coach. As a personal trainer, Pedro has been accompanying general population clients as well as some professional athletes. He is also an educator and lecturer in the field of exercise, and author of articles in several fitness, golf and health related publications (Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Prevenir, Golfe Press, Sábado, Única, Portal Sapo, Madeira Best). Pedro is the author of the blog Functional Performance Training, where he addresses various relevant topics in the fields of training, health and nutrition. In addition, he collaborated in the study “Feasibility of Home vs. Hospital Based Resistance Training for Advanced Cancer Patients” which was presented at the MASCC / ISOO Annual Meeting on Supportive Care in Cancer in 2017 (USA).

Regarding strength training, Pedro enjoys powerlifting, Olympic weightlifting, bodyweight training and kettlebell training, having participated in several powerlifting and Olympic weightlifting meets. As a recreational athlete, he has practiced combat sports and nowadays enjoys playing tennis, golf, surfing and paddle board.

Born in Lisbon, Catarina started to practice sports from an early age. She started with gymnastics, moving on to swimming until she focused on judo, a modality in which she made her competitive path and in which she is currently a coach.

She started her practice as a coach at the age of 17, passing through various levels, discovering there a passion that led her to continue her studies in the field of sport. She graduated in Physical Education and Sports at Universidade Lusófona and later completed her Master’s Degree in Sports Training at Faculdade de Motricidade Humana (FMH) with the aim of being a competition coach. It was during her academic career that he became interested in periodization and strength training. She worked in the physical preparation of athletes and, wanting to deepen this knowledge, she did a Post-Graduation in Strength and Conditioning, also at FMH.

Although most of her experience has been with competitive athletes, she believes that improving performance is within everyone’s reach, and that strength training is an indispensable pillar for the health and well-being of each person’s daily life.

Catarina joined The Strength Clinic because she was looking for a different approach found in commercial gyms when it comes to training and believes that the constant learning climate provided by TSC is ideal for putting her knowledge into practice and helping more people to live a better, stronger and healthier life.

Born in São Paulo, Brazil, he started playing sports at a very young age, always encouraged by his parents. He learned to kick a soccer ball long before he could walk. At the age of 4, he started practicing judo. He practiced both soccer and judo competitively until he was 16, when he decided to pursue soccer as his main sport. However, the high number of injuries in the sport made him abandon his dream of being a professional player, and he began to focus entirely on his studies.

At the age of 17, he entered university to study physiotherapy, but quickly realized that his greatest passion was helping people prevent injuries, not acting after they had already occurred. So, he changed his major and in 2011 graduated in Sports Science from Universidade Paulista – UNIP. Soon after, he enrolled in a postgraduate course in Biomechanics and Physical Training at Gama Filho University, which he completed in 2014.

During this period, he began to question whether traditional weight training was the only way to improve physically. He then sought knowledge in other areas of physical performance, in courses such as: MBSC, Athletic Lab, EXOS, Powerlifting, Weightlifting and Bulgarian Bag. But he ended up finding himself in Kettlebell Training, where he began to dedicate himself exclusively to training with this tool, increasingly improving its use. He traveled around Brazil, teaching hundreds of students how to train and handle kettlebells. In 2018, he obtained the title of International Specialist, through the Strongfirst (SFG1) certification, and was an assistant instructor in subsequent certifications.

Due to his sports injuries, he has always been interested in understanding what they cause to those who suffer them and how to improve the movement of his students and athletes after each injury. With this, he studied with great names in the movement world: Gray Cook, Michael Boyle, Pavel Tsatsouline and Santiago McCarthy, becoming a Specialist in Movement Analysis and Rehabilitation.

In 2014, he founded the HAKA Functional Physical Training Center, with the aim of bringing more quality of life and movement to people, with a more dynamic and interesting proposal than traditional strength training. He then began working with athletes from different sports such as judo, rugby, football, athletics, surfing and street running, improving their movements, treating their pain and promoting an improvement in their physical capacities, through Kettlebell Training and three-dimensional movements.

At the end of 2018, he closed his Training Center to seek new opportunities in Personal Training, entering the world of CrossFit and helping athletes, both professional and amateur, to improve their movements and have a better quality of life. After starting his family with his wife and daughter in June 2024, they decided to move to Portugal in search of a safer home with more opportunities. He obtained recognition from the University of Porto in Sports Sciences and was working as a physical trainer for a GoalBall team, as well as a personal trainer, weight room instructor and Cross Box instructor at a traditional weight training gym.

But his great passion for Kettlebell and movement analysis and rehabilitation, mainly thinking about health and longevity, was rekindled with the opportunity to work with The Strength Clinic’s (TSC) methodology.

With his unique enthusiasm and dedication, he intends to continue his work in movement quality at TSC, helping as many people as possible to be able to move more often and better, keeping his motto always alive: Move, always!

Born in Lisbon, sports have always been part of his life, having practiced swimming from an early age and for several years.

He graduated in Physical Education and Sports from Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas (ISCE), and complemented his training with a Postgraduate Degree in Sports Performance from Universidade Europeia. He also holds the following certifications: Certified High Performance Coach Level 1 by Athletic Lab, Energy Systems Development and Absolute Speed ​​by EXOS, FIFA Diploma in Football Medicine and Isometric Strength Training by Sportsmith.

For the past 7 years, he has worked as a Strength & Conditioning Coach in football, in addition to working at the same time as a personal trainer. He began his football career in 2018 as an assistant coach at the “Os Belenenses” Training School. From 2019 to 2021, he worked in the high-performance department of Grupo Desportivo Estoril Praia, where he accompanied the U-14, U-15 and U-19 youth categories. In the 2021/2022 season, he was part of the coaching staff at União Desportiva de Santarém, competing in Liga 3, playing for the senior team. From 2022 to 2024, Pedro worked in the health and performance department at FC Alverca SAD. In 2024, he was also part of the coaching staff as a physical trainer for Torreense’s U-23 team.

Pedro is dedicated to helping people move better, believing that everyone has a certain level of athleticism and that it is possible to get the most out of their body through proper training. His goal is to help each person achieve their best, respecting their individual needs and promoting not only a more active and healthy life, but also quality of life and longevity.

Here at The Strength Clinic, he found this type of mentality, as there is a different approach to commercial gyms. He also believes that constant learning and evolution are essential, and TSC is the ideal place to put his knowledge into practice and help more people live a stronger and healthier life.

Catarina was born in Luanda, where she spent her adolescence and came to Portugal at the age of 18 to graduate in Industrial Engineering and Management.

Anyone who knows her knows that taking care of her diet has always guided her steps. During the period in which she studied at Técnico, she spent many hours at Espiral, a space where she established her first contact with macrobiotic and vegetarian food and where she spent afternoons listening to lectures on the topic, having, at that time, become a vegetarian. With the birth of her daughter, she left vegetarianism, having then tried several other dietary approaches, without fundamentalism, always with an exploratory perspective of getting to know herself and observing what worked for her!

Her interest in health naturally extended to training, having practiced swimming (an activity she practiced as a child) and yoga, and, later, bodybuilding at college, not being a big fan of group classes in conventional gyms.

In 2013, she moved to Macau and this was a time when she chose to dedicate more time to her children and family while looking for a new career path. During her stay in Macau, the incessant search for knowledge in the area of Nutrition and Health led her to read a lot on the subject and that was how she became a regular reader of Pedro Correia’s blog, where the relevance of the topics covered combined with the scientific evidence caught her attention. Around this time, she started practicing Crossfit, and this led her to become more aware and develop an interest in other forms of physical training. During the period she stayed in Macau, she had the opportunity to reflect and redefine goals for her life, and so, upon her return to Portugal, in 2016, she enrolled in the Nutrition Sciences course. In addition to her basic training, she has done other training in parallel in the field of functional nutrition.

Being able to join the TSC team is a great source of pride, as this is a space that shares the same values and principles she believes! It is a space for learning and constant evolution, where the holistic vision of health is transversal to the entire team.

From her observation, she recognizes that most people do not attribute a self-care attitude to body nutrition, and it is this aspect that he wants to encourage in people, through eating with conscious choices, demystifying the idea that taking care of your diet It always implies deprivation and sacrifice. The idea is to provide people with knowledge so that they can make their choices responsibly, without fundamentalism and with balance. Taking care of your body is a fundamental attitude in life, as this is the tool that allows us to enjoy Life! And Life has so much to give! 😊

Born in Venezuela, Juan went to Madeira Island as a child where he completed his school career. With great interest in physical activity and sport, he practiced volleyball for five years. With the goal of helping others and a job that would allow him to actively promote a healthy quality of life, Juan decided to enter the world of physiotherapy and graduated from the School of Health of Alcoitão in 2009.

Juan began his professional career at Clini7 in 2009 where he became a coordinator physiotherapist. With great experience mostly in the musculoskeletal area, he has rehabilitated several shoulder, knee and hip pathologies, always based on an approach that aimed at restoring maximum function. He is also experienced on pediatric respiratory physiotherapy. Amongst his extensive complementary education, it should be highlighted the participation in the Hip Symposium – 2nd Lisbon International Edition (2015), at Hospital da luz, where he had the possibility to deepen his knowledge on pathologies related to the hip.

Between 2014 and 2016 he followed training in Osteopathy and become a graduate in Osteoetiopathy – Manual Therapy according to the Osteoetiopathic Concept by the Académie de Thérapie Manuelle Ostéoétiopathique et Sportive, Belgium. He thus gained great tools within the fields of parietal, myotensive and visceral osteopathy; Craniosacral therapy, Dejarnette sacro-occipital therapy, Metameric kinesiology and Posturotherapy. In 2018 he also completed a specialization in pediatric osteopathy by Bwizer.

Today he is mainly devoted to osteopathy. In his consultations, named Manual Therapy and Body Realignment, he performs a careful evaluation based in a global approach (articular, muscular, neural, fascial and visceral), always seeking to identify the root of injury. The treatment allows rebalancing the body’s systems, restoring its normal function.

In 2018 he joined The Strength Clinic team where he is committed to improving people’s posture, through several body realignment techniques, optimizing performance in sports and in all activities of daily living.