PhD & Master’s
Sports Physiology, Islamic Azad University of Tehran. PhD completed in 2022.
Mehras Ayazi · PhD in Sports Physiology
Science in the plan.
Science in the plan.
Precision in the execution.
Mehras combines academic exercise physiology, more than fifteen years of professional coaching experience and a lifelong martial-arts background to create training that works in real life.
15+ Years CoachingPhD Sports PhysiologyDubai In-person & online
The coaching philosophyBuilt on science.
Built on science.
Designed around the person.
Mehras does not start with a template. He starts with the client: training history, health context, schedule, recovery, available equipment and the outcome that matters most.
The method combines structured progression with practical flexibility. The goal is not a short burst of motivation; it is sustainable weight management, greater confidence and a complete transformation of body and lifestyle.
- Personalized programming rather than generic routines
- Evidence-led decisions without unrealistic promises
- Direct feedback and accountable follow-up
- Training that adapts to real schedules and real constraints
Professional foundationAcademic depth.
Academic depth.
Competitive discipline.
15+ Years
Personal training, functional training, CrossFit and combat sports.
International Level
International and Asian-level competitive achievements in kickboxing.
Published Author
Co-author of peer-reviewed research published by Wiley.
A long-term athletic path
From martial arts to scientific coaching.
Mehras began martial arts in 2001 and expanded his practice through karate, kickboxing, Muay Thai, boxing, taekwondo and fitness. The discipline of competition later merged with formal education in exercise physiology and professional coaching.
Today, that background informs a precise but approachable coaching style for clients of different ages and experience levels.
Martial-arts journey begins.
International and Asian-level competitive achievements.
Professional fitness and personal-training practice.
PhD in Sports Physiology completed.
Premium coaching in Downtown Dubai and online worldwide.
Your first step
Start with a free 10–15 minute consultation.
Discuss your goal, training context and the most suitable path before making a purchase.
What a PhD in sports physiology actually changes
Most personal trainers hold a certification earned over weeks. A doctorate in sports physiology takes years, and the difference is less about knowing more facts than about knowing how claims are tested.
In practice it shows up in three ways. Mehras can read the primary research rather than the summary of it, which matters in an industry where a single small study becomes a confident headline within days. He can tell the difference between a finding that holds across populations and one that applied to twenty trained men in a laboratory. And he can say that the evidence here is weak without it threatening his authority, because the authority does not rest on certainty.
It also sets a limit worth stating. Exercise physiology is not clinical medicine. Coaching here works alongside your doctor where a medical condition is involved, never instead of them.
From competition to coaching
Mehras began martial arts in 2001 and competed at international and Asian level in kickboxing, training across karate, Muay Thai, boxing and taekwondo along the way. Competitive sport teaches things an academic route does not: what sustained training actually costs, how performance behaves under pressure, and what it is like to be the person being coached rather than the one coaching.
The formal study came later, with a Master’s and then a PhD in Sports Physiology at Islamic Azad University of Tehran, completed in 2022, alongside a background in industrial engineering. That combination explains a coaching style that is systematic without being clinical.
Research, not just reading it
Mehras is a co-author of peer-reviewed research published in Environmental Toxicology, a Wiley journal, on aerobic exercise and liver injury. Contributing to published research is a different discipline from consuming it: methods get scrutinised, claims get challenged, and conclusions are constrained by what the data supports.
That habit carries into coaching. It is why you will hear what the evidence suggests rather than what it proves, and why the programme changes when the results say it should.
How that reaches you
None of it is of any use if it stays academic. What a client experiences is a programme built from their own training history and schedule, adjusted from logged evidence, with a coach who explains the reasoning rather than issuing instructions.
The approach suits people who want to understand why they are doing something. It suits people who have been failed by generic plans. It is a poor fit for anyone wanting a guaranteed number by a fixed date, because that is not a promise an honest coach can make.
Based in Dubai, coaching in English and Persian
Mehras coaches in person across Downtown Dubai, the Burj Khalifa area and Business Bay, and online with clients elsewhere. Sessions are delivered in English or Persian.
Dubai’s training population is unusually international, with varied schedules, travel patterns and food environments, and programmes are built for those realities rather than for an idealised week.