I started in this field in 2008, as a personal trainer in Delhi NCR — the ground-floor work most people never see. By 2012, that work had led to training elite athletes, including MS Dhoni. That world taught me what real performance tracking looks like — nothing left to guesswork.
Then my mother was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, and the doctors had no answers beyond medication management. I refused to accept that. It turned my career into an obsession with root causes — why bodies stop responding, what's actually happening inside when effort stops working.
Certified Metabolic Analytics Practitioner — certified by Strength Sensei (Charles Poliquin's company), 2021.
This is the exact methodology I use to read what's actually happening in your body — correlating where you're storing fat with the hormonal imbalances driving it, rather than guessing from a generic checklist. For a man who's already tried diets and trainers that treated the symptom, not the cause, this is the difference between another attempt and an actual answer.
Fitness Gurukul began in Delhi in 2012, co-founded with my brother Sachin. In 2014, I moved to Dubai, and in 2019 launched Barkat Al Noor — the company Fitness Gurukul Global now operates under.
Fitness Gurukul Global provides 1:1 lifestyle and root-cause mentorship for Indian men managing weight and metabolic conditions — direct with Manish, personally, every client.