I’m Dunja. I’m a personal trainer in Dubai with a degree from the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education in Serbia. I train women whose bodies stopped answering to the usual advice, often because of PCOS or menopause. I come to your home or your gym.
You are doing what you were told. You eat less. You walk more. You train when you can. The scale barely moves, and when it does it comes back.
That is the point where most women are told to try harder. Dunja starts somewhere else. She looks at what your body is actually dealing with, then builds training that works with it instead of against it.
Two different things. Both change what your training should look like. Neither means you are stuck.
Many women with PCOS deal with insulin resistance. Your body handles carbohydrate and stores fat differently, so the plan that worked for your friend can do very little for you. Cutting food further usually makes it worse, not better.
Lifting comes first. Muscle gives your body somewhere to put glucose, which is the part most plans ignore. Sessions are built so you finish strong rather than wrecked, because long punishing cardio tends to backfire here.
Strength and bone density drop faster in these years. Sleep gets worse, recovery slows, and the same effort gives less back. Training that ignores all of this leaves you sore and no further forward.
Heavier work in the right doses, with real rest between it. The aim is strength you keep and bone you protect, not a number on a scale that week. Progress is slower to see and holds far better.
To be clear about what this is. There is no coaching certificate for PCOS or menopause anywhere, and Dunja does not claim one. What she has is a degree in sport and physical education and years of coaching women through both. She is not a doctor and does not treat either condition. She trains you around your diagnosis and around whatever your doctor has told you. If something needs medical attention, she will say so.
Dunja studied at the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education in Serbia. That is a full university degree in how bodies train, recover and adapt, not a weekend course.
She has coached for more than ten years. Boxing and kickboxing for most of it, which is where she learned to teach a movement properly and to read whether someone is actually coping with the work in front of them.
Today most of her clients are women in Dubai who want to feel strong and lose fat, and a good number of them are working around PCOS or menopause. She also coaches kids, toddlers and teenagers, which is a different job entirely and one she enjoys.
She trains you at your home, your building gym or a private studio. Sessions run in English.
Strength first, food you can live with, and a plan that accounts for insulin resistance instead of pretending it is not there.
Keeping strength and bone while recovery is harder. Sensible loading, real rest, progress measured over months.
The everyday goal. Lift, eat enough, stay consistent. Shape comes from the muscle underneath it.
Ten years of coaching it. Real technique, proper conditioning, and it is far better fun than a treadmill. See our boxing and kickboxing training.
From toddlers to teens. Movement, coordination and confidence, at an age where sport should still feel like play.
She brings what the session needs. Your living room, your building gym or a studio, anywhere in Dubai. See at-home personal training.
The best plan is the one you are still doing in six months. She builds for that, then adds weight as you earn it.
Tell her your goal, your health history and what your week looks like. If PCOS or menopause is part of it, say so. It changes the plan.
At your place or your gym. She assesses how you move and how you handle load, then you train.
Training built around your body and your calendar, with food guidance that survives real life in Dubai.
There is no certification anywhere for coaching PCOS or menopause, and Dunja does not claim one. That work rests on the degree above and on years of coaching women through both.
It helps with what PCOS does to you. Strength work improves how your body handles glucose, and that is the part most plans miss. It is not a cure and nobody should tell you it is. Keep seeing your doctor.
Because the same effort gives less back now. Recovery is slower and strength drops faster. The fix is usually not more cardio. It is lifting properly, eating enough protein and resting enough to absorb the work.
No. Plenty of women train with her while they are still working it out with a doctor. Tell her what you know and she will train around it.
No. Muscle builds slowly. What you will notice first is your clothes fitting differently and lifting things that used to be hard.
No. She trains clients at home, in building gyms and in private studios across Dubai. She brings what the session needs.
Yes. Toddlers through teenagers. That is coaching movement and confidence, not adult training made smaller.
One free call. Tell her your goal and what your body is dealing with. If someone else on the team fits you better, she will say so.