ABOUT US

MATS stands for Motion Awareness Training Studio — and the middle word is the one that matters. Most people don't need a harder workout. They need to understand how their own body moves, and then build strength on top of that.

 

Our founder, Zeynep Karakas, has been coaching since 2009. She came to training as an athlete first — a basketball player — and then studied it formally, earning her degree in Coaching Education from the Faculty of Sport Sciences at Marmara University in Istanbul. She is NASM-certified and holds Balanced Body Pilates Level 1 and 2 certifications, which is where the movement-quality side of MATS comes from: strength work that respects how the body is actually built to move.

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For years she built programs one client at a time. Personal training works — the programming is specific, the coaching is close, and the results show up. But it prices out most of the people who need it most.

 

MATS Boston started as the answer to that. Same programming, same attention, same coaching — delivered in small groups so it costs a fraction of one-on-one training. Classes cap at 10 people, so nobody gets lost in the room. Your coach knows your name, your history, and what you lifted last week.

 

We train adults of every level — people getting back to strength after years away, people who've never touched a barbell, people who want to keep doing what they love for another thirty years.

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You don't need to be fit to start. That's what we're here for.

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