The Unit 27 Team

The Unit 27 Team

Motivating, knowledgeable, passionate and empathetic, Unit-27’s coaches are the best in the business when it comes to helping you reach the goals you’re personally looking for. We guarantee you will not find a better team, anywhere!

Qualified & Friendly instructors

Unit 27 Instructors are always polite, professional, helpful and highly motivated to work with you to achieve your most sought after fitness goals. Our Instructors are English speaking, western qualified, always approachable and guarantee to meet you with a smile! If you have trouble during a session, we will coach and encourage you to achieve the very best from yourself through positive reinforcement, form correction, motivational methods and prioritization of your standards and training goals.

An elite selection of fitness experts


Unit-27 Phuket Thailand Sean O'Brien

Sean O’ Brien – General Manager

Sean was born and raised in Ireland and has been in the fitness industry for over 6 years now. Sean graduated with an Honors degree in Strength & Conditioning from Setanta College Ireland. Sean has coached in some of Ireland's leading fitness gyms and moved to Thailand in 2023 to start his journey as coach and general manager at Unit 27. Sean has an intensive knowledge of working with sport te [...]

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cory gooch Strength and Conditioning Coach

Cory Gooch – S&C Instructor

Cory was born in Australia and has over 15 years experience in the fitness industry. He qualified as a Master Trainer from the Australian Institute of Fitness while also obtaining his Level 2 strength and conditioning coaching qualification. Cory has a background in swimming where he swam competitively for many years and also worked as surf lifesaver on the beautiful beaches of Sydney, Austral [...]

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tamika erkelens Strength and Conditioning Coach

Tamika Erkelens – Head Coach

With over a decade of experience in the fitness industry, Tamika brings a unique blend of expertise and passion for helping individuals achieve their goals. Her athletic foundation began at the age of 3 with gymnastics, followed by nearly a decade in martial arts, and eventually transitioning to CrossFit, where she has been immersed for the past 5 years. Currently, she is on an ambitious journ [...]

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jacque Strength and Conditioning Coach

Jacques Van Der Walt – S&C Instructor

Jacques was born in South Africa and has been in the fitness industry for 15 years. Jacques has been coaching in Asia for the last 8 years where he has most recently been based in Bali. He has a background in playing professional rugby and after suffering some injuries he ventured into coaching kids in both primary and secondary schools. Since then he has gained a wealth of knowledge coaching [...]

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Sarawut Ounin instructor at Unit 27 gym, Phuket, Thailand

Sarawut Ounin – S&C Instructor

Sarawut Ounin, also know as Oh or Mr. O is our longest standing Thai member of the team. Hailing from Sakolnakorn, Esan, he relocated to Phuket in 2008 to chase his bodybuilding dreams and in turn we were luckily enough to capture Oh from one of the local gyms. Throughout his time with us he’s blossomed into what can only be described as an outstanding gentleman and member of the team. Wi [...]

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Unit-27 Phuket Thailand Giggy

Giggy Inklin – S&C Instructor

Giggy is originally from Bangkok, and moved to Phuket in 2019. Started training and working out a few years prior but discovered CrossFit just before moving to Phuket and totally fell in love with it! Weightlifting is one of the most favorite parts of her daily training program, alongside gymnastics (especially handstand walks). Bringing a wealth of coaching knowledge along from her previous c [...]

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Fitness Phuket

Unit 27 commits itself every day to providing quality strength & conditioning and advanced fitness training here in Phuket, Thailand. With that in mind we also have a wealth of first class fitness, weight loss, conditioning, training and dietary advice available from our specialist instructors and coaches.

Check out the Unit 27 fitness Phuket blog for training tips, diet advice, weight loss, upcoming events and of course up to date news on what is going on at the Unit and other Unit 27 group facilities.

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Unit-27 Online Coaching Academy

Unit-27 6 Week Santa Shred

We at Unit-27 have come to the reality that we won't be seeing many of you by the end of the year, but we are ok with that, because we believe it's time now to offer you the next best thing, by bringing Unit-27 TO YOU! We are launching a 6 week online coaching programme that boasts all the utensils in which you wish you could have on a fitness app such as the below: To ensure that we can provide you guys with the best service possible we are only accepting 10 Troopers on initially for the Six Week Santa Shred! The Academy was born out of a desire to get online coaching in the pockets of everyone who needs it and in true Unit-27 [...]

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Blood Pressure, Stress & Maximal Results

The pressure of circulating blood on the walls of blood vessels. Most of this pressure is done by the heart pumping blood through the circulatory system. It’s expressed in terms of the systolic pressure, maximum during one heartbeat over diastolic pressure, minimum in between 2 heart beats. It is measures in millimetres of mercury (mmHg) above the surrounding atmospheric pressure. One of the easiest things that I like to use that really shows an insight into someone’s health health is blood pressure. Research shows that 68% of all mortality risk, occurs with a systolic blood pressure between 120 on 140 (Altern, 2002). Now if yo [...]

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Unit-27 Academy 4 Week Challenge!

We’d like to say a special thank you to the 300+ of you who took part in our 'Foundations Of a Transformation' online program last month. It was a huge success with some drastic results, massive lifestyle changes and an amazing community built along the way. We know that your time at Unit-27 is special but unfortunately represents a small % of your year. Our vision is to impact your health and fitness positively before and after you’ve left the Unit so keep your eyes peeled for more exciting announcements from us on how we’ll be doing just that. We look forward to welcoming Danielle with us in August for the Trooper on Tour, [...]

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