Meet Abdulrahman Mohammad

We had the good fortune of connecting with Abdulrahman Mohammad and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Abdulrahman, how do you think about risk?
Everything should be determined objectively. Obviously, some risk is necessary for your growth to be feasible. So, how do we minimize risk and maximize reward? We must first quantify both to develop the proper schematics.

Risk = Likelihood x Impact
Reward = r (current status, action of agent); r = function of reward
Risk vs Reward Ratio = Reward / Risk

A variety of variables are at play here; including time, stress, goals, etc. And we ought to remember that the ultimate goal of man is happiness.

What should our readers know about your business?
My story is split across two very different, but equally personal, pursuits: competitive fitness and telecommunications engineering.

On one hand, I run a personal training business where I coach clients in powerlifting, calisthenics, and transformation-based training. What sets me apart is not just the physical results I deliver — it’s the mindset I teach. Every client I train is guided toward discipline, optimal growth, and intelligent intensity. I don’t yell motivational quotes — I engineer performance through precision and accountability. I compete myself in powerlifting and weighted calisthenics, and I apply the same standard to my clients that I do to myself. There’s nothing cookie-cutter about my approach. Everything is tailored, and everything is earned.

On the other hand, I’m preparing to launch a startup called Elysium, a company that will serve as an engineering backbone for 5G and advanced wireless systems. We aim to support telecom providers in antenna design, RF optimization, and strategic deployment of high-efficiency infrastructure. My background in electromagnetics, antenna design, and field experience with global firms like Turkcell gives me a deep edge. The vision is to bring integrity and clarity into a field often bogged down by overpricing and underdelivery.

Getting to where I am today was not easy. I didn’t have funding, connections, or a network to lean on. I had to learn, fail, pivot, and build from scratch — both in fitness and engineering. I learned how to be uncomfortable and how to use that discomfort as fuel. Whether it was training clients after working long hours, or studying telecom systems while others were asleep, I built this path with relentless consistency.

What I want the world to know is this: everything I do — whether it’s transforming someone’s health or helping build the infrastructure of the future — is grounded in the same values. Precision. Ambition. No excuses. Just results.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
If my best friend came to visit Houston for a week, it wouldn’t be about showing them the city. It would be about pulling them into my rhythm — a week of precision, growth, and output.

We’d start each day with a working breakfast at places like Blacksmith, Agora, or Throughgood Coffee. This isn’t “catching up” — it’s strategy. We’d crack open Notion boards and Figma mockups, analyze our next moves, and audit performance metrics.

For my fitness business, we’d review content plans, refine online client programming systems, discuss biomechanics, and test new onboarding funnels for online coaching. We’d film progressions and training breakdowns at Hank’s Gym or Momentum Indoor Climbing for raw, authentic footage — not staged, but real effort. We’d split time between analyzing hypertrophy periodization for competitors, and outlining scripts for Reels to highlight training philosophy and client wins.

Afternoons would shift to my engineering business. I’d walk them through high-level architecture for antenna manufacturing pipelines, RF planning algorithms, and how AI integrates into telecom deployment. We’d mock up pitch decks targeting defense, 5G, and biomedical firms. One session might be spent cold-emailing directors at NASA or Qualcomm. Another might be hours whiteboarding antenna geometry optimizations using ML models. We’d have meetings with professors, investors, or product partners. This isn’t theoretical — it’s execution.

Evenings would be high-stim. Either a heavy calisthenics or powerlifting session — pushing maxes, refining technique, logging data. Afterwards, we’d reflect over Turkish food at Aladdin or get protein-heavy recovery meals from Local Foods. And we’d keep talking — about market positioning, B2B outreach, simulation results, or which company needs to be dismantled next with a better idea.

This wouldn’t be a vacation. It’d be a crucible. A forge. That’s how I live — and I only keep people around me who get that.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
If there’s anyone I want to dedicate this shoutout to — it’s myself.

I say that not out of pride, but out of honesty. I didn’t grow up with a safety net. I didn’t have a mentor guiding my every move, or a network opening doors for me. What I did have was a relentless willingness to learn, to fall, and to get back up sharper every time.

I taught myself how to think critically, how to train with purpose, how to build, how to lead — and how to keep going when no one believed in me. I stayed up late studying systems I wasn’t taught, training my body when no one was watching, and investing in skills when everyone else said it was unrealistic.

Every win I’ve had came from that hunger. Every loss I’ve faced became fuel. I had to be my own teacher, my own support system, and at times, my own source of hope.

So this is a shoutout to the version of me who refused to quit, even when quitting would have been easier. The version who believed there was something greater out there — and that I could become the kind of person who would one day reach it.

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