Akin Akman

Akin Akman was born on April 20, 1987, in Miami, Florida. 

 

Akin Akman is a fun-loving model and fitness trainer who became the in-demand SoulCycle instructor for New York’s top socialites. He has been featured on several magazine covers and participated in different campaigns. He has modeled for brands like Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, and other international brands.

 

When he was a little boy, his mother used to dress him up and take pictures of him. This is how it all started for the modeling world’s newest heartthro-at only eight years old! The infant grew into adulthood, living and growing up in Izmir, Turkey, before moving back home where people knew what kind of success awaited them with their handsome faces and figures.

 

On August 24, 2015, as part of the promotion of the famous brand Tommy Hilfiger, Akin Akman and Rafael Nadal played “strip tennis” at the Global Brand Ambassadorship which was at Bryant Park, located in New York City. 

 

Before becoming famous, Akin Akman grew up training to be a professional tennis player at the IMG Academy, but he was forced into shelving those dreams after he had herniated two discs in his back. However, young Akin did not give up at that moment, and after lots of intensive physical therapies, he was finally able to get back to his favorite hobby and achieve his goals and dreams. After his recovery he attended Florida Atlantic University on a tennis scholarship and studied graphic design, also Akman studied sports medicine.

 

Akin was one of SoulCycle’s instructors. SoulCycle is an indoor cycling class with high-intensity cardio, muscle-sculpting strength training, and rhythm-based choreography. Akin Akman, a former tennis player, began teaching at Soul in 2009 despite being reluctant to take on the coach role. “I wanted to be a number one athlete, the star – not the coach, and I saw that as a negative thing,” he told Business of Fashion in early 2017. “But I had to take advantage of all of these skills that I had worked towards my whole life, it started building so organically, that I was teaching things I had been since I was a child”. 

 

To create his own, Akin left SoulCycle. He wrote on his Instagram, “ I want to thank the entire SoulCycle team and community for being such a solid part of my journey during this important chapter. It has been an honor to coach so many passionate athletes and to be a part of such a strong culture. However, my philosophy in life and my brand is constant progress. It is that unrelenting faith in your ability to create. It is to lead by example, and this is my breakthrough to the next level…”.

 

Now Akin has his fitness studio called “AARMY” which has an Instagram account aarmy, with over 100K followers.

 

Akin Akman is also famous as akiniko, which is the nickname of his Instagram account akiniko. On Instagram, Akin has about 74K followers. 

 

Akin’s wife is Necat Akman, a creative director, designer, and stylist. Her Instagram account is necan_akman. Akin and Necat have a daughter, whose name is Naya.