Category Archives: Coach Michelle

Get Ready for the Trails - Trail Running

“Part 3 of 3: Get Ready for the Trails – Trail Running” by Coach Michelle

If you’ve been following my last few posts, you know that I’ve outlined training plans to get ready for mtn biking (click here to read) & hiking (click here to read).  Next up…prep for trail running!  Trails present runners with a few additional challenges not found in flat pavement running…like unpredictable surfaces filled with random

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Get Ready for the Trails - Mtn Biking

“Part 1 of 3: Get Ready for the Trails – Mtn Biking” by Coach Michelle

Finally!  Trail season is here!!  The sun is out, warmer temps have arrived & the trails are calling!!  No matter what your preferred dirt experience (mtn biking, hiking or running), now’s the time to do a bit of preparation to maximize fun & minimize injuries.  In this 3-part series we’ll dive into steps that you

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Four Key Habits to Improve Performance

“Four Key Habits to Improve Performance” by Coach Michelle

If you’re like most athletes one of your primary goals is to improve performance.  No matter how you define it – getting faster, getting leaner, getting stronger – athletes focus upward.  But improving performance requires that we do things just a bit different than the average.  It requires that we adopt small, but powerful, key

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Making Loud, Obnoxious "Juicy Mistakes"

“Making Loud, Obnoxious ‘Juicy Mistakes’!” by Coach Michelle

On Sun AM’s I coach 1-hr group technique sessions.  I look forward to these sessions every week primarily because we have time to experiment with all sorts of different ways to learn a skill.  Last session we worked making loud, obnoxious “juicy mistakes”.  What…you don’t know what “juicy mistakes” are?  Well, it’s a learning technique

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perceptions - real or not real

“Perceptions – Real or Not Real?” by Coach Michelle

Perceptions – real or not real?  That is the question!  The older I get the better I understand that the most helpful concepts are often counter intuitive.  Just think about the last time you were introduced to an idea that was 180-deg opposite of what you initially thought.  What did you do?  Bury your head

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