Health coaches for athletes
Compare 52 health coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are healthy habits, stress and burnout, nutrition and healthy eating and weight management. They most often work with athletes, professionals and parents. Most charge $75 to $150 per hour or session.
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Jenna Stewart
Jenna Stewart is a health and life coach who helps high-achieving professionals with chronic pain, anxiety and burnout. She is a former professional dancer and a licensed chef. She is also a myofascial release therapist, somatic practitioner and Reiki practitioner. Her healing practice is in Topanga, California. She teaches fascia release, breathwork, nervous system regulation and mindset work. Her clients include executives, medical professionals, first responders and a retired pro athlete.
Karen Bush
Karen Bush is a health and breathwork coach who helps stressed and high-achieving women, along with athletes and CEOs. She began her career in hospitals as a speech pathologist before moving into health coaching. She trained at Duke University Integrative Medicine and worked as a health coach at the Cleveland Clinic's Center for Functional Medicine. Today she runs a private virtual practice in Ohio and works with functional medicine providers in the US and UK.
Brock Bumgarner
Brock Bumgarner is a burnout and mental performance coach who helps sales professionals, business professionals and athletes. He holds a Master's degree in Mental Health Counseling and is trained in sport and performance psychology. Over the past 5 years he worked as a corporate wellness coach with four Fortune 100 companies. He uses neuroscience-based tools and guided meditations to build confidence, focus and burnout resilience. His work is coaching, not therapy.
Ankoor Naik
Ankoor Naik is a business coach who works one on one with founders, leaders and self-made professionals in Mumbai and Bengaluru. He has run over 10,000 coaching sessions and worked with more than 2000 entrepreneurs, leaders and professionals. He helps clients scale without burnout, make sharper decisions and build a clear direction. Some clients have stayed with him for 7 years, and he also works with their leadership teams.
Casey McNutt
Casey McNutt is a fitness and nutrition coach in the Augusta, Georgia area. Casey coaches clients on training, eating, and daily habits, and works with HYROX and hybrid athletes as a HYROX Academy certified performance coach. Casey holds a degree in Kinesiology and a master's in Biomechanics and Exercise Physiology. In October 2025, Casey opened Fit & Well CSRA, a small group and personal training studio in Evans.
Coach Cassata
Coach Cassata is a Texas-based coach who guides parents of young athletes through big decisions in youth sports. Coach Cassata also works with athletes on goals, confidence, communication and healthy routines. The background includes time as an international and NCAA Division I athlete, a college track coach, and a certified Texas PE and Health teacher. Coach Cassata has helped develop athletes who advanced to the Olympic level.
Dave Leach
Dave Leach is a Co-Active trained coach in Boulder, Colorado. She works with high-performing middle-aged men, small and medium business owners, and athletes who want big changes in their lives. Before coaching, she ran AIN Media Group, a 30 employee company that leads B2B news for the business aviation industry. She moved it from print ads to a mix of digital, print, and events. She is now the company's Board Chair.
Fitman
Fitman is a natural bodybuilding and physique coach in Abington, Pennsylvania. Fitman trains first-time competitors, natural athletes, experienced lifters, and men and women who want their best natural shape. Fitman is an NGA Pro and won the 2022 NGA Mr. Natural Philadelphia title. Fitman's system covers training, nutrition, peak week, and posing, and this coach works without steroids or prohormones at a private gym.
Greg Williams
Greg Williams is the founder of Rox Lyfe, a coaching business for HYROX and fitness racing athletes. He is a nutritionist who studies race tactics, race data, hybrid training and performance mindset. He cut his own HYROX finishing time by more than 20 minutes. He also commentates on the HYROX Elite races. Clients get personalised plans built by a coach athlete on his team, plus nutrition and race support.
Jamey Merkel
Jamey Merkel is a performance coach and personal trainer in Calgary, Canada. Jamey helps adults build strength, improve conditioning, and prepare for HYROX races. Work covers athletic performance, bodybuilding, strength and conditioning, and nutrition coaching. Jamey is certified by the HYROX Academy and has more than 10 years of experience. Clients train in person, online, or in a mix of both. A new studio is set to open in the Beltline in October 2026.
Julian Crooknorth
Julian Crooknorth runs P4M Coaching. He coaches adults who want to stay strong and capable as life gets busier, and athletes who race in HYROX, hybrid events, marathons and endurance running. He is an official HYROX Performance Coach and a Precision Nutrition Master Coach. His work rests on his own P4M NOVA Framework, which sets training intensity against recovery. He offers two paths, the Performance Club and the Hybrid Performance Club, and works with clients across Hampshire, Surrey and nearby areas.
Justin Harris
Justin Harris is a bodybuilding and powerlifting coach who runs Troponin Nutrition, a coaching and supplement company. He builds customized training and performance nutrition plans for serious athletes, from competitive bodybuilders and powerlifters to others chasing personal goals. He holds a Master's degree in Atomic Physics and a degree in Kinesiology. He won the 2004 Mr. Michigan overall title and the 2006 Jr. USAs superheavyweight class. He also offers carb cycling programs.
Lisa Rhyne
Lisa Rhyne is a fitness and nutrition coach in Huntersville, North Carolina. She trains athletes, busy entrepreneurs, dancers, moms, and people with muscle building or weight loss goals. Lisa is a former professional dancer who trained for two years at Broadway Dance Center in New York City. She blends strength training with Pilates-based core work. She built her method after fixing her own high cholesterol and body fat with lifting and eating more food.
Ryan Irwin
Ryan Irwin is a fitness and nutrition coach who helps bodybuilding and bikini competitors prepare for shows. He also works with people who want to lose fat and get back in shape without competing. He is the founder of Impact Action Coaching and has 2 decades of online and in-person coaching experience. He ran a natural bodybuilding competition in 2014. Some of his clients have earned pro cards with the International Pro Elite Bodybuilding Federation.
The Strength Guys
The Strength Guys is an online powerlifting coaching team for drug-free athletes. Coaches write custom programs, review lifting technique, and plan competition strategy. The team also offers nutrition coaching led by a Registered Dietitian and a rehab service for injured lifters. Clients range from novices to elite lifters, including world record holders. TSG also runs a University Team Coaching service for powerlifting teams and gives each client an athlete tracking system.
Thomas Lilley and John Sheaffe
Thomas Lilley and John Sheaffe run ZeroW, a powerlifting coaching business that offers online coaching, nutrition coaching and coach education. Thomas founded ZeroW in 2012 as a gym. It now has 11 gyms in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The team has coached over 1500 clients, including elite lifters like Colton Engelbrecht. They have produced more 1000kg totals than any other coaching business in the world.
Wendy Roberts
Wendy Roberts is a coaching psychologist who helps high achievers build mental fitness and wellbeing. Her clients include C-suite executives, lawyers, and elite and professional athletes. She worked as a corporate lawyer before moving into psychology, so she knows the pressure of high stakes jobs. She has published new research on wellbeing in cross-cultural psychology and sits on the editorial board of a journal on existential and positive psychology.
Aleksandra Miciul
Aleksandra Miciul is a life and mental performance coach who helps athletes, professionals and women who feel stuck or overwhelmed. She is a former Olympic swimmer who then worked 15 years in corporate real estate in London. She coaches on overthinking, confidence, focus and burnout. She works in London and online across the UK and abroad. Her sessions follow a simple path of clarity, a structured plan and steady action.
Ania Z.
Ania Z. is a run coach and personal trainer who helps women build strength through running and fitness. She runs Fierce Feminine Athletics in Toronto. Her training plans are built around female physiology, including the menstrual cycle when a client wants that. She works with beginner and intermediate athletes, from first-time runners to marathoners. She also teaches short strength and mobility classes and coaches all genders.
Forge
Forge is an online fitness, nutrition and habit coaching practice for busy people. The practice has run since 2017. Each client works with one coach who builds training, meals and habits around their schedule, injuries, equipment, food preferences and travel. Forge also offers GLP-1 coaching and a 90 day habit program. Clients stay 18 months on average.
Keven Connors
Keven Connors is a fitness coach on the Sunshine Coast in Australia. She runs Bulletproof Training Method, which offers small group coaching for people over 35. She has 20 years in the fitness industry and is a HYROX Academy certified performance coach. Her method starts with how well a client moves before adding hard training. She also helps clients work through chronic pain, and coaches HYROX and hybrid athletes.
Kristy Gonzalez
Kristy Gonzalez, who goes by Kris, is a fitness coach in Miami who runs KHAOS by KRIS. She trains HYROX and hybrid athletes and holds a HYROX Academy performance coach certification. She offers online and in-person personal training, private yoga and Pilates, and group fitness classes. Her training plans run 6 to 8 weeks and include mat Pilates or yoga for mobility and core work. She also hosts custom group workout events.
Michele Coleman
Michele Coleman is a college admissions and career counselor who helps students and families with the college search. She runs Coleman College Counseling as a sole owner, so each plan is built for the student and family. She also works with transfer students, college students who want career direction, and students applying to graduate and professional schools. Before this, she spent over 13 years in training, organizational development and outplacement. She works with athletes and arts students.
Miro Istvanik
Miro Istvanik is a personal trainer and performance coach who helps people build strength, lose weight, and prepare for HYROX and DEKA events. He runs Elite Edge Coaching and trains clients at Body By D Gym in Yorktown, Virginia. He holds a HYROX Academy certification. One client cut over 2 minutes from a DEKA Strong time in one month and placed 1st among men.
PerforMotion
PerforMotion is an exercise physiology and powerlifting coaching practice in Teneriffe, Brisbane. The team helps people move from pain and injury back to training, and coaches lifters who want to hit PRs. Clients range from competitive athletes to adults in their sixties getting stronger. Coaching runs online and in person. The practice also offers nutrition coaching, small group classes, and a recovery zone with an ice bath and sauna.
Sara Niblock
Sara Niblock is a kinesiologist and postpartum corrective exercise specialist in Canada. She coaches active moms through pregnancy, postpartum recovery and later strength training. She founded Mountain Mom Strong to close the gap between physiotherapy and a confident return to sport. Her programs rebuild the breath, pelvic floor and core, then add load and impact step by step. Many clients aim to return to hiking, trail running, mountain biking and snowboarding.
Tamara Hanegraaf
Tamara Hanegraaf is a sports nutritionist, personal trainer and HYROX performance coach in Melbourne, Australia. She runs Ember Nutrition and helps people fuel for performance or lose fat in a lasting way. Her clients include beginner endurance athletes and women who want to feel stronger. She holds HYROX Academy certification. Her coaching mixes nutrition, strength and endurance training, and mindset work. She trains for HYROX and half marathons herself.
Whitney Meza
Whitney Meza is a fitness and lifestyle coach who helps people with movement, eating habits, and mindset. Whitney has coached over 800 individuals and calls Whitney a movement specialist. Whitney's clients include competitive athletes, cancer survivors, grandparents, and pregnant and postpartum parents. Whitney runs Wellness Blueprint, an outdoor fitness studio in Somerville, Massachusetts, with group classes and one-on-one coaching. Whitney's coaching covers both training and the mental side, like time, emotions, and asking for a raise.
Ayren Honey
Ayren Honey is a personal trainer and HYROX coach in Edinburgh. Ayren works with busy professionals, first time gym goers and HYROX athletes. Sessions take place at The Gym Group at Waverley Gate in the city centre, and online coaching is also available. Ayren is a HYROX Academy certified performance coach. Training covers strength, engine work and race preparation, with personal programming instead of templates.
Nic Acampora
Nic Acampora is a running coach and biokineticist based in South Africa. He coaches runners of all levels, from a first 5km to ultra marathons. His work covers running plans, strength training and injury management. He holds an MSc in Sports Medicine. He also hosts the Making A Runner podcast, where he talks with coaches, sport scientists and nutritionists about training and staying healthy.
Reformance Training
Reformance Training is a coaching practice for powerlifters, strongman and strongwoman athletes, and other strength trainees. It covers programming, nutrition, technique, mental skills and meet strategy. Coaching runs online across the UK and in person in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. The team works on safe powerlifting weight cuts, rehydration and meet-day fueling. One athlete they coached on nutrition for a year is a 63kg world champion and world record holder.
Rory Mitchell
Rory Mitchell is a performance and wellness coach in New Jersey. He works with professionals, athletes, students and parents. He is the founder of MyStoryPath and wrote the book Tell Yourself a Better Story. He is a Preferred PSYCH-K Facilitator. His sessions focus on the subconscious beliefs and inner stories that shape how clients perform, feel and show up. He offers a free 20 minute intro conversation.
Simon Graham
Simon Graham is an online and in-person HYROX coach who helps hybrid athletes train and race stronger. He is an official HYROX Performance Coach and works from a private studio in Farnborough, Hampshire, near junction 4a of the M3. He builds plans for first-time racers and for people chasing a Worlds qualifying time. He also prepares clients for similar events, including DEKA, TRYKA and GYMRACE.
Kamini Wood
Kamini Wood is an anxiety and breathwork coach who helps high performers and overachievers. She is the creator of AuthenticMe and CEO of Live Joy Your Way. Her clients look at the beliefs that hold them back and build a new view of success that comes from within. She is trained in internal family systems, cognitive behavioral based coaching and acceptance and commitment based coaching. She also holds certifications in high performance and wellness coaching.
Kimberly Zimmerman
Kimberly Zimmerman is an accountability and anxiety coach who helps women, busy moms, teens and athletes build more joy and health into daily life. She has worked with hundreds of clients. She also runs The Juicy Life in the Santa Ynez Valley, a wellness company that offers retreats, yoga, guided hikes and cold-pressed juices. Her coaching mixes mindset, movement, mindfulness and lifestyle changes.
Lindsey Parry
Lindsey Parry runs Coach Parry, a South African running coaching business for runners at every level. The team builds training plans for distances from 5K to ultra marathons and adds strength work and recovery to each plan. It offers plans for runners over 50, a plan for women in menopause, and a Comrades Marathon plan. Runners can pick a plan library, a group coaching option, or one-on-one coaching with weekly video or phone calls.
Daniel Williams
Daniel Williams is a performance coach in Miami who trains HYROX and hybrid athletes. He holds a HYROX Academy certification. He has 22 years of one-on-one training, group instructing and sports performance coaching. He helps clients find an event to train for, so their workouts have a clear purpose. His work also includes online programming and wellness coaching, and he teaches classes under the name Fitness By Coach D.
J3 University
J3 University is an online education and coaching service for bodybuilding and physique athletes. It is led by IFBB Pro John Jewett. It teaches competitors and coaches how to train, eat, and prepare for the stage. Offers include courses, training programs, and one-on-one coaching. Coaching covers training, nutrition, supplement strategy, and weekly oversight. It also has a female physique module built for women who train or compete.
Nakita Savant
Nakita Savant is an accountability and anxiety coach in Minnesota. She works with adults on stress, life changes, health, career and relationships. She is a Certified Therapeutic Coach and a BioEnergetic Practitioner. She also coaches on baby sleep and eating disorders. Her sessions mix NLP, Jungian psychology and health methods, and she sets the pace to match each client.
Sage Canaday
Sage Canaday is an elite runner who runs Higher Running, a coaching company in Colorado. The team coaches road runners, trail runners and ultrarunners at any distance, from the 5km to 100 miles. Each athlete gets one dedicated coach. Clients have set personal bests, qualified for Boston and won races. Higher Running also sells training plans for the 5km to 10km, half marathon, marathon and ultra distances.
Julie Bergfeld
Julie Bergfeld is a fitness and health coach in Missouri who helps athletes and older adults. She runs Get Mobile, a practice built around mind, body and metabolism. Julie is a registered yoga teacher and an athlete. She spent many years working in technology, academia and fitness. She holds an ACC credential and is a Certified Human Potential Coach and Nutrition Coach. Her coaching helps people build or regain mobility.
Laura Lee
Laura Lee is a career, leadership, and health and life coach based in Hawaii. She helps students and professionals choose a career direction, grow as leaders, and build healthier habits. She has coached clients through new careers, reorganizations, and downsizing. She holds MBTI and Strong Interest Inventory certifications, so she can use personality and interest assessments in her work. She also facilitates teams that need to set shared goals.
Anna Roach
Anna Roach is a mindset coach who works with LGBTQ+ athletes. She helps them move past mental blocks and step into their full potential with confidence. Her main offer is a 10 week one-on-one program built around shadow work, boundary work, and higher self work. She treats "athlete" as a state of mind, so clients do not need to be playing a sport now to work with her.
Ben Patrick
Ben Patrick is the founder of ATG (Athletic Truth Group), an online gym that coaches exercise form and builds programs for knee pain, back pain and athletic longevity. He is known as the Knees Over Toes Guy. He has trained 1000 people in person, including some of the most famous athletes in the world. Today his app-based programs and coaches serve over 100,000 people, with form checks seven days a week.
Greg Everett
Greg Everett is an Olympic weightlifting coach and author who runs Catalyst Athletics in California. He coaches lifters through online programming and video technique feedback. He started Catalyst Athletics in 2006. His programs have been used by over 110,824 athletes. His team lifters include world championships competitors, Pan Am and European championships medalists, national champions and national record holders. He also offers seminars, courses and coach certification.
Jason Dupree
Jason Dupree is a strength and conditioning and nutrition coach who runs Phase Coaching. He works with athletes from many sports, including lifting, team sports, endurance, combat sports and hybrid racing. Hyrox is his main specialty, and he holds a HYROX Academy performance coach certification. He has coached for more than 12 years and started in 2014. He trains people online and in person in the North Austin area.
Bryce Krawczyk
Bryce Krawczyk is a powerlifting coach and the founder of Calgary Barbell, a Calgary team that coaches lifters online. Bryce started the business in 2015 and works as owner and head coach. The team coaches people picking up a barbell for the first time and lifters who compete at a high level. Coaching covers custom programming, technique review by video, and nutrition. Bryce built the business to offer the quality coaching that was lacking when first starting to lift.
Claire Pagan
Claire Pagan is a performance coach who trains runners, lifters and HYROX athletes through Steadfast Coaching. She holds certifications as a personal trainer, run coach and nutrition coach, plus a Level 2 HYROX Performance Coach credential. She works one on one with clients in the Orlando area of Central Florida. Her coaching includes custom training plans, performance testing and running form analysis. She also builds her coaching around Christian faith.
Sean Carr
Sean Carr is a performance coach who works with HYROX competitors and hybrid athletes. He runs DeNovo Longevity and holds HYROX Level 2, sports nutrition and peptide specialist certifications. His programs use measured data, not estimates, such as metabolic field testing and cellular energy labs. He coaches remotely in all 50 states and in person in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Coach Junior
Coach Junior is a San Francisco fitness team that offers in-home personal training, running coaching, and corporate wellness programs. Trainers come to the client's home or train outdoors. One-on-one sessions focus on strength, fat loss, and steady habits. The team also leads corporate running groups, yoga, and silent headphone meditation for workplaces. The team says its work bridges rehabilitation and peak performance.
John Jodlowski
John Jodlowski is a health, weight loss and fitness coach in Illinois. He also works as an accountability coach. He spent 30 years in finance before he became a certified health coach. He is a Level 1 CrossFit Coach and a Primal Health Coach Institute graduate. He uses a four-pillar program to help clients beat diet fatigue, feel better about how they look, and enjoy life more.
Mark Bodo
Mark Bodo is a life, health and fitness, and performance coach in Johnson City, Tennessee. He helps athletes with the mental side of their sport. He also works with teams on cohesion and success. He coaches non-athletes who want to reach life and health goals and get past limiting beliefs. He holds a master's degree and is a Certified Sports Psychology Coach.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Jenna Stewart | Stress and burnout and Chronic conditions | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Karen Bush | Functional and integrative health and Stress and burnout | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Brock Bumgarner | Stress and burnout and Healthy habits | $140 to $225 an hour |
| Ankoor Naik | Business coach for founders and leaders in Mumbai and Bengaluru | $85 to $160 an hour |
| Casey McNutt | Nutrition and healthy eating and Healthy habits | $95 to $175 an hour |
| Coach Cassata | Coach for parents of young athletes in Spring, Texas | $75 to $100 per hour |
| Dave Leach | Burnout and business coach for middle-aged men and business owners | $160 to $290 an hour |
| Fitman | Natural bodybuilding and physique coach in Abington, near Philadelphia | $90 to $150 an hour |
| Greg Williams | Nutrition and healthy eating | $75 to $175 an hour |
| Jamey Merkel | HYROX and strength performance coach in Calgary and online | $80 to $175 an hour |
| Julian Crooknorth | Healthy habits and Sleep | $80 to $175 an hour |
| Justin Harris | Bodybuilding and powerlifting nutrition coach, founder of Troponin Nutrition | $85 to $150 an hour |
| Lisa Rhyne | Nutrition and healthy eating and Weight management | $110 to $190 an hour |
| Ryan Irwin | Contest prep and fitness coach for bodybuilding competitors | $80 to $175 an hour |
| The Strength Guys | Nutrition and healthy eating | $65 to $125 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a health coach cost?
Most health coaches charge $75 to $150 per hour or session.
Can I work with a health coach online?
Yes. Of the health coaches on this page who say how they work, 84% offer online sessions.
What else do these health coaches help with?
Common focus areas include healthy habits, stress and burnout, nutrition and healthy eating and weight management.
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Last updated September 2026.