Instructor Bio

Michelle K.

Team Extreme

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A distance runner and a multi-sport athlete, Michelle, a proud mother of a grown son, and a 3-year old grandson, is another member of our team, who believes in striking a balance between one’s emotional, spiritual and physical nature.

Fit for nearly 4 decades, she was suddenly stricken with an immune-system disorder that was diagnosed back in 2000.  Though she had been running since the age of 10, and became a cross-country aficionado by her teens, nothing could prepare her for what she did not have control over.  So, she sought and heavily pursued any homeopathic option that would neutralize her condition, while avoiding any prescription drug that was recommended. 

Michelle has demonstrated this symbiotic relationship by seeking answers to alternatives that could nurse her back to health in a fashion that was not evasive to her body.  She is now in remission (and has been for nearly 10 years), and attributes healthy eating, combined with a moderate to regular exercise routine to not only keeping her body in balance, but allowing it to function like the beautifully built furnace it is suppose to be.  One of her personal philosophies, she states, is that  “God designed our bodies to function off what he built best --- natural and raw foods that are not conjured up with all kinds of fillers and make-believe" nutrients.” 

Because Michelle has a wide variety of experience in multiple-sport, weight-lifting and nutritional knowledge, she offers a different element to her training methods and class instruction and complements our exercise & nutritional programs quite well.  She heads up our “Run-for-Fun” group and is greatly qualified to take even the most basic walker/runner to new heights, achieving milestones they never thought they would reach.   She also serves as an alternate boot-camp instructor.

She is a patient and kind instructor, but will also push you to tap past the tolerance (or plateau) you have grown accustomed to.  As she so boldly confesses, “I expect you to expect the best of yourself and nothing less.”