What Sport Do You Want Help With?

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How Do You Want To Work Together?

How does 1-on-1 coaching work?

Whether online or in-person, every bit of training is planned for you.
My job as your coach is to adapt training to your schedule and your life.
That means I’ll account for what equipment you have, what facilities you can access, and what best serves your goal from the beginning.
Every time we communicate (via comments on your training sessions, in monthly check-ins, and by phone when you need me), I’ll modify and update your training so you don’t ever have to wonder what to work on next.

You just focus on executing so you can get better.
Coaching is the way to guarantee that you have your healthiest, fastest, most powerful season yet. We work together for as little as 3 months and for as long as I’m helpful to you so you always have the support you need no matter how far out the season is or how long it lasts.

Other Coaching Services I Offer

• Technique & Speed Coaching for High School Hurdlers
  For Denver-area high school athletes who don’t have a hurdle coach at their school or want extra practice before the season.
• Online Training for WNB Club Ultimate
  For semi-pro and club WNB ultimate players to access a professional speed & strength training plan at lower cost.

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Services I Do NOT Offer

• Strength & conditioning coaching for endurance sports
  There are plenty of amazing endurance coaches who understand strength training.
• Technical coaching for weightlifting, powerlifting, or CrossFit
  There is no substitute for a dedicated lifting coach in the strength sports.
• Personal training for general fitness
  If you don’t have a competitive season, I’m not the right coach for you.
• Injury diagnosis or rehabilitation
  Go see a medical doctor, physical therapist, or chiropractor!
  I help you perform after you get initial care.

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About Coach Dunte

I’m Dunte.

Over the years, I’ve struggled with what felt like mutually exclusive arrangements: the corporate professional and the rabble-rousing contrarian; the injured hurdler and the obsessive fixer; the hyper-social introvert and the home gym user with an IG account.

It turns out that all the things I love come together in the area of human performance.
I love both physical performance and emotional health.
I love reading both historical and emergent research.
I love to solve tricky problems.
And I love helping people.

So I coach athletes who want more than a training plan.
I coach people who want to be seen and heard as human first, athlete second.
It’s the gift I’ve been given and my way of serving the world.

But it isn’t a story of successes or victories that led me to coaching athletic performance. I haven’t been world-class. I haven’t been a professional athlete. I haven’t won any championships.

I got here because I was never the athlete I knew I could be.

In my high school years, I fell below my potential because I never had guidance in the sports I cared about. The motto in my school was “lift heavy, get big, work hard” then everything would somehow work out. But we didn’t get technique corrections, we didn’t get training plans, and we didn’t get any personalized attention at all. While I thrived as a football player, I floundered as a sprint hurdler, despite that being where my heart was.

In my college years, I fell below my potential because I never stuck to a sport long enough to master it — in fact, I didn’t understand what mastery even was; only that I lacked it. My approach was to learn the foundations of a sport, hit my first plateau, then quit the sport to chase a new shiny object. That helped expose me to dozens of sports, but it cut my rise far short of my capability. I was always stronger, faster, leaner, and smarter than my performance indicated, so I was a chronic underperformer despite having enormous potential.

And in my adult years, I have fallen below my potential because I rushed to “catch up” in training. I have pushed too heavy, too hard, and too often several times over. The result has been both minor and catastrophic overuse injuries; it has been both acute and chronic pain.

But these are the years when everything has come around.
As I gained and lost the trust of athletes…
As I studied and stole from the best coaches…
And as I devoured research on human performance…

I developed a renegade perspective on training.

Now my athletes grow and thrive in…

• Masters track & field
• club and pro ultimate
• club rugby
• league soccer
• league flag football
• Highland Games
  and a few other sports!

Now my own performance is marching steadily higher in Masters sprint hurdles.
And now I understand how to repeat that success.

If you’re here, it’s because you’re on an athletic journey of your own.
You may be wondering how you’ll ever get back on the field after your second knee surgery.
You may be hungry to make a top club squad.
You may be starting a new sport.
You may have never experienced personalized, structured training.

Welcome. You deserve a chance to love training for and competing in your sport. You deserve love, support, encouragement, and guidance.

If you’d like my help, let’s talk.