ONYA coaching
Strong. Calm. Alive
Strength you can live in.
Energy that doesn’t burn out.
Whole-person online coaching for people 40+
For those who want strength and performance with energy that lasts.
For those who are done with pushing, crashing, and starting over.​​
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Age-group athletes building power, stability, and performance that doesn’t break them down.
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Active adults rebuilding muscle, bone density, and usable strength for the long term.
We train in a way the body can respond to.
No wasted effort or miles.
Strength you don’t have to fight for.
Why Onya
I trained the way most people do. Hard. Constant. Without stopping long enough to ask whether the work was actually doing what I thought it was. It looked like discipline. It was just burnout with good branding. The body holds the score on that, every time.
Strength built on tension doesn’t last.
Endurance built on depletion doesn’t hold.
You can push for a long time, until you can’t because once the system shuts down, there is no negotiation.I changed the way I trained. Maybe because of a revelation but mainly because there was no capacity left to keep forcing it and ignoring what I already knew. When the work started matching what the body could absorb, everything shifted. Energy came back. Power increased. Training stopped being something I survived and became something that built me.
ONYA is built from that understanding.
I coach people in their 40s and beyond who want strength, performance, and capacity they can sustain. Age-group athletes who want power without the crash. Active adults who want muscle, bone density, and stability that actually supports their life. We build it in a way that works with your current reality, not against it.
This is not about effort. You already have that.
This is about training your body can adapt to.
Work that lands. Progress that holds. Strength that lasts.​
A Whole-System Approach
We train the whole system, not the parts.
Breath. Posture. Load. Capacity. Output.
Everything connected. Nothing wasted.Training That Adjusts With You
Your plan shifts with your life, your energy, your season, your recovery.
Not the other way around.Strength You Can Live In
Whether you’re building for a race, the saddle, a podium, or the next decade of your life — the strength you build here stays.​ Strength you don’t have to fight for.
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Empower
Growth
I’m a Team GB age-group athlete in long-distance triathlon and international-level stand-up paddle racing. Before that, I spent many years as a professional show jumper and dressage rider. Horses were my first teachers in feel, timing, posture, balance — and power without force. My athletic background spans modern pentathlon, distance running, and endurance sport. An equestrian accident and the spinal surgery that followed changed my direction but not my nature. I rebuilt myself using strength and conditioning — slowly, patiently, in conversation with my nervous system — learning how to run, lift, and compete again while managing nerve damage. I have been coaching for over 25 years, with qualifications across strength and conditioning, personal training, nutrition, performance coaching in SUP racing, and senior-level equestrian coaching. My work has always sat at the intersection of performance, movement quality, recovery, and the reality of life. I understand what it takes to chase a goal. The structure. The training load. The self-doubt. The resilience. The setbacks that make you question everything. The moments of surprising strength that remind you why you began. The deep pull to feel capable and alive in your body. My coaching isn’t about pushing harder. It’s about training in a way your body can absorb, recover from, and sustain — so you can perform at a high level without losing yourself to the process.
