Kettlebell coaching, sports performance, and trauma-informed training for the people fitness culture keeps failing. Resilience is a skill. I'll teach you.
Founder · Coach · NYC
Movement has always been my life. I was an elite rhythmic gymnast and made it to the Junior Olympics, and a back injury there ended my career. What followed were hard years: depression, anxiety, PTSD, and eating disorders.
At nineteen I found movement again, and in the truest sense of the words, fitness saved my life. It was the biggest gift I've ever received, so I left my acting career to become a personal trainer and share it. That was eight years ago.
Six years ago I found kettlebells, and the whole equation changed. They're the one tool that trains every quality (strength, endurance, mobility, power, and speed), and they made me feel like a total badass. I stopped counting calories burned and started counting how much more I could lift.
My mindset shifted to becoming stronger, not thinner.
When I felt for myself — and then watched in client after client — how strength work can shift what the body has been holding, it sparked my devotion to trauma-informed weightlifting and somatics. Today I coach with data-driven, individualized programming and one mission: to give women and athletes, current and retired, the support I never had.
Studied under Marty Gallagher, Craig Liebenson, Ryan Chow, Darius Gilbert, and Hunter Crine.
How We Train
One flagship, and four focused paths around it. Every one is 1:1, individualized, and built on the same principle: you leave each session stronger and more yourself than you walked in.
The Flagship
Real technique, periodized programming, and skills you actually master, not just exhaustion. From your first deadlift to swings, get-ups, presses, cleans, and snatches, in that order, for a reason. For women learning the bells from scratch or rebuilding from injury.
Why kettlebells workYouth Athletes · Ages 11–18
Sport-agnostic strength and movement, periodized around her season. I was a young athlete who broke down because no one built the foundation underneath her, so I built the program I wish I'd had. There's a real method here, and a real reason it keeps kids on the field longer.
Get her assessedCertified & Lived
Certified trauma-informed weightlifting and somatics for survivors, women in ED recovery, and anyone carrying something heavy. Coached by someone who's lived it.
Start safelyOne Coach, Whole System
Precision Nutrition certified. Your training and your fueling built by one coach so they reinforce each other. Eat to fuel your body and to enjoy the taste. No meal plans, no food rules.
Build the systemOutside NYC
Real assessment, real programming, real video form review. Not a template with your name pasted on it. I coach women all over the country this way.
Train anywhereCoaching & Pricing
Choose the coaching experience that's right for you. Every plan includes personalized programming, check-ins, and messaging support — the difference is how much hands-on time we spend together.
$125one time
75–90 minutes: a real conversation about your goals and history, a movement assessment, a strength baseline, and a personalized roadmap. Enroll in coaching within 7 days and the $125 is credited toward your first month.
The first step
$425/month
Personalized programming, a coaching app, weekly check-ins, video form review on every skill, and messaging support. Three-month minimum. Real coaching for women anywhere — not a template with your name on it.
Train anywhere
$675/month
Everything in Virtual, plus one private in-person session each month to refine technique, progress your kettlebell skills, and reassess your movement. For NYC women who want independence with hands-on course-correction.
Best of both
$695+/month
Hands-on coaching across NYC on a monthly membership: 4 sessions ($695), 8 sessions ($1,250), or 12 sessions ($1,725) each month — every tier with full programming, app access, check-ins, and messaging between sessions.
Most choose 8/mo
Youth athlete coaching is priced separately — see the Youth Athletes page → Not sure which path is yours? Book a free call →
Client Results
Michelle Young has literally changed my life. She has improved my relationship with my body, how I move, my strength, and my balance, and she has ended my knee, hip, and back pain. I feel a mastery over my body that I have never had before. Each week I see her is a bright spot in my life.
I feel safer and more secure in the world with her in my life. I trust that my body, in her care, will keep getting better despite aging. She is earnest, kind, dependable, and always encouraging, and she goes above and beyond in more ways than I could have imagined. Michelle truly lives up to the nickname I gave her: "Best Trainer Ever!"
I began training with Michelle concerned about right-shoulder pain that limited my range of motion and declining strength. She crafted a structured plan that worked the muscles without over-stressing the joint. My range of motion has markedly increased and my discomfort went from a 7 out of 10 down to a 2. I believe I'm on the road to complete recovery.
My fourteen-year-old plays club soccer. She used to cry before games because her knees hurt. Eight weeks of strength work and she's asking me to drive her early so she can warm up. That's a different kid.
The First Move
A few quick questions so our first call is useful from minute one. The call is completely free, with no pressure and no pitch deck. Then pick a time that lands straight on my calendar.
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