Wayfinder Training

Wayfinder Training

General physical preparation, written with care.

Barbells, rings, kettlebells, sleds, machines, dumbbells, loaded stretches, loaded joint work, plyometrics, sprints. Traditional strength and conditioning with an eye toward long-term athletic development.

What do you want to do with this one precious body in this one precious life?

Phased Training Blocks — 2, 3, and 4-week phases that build on each other. Each block has a purpose — sometimes organized around a quality like quickness, control, or raw strength. Sometimes it is upper and lower splits. Sometimes it is a full isometric day. The structure changes because your body and your goals do.

Every Tool in the Shed — Slow tempo, clusters, conjugate methods, loaded stretches, quasi-isometrics, reactive drills, sprint work, plyometrics. Traditional and exploratory movements alongside each other. Different vectors, different patterns, different loads because a capable body requires all of it.

Find Your Own Way — Loading schemes come with ranges. A subtle stance shift or rotational adjustment might be what your anatomy needs. I want you to learn how to work with your body — the positions that feel right, the angles that unlock something. Over time, you develop your own intuition for what the movement asks of you.

Work Around It — Torn shoulder. Knee tendinopathy. Back pain. I train through all of it, not by ignoring it, but by finding the loading strategies and movement paths that keep me training while the body heals. Healthy tendons, open joints, avoiding surgery, and lifelong play is part of the work.

Full video demonstrations and coaching cues for every exercise. Barbell work, kettlebell flows, ring progressions, loaded stretches, sled drags, machine work, reactive drills, sprint mechanics. Hundreds of movements built over 23 years of coaching every population and training my own body.

Who this is for: You care about speed, power, strength, and mobility. You want to sprint, scramble, and hike for the rest of your life. You understand that training for all of it means the program has to change. You want programming from someone who has coached college to pro athletes, tactical athletes, industrial athletes, general population, and my father recovering from a stroke — and who still shows up to his own session with fully focused intent and has a great time doing it.

Smooth and savage and all points in between.

Your coach: Hayden Mitchell, PhD, CSCS. 23 years of coaching. PhD in Human Performance and Sport Pedagogy. I train because I believe the coach should live inside the work — torn shoulder, bad knee, back pain, and all. I want to show you what you are capable of.

$29/month. Cancel anytime.