Assessment-led personal coaching for adults and athletes, from a coach with nearly 30 years of experience. Book your consultation today.
Build strength. Elevate your game. Invest in your long-term health. Explore six ways to move toward what matters to you—each grounded in the TNL approach to training, fueling, and performance. Need direction? Book a consultation with Michael to find your starting point.
Your goals. Your starting point. Your coach’s full attention. In-person training built around how you move, what you want to achieve, and the demands of your life. Develop strength, improve movement, and build confidence with hands-on guidance and purposeful progression.
Explore personal coachingFocused coaching with the energy of training alongside others. Build strength, movement quality, and conditioning in a small-group setting, with exercises adapted to your ability. Get the guidance to progress and the shared momentum to keep showing up.
Ask about small groupsA personalized training plan with a coach guiding your next step, wherever you train. Your programming reflects your goals, experience, equipment, and schedule, with adjustments as you progress. Build your capability with structure, accountability, and a clear purpose behind the work.
Explore remote coachingChoose the program that matches your next level—from golf-specific performance to building strength or improving overall fitness and well-being. Each program provides a structured, progressive plan with a clear purpose behind every session. Find your focus and build the capacity to do more of what matters to you.
View programsUnderstand your body today to train for the life you want tomorrow. Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) testing helps inform your nutrition needs, while VO₂ Max testing measures aerobic fitness—a valuable marker associated with long-term health and longevity. Use those insights to guide training that develops speed and endurance, supports everyday energy, and helps preserve your ability to stay active and independent as you age.
Explore metabolic testingBuild nutrition habits that support your training and work in your everyday life. Start with TNL’s Protein First approach, then shape your fueling and hydration around your goals, activity, and preferences. Understand what your body needs and develop practical habits you can sustain.
Explore nutrition coaching“I have been working with Michael for over 5 years, a testament to constant variety in our workouts and his ability to help me safely push my limits. Michael’s program has increased my core strength and stamina, and has greatly improved my balance. I am hiking, skiing, and golfing with more confidence and better performance.”
“My strength, stability and confidence have greatly improved from working with Michael Cook. He is a highly skilled trainer and understands how the body works. He is able to identify the client’s weaknesses and works to improve them. He also continues to advance his own skills.”
Michael David Cook brings nearly 30 years of coaching experience to The Next Level in Grand Junction. He works with adults and athletes who want to move better, train with purpose, and know whether the work is working.
We listen first. We measure what matters. Then we coach the person in front of us, not the person a template was written for.
Read Michael’s letterPERSONAL TRAINING / SEMI-PRIVATE / GOLF FITNESS
SPORT PERFORMANCE / POST-REHABILITATION
Different starting points. One standard of care: thoughtful coaching, a clear plan, and a reason behind every rep.
One-to-one and semi-private training shaped by your movement screen, goals, training history, and available time. The program is yours; the standard of coaching does not change.
Explore private coaching
Nutrition counseling connects what happens in training to what you do the rest of the week. Practical guidance supports your goals without turning coaching into a generic meal plan.
Explore nutrition
Your plan should travel with you. Programming, feedback, progress reviews, and coach communication keep the work connected when you train outside the studio.
Explore online coaching
Sport-specific strength, speed, power, mobility, and durability for your actual demands. Golf fitness and performance testing bring another level of specificity to the plan.
Explore performanceFunctional movement screening and baseline measures inform where training begins.
Titleist-informed screening and strength work for the physical demands of your swing.
Continue building strength and confidence after physical therapy, with your care team as appropriate.
MCT is one of the hands-on tools available within TNL’s broader training approach.
A good program gives you a way to see progress. We establish a baseline, coach the work, and revisit the measures that matter to you.
There is no borrowed before-and-after here. Michael chooses measures that matter to your goal, coaches the work, then returns to those measures with you. The point is not to collect numbers. It is to know what changed, and why.
Your goal might be a faster first step, more confidence in your body, or the strength to keep doing what you love. Michael connects movement, exercise, nutrition and recovery to a plan that fits your life.
Train for the demands of your sport, not just another hard workout.
Build strength and habits that carry beyond a training session.
Train with health and longevity in mind, without losing sight of life today.
“100-PLUS MILES
AND 18 HOURS LATER...”
“Thank you Michael David Cook for ‘duo-ing’ the ‘18 Hours of Fruita’ with me.”
— ESTHER BLOM GEISER / ENDURANCE CLIENT
Tell us what you are training for and where you are now. We will help you choose between the 12-week program, metabolic testing, golf fitness, or private and online coaching.
