Dami Alao

I’ve been running since middle school, and for years the pattern repeated: build momentum, get injured, restart. My best seasons were never the ones I trained hardest — they were the ones I stayed healthy long enough to be consistent. Pole vault is what made that click. You can be the strongest athlete on the runway and still fail if your mechanics break down at the plant. Raw fitness couldn’t compensate for inefficient movement. Mechanics weren’t secondary to fitness — they were the fitness. That reframed everything. Fatigue isn’t just muscular failure — it’s your nervous system limiting output to protect against predicted breakdown. When mechanics are inefficient, when aerobic capacity is low, when movement is uncoordinated, your brain holds you back before your body ever fails. Prevention isn’t separate from training. It is the training. So I coach differently. Every athlete starts with a full diagnostic — not a generic intake — to identify what’s actually limiting them across mobility, strength, mechanics, breathwork, and aerobic base. From there, we build a plan weighted to your constraint, not a template. Alongside my RRCA coaching certification, I bring a background in counseling psychology, because running is physical but consistency is behavioral — the physical patterns and the mental patterns behind them get addressed together. I’m not trying to get you fit for one race. I’m trying to build a body you can trust for decades. If you’re tired of restarting, ready to understand your body instead of just pushing through it, and willing to slow down to actually get faster — I’d love to work with you.