Michael Meslar, NASAM, USAC
Michael Meslar is a cycling coach and training consultant who brings specialized, sport-specific expertise to clients. With over 20 years of strength, conditioning and period training experience, his focus is on the development of movement, power, strength, agility and endurance for professional athletes building careers, as well as amateur athletes competing for fitness and personal fulfillment and those looking to improve health and fitness.

Meslar is certified as a personal trainer by the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) and a cycling coach by USA Cycling (USAC). His resume includes road bike racing in the northeast and five years as the owner of a bike shop in Saratoga Springs, NY. As a coach, he has trained young professional cyclists from their entry into the sport to their acceptance on national racing teams. 

Meslar has completed extensive mountain bike expeditions in Utah, Colorado, Nevada, and the Adirondacks and led excursions requiring extreme endurance over mountain passes and peaks topping 12, 000 feet. On foot, high altitude mountain ascents rank amongst his favorite accomplishments, with multiple climbs topping 14,000 feet in the Colorado Rockies.

As a three-time New York State Sparring Champion with the American Tae Kwan Do Association and a four-time Forms Champion, Meslar pulls on the discipline of the martial arts in all his training, with an essential focus on correct form, core conditioning and flexibility.

Through Echo Kartos and his association with Global Fitness in Saratoga springs, New York, he trains cyclists and others for racing and endurance events including criterions, stage races, multi-day rides, triathlons, marathons, and kayak racing. He works with high school athletes on sport specific agility and strength training and sponsors group ride excursions in the northeast.