Our Philosophy Brief History Ultrafit Associates started in 1980 with Joe Friel providing coaching programs for local athletes through his running store in Fort Collins, Colorado. Developing athletes quickly became Joe's undying passion and with it came enormous growth in clientele. Ultrafit Associates has since expanded to a total of seven associates. In addition to Joe are Gale Bernhardt, Tom Manzi, Dirk Friel, Alan Ley, Karen Buxton and Christian Young. Ultrafit Associates uses a common philosophy and development methods as created by Joe and his associates.
All associates are in weekly contact sharing ideas, concepts and methods.
All associates are in weekly contact sharing ideas, concepts and methods. An athlete should do the least amount of the most specific training necessary to bring continual improvement. Everything else is overtraining. All workouts have a specific purpose. Failure to improve usually results from doing too much of what's wrong and too little of what's right.