Meet Alex:
I help endurance athletes get back to consistent and healthy training while positioning those with an interest in racing for peak performance
Hi. I am Alex Ewart, a Doctor of Physical Therapy, Coach, Kona Qualifier, and Former Division 1 Swimmer.
My aim is to be a resource for athletes who are passionate about swimming and triathlon. Whether you are novice or world-class athlete, my goal is to help you achieve success as you define it.
I have been obsessed with endurance sports as long as I can remember. And I can confidently say I would not be where I am today if it wasn’t for endurance sports.
As a kid, I quickly gravitated to the sport of swimming. There was something about putting in the work and then seeing the end result that resonated well with me.
Quickly swimming became my rock. Not only were some of my closest childhood friends on my swim team, but it became on a constant for me.
Rough day at school? I could work out in the pool. Bummed about a middle school crush not liking me back? At least I had swimming to lean on.
No matter what kind of day I had, swimming always brought me back to equilibrium.
So after my college swimming career wrapped up and I graduated from Boston University, the inevitable question of “what will I do now?!” started popping up.
Luckily I had PT school to focus on. But something was still missing. Naturally, I decided the best thing to do would be to run a marathon.
This turned out to be quite the adventure. I would go on to make every training mistake in the book and would experience almost every type of running related injury.
Turns out going from a sea creature to a land animal wasn’t the easiest transition.
Fortunately this lead to two things.
1- I started to ride my bike when I couldn’t run due to injury.
2- I was forced to spend hours and hours learning about running. From injury prevention, how to write a training plan and how to adjust the plan based on my recent runs, and most importantly what an endurance athlete has to go through when injured.
After getting the hang of this whole running thing and spending more time on my old road bike, I decided I would give a local sprint a triathlon a try.
The rest is history.
I was hooked.
It turns out, my passion for swimming and triathlon combined well with my career as a physical therapist.
Which explains why I got into coaching. After working with countless masters swimmers, runners, and triathletes in the clinc, I still felt like I had left the puck short with many of them.
I had helped these athletes get back to racing faster than before, but they would ultimately come back to see me as a result of the same training errors that had landed them in trouble in the first place.
As a result, I stumbled my way into coaching in order to help these athlete train consistently without injury to help them achieve their athletic goals.
Since then, I have been fortunate to be trusted by countless patients and athletes in their pursuit of their athletic goals.
I believe coaching is much more than training plans, exercises, and race tactics.
Coaching is a partnership where every athlete is approached on an individualized basis, taking into account their goals, motivation, history, and there unique ecosystem.
Coaching involves trust, engagement, collaboration, and transparency. All of which helps establish the best plan for YOU.
The athletes I work with are engaged, coachable, mentally tough, gritty, and committed to reach their best given their unique circumstances.
My goal is for you to perform on race day WHILE thriving in life.
My Coaching Philosophy
