Meet Suzanne "Coach" Cordes

Suzanne has been coaching athletes and fitness enthusiasts since 1981 and has experienced every trend in the health and fitness industry over the last three decades. She started competing in track and field in 1970 and has been coached by leading legends in the running world. Suzanne continues to compete locally and nationally for the Impala Racing Team in San Francisco and internationally for USA Track & Field. She has received All American status in Cross Country and Track, and is currently ranked internationally in World Masters Cross Country and Track.

Suzanne has her graduate degree in sport science, and appropriately specializes in biomechanics and exercise physiology. She applies this extensive knowledge along with her experience of coaching literally thousands of athletes in her results-based business. She has a dual focus of both health and performance enhancement, coaching clients in endurance events (running events from 5k to marathon, triathlon) strength training, and weight loss. Suzanne is also a sport psychology consultant, helping athletes with mental training, overcoming obstacles, realizing their physical potential and achievement of goals. Through her coaching and teaching, athletes gain the tools they need to achieve optimal health and top fitness.

For the past three decades Suzanne has shared her knowledge and training success with her clients and students. She offers an array of programs and services to suit varied goals and abilities. Suzanne is passionate about educating, motivating and inspiring the athlete in all of us to reach our full potential.

Suzanne’s Training Center

Elite Training Systems is a 5,000 square foot facility equipped with men’s and women’s locker rooms with showers, three treatment rooms for sports massage and physical therapy, a personal training room, a group exercise room, and a group cycling room with a movie screen. The core of the facility is the physiology lab for human performance. Elite Training Systems is a unique training center catering to sport enthusiasts, goal oriented athletes, health improvement clients, and those achieving weight loss.

Physiology Lab: Know Your Training Needs

The ability of an athlete to reach a peak performance during an athletic event requires precise training of specific energy systems for a particular race distance and type of course. This takes fine tuning so the athlete can generate the highest amount of energy per unit of time during a race. Proper training accomplishes this. Maximum oxygen consumption (VO2max) and threshold testing for the endurance athlete lets the coach and the athlete know if this balance is being obtained. Each energy system (dependant upon the event) must be trained properly in order to reach full personal potential.

V02max testing at Elite Training Systems is administered on our medical grade metabolic cart. The tests are performed on either a treadmill, a Concept2 rowing ergometer, your own bike mounted on our lab calibrated Computrainer or a stationary lab cycle ergometer, depending on your sport..

Clients interested in weight loss begin with a complete Body Composition Analysis performed in our lab using Biospace technology. Results are printed and graphed. Tests include %body fat, lean body mass, basal metabolic rate, body max index, hip-waist ratio, along with skinfold measurements and circumference measurements, height and weight. Based on your body type and test results, we determine your ideal weight and the pounds of muscle and/or body fat to gain or lose. Caloric intake and expenditure is then determined. From here your training plan is developed.

..Suzanne has the experience, skill and expertise to benefit men and women of all ages who are beginning exercisers, seasoned athletes and post-therapy patients.

Why work with a coach who offers anything less?

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