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WHO WE ARE
Hi. I’m Marissa Axell, CEO and Founder of AXN Fitness and Coaching, LLC, a cycling coaching and personal training business who coaches her athletes 100% online.
I help 40+ women cyclists ride and climb faster, and adventure farther without feeling overwhelmed and exhausted, or spending all day on the bike or in the gym.
As a USECA certified cycling coach and ACE certified personal trainer, I have nearly two decades of experience turning riders into faster, stronger cyclists.
I've been featured in Self, Bicycling.com, and on the Hit Play Not Pause Podcast, Fuel Your Strength, Fiercely Fueled, and Seasoned Athlete podcast.
I’m not just a coach, I’m also a competitive cyclist, and racing at a top level since 2009.
Known for my inspirational and committed coaching style, I show athletes how to train, fuel, and taper for optimal cycling performance, especially as a woman over 40 who deals with an enormous amount of stress and fatigue.
Our athletes have won at TransRockies Gravel Royale, top 5 at the National Senior Games time trials and road race, ridden from Cairo to Capetown in the Tour d’Afrique, another cycled from Paris to Istanbul, and another rode 18,100miles around the world.
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and love that I can easily ride my bike on world class roads of Marin, Napa, and Sonoma, as well as the dirt trails out my backdoor, and be on a velodrome inside of an hour.
When I'm not riding bikes with my husband and friends, I’m busy cooking my favorite meals, traveling somewhere new with my bikes, or just chilling at home with our rescued maine-coon cat, Jackson.
I believe that love is love, Black lives matter, trans-women are women and belong in sports, no human is illegal, the current administration should be in prison, and bikes are a form of therapy.
Follow Marissa for more 40+ women cycling tips on Instagram @marissa.axell and online axnfitnessandcoaching.com.
Here’s a bit more about me and my business.
Around age 39, I started experiencing extreme perimenopausal fatigue, the kind that left me feeling like I need to glue my eyelids open-- the fatigue was damaging my cycling training, my sleep, my career — basically my entire life.
I had heard of perimenopause because I read in “Roar” by Selene Yeager and Dr. Stacy Sims that women might experience deep fatigue and it’s associated with perimenopause and there was something I could do about it!
As a former lab researcher with a background in science and human anatomy, I started learning everything I could get my hands on to help 40+ women navigate our changing biology, applying it and figuring out what worked and what didn’t.
I've been a cycling coach for 15+ years, and all the things I'm talking about are also the same way I trained for my big, hairy, audacious cycling goals too.
It was directly responsible for bringing me a world championship medal in 2023, a national champ in 2019, and multiple top 5 places at Masters Track and Road Cycling National Championships and World Championships from 2014 - 2025.
Since 2020 I’ve coached over 135 women cyclists in this way too, helping them achieve cycling dreams, and changed their lives and what’s possible for them along the way.
And I also believe that one of the biggest ways that I'm making this world a better place, is by helping every athlete become empowered, strong, defiant, and worthy women on and off the bike, for their family, their community, and in their career.
I say this because my athletes are out here changing the world.
They're out there inspiring people in some amazing ways.
I offer Level Up 1:1 Private Cycling Coaching. I also run the Cycling Success System, a group coaching program for 40+ women who want training, coaching, and community.