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Let's raise good, strong humans, together.

We're all trying to get better. Athletes, coaches, parents. That's the whole point.

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Mel Bull celebrating with a national championship trophy
2014 U.S. National Team Gold◆ 2026 U.S. Junior National Team Gold, Coach◆ 3× National Champion Athlete◆ 4× National Champion Coach◆ 12 yrs Coaching◆ Former Elite Power Tumbler◆ 2014 U.S. National Team Gold◆ 2026 U.S. Junior National Team Gold, Coach◆ 3× National Champion Athlete◆ 4× National Champion Coach◆ 12 yrs Coaching◆ Former Elite Power Tumbler◆
Mel as a young gymnast
The kid nobody bet on
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Mel with U.S. National Team gold
Representing her country
Who's behind this

Hey, I'm Melissa Bull. Most people call me Mel B.

Everyone told me it was impossible.

In third grade, I wrote that I wanted to go to the Olympics. My teacher told me to pick something realistic. I'm from a town of 800 people with no cheer team at my high school, and my whole life people told me cheer wasn't a real sport, that it wouldn't take me anywhere.

I never did make the Olympics. But I pivoted, and I got to stand on a mat as one of only 24 athletes representing the United States at the highest level of our sport. In 2014 we won gold. That third-grade kid wanted to represent her country. She got there. Just not the way anyone in that classroom could have pictured.

None of it came from talent. I never even competed a full up until I got to Morehead State University, and I left there a three-time national champion. I've always been the one who had to work significantly harder than everybody else. Now I coach athletes and send them off to the D1 level, and I coach the U.S. Junior All Girl National Team, 2025 to 2026, after competing on the U.S. National Team myself. We won gold there too, in 2026. Four national titles as a coach now, and they mean more than the ones I won myself.

Nobody believed me, and I did it anyway.
So even if nobody believes in you, I do.
I'm rooting for you.

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The programs

Get stronger at your position.

Customized workouts made specifically for backspots, bases and top girls. Eight weeks, 24 workouts, built for what that position actually does on the mat.

$59 for 8 weeks. 24 workouts. That's less than $2.50 a workout.

For backspots
The Backspot Program
The backspot's job is to see what nobody else can.

The backspot starts the weight and fixes what shifts before anyone feels it. This builds the strength to hold that load and the speed to catch the flyer.

24 workouts. 8 weeks. 3 a week. Warm-ups, timers and tracking built in.
$59 That's less than $2.50 a workout
Start training, $59 →

Digital program. All sales final. Get cleared by a doctor first.

For bases
The Base Program
The base's job is bigger than her legs.

Strong legs start the stunt. Her arms, her core and her timing are what finish it, and nobody trains a base for all of it at once. This does.

24 workouts. 8 weeks. 3 a week. Warm-ups, timers and tracking built in.
$59 That's less than $2.50 a workout
Start training, $59 →

Digital program. All sales final. Get cleared by a doctor first.

For top girls
The Top Girl Program
The top girl's job is to make it look like she's standing on the ground.

She's not. She's standing on humans, on a base the size of one foot, while everything moves. That takes a core that never turns off. That's a strength problem.

24 workouts. 8 weeks. 3 a week. Warm-ups, timers and tracking built in.
$59 That's less than $2.50 a workout
Start training, $59 →

Digital program. All sales final. Get cleared by a doctor first.

Who this is for

  • High school and college athletes, roughly 14 to 22
  • Backspots, bases and top girls who stunt
  • Anyone with somewhere to lift, like a school weight room or a normal gym
  • Anyone with someone qualified watching the lifts

Who it is not for

  • Middle schoolers. The reason is real and it is explained in the answers below
  • Anyone lifting with nobody qualified in the room
  • Anyone hurt right now, or not cleared by a doctor
  • Anyone wanting a guarantee of making a team or hitting a skill. Those are not for sale

Where an athlete starts is set by how long they have been lifting, not how old they are. A 14 year old and a 20 year old who are both new to it both start at workout 1.

Every program assumes somebody qualified is watching the lifts. That is not fine print. It is the thing the whole plan rests on. Get cleared by a doctor before starting.

Launch price is $59 for the first 50 athletes, then $79. Cheering with a sibling, or covering more than one position? Get all three positions in the bundle.

Every program is digital. You get all of it the moment your code arrives, so all sales are final.

Get all three, $119 →
What's actually in it

Twenty four workouts. Here's what's actually in them.

Three a week for eight weeks, about 45 minutes each. Every single one opens with the same 10 minutes. Neck, then wrists, then shoulders. That's not filler. You're about to put a person's weight over your head and hold it in your hands.

The eight weeks move in four phases of six workouts. Learn the pattern, get strong, get explosive, put it together.

A lot of it is holds instead of reps, because a stunt is holding a position while everything under you moves. And the program never tells you what to lift. You pick the weight by effort, stops the set with two reps left, and logs it. The number goes up on its own.

Every exercise comes with two things. How to do it, and why you're doing it. Workout one, overhead squat:

"This is you catching a stunt. Weight locked overhead while you get low. If you can hold this, you can hold her."

Not a PDF

It opens in your browser, and it keeps up with you.

Open your workout, hit start, and everything's right there. No printing, no scrolling a document at the gym, no wondering what's next.

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    Timers built in
    It says two-minute jump rope, you tap the timer, it counts right there. You never leave the workout.
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    Track your progress
    Log the weight you used. Next time it's right there, so you always know where to push.
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    Check it off as you go
    Check off each set, watch the workout fill up, and see all eight weeks move behind you.
The Backspot Program on a phone, showing the workout list and progress
Hear me

Like you're standing next to me at practice.

You're going to hear my coaching straight from me. This is the stuff I tell my athletes, and now you get to hear it too.

Work with me

Come to your gym. Your team. Your event.

Some of this does not fit in a program. If you want me in the room, or on the call, here is what that looks like.

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Answers

No bull. Just answers.

The questions I get asked most, written out properly. Free, and you do not have to buy anything to read them.

For coaches

For the coach running the whole team.

Your athletes train every position. This lets you run all of them in one room, on your schedule, with your equipment.

Coming soon

The Coaches Program

Run the whole weight room

Backspots, bases, and top girls training in the same room at once, without you writing three separate plans. Pick your time, your equipment, and your access, and it builds the workouts across all 24 sessions and 8 weeks.

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Coming soon

The Bullpen

The coach community

Coaching is lonely. You make every call by yourself and go home with nobody to ask if you got it right. The Bullpen is where that changes. Post what your team's stuck on, get real eyes on it, and stop troubleshooting alone.

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The newsletter

Coaching is lonely. This helps.

Once a week I send you whatever I'm working out in the gym. What I got right, what I got wrong, and where I landed. Free.

"I'm a coach who's still in the gym, working out what's true."
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Mel Bull holding the national championship trophy
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Mel Bull with the championship trophy at the sports complex
The team in a huddle before competing
Mel Bull and coaches during the national anthem
Mel Bull coaching on the mat
Mel Bull hugging an athlete after the win
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Mel Bull talking to her athletes on the mat
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