Ronnie Teasdale
Ronnie graduated from Oakland University with a degrees in Exercise Science and Psychology. Along with his degree in Exercise Science his certifications include:
Performance Enhancement Specialist
CrossFit Level 2 Instructor
Running Coach/ CrossFit Endurance Certified
Olympic Weightlifting Certified
Gymnastics Certified
Kickboxing Instructor
Mobility and Movement enhancement certified
NASM Personal Trainer
Self Myofascial Release certified Coach
Ronnie is a well experienced trainer of both private and groups. He has a passion for fitness and health and is constantly absorbing more information that will benefit his clients.
He is a competitor. A hockey player for over 20 years since the age of 3 he learned the value of winning at all costs. Having a father that owned a bunch of old “fix up” houses he forcefully learned the value of hard work. Ronnie knows that anything is possible and does not accept and is highly intolerant of anything that goes against that viewpoint.
Before turning his gym into a CrossFit gym Ronnie had his own private training gym in Los Angeles focusing on high intensity training. He now focuses his efforts coaching top level CrossFit athletes. His specialities are in WOD strategy and performing maximally at redline levels. If you are a current athlete looking for info about advanced CrossFit programming and coaching email Ronnie@CrossFitMeanStreets.com.
Nina Sugamori
Nina Sugamori is currently:
-Level One CrossFit Certified Trainer
-CrossFit Kids
She is also AFAA certified as a Group Exercise instructor and Personal Trainer.
She has taught aerobics and fitness since 1989 and yoga since 1998. Class formats included belly dance, seniors, sculpting, step, high-low, kickbox and exercise ball.
Her involvement in sports began in junior high with cross country running, soccer and softball. Later she pursued body building in Venice Beach at World’s Gym operated personally by Joe Gold himself.
She originally was introduced to a traditional 6-day/week split routine by Arnold Schwarnegger’s cousin Jo Jo. She credits her muscle mass from the split routine for allowing her to survive a motorcycle versus drunk driver collision in 1983 that took her right biceps, radial nerve and one inch of her right humerus.
Brief ventures into Muay Thai, acrobatic yoga, the Alexander Feldenkrais technique, adult gymnastics, and snow boarding have taught her the value of integrated neuromuscular synchronization and proprioceptive skill development.
Her childhood with her painter/sculptor grandmother and bachelors degree in mechanical engineering have given her a keen eye for refined observation of body mechanics and the applied physics of humans executing exercise.
She has taught as many as 26 classes per week which is a form of endurance training.
Nina has an artist’s view of the human form and considers physical training to be a sculptor’s tool for perfecting nature’s living art work. Functional training as CrossFit exemplifies is the most direct route to a balanced enviable physique that performs optimaly and reliably.
At age 16 Nina had an in depth knowledge of human anatomy
Nina coaches WODs, offers one-on-one CrossFit Elements, has extensive experience with scaling and provides assisted torque and stretch sessions.
Jason Cole
Jason is a Level 1 CrossFit instructor.
Prior to his involvement with CrossFit Jason was a competitive swimmer, swim coach and instructor, and Los Angeles City lifeguard. While on land he trained and competed in Jiu-Jitsu, receiving his blue belt (BJJ) and another blue belt (Quantum Jiu-Jitsu). He also dabbled in MMA. His first exposure to “constantly varied, functional movement performed at high intensity” was watching fellow Banana Slug Greg Amundson (original CrossFit firebreather) slam med-balls into the asphault and do kipping pull-ups and thinking “what the hell is this guy doing?” and “I have to try that.” The rest is history. Jason only wishes he had encountered CrossFit earlier, as it would have made pulling folks out of the water, or into armbars, that much easier.
Jason is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz and USC. When he’s not fighting through WODs (or helping clients do so) he’s fighting for justice in the courts.
Stacey Hallarces
Stacey graduated from San Jose State University in 2009 with a B.S. in Kinesiology. She is also certified as a:
-CrossFit Level 1 Instructor
-NASM Performance Enhancement Specialist
-NASM Corrective Exercise Specialist
-NASM Certified Personal Trainer
-NESTA Certified Personal Fitness Trainer
Stacey is currently a grad student at USC, working towards a Doctorate of Physical Therapy. Her love for exercise and fitness began at a young age, participating in soccer, softball, judo, and running events; and continues to manifest in her passion to spread health and welln
Joseph Chavanu
National Council Ceterfied Personal Trainers – 2008 (NCCPT)
Bachelors Degree of Science – University of Nebraska Lincoln 2007
Founder of Spartan Muscle.com 2007
2006 Body For Life National Finalist 2nd place
Personal trainer for 5 years and is an athletic competitor. His training philosophy emphasizes unavailing your absolute strength, self-belief, and the inate will to survive. These core life fundamentals are to be discovered in a challenging gym environment building your self confidence bringing clarity to your everyday. You are an evolving energy thats seeks challenge to achieve and grow.
JOE’s TRAINING MISSION:
It is my contribution to work with you side by side, pushing you to your personal best, leaving you stronger, healthier, and inspired.
Ryan Fischer:
He is a legit athlete, competed at the national and world level at several sports including bicycling, bobsledding, skeleton, olympic weightlifting (he holds state titles in utah) and hopefully soon to be CrossFit. He has been working in gyms for most of his adult life and was the head strength and conditioning coach of the Mexican bobsled team. He has coached at several CrossFit gyms.
More from him in his own words:
Ever hear the expression, “Everybody is good at something?” Well I have always wanted to be great at something, not just good. Kind of an obsession I guess really. In high school, I played lacrosse, football, ran track, cross-country, and I was a world ranked BMX racer. After graduating high school in New Jersey (yes, I am from the jersey shore, but I do not know Pauly D or the Situation) there was a brief moment, about a year and half where I wasn’t competing in anything and I could feel that there was just something missing, that inner drive to push yourself past your comfort zone. CrossFitters know what im talking about or anyone who has played in a team sport. To make a long story short, I moved from Hawaii to Utah and began training in the sport of skeleton (lying headfirst down the bobsled track) in the winter and weightlifting in the summer. I even did a year of bobsled too. Made it all the way to Olympic trials for skeleton and national championships for weightlifting. If you have read this far then you can see that I really just like to do everything and I have never been able to just completely focus my efforts in just one sport, which is why CrossFit is so appealing to me. You have to be good at so many different things and the workouts are almost always different so the challenge is always there, it never gets boring. I look forward to the day I can where a 21-15-9 t-shirt and no one will ask me what it means. Everyone will know what Fran is and everyone will know what CrossFit is.
Hello my name is Tahir Leonard and I LOVE CROSSFIT!! I did the whole college thing late in life and graduated from the California State University Northridge with a degree in Business with a minor in Real Estate. I after doing Crossfit for just a couple of months and only a couple days a week I decided to get my Crossfit Level 1 Instructor certification because I love Crossfit so much.
I have a lifetime of experience of competition in sports and other activities. At the age of 6 I began my career as part of a traveling multi-cultural dance performance team. From there he moved on into what would be a 27 year soccer career playing for my community college and Los Angeles Area team. I also played basketball for my community college team as well and played football, basketball, ran track and did gymnastics in high school. I have also studied Wing-Chu Kung-fu and MMA with Sinfu David Kerr for over 10 years.
My goal is to motivate all who I coach to push themselves more in Crossfit because it transfers over to life. Crossfit gives those who do it so much more than just working out the mental benefits the students carry away from each class and the community they are part of changes our lives and those around us for the better. WHEN WE FEEL GOOD WE DO GOOD!! Have a good day because it already is!
