Our Staff

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Coach renee

Coach Renee spent several years as a software engineer before changing career paths into massage therapy out of her desire to help people. She then recognized the need for nutritional counseling and physical fitness to help her clients progress into healthier lifestyles so she became an ACE certified personal trainer and group fitness instructor in 2012. She coached her own HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) bootcamp for a year and a half before joining a nearby CrossFit gym and brought her class with her. Her HIIT program became very popular and was expanded into 5 days/week, 5 classes/day requiring an additional coach. Even though she was coaching HIIT classes she was doing CrossFit classes for herself and very quickly found she had a passion for barbells. She loved it so much she got her CrossFit Level 1 certification and turned her HIIT class members on to CrossFit as well.

Currently she does personal training for clients of all demographics and fitness levels with various goals of fat loss, muscle gain, increasing stamina, correcting muscle imbalances/dysfunction, and learning Olympic lifting . She has also been a part time health coach for a local corporation leading several successful weight loss competitions for them. Her style of training incorporates a wide variety of movements and structured strength, targeting all of the energy systems of the body in order to achieve a functionally fit body overall. Functional fitness means you have a body that moves as it was intended to with great mobility, flexibility, stability, balanced strength, and aerobic capacity.

While she trains both men and women, she has always had a passion for training women, as she knows first hand the pressures of society on them to look a certain way. She believes in empowering women with physical and mental strength and the courage to love and appreciate their bodies for the amazing vessels they are. She teaches them to focus on not what their bodies look like, but what their bodies can DO. As the mother of 3 girls she strives very hard to be a good role model of strength, perseverance and work/life balance.

Outside of the gym, she enjoys obstacle course races, indoor rock climbing, gardening, traveling, biking, fishing, dancing, volunteering, hanging with girl friends, and spending time doing anything outdoors with her 3 girls and husband.

Certifications

* Three Pillars Method™ Coach

* Certified CrossFit® Trainer (Level 3)

* CrossFit® Gymnastics Trainer

* ACE Certified Personal Trainer

* ACE Certified Group Fitness Instructor

* ACE Fitness Nutrition Specialist

* ACE Youth Fitness Specialist

* TRX Qualified Trainer

Coach Kate

Kate Jones has a long and winding exercise journey before finding Real Fit. In her mid-30s, she’d been a smoker for 18 years and knew she needed to quit. The weight came when food replaced the smoking. She knew she needed to do something. Kate was a distance runner in high school, so she started running again. It started very slowly, but eventually she was running several half marathons and many shorter races each year. Kate added kickboxing and martial arts classes to provide some cross training. She achieved her first brown belt in Kung Fu and became an assistant boxing trainer.

A friend talked her into trying functional fitness at Real Fit, and she reluctantly agreed. She didn’t think she needed anything else to stay healthy. Boy was she wrong! She fell in love instantly. Although she loved the other things, she loves functional fitness more. The variety in the workouts, the challenges and humility they bring, and the community keep her coming back. Her favorite workouts are the long, grinders (similar to long distance running) and anything with a barbell.

Kate is a single mom who has spent her entire career in banking. She loves traveling, football (Go Chiefs!), her Iowa State Cyclones, and trying new foods.

Certifications

CrossFit® Level 1 Trainer

coach megan

Megan Hendrix has always had a love for fitness, a love for all athletics, especially softball. She played competitive softball and accepted a scholarship to play softball in college. Unfortunately a back injury ended her softball career her senior year in college, and surgery soon followed. She was then afraid to get back into exercise and slowly lost that part of her world. After the birth of her two sons, her weight had hit an all-time high, and her body was not doing what it was capable of. Megan slowly started running again, and getting her nutrition on track.

Two years after the birth of her youngest son, Megan had been seeing posts of friends who were members of Real Fit. She was hesitant as it was definitely out of her comfort zone, in addition she did not have a history that included this type of training. One class was all it took and she hasn’t looked back since. Real Fit gave her back a piece of her life that she was missing for too long. She earned her L1 certification in September of 2021. Her love for weights continues to grow and she enjoys constantly seeing members learn just what their bodies are capable of.

Megan is married and has two wonderful boys. She and her husband were both born and raised in Weston, and they love to be active and outside whenever possible. She enjoys drawing, home improvement projects and spending time with her girl friends.

Certifications

CrossFit®Level 1 Trainer