Month: July 2011

CrossFit Montgomery welcomes new trainer Mike Geranis (pictured above on the far right) from CrossFit Benedictus! Mike has a long background in athletics and competition including wrestling, intramural sports, and approximately 10 years experience in racing mountain bikes, road bikes, marathons and ½ marathons, triathlons including Ironman distance, Xterra races, and adventure races. He is a two time Ironman and been invited twice to represent the U.S. Air Force at the Armed Forces World Triathlon Championships.

After years of sport-specific training at endurance events he was introduced to CrossFit in 2009 and immediately recognized the benefits of functional training. Highly competitive and un-accepting of anything other than 100% effort, Mike knows the importance of intensity. The broad and inclusive programming has changed his life and the way he trains. Through his extensive racing and competition experience he is a wealth of knowledge realizing that everyone is an athlete and is much faster and stronger than they think they are. He is a fully committed to providing the best possible training for his clients to meet and exceed their goals.

Mike holds a CrossFit Level 1, CrossFit Endurance, CrossFit Gymnastics, USA Weightlifting Level 1 Sports and Performance Certification, and recently judged the 2011 CrossFit Games South Central Regionals.

Mike will soon begin school at Air Command Staff College on Maxwell Air Force Base. We are excited about having him join our team of coaches and the CrossFit Montgomery family.

Bull Ternus began weightlifting at the age of 16. After spending 20 years as a competitive powerlifter, he began competing in olympic lifting and has done so for the past 10 years. Bull has won the USA Weightlifting (USAW) Masters Nationals Championships and American Masters Championships, was the Silver Medalist in the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Pan American Masters Championships and competes each year in the Arnold Weightlifting Championships. He has taught at several CrossFits in the National Capital Region and elsewhere, most recently at CrossFit Adaptation and CrossFit South Arlington. He is a USAW Club Coach and currently serves as the USA Weightlifting’s Ethics Committee Chair.

Bull is Lt. Colonel Bull Ternus, USAF, and has proudly served his country for over 28 years, most of which has been in Special Operations. Bull recently served more than a year as the Deputy Chief of the Future Special Operations Division on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon. Prior to that he served as the Executive Assistant to the Director of the Joint Staff. He will soon begin school at the Air War College on Maxwell Air Force Base.

CrossFit Montgomery welcomes Bull! We are honored to have him coaching the CrossFit Montgomery trainers. The trainers look forward to learning much!