Category: Community

Crossfit Montgomery welcomes Greg Coleman from Crossfit Arlington! A track and field athlete in college, his specialty was sprints 100m, 200m and 4 x 100m relay. Greg has an extensive fitness background which includes playing/coaching football, wrestling, baseball, and softball where he has enjoyed working with athletes of all ages and successfully in prepared athletes for the collegiate ranks. After years of being a ‘gym rat’ he began Crossfit in 2008 as way to change up his fitness routine and has never looked back. Greg: “My first Crossfit workout was Eva…thought I might die…and I loved it!”

He is convinced that Crossfit is the best way to increase work capacity, making you stronger and better apt to adapt to multiple environments. “Crossfit has changed the way I view fitness and nutrition and has made me a much better athlete!” He is dedicated to this craft and is working hard to expand his knowledge of Crossfit coaching experience. He enhances his athletic training by running in races ranging from 5Ks to marathons and is a novice cyclist. Greg firmly believes that hard work is the key to ‘achievement in every field of human endeavor’ and that attitude permeates his training/coaching style.

Greg is a Crossfit Level I Certified Trainer.  He is here attending Air Command and Staff College on Maxwell Air Force Base. We are excited about having him join our team of coaches and the CrossFit Montgomery family.

CrossFit Montgomery welcomes new trainer Nate Naidas from CrossFit Impavidus in Virginia! Nate ran track and cross country in high school and continued running for recreation in college. In 2003, he registered for his first marathon. Beforehand he had only competed in road races up to five miles. Since then, he has completed 4 marathons, 1 sprint triathlon, and 1 super sprint triathlon. Since beginning CrossFit in November 2008, he enjoys competing in races like Metro Dash and mud runs that test his “CrossFit fitness ability.”

In 2009, he decided to try the CrossFit and CrossFit Endurance approach to training to see how well it could prepare him for a marathon. Needless to say, it worked – Nate ran significantly less mileage than before when using a long slow distance training methodology AND he PR’d (obtained a personal record) by 24 minutes.

Ask Nate about CrossFit and he’d say, “CrossFit has proven, at least to me, its functional application to all sports and life. Additionally, the community is by far the best aspect of CrossFit. It’s the community that pushes you to your max and wants you to get that PR–sometimes even more than you do.”

Nate holds CrossFit Level 1 and CrossFit Endurance certifications. He is also a member of the United States Parachute Association which proves that he is not only crazy enough to do CrossFit, but that he is also crazy enough to jump out of airplanes!

Nate has served 11 years in the Air Force and is attending Air Command Staff College on Maxwell Air Force Base this year. We are excited about having him join our team of coaches and the CrossFit Montgomery family.

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!