Trainer Bios

Alex

Certified Personal Trainer

With a Master’s degree in Kinesiology and specialized certifications as a Women’s Fitness Specialist and in Pelvic Floor Training, Alex brings both science-backed knowledge and compassionate coaching to every client she works with. She is deeply passionate about supporting women of all ages through strength training, core and pelvic floor health, and overall wellness — while truly loving the opportunity to train anyone who is ready to grow. Alex thrives on watching clients discover their true potential, uncover strength they never knew they had, and build confidence from the inside out. Her coaching style is supportive yet accountable, creating a space where clients feel encouraged, challenged, and empowered — because her ultimate goal is simple: your success.

Ambrose

Certified Personal Trainer

Ambrose is a kinesiologist with 8 years of experience. He specializes in helping individuals move and feel better. His areas of expertise include strength and conditioning, sports performance, and corrective exercise. He is B.S., CSCS, FMSC, and CPT certified.

His personal health and fitness experience includes collegiate and professional soccer, long-distance backpacking, and many workouts.

Brett

Certified Personal Trainer

Brett Wheeless is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, certified Nutrition coach and founder of Wheeless Fitness. With a deep foundation in strength training and 8+ years of hands-on coaching experience, Brett specializes in helping active men—especially those 40 and up—stay strong, pain-free, and ready for the mountain, ocean, or trail.

His training style blends proven methods from kettlebell training, barbell strength, and functional mobility. Brett holds certifications from NSCA, NASM, Precision Nutrition, TRX, and USA Weightlifting. He played rugby and soccer at Point Loma Nazarene University. Brett also mountain bikes, surfs, hikes, plays tennis, does archery, and is the father of two boys, Cash and Hayes

His signature “Summit Edge Method” is a tailored program designed to build athletic longevity, injury-proof joints, and real-world strength that transfers to sports and life. Whether you’re a surfer, skier, mountain biker, or just a man who refuses to slow down, Brett’s approach delivers structure, accountability, and results.

Cindy

Certified Personal Trainer

Cindy Whitmarsh is a highly respected fitness professional with over 25 years of experience in the health and wellness industry. Her distinguished career includes fitness business ownership, authorship of two fitness books and a cookbook, and national recognition as an exercise television personality through DVDs, infomercials, and long-standing media appearances. She has served as the Good Morning San Diego fitness expert for more than two decades.

Cindy’s approach to fitness blends proven methodology with an engaging, results-driven philosophy. She believes training should be enjoyable while delivering measurable, lasting outcomes. At Santé, Cindy leads elevated group fitness experiences and provides personalized training services, specializing in women’s body transformations and supporting strength, vitality, and confidence through every stage of aging.

Doug

Certified Personal Trainer

My name is Doug McKay Weightlifting Performance Coach certified by the NSPA. I am a strength coach who started lifting weights at age 12 and co-owned a gym at age 27.

My training methodology is based on strength training, calisthenics and the olympic lifts.

Most of my time today is spent outdoors in San Diego “strength training” clients as a Weightlifting Performance Coach certified by the NSPA | National Sports Performance Association.

Jing

Certified Personal Trainer

I am an ACE certified personal trainer and RYT 200 certified yoga teacher with 6 years of dedicated training and education. I’ve worked with many clients over the past years of different ages, races, and genders to help them achieve goals such as overcoming physical limitations, developing stronger cores, gaining muscle, being more functionally fit, and losing weight. Quote from a client, "I give Jing huge credit for helping me make big improvements in my physical health and overall well-being. Quantitatively, I have lost 12 pounds and gotten a lot stronger."

Until my mid-20's, I didn't play any sports, I averaged 15 hours of screen time per day due to work and leisure. I was the least fit among groups of friends when hiking, snowboarding, and doing anything physically active. As a young professional, I was feeling burnt out many times from my 80-hour work weeks while running startup businesses, which eventually resulted in me hitting my rock bottom.

Since 2017, in an attempt to get out of rock bottom and to change my lifestyle, I have tried various sports such as racing on dragon boat teams, boxing, snowboarding, sailing, rock climbing and bouldering. I realized that all of these activities I enjoyed required a certain level of physical fitness and strength, as well as my dream of traveling the world and running more startups in the future. I started to invest in myself, with the first step being investing in my physical fitness. I stepped into a gym for the first time in June 2018, and started strength training regularly since then.

I bring over a decade of experience in education, serving 5000+ students and professionals from 25+ countries. I'm also a certified Crisis Text Line counselor bringing experience in supporting people emotionally; comment from a texter, "You were a gift from heaven". I have a Master's degree in economics and finance, which helps me see the world in the big picture and honed my ability to invest (not only financially!)

I look forward to helping guide you along the way as you invest in yourself to improve your physical fitness and transform your life!

Jordan

Certified Personal Trainer

Jordan Jackson is a personal trainer with 15 years of experience within the health and fitness industry and backed by a BS degree in Kinesiology Exercise and EMT National Certification. Jordan’s passion towards fitness training stems from his innate care of others, and is heighted by his determination of bringing his clients goals to realization.

Body Architect doesn’t only represent the act of training and strength it symbolizes the various stages (IDTDO) to ensure success and longevity of results.

Identification through consultation
Design the strategic roadmap
Train
Develop and build
Occupy the new you

As a dedicated Christian Jordan also devotes his time to supporting the community youth through leadership roles, outreach programs, martial arts and extracurricular sports.

Matias

Certified Personal Trainer

Matias is CPT, CES, and CNC certified through NASM and holds a triple certification through Gualda Training in Argentina, obtained in collaboration with UTN, ALIFID, and ISLA. He has over 10 years of professional coaching experience, working with clients across multiple countries.

His training background began early—at eight years old in Argentina, when his father introduced him to Kyokushin karate, establishing a foundation of discipline, physical resilience, and consistency.

In his twenties, Matias transitioned into bodybuilding, developing a strong understanding of hypertrophy, strength development, and structured programming. After moving to San Diego, he returned to surfing and later re-entered combat sports, currently training and sparring in Muay Thai. His athletic background also includes rugby, soccer, gymnastics-based training, calisthenics, basketball, and track & field sprinting, providing a deep understanding of coordination, speed, power, and multi-directional movement.

Matias works with clients of all ages focused on joint health, bone density, injury prevention, and sustainable strength, as well as competitive and professional athletes preparing for performance or returning from injury. He has also helped numerous clients achieve lasting fat loss, rebuild strength, and improve overall health through disciplined training and long-term habit change.

As a nutrition coach, Matias goes beyond macro counting. His focus is on gut health, recovery, and metabolic function, addressing root causes that affect inflammation, energy levels, digestion, and mental clarity.

Matias is the owner of Fuerza & Co., where he also provides online coaching. Outside the gym, Matias spends his time surfing Seaside or Blacks Beach and training Muay Thai, continuing to refine the same principles he applies in his coaching.

McKenna

Certified Personal Trainer

McKenna entered the fitness world four years ago after making the big move from Vermont to San Diego. She began her journey as a group fitness coach, where she thrived on cultivating connections and creating an uplifting environment where people felt safe, supported, and energized. Inspired by the power of group training, McKenna decided to expand into a more intentional, one-on-one coaching space—allowing her to build stronger relationships and help clients reach their unique goals.

Whether she’s coaching, training, or working out alongside her clients, McKenna brings contagious energy, a bright smile, and (more often than not) an iced coffee in hand.

Megan

Certified Personal Trainer

Megan is a Del Mar based Personal Trainer with a passion for building confidence through intuitive exercise and nutrition. Her background of horseback riding combined with her families beach-oriented lifestyle molded Megan into the adventurous and outdoorsy person she is today.

Around 7 years ago, Megan discovered that the gym was a catalyst to growing a foundation for confidence in herself. Flash forward to now, Megans driving force in life is sharing that passion with others and is the blueprint for the creation of Fuel Alive by Megan.

Results oriented, her goal is to transform her clients lives all through her balanced approach with specializations in resistance training, flexibility and mobility, weight loss, injury prevention, and stretching.

She designs efficient, custom workout and nutrition plans, along with home programs.

She hopes to cultivate a positive community, share her knowledge and guide clients to results.

Sammie

Certified Personal Trainer

As a nationally accredited personal trainer, corrective exercise specialist & nutritionist, Sammie is dedicated to helping people live a more healthy & fit lifestyle.

After forgoing a huge body recomposition herself, Sammie understands & acknowledges the challenges that detour people from achieving their health & fitness goals. With a realistic, sustainable & science backed approach to health and wellness, Sammie not only helps her clients reach their goals, but helps them maintain their their body composition for the long run.

Shane

Certified Personal Trainer

Shane has been a trainer since 2002 and developed a full body functional program called No Shane, No Gain, taking pain out of the gain.

The program stretches and strengthens the body to develop better posture. The program is an integrated training philosophy merging all aspects of health and fitness for a total well being. Shane will help you develop muscle strength without experiencing joint pain. Improving your posture NOW will increase your likelihood for a pain free, healthy life.

Following the No Shane No Gain program, you can develop muscle and lose weight. Regardless of your age (clients range from 17 to 86) or some medical conditions such as Thyroid, Metabolic Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Diabetes, Shane and his Program will improve your fitness and help you achieve your goals.

The B. Fit Clinic and The National Academy of Sports Medicine are both dedicated to transforming lives and revolutionizing the health and fitness industry through its unwavering commitment to deliver innovative education, solutions and tools that produce remarkable results.

Tatum

Certified Personal Trainer, RD

Tatum is a Certified Personal Trainer and Registered Dietitian. She specializes in functional and resistance training with an emphasis on unilateral movements and stability training. She has experience in knee, hip and ankle strengthening programming.

She is a former club collegiate volleyball player who has recovered and overcome six orthopedic knee surgeries from a college injury. She now can implement her learning and experience to her client’s when presented with lower extremity injuries.

Her private practice, Equilibrium Nutrition, offers 12-week
nutrition consultation programs for surgery and injury recovery nutrition and exercise performance and body composition optimization. She has ample experience in weight management, muscle building, and management of cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes, pre-diabetes, gastrointestinal disorders, kidney conditions, and disordered eating.

When not training or consulting, Tatum is often playing beach volleyball or surfing.

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Alex

Certified Personal Trainer

Ambrose

Certified Personal Trainer

Brett

Certified Personal Trainer

Cindy

Certified Personal Trainer

Doug

Certified Personal Trainer

Jing

Certified Personal Trainer

Jordan

Certified Personal Trainer

Matias

Certified Personal Trainer

McKenna

Certified Personal Trainer

Megan

Certified Personal Trainer

Sammie

Certified Personal Trainer

Shane

Certified Personal Trainer

Tatum

Certified Personal Trainer, RD

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