Meet our Head Coach: Jeremy Mghenyi
With over 15 years of coaching experience, Jeremy is passionate about health, fitness, and athletic performance. Throughout his life, he has excelled in three sports: a multiple national medalist in taekwondo, a Minnesota Open weightlifting champion, and through numerous accomplishments in CrossFit.
Jeremy's passion for fitness led him to pursue a degree in Exercise Science from the University of Northern Iowa. During his time there, he interned with XL Sports Acceleration. Over the course of his career, Jeremy has worked with individuals ranging from 5 to 70+ years old. Drawing from his experiences as both a coach and an athlete, he is dedicated to helping athletes reach their full potential, both in sports and in life
• Future Goals: Continue growing and building XL Sports. Support our athletes to dream bigger and reach their goals.
• Best advice for beginners: Play the long game. Be patient with your progress. Little by little, a little becomes a lot.
Meet the Coach:
sam bastyr
Sam has 8 years of experience coaching at Progression Fitness, where he has done personal training, nutrition coaching, and whole group classes. Sam has his level 2 CrossFit certification.
His sports background is in Rugby. Starting as a freshman in high school, playing throughout college, and for a men’s team here in Rochester. He has experience coaching at both the high school and college level.
• Future Goals: Coach young athletes to be well rounded: strength, agility, mobility, speed.
• Best advice for beginners: Consistency and hard work will pay off.
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