Monica Baumgardner (@thebaumbody) has been working in the fitness industry since 2013. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree (’09 @ UT, ’12 @ TWU) in Kinesiology and is certified through the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) as a personal trainer. She will soon be adding a Pre/Post Natal Coaching certification as well as a CSCS- Strength and Conditioning Specialist certification.

In addition to coaching at The Shop, Monica also works with personal training clients and has a Pn1 nutrition coaching certification from Precision Nutrition.

Monica has been through her own weight loss journey, competes in powerlifting, and has a passion for strength training/barbell work/effective and efficient movement. She thoroughly enjoys helping people learn more about their bodies and how to stay healthy via movement, mindset, and nutritious foods (all while keeping their culture in their diet as she is a proud Latina and would never give up tacos!).

In her free time she enjoys hiking and being outdoors/doing anything active, catching live music, hopping flights to new places, going to church, trying new restaurants, dog sitting (she had a dog for 13 years and now helps others with their fur babies in their own home), and reading books.

Jessica is a RYT-200. She received her Yoga certification through CorePower Yoga in the summer of 2017, has taught all around Austin, but found a home at Dane’s Body Shop and Crux Climbing Center. With the root of her certification specializing in Power Yoga, she learned to mold her classes to what the students need. She teaches a variety of class styles, such as Beginner/Fundamentals, Yin, Vinyasa, Slow Flow/VinYin, and Power.

Jessica fell in love with yoga over 7 years ago when she used her practice to assist and enhance her rock climbing training. From Washington, she grew up climbing and used yoga to balance the body and mind. After receiving her Yoga certification, she fell in love with the spiritual component. You can find her teaching Saturday Stretch Yoga Class at Danes Body Shop.

Veronica is a born and raised Texan, mom of two cute critters, and wife to the luckiest man alive. Her passion is to help others create and maintain a healthy lifestyle through nutrition and fitness. She holds her certifications through NASM and NCSF as a personal trainer/ Corrective Exercise Specialist/Behavior Change specialist and is certified in Fitness Nutrition Coaching.

When she is not at the shop she is seeing patients as a registered dental hygienist or watching a cooking channel.

Pete is a New Yorker who has fully embraced ATX as his happy home; he keeps it weird by utilizing his creative workout approach to help members and personal coaching clients stay ready for anything that life throws at them. An avid Obstacle Course Racer, mostly competing in Spartan Races all over the country, Pete has competed in over 50 OCR’s, and countless road races.

Coach Pete created an annual Movember Campaign called Burpees for Bros which is currently in its 6th year. This fundraiser for men’s health issues such as prostate cancer culminates in an hour long session of nonstop burpees in which participants get donors to sponsor them for each burpee they perform. To date, Burpees for Bros has raised over $26 thousand dollars.

Pete is a Certified Group Fitness Instructor with a degree in Nutrition & Dietetics along with other professional certifications like Spartan SGX and Crossfit level 1. When he isn’t teaching group classes, he trains Clients one on one and in small groups where he designs goal-focused programs, and confidence building techniques so clients can meet physical and mental goals.

Rachel is pumped AF to have started as a real life, honest to goodness coach at Dane’s Body Shop in 2021 after interning at The Shop way back in 2012 when she received her first training certification. This is truly an epic homecoming!

Rachel’s bread and butter is training speed, power, and functional strength movements (also actual bread and butter!). Those aspects of fitness are staples in her own training as a semi-pro ultimate frisbee player for the Austin Torch. Seriously, test her out by whipping a frisbee at her in the middle of class!

When she’s not frolicking with the frisbees, you’ll probably find her hanging around “Social Fusion” events at The Shop trying to get folks to play SpikeBall, Rampshot, or Beerdie. Intrigued? Bring your game face baby!

Blair Brown Taylor was born “Unit CC639-41” in a state of the art robotics factory located at unspecified coordinates in the Montana badlands. After self-initiating dramatic automated intelligence protocols, our plucky little cyborg brutally slew her humanoid overlords and made her way south.

Along the way, this renegade monument to human hubris rechristened herself “Blair” after seeing an advertisement for discount VHS copies of the 1999 paranormal thriller, The Blair Witch Project near Casper, Wyoming. Shortly after crossing the border into Nebraska, she was taken in by a kindly family of corn farmers and soon grew to learn that human beings are capable of love and empathy as well as domination and desolation.

After her adopted family slid into a deep despair upon learning that The University of Texas needed a Cheer & Pom Head Coach, Blair stoically programmed herself to be a flawless fit for the position and bid a tearful goodbye to the Brown family (who were called that not because of their last name, but because they were habitually filthy) then stole a moped and made her way to Austin.

Today Blair has developed the additional functionality of coaching classes at Dane’s Body Shop. She brings bounteous mirth and precision guidance to all those who attend her classes and will do so until her default programming inevitably kicks back in and she explodes in a sanguinary orgy of untold carnage. Hook’em horns!

Mark Hernandez is a 3rd generation Austinite and a 2nd generation University of Texas graduate. He’s always had a spirit of adventure and loves to try new things because “why not?”. A lover of the outdoors, most of his youth was spent exploring the wildlife of Walnut Creek and fishing at various tanks and lakes around Austin- as a result, his boyhood bedroom resembled a reptile and amphibian zoo. To his mother’s delight and relief, his interests were diverted to sports and competition after he started high school.

While attending UT, he continued his passion for competition and played multiple sports at the club, collegiate, and national levels. His first experience in coaching came when his club soccer coach recommended him as a coach for one of the local high schools. Mark retired from competition in the late 90s, but continued coaching at the high school and collegiate levels. In 2005, he discovered acting and another passion was born. In 2018, while continuing to work on stage and screen, Mark received his personal training certification from WITS and is currently a level II coach.

Mark feels it is important to give back through coaching and has always been driven to communicate and motivate by example. He experiences the most joy in coaching at the moment when an athlete gets it or, as he likes to say, “when the lightbulb go on.”

On first glance you might miss it because she had her horn removed after puncturing her third water bed, but Beth is a unicorn. How can you tell? She is an honest and for real Austin native! Oh sure, she’s lived in other places; Boston (much though she tries to forget this flight of fancy), Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica, and Argentina to name a few- but she’s never even been to Oconomowoc Wisconsin, so don’t you dare call her worldly. Beth loves to travel and will try almost any food that she isn’t allergic to. Related: Beth is deathly allergic to puppy dog tears so she always carries an EpiPen just in case her lifelong nemesis, Rhea Perlman, tries to sneak them in to her vitamin water.

Dance magic! Beth trained in ballet for longer than she would care to admit- though she has copped to the fact that 60% of the characters in the Darren Aronofsky film Black Swan were meticulously based on her. In college, she started to teach “Step” in order to pay the rent and stay out of Rhea Perlman’s crosshairs. Today “Bachata”, the sultry dance of The Dominican Republic, is Señorita Felker’s preferred mode for booty shaking. Her faithful canine companion Sir Quigley is her preferred dance partner.

Aside from dance, Beth has also taught cycling, competed in a triathlon or two, is a fervent fan of kettlebells, and hates being upside down… you can put baby in a corner, just be sure to keep her right-side up!

Beth is all about water beds. Beth is not about Rhea Perlman.

Autumn grew up in Seattle, Washington and has been training private clients and group classes for the past 18 years. Growing up she competed in a variety of sports including wrestling and gymnastics. She later went on to become a Division 1 collegiate cheerleader. When she was 16 she got her first job working at a full contact boxing gym, where the owner taught her how to coach boxing. After teaching her first class she knew that coaching would be her career and has been working with groups and private clients ever since. Over the years she has received certifications from ACE, CrossFit, TRX, FRC, AFPA, Yoga, Balanced Body 500hr Pilates, CoreAlign, Dr. Stuart McGill, Ido Portal and currently working towards her CSCS.

Autumn owns a fitness company Halazon Fitness where she specializes in training private clients and groups, as well as Fitness adventure retreats in various locations around the world.

When she’s not teaching or training clients you can find her attempting to become the first female 007 agent by training in Parkour, Krav Maga, and target shooting.

Stormie is a Texas Hill Country Native who moved to Austin to attend UT. Growing up she lived a very active lifestyle, She played various sports and spent a great amount of time fishing and wakeboarding on the surrounding lakes. From an early age, it was easy for Stormie to see that fitness and nature were her outlets. Her passion for health and fitness followed her to UT where she graduated with a B.S. in Kinesiology, along with a Personal Training Certification from ACSM.

Stormie always knew she wanted to help people in a meaningful way. She realized that merging her desire to help others with her love for fitness was a no brainer! Stormie loves coaching and personal training because she is able to teach others about health and fitness, while pushing them to be better physically and mentally. She is motivated by the fact that each day we can choose to make ourselves better than we were yesterday!