C.J. is the Head Coach and Owner of Invictus. He has coached dozens of individuals and masters athletes to the CrossFit Games – including Team Invictus, who has been to the CrossFit Games for 10 consecutive years. He has worked with athletes around the world through online coaching and program design since 2009, being able to cultivate the 'Sea of Green' community of support from anywhere in the world. C.J. is a Level 4 CrossFit instructor, USA Weightlifting Coach and former member of the CrossFit HQ training team.

Tim is the founder of the Juice Athlete Compound, and online strength & conditioning coaching company that works with athletes, gyms, and coaches around the world. After running one of SoCal's largest boxes, he took his wealth of experience as a world-class athlete and coach online to help motivated individuals unlock their full potential. In 2016 he had 3 of his athletes compete in the Rio Olympics, and several more are on track for 2020. Tim specializes in 1-on-1 program design, facility programming, and the Juice's Kids Fitness program; "Youth Empowerment Systems" which currently runs across the US, Canada, & Europe.

– Pan Am Games Gold Medalist, World Championships Bronze Medalist
– 9x US National Team Member
– UCLA Graduate
– US Olympic Training Center Resident Athlete & Coach
– Strength & Conditioning Coach for Olympians, World Champions, and Regional & Games Athletes

Jared Stevens – Coach / Co-Owner-CrossFit417

Credentials: NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist; CrossFit Level 1; CPR and First Aid

Accomplishments: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 CrossFit Games Team;

2012, 2013 and 2014 CrossFit North Central Regionals Individual

Athletic Experience: College Football & Track

I started CrossFit: 2011

Favorite Nasty Girl/Movement: Jackie. Clean.

Why I love CrossFit: I love our community that we have all created right here in Ozark.

My favorite part about coaching at CrossFit 417:The people and seeing how their lives change as they buy into believing in themselves.

My passion outside the gym: God is my motivation and without him we have nothing. I am passionate about life.

Marcus Filly is the CEO and Founder of Revival Strength and Functional Bodybuilding, and creator of Awaken Training Series. He is a 6x CrossFit Games athlete (2016 12th fittest) and was captain of the Phoenix Rise in the NPGL. Marcus has an extensive training background and has also competed in baseball, golf, and Division 1 collegiate soccer.

Marcus’s passion for helping others live healthy lives led him partway through medical school, until he turned his career focus to coaching. He was formerly a CrossFit facility owner for 5 years, has completed all 5 of the OPEX CCP courses, and has coached clients from all over the world, including Games and Regionals athletes. Marcus currently leads a team of coaches at Revival Strength, who design individual programs for clients both remotely and onsite that include training, nutrition, and lifestyle support for a diverse range of athletes. He also co-hosts the Look Good Move Well podcast. Marcus lives in San Rafael, CA with his wife, Megan, and daughter, Noa.

Jason Khalipa is a San Jose, California native, CrossFit Games world champion, first-time author, and lifelong competitor. Jason married his high school sweetheart, Ashley, and the couple was blessed with two beautiful children, Ava and Kaden. Jason and Ashley are extremely passionate about fundraising and building awareness for children and the families of children battling cancer.

Jason is CEO and Founder of NCFIT, a global company aimed at making fitness effective, fun, and accessible. With thousands of participants worldwide, NCFIT is widely considered first in class in functional training by industry insiders. Jason is also one of the most accomplished athletes in CrossFit Games history. In 2008, Jason was crowned the Fittest Man on Earth. He has also earned top finishes including placements as the 5th, 16th, 7th, 5th, 2nd, and 3rd Fittest Man on Earth. Jason had the honor of representing Team USA three times in the worldwide CrossFit Invitational and earned Spirit of the Games honors in 2009. Jason attributes much of his success in life and competition to the love and support of his wife and children, as well as to the AMRAP Mentality.

JP owns and operates BRICK. Established in Los Angeles in 2010, BRICK rapidly expanded to tier one cities such as New York, Chicago and Boston. Applying a replicable, scalable and proven business model, JP has grown the company to 7 commercial location throughout the U.S. and 2 international partnerships in less than six years.

JP got his start in membership-based business over 20 years ago after a decorated amateur and professional fight career. JP transferred his extensive athletic triumphs into teaching martial arts and soon thereafter opened his own schools. He quickly grew into one of the youngest multiple-school location owners in the U.S. Due to his great success in building strong communities and staff; he was sought after by some of the most esteemed Martial Arts academies. With a growing family of nieces and nephews Perelmutter was compelled to move back West. He sold his locations to the managers he had groomed and developed, who all still run successful operations to this day.

Upon returning to Los Angeles, JP dove into the sport of fitness, a training methodology he had dabbled in during previous fight training. Instantly he had a newfound love. Meanwhile his entrepreneurial spirit immediately saw an opportunity and hole in the market. Using his tested and proven membership based business model he founded BRICK.

JP has a passion for sharing his business savvy methods to inspire, motivate and guide people to a healthier and wealthier way of life. His worldwide training and business endeavors has allowed him to gather an arsenal of powerful knowledge, teaching tools, and talents, which he has utilized to create a dynamic environment for his team and the communities he’s built JP aspires to share his experience and knowledge with other affiliates and fitness business owners since he lives by the mantra “rising tides raise all boats”.

JP continues on his never ending quest of excellence while searching new opportunities to expand the BRICK landscape and provide great career growth for his professional team of which he considers family.

Onward and upward!

Shane Farmer is the founder of Dark Horse Rowing, host of the worlds largest rowing YouTube channel, president of the Non-Profit, Community Rowing San Diego, and an outside consultant for health trends to large companies. Shane is a 4x CrossFit Games athlete and has coached athletes all around the world working with groups like Concept2, Invictus, and CrossFit as a subject matter expert. Shane’s message is about building intrinsic value for life through the pursuit of growth as a human. The idiom of being a Dark Horse is what drives his community to improve their own lives.

Mike T. Nelson, PhD, MSME, CSCS, CISSN, is a research fanatic who specializes in metabolic flexibility and heart rate variability, as well as an online trainer, adjunct professor, faculty member at the Carrick Institute, presenter, creator of the Flex Diet Cert, kiteboarder, and (somewhat incongruously) heavy-metal enthusiast.

Inaugural CrossFit Games Champion and industry-leading educator, James FitzGerald, has dedicated his life to bringing honor to the coaching profession. As Founder of OPEX Fitness his Coaching Education and Gyms Licensing Programs have provided thousands of coaches with the tools needed to professionalize their passion. James’ flagship program, The OPEX Coaching Certificate Program reflects his 20 + years of coaching expertise and is set apart by the breadth of coaching theory and practical application taught. In early 2019, James achieved another career milestone with the release of Mixed Modal, a groundbreaking course specifically designed to educate coaches on the long-term development of competitive Functional Fitness athletes.

Nicole Aucoin is a Registered Dietitian and Founder of Healthy Steps Nutrition and HSN Mentoring. Through HSN, Nicole started HSN Mentoring where she has helped hundreds of gym owners and dietitians start and grow their own nutrition programs. Nicole wrote a book, Nourish: Grow Your Nutrition Business from the Ground Up, which is available on Amazon. Visit www.growyournutritionbusiness.com for free help and support.

Jen, along with her husband Josh, opened Progression Fitness (also known as CrossFit Progression) in Rochester, Minnesota in 2009. The goal of opening this facility was to create a place that would positively impact people's lives, helping them to be the healthiest version of themselves, stay functional, get stronger, live longer, and be free from chronic diseases like diabetes. Jen received training from Healthy Steps Nutrition, became a nutrition coach, and started the nutrition program at Progression Fitness in 2017.

Aside from being a nutrition coach at Progression Fitness, Jen is a nurse practitioner at Mayo Clinic, specializing in diabetes management. The role of a nutrition coach, and now mentor incorporates a passion for healthy eating, exercise, disease prevention and the pursuit of quality of life without the burden of chronic disease.

Through the Healthy Steps Nutrition mentorship of fellow nutrition coaches, the goal is to grow businesses with similar missions and help fellow business owners and nutrition coaches empower people to improve the health of the individual, family and community.

Anders Varner is the Director of Media at the Shrugged Collective and host of the Barbell Shrugged Podcast. Anders was the founder of San Diego Athletics, a gym in San Diego, and Your Movement Rx, an online rehab company, selling each in 2016 and 2018 respectively. Anders is a four time CrossFit regional athlete and has coached athletes from every major sport including the NFL, MLB, WWE, and CrossFit. With over 22 years of experience in strength and conditioning, he thrives on giving coaches the tools they need to pursue a career in the fitness industry.

Jen Esquer is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and movement enthusiast. She treats patients privately in Los Angeles and has online programs called The Mobility Method and The Optimal Body that reach people globally. She uses her social platforms to push educational videos on how to maintain mobility, increase strength, and prevent pain throughout the body. As a former gymnast of 9 years and pilates instructor for 6 years, Jen is an avid mover who dabbles in AcroYoga, calisthenics, weight training, pilates and yoga. Her vision is to empower others to continue to move and live a pain-free, active lifestyle.

Adee Cazayoux is the Founder and CEO of Working Against Gravity (WAG), an online nutrition coaching program with a mission to transform lives. Having made a name for herself in nutrition, Cazayoux has worked with elite athletes such as Katrin Davidsdottir, Jessica Lucero and Tia Clair-Toomey, just to spotlight a few. Beyond being a coach to the pros, Cazayoux is a textbook lifelong learner. She completed her Bachelors in Honors Psychology and a Masters in Teaching and is working toward a Masters in Nutrition and Human Performance. Beyond being an entrepreneur and student of the nutritional sciences, Cazayoux is also an athlete herself, having competed in the National Pro Grid League, CrossFit Open and won the Bronze Medal in the 2016 Canadian National Weightlifting Championships. Cazayoux currently lives in Austin, Texas with her loving husband Michael, President of WAG, and her Labradoodle, Otis.

Michael Cazayoux, president of WAG, specializes in helping his team and clients “get out of their own way” by identifying self-limiting beliefs and ineffective behaviors.

In fact, the back-to-back CrossFit World Cup Champion is no stranger to this unique process of self-examination. At the impressionable age of 17, Cazayoux confronted his own limiting beliefs and ineffective behaviors head on, attending drug rehabilitation to overcome his addiction to opiates. It’s this experience that inspired a love of health and fitness on a personal level, which later translated into a passion for coaching and mentoring inside and out of the gym.

Prior to joining WAG, Michael cofounded Brute Strength, an online fitness training company, where he continues to contribute to operations and remains as the podcast host.

Beyond “the office,” the young entrepreneur is most proud of his marriage to Adee Cazayoux, his partner in love, life and fitness. In his free time, Cazayoux enjoys backpacking, snowboarding, woodworking, bow shooting, hunting and creating enormous value in people’s lives — especially his closest family and friends.

• 28 CrossFit Games Champions
• Owner of aerobiccapacity.com
• CrossFit Subject Matter Expert: Aerobic Capacity
• 10 Year of CrossFit Experience
• 10x Ironman Competitor

Chris Hinshaw specializes in aerobic capacity coaching and programming for CrossFit athletes, fitness enthusiasts, and sports specialists. Hinshaw has successfully coached 28 CrossFit Games champions and his athletes have filled more than 38 podium spots since 2013.

Professional Athlete:
A former All American swimmer and an experienced professional triathlete with 10 Ironman finishes with 7 Ironman’s in Kona, Hawaii. His top international finishes include a 2nd place overall finish at the Hawaiian Ironman World Championships, 2nd place overall finish at the Ironman World Championships in Canada, and a 1st place overall finish at Ironman Brazil. He has been a CrossFit athlete since 2008.

CrossFit Experience:
CrossFit Headquarters selected Coach Chris as their Subject Matter Expert (“SME”) in Aerobic Capacity. He specializes in building aerobic capacity and muscular endurance. He’s a CrossFit Level 2 Trainer (CF-­‐L2), CrossFit Competitor Course certified, Endurance Course certified, CrossFit Mobility certified, and CrossFit Judge. Hinshaw is a founding partner of Brute Strength as well as NorCal CrossFit coach, Power Monkey coach and CrossFit Mayhem coach. He currently shares his coaching and endurance programming through aerobiccapacity.com and travels the world to teach his coaching methodology via his CrossFit Specialty Course: Aerobic Capacity.

Professional Coach:
He is the endurance coach to hundreds of athletes that range from the day-­‐to-­‐day fitness enthusiast looking to efficiently and effectively improve their aerobic fitness to professional surfers, Olympians, and Brazilian Jiu-­‐jitsu World Champions to more than three-­‐dozen podium athletes & teams since the 2013 CrossFit Games including Mat Fraser, Rich Froning, Jason Khalipa, Katrin Daviosdottir, Tia Clair Toomey, Kara Webb, Camille Leblanc-­‐Bazinet, Sara Sigmundsdottir, and Julie Foucher.

Personal Details:
Hinshaw graduated in 1989 with a BS in Business Administration and a Concentration in Finance from Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, CA. His favorite cheat meal is Ruffles (low fat with sea salt) potato chips and onion dip. He was born in Mountain View, CA and currently resides in Cookeville, TN

Dr. Sean founded Active Life to fill a need he saw in the management of musculoskeletal injuries. Most people don’t want to spend a lot of time in a doctor’s office to get out of pain. Active Life is now the only company helping thousands of people to get out of pain without going to the doctor or missing the gym.

Dr. Sean and his staff have worked with over 40 CrossFit Games athletes including five CrossFit Games champions. They work with over 10,000 people world wide and are disrupting the healthcare space for active people.

Max El-Hag runs Training Think Tank. He's coached professional athletes at the CrossFit Games, written programs for teams at the CrossFit Games, coached athletes in GRID (when that was a thing), coached regionals (and now Sanctionals) level athletes, and has coached athletes with no desire to compete in the sport when they have a desire to improve and continually push themselves. He's not good at hoola hooping and finds joy in watching a slinky go down stairs.

David Newman is Founder and CEO of Rx Smart Gear, Inc. the industry leader in jump rope design, manufacturing and training. David started Rx Smart Gear as a garage hobby in 2009 and has enjoyed tremendous growth in the global marketplace over the past decade. David is honored that Rx Smart Gear holds the title as the first ever Officially licensed jump rope of CrossFit, Inc. in 2016-2017 as well as the Official jump rope partner to 5 US Olympic teams including Wrestling, Boxing, Judo, Synchronized Swimming and Functional Fitness. Though Rx Smart Gear products are highly prevalent among elite athletes and world champions it is the every day fitness enthusiast that drives our innovation and gives us real purpose. We are proud to lead the charge in developing training tools that provide user-friendly progressions and effective training methods.

David co-owns and operates Rx Smart Gear with his wife and business partner Susan Newman. David and Susan are also proud parents of 2 teenage boys Daxton and Kolten. David graduated from San Diego State University in 1995 where he and his wife were competitive gymnastic coaches. He received his CrossFit Level 1 Certification in 2009 and followed up with the CrossFit Gymnastic and CrossFit Kids certifications in 2010. Previously, a multi year Regional Qualifier and one time OC Throwdown champion, David now CrossFits every day to maintain a healthy and active lifestyle.