Shawna

Personal Trainer

“There is nothing more rewarding than helping people overcome obstacles and become stronger, inside and out.”

-Shawna, Personal Trainer

Shawna is an ACE Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Youth Fitness Specialist, Group Fitness Specialist, and Schwinn Cycling Instructor. She has trained exclusively at Shape Plus for more than a decade, and helping clients build a healthy, strong, and sustainable lifestyle is one of her greatest passions.

Shawna believes consistency matters. When clients combine smart training with wholesome, nutritious foods that make them feel great, their bodies, confidence, and energy can all start moving in the right direction.

She does her best to keep workouts from ever feeling boring. Shawna builds creative strength and conditioning programs for clients of all fitness levels, and she has a gift for helping newcomers feel comfortable, confident, and capable very quickly.

Her focus as a trainer is helping clients find the type of fitness they actually enjoy doing on a regular basis. That enjoyment is what helps people stay consistent, maintain their progress, and keep going long after the first goal is reached.

Shawna often reminds clients that exercise is like brushing your teeth — you shouldn’t skip it.

And yes, burpees may still appear from time to time.

All jokes aside, Shawna believes there is nothing more rewarding than helping people overcome obstacles and become stronger, inside and out.

With her strength training and conditioning experience, Shawna has helped everyday clients and high-level athletes get stronger, move better, and perform at a higher level. Her coaching experience has included work with elite competitors, including IBJJF No-Gi Worlds Double Gold Champion Nicole Evangelista.

When it comes to her own workouts, Shawna lives what she teaches. She enjoys everything from running to powerlifting to yoga, and she believes cross-training can be incredibly valuable for building a strong, capable body.

Shawna has been seen doing 20 consecutive pull-ups at the end of an obstacle race, weighted pistol squats on a Bosu Ball, and deadlifting nearly three times her body weight.

She also knows how to work through setbacks and come back stronger. Only 20 months after ACL reconstruction, Shawna set a USPA Colorado State Record in the Master’s Division for bench press and deadlift.

Her preferred fuel for those types of lifts includes turkey tacos and copious amounts of peanut butter.

Like many mothers, Shawna understands the challenge of balancing work, fitness, family, and real life. She is married to Jess, also a trainer at Shape Plus, and they have two children. Outside the gym, she loves hiking, cooking, family vacations, and any warm tropical place where she can sit by the ocean with her Kindle.