MEET OUR FITNESS TEAM
Sara Jo Oliver - Master Trainer - Owner
Dow Park, Deer Park, 5:15 AM
Sara Jo Oliver is a NESTA Certified Adventure Boot Camp Instructor,
American College of Integrative Medicine Certified Personal Fitness Trainer, and Fitness Coach through
Wellcoaches, an American College of Sports Medicine (
ACSM) endorsed program. She holds a degree from the University of Houston in Exercise Science and a minor in Nutrition.
Sara has been an athlete since the seventh grade, playing basketball all the way into college. She then went on to coach basketball one year before realizing her first love was fitness itself, and helping others reach their fitness visions became a passion. She has now made health and fitness a lifestyle and a career. She will share her passion for fitness with all who she instructs .
She is a wife and mother of three and worked out through all her pregnancies! She worked for over nine years training women in a gym setting at
The Train Station in Houston. She opened her own business 2006,
The Strong Woman, where she continued to train women in weight training and pilates. Then in 2006 she also started Adventure Boot Camp in the Bay Area so she could impact a larger group of women's and men's lives at once. She has continuing education in rehabilitation, pilates, and aqua training. Her love for fitness and healthy living is evident in her teaching style that you will find motivating and inspiring.
Greg Durham - Master Trainer - Owner
Dow Park, Deer Park 5:15 AM & Sylvan Rodriguez Park, Clear Lake/Houston 6:30 PM
Greg Durham is a NESTA Certified Adventure Boot Camp owner/instructor, EZ8 Running coach, and SCW Fitness Personal Trainer. Greg is passionate about fitness and helping others achieve their fitness goals. Greg grew up playing sports. He excelled in the game of basketball at the high school level, going on to play in college. He enjoys the power of teamwork and sportsmanship, and relishes the opportunity to help people of all fitness levels live a healthy lifestyle with both fitness and nutrition. He has continuing education in kid's fitness, pilates, strength and conditioning training. He will inspire and encourage you to achieve your personal best in life.
"To get from where you are to where you want to be, you have to push past your current threshold! Sure, this is challenging, won't be easy...but you better believe it IS possible! If you never cross your current threshold or go beyond what you've done before you will stay right where you are. This holds true in life and it's the same in getting fit! In four weeks time you will grow, be challenged in the funnest ways possible! You will be a stronger, faster, firmer YOU! Here's to US getting there together!"
He owns, operates and instructs the Adventure Boot Camp that meets at Gilmore Elementary off League City Parkway as well as instructs the evening Co-Ed camp that meets at Sylvan Rodriguez Park. He and his wife Cindy are raising their four active sons, Garrett, Connor, Dyllan & Bennett in the Bay Area.
"Adventure Boot Camp is your start to a new you and a new way of life! You CAN do this! Life is an adventure, train for it!"
Sarah Sampson - Certified Adventure Boot Camp Coach
Sarah Sampson has a Masters Degree in Exercise Science/Health Education. Her passion for fitness began in high school where she got her first job in a fitness center. She has worked in various areas of fitness and wellness since then. She is a Certified Personal Fitness Instructor through PFIT. She loves encouraging and motivating people to reach their personal fitness goals! More recently she has been encouraging little people as she stays at home with her four children ages 6 to 2 years old! She has always loved exercise and keeps herself fit by swimming, spinning classes and running. She is currently an assistant coach for a local marathon training group and is training for the Houston Half Marathon. She believes that making exercise a part of your daily life will make you a better person by enhancing your spirit, mind and body!
BS Health and Exercise Science Oral Roberts Univ.
MS Exercise Science / Health Education Middle Tenn. State Univ.
Erin Guerrero - Certified Adventure Boot Camp Coach
McNair Memorial Park, El Lago 5:15AM & Dow Park, Deer Park 8:00AM
Erin Guerrero is a Certified Personal Fitness Trainer and Advanced Human Performance Specialist/Nutrition Specialist through American College of Integrative Medicine and Professional Fitness Instructor Training. Erin began exploring her own serious weight training efforts after the birth of her first child. She has been a trainer for 8 years at My Trainer in League City. There she began to focus more on the nutritional aspect of health and fitness by offering one-on-one nutrition consultation. Through her own experience with an eating disorder, she is able to bring insight and understanding to those who struggle with Compulsive Overeating, Bulimia and Anorexia. In addition to addressing calories and nutritional content of food, she also focuses on emotional and behavioral aspects of eating. Erin will also be your guide through our Grocery Shopping Tours. Read more.
Erin began dancing at the age of 5, spending another 10 years mastering tap, ballet, jazz and toe. Her love for the arts brought her to Music Theatre and Vocal Performance where she received a full Vocal Performance Scholarship to Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. She spent two years on the D.H. Holmes Fashion Board as a runway model and was an extra in the box office hit ?Steel Magnolias?.
Born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Erin moved to the Houston area 15 years ago. She lives in Deer Park with her two children, Landon, 16 and Haley, age 12.
Dr. John Spencer Ellis - Support Staff
Adventure Boot Camp was originally developed by Dr. John Spencer Ellis, who has been an innovator in the fitness industry for more than half his life. He began his life of fitness at age 12, and has continually educated himself in the areas of fitness, sports conditioning, medical advancements, education and business. John is a personal trainer, fitness consultant, trainer of personal trainers, media advisor, medical exercise specialist, mentor, life coach, and peak performance consultant. Since the late 1990s, John has operated an Adventure Boot Camp in Orange County, CA and oversees the Spencer Escape fitness retreat center in Big Bear, CA. After years of research, hundreds of hours of instruction, experimenting with various teaching methods, camp formats, and nutrition programs, the Adventure Boot Camp method emerged. This is the method you will learn.
