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Ramon Blankenship, Co-Founder

Ramon is a lifelong athlete, beginning with soccer in elementary school and playing competitively until he was a junior in high school. Wrestling was his favorite athletic endeavor while in school, and later utilizing his skill in wrestling during his short professional Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) career.

Getting into training others late in life, after having experienced top-flight coaching for much of his life, Ramon utilizes strength and conditioning, as well as basic nutrition principles and lifestyle changes, to maximize the body’s chance at adapting positively.

His main skill set as a trainer was primarily focused on mobility, stretching, bodyweight movement, and strength training, prior to developing his skill set in metabolic testing as a means for athletic development. He has worked as a metabolic technician at Lifetime, utilizing gas analysis to determine which nutritional and lifestyle skills to develop in the client. Ramon, along with his partner Brian Xicotencatl, helped lead that team to multiple national victories.

Combining all of these elements of training has lead to one of his clients winning a national weight-loss tournament against 20,000 competitors, and a burning desire to share his knowledge with others.

Brian Xicotencatl, Co-Founder

Coach Brian Xicotencatl got his start in athletics as a water polo player in Sacramento, California, at Laguna Creek High School. He went on to play collegiate water polo, first at American River College, and then at Fresno Pacific University (FPU), and still plays competitively to this day. One day, during junior college polo at American River College, his coach pulled him aside and told him he was too out of shape and overweight to excel at water polo. Since that day, he has committed himself to never being the limiting factor in his life. He went on to change his weight from 265lbs to 175lbs.

While at FPU Brian was introduced to metabolic testing, conducting two separate studies utilizing a metabolic cart. In 2018, he was hired as the Metabolic Specialist at Lifetime Athletic where he ran the metabolic program of the fitness department. Coach X is a certified Strength and Conditioning coach who believes performance problems are health problems. He specializes in metabolic conditioning, sports performance, and recovery.