Coaches who know your name.

Jeremy SevernOwner · Coach

Jer is a co-owner and coach at Warehouse Fitness & Performance, with over 15 years of coaching experience. His background spans high school wrestling, service in the U.S. Air Force as a Physical Training Leader, five-plus years as a professional MMA competitor, and four years as a coach and head coach at Orangetheory Fitness in Charleston, SC and Canton, OH.

He specializes in strength and conditioning, athlete performance, and mobility and injury reduction. His coaching style is high energy and results-focused, built on the belief that every person in the room is capable of more than they think.

Advice to first-timers: just start. We all start somewhere.

Sam GrovesOwner · Coach

Sam is a co-owner and coach at Warehouse Fitness & Performance. He has coached at Warehouse for four years and has been part of the community since day one. His coaching roots go back to college track and field, where a love for the weight room and helping others ignited a career built around technique, strength, and purpose.

Certified in personal training, powerlifting, Olympic lifting, and CPR and first aid. His coaching style is focused and direct: technique, weights, push yourself. He is passionate about helping members understand the why behind every movement, not just go through the motions.

Advice to first-timers: showing up is the hardest part. After that, regardless of the workout, you will be glad you made it. There will always be someone, a coach or a member, ready to help you along the way.

Mike GlennonCoach

Michael has been part of Warehouse Fitness for over seven years and has been coaching here since November 2018. His background spans amateur MMA, competitive boxing, and over a decade of fitness coaching, training athletes and everyday people from age 10 to 50 and beyond.

He describes his coaching style as a motivational machine, and he means it. He is at his best pushing members past limits they did not know they had. Michael specializes in strength training, endurance, and athletic performance.

Advice to first-timers: motivation gets you started. Discipline keeps you going. Consistency is what gets you there.

Alyssa DickerhoofCoach

Alyssa has been a Warehouse Fitness member for six years and recently made the move to coaching. A former multi-sport athlete who played basketball at Walsh University, she found Warehouse Fitness and has been in the best shape of her life since, including her time as a college athlete.

Her coaching style is encouraging and energetic, and she is passionate about helping members of all backgrounds push beyond what they think they can do.

Advice to first-timers: walk in not knowing anything. That is exactly what the coaches here are for.

Brian DeGasperisCoach

Brian has been a member of Warehouse Fitness since 2019 and coaching since October 2021. His background covers sprinting and hurdling through high school, competitive bodybuilding, and getting into running during COVID.

His coaching style is straightforward: have fun, push yourself, and possibly contemplate life at some point. He loves watching a group get better together.

Advice to first-timers: you will hate it the whole time, and when you are done, you will want to do it again.

Melissa KaufmanCoach · Member Growth Coordinator

Mel has been part of the Warehouse Fitness community for three years. She played college sports, coached varsity athletics, and spent years leading others through athletics and business before bringing that same energy to the gym floor.

Her coaching style is positive, energetic, and encouraging, with a focus on strength training, beginner coaching, athlete mindset, and accountability. Outside the gym, she is raising five kids, working in real estate, and always planning the next family adventure.

Advice to first-timers: everyone had a first day. Show up, give your best effort, and know that every workout can be adjusted to meet you where you are. The hardest part is walking through the door.