Meet your SGX Performance Coaches

Covering 2 continents, these inspirational coaches will guide you to achieve more, live a better lifestyle while building better humans.

Whether you’re looking to enter The SGX PAIX, achieve a personal goal or overcome a fear, one thing is for sure – these coaches won’t give up on you.

Coach Gino

Gino started his journey to SGX in the gym, weight 17 Stone / 238 Lbs – drank, smoked daily. no healthy foods and was on the road to crashing.

He saw a picture of himself and from that moment he got up, hit the gym, trained and made changes to his lifestyle.

While he was on his journey he discovered this amazing sport called “Obstacle Racing” and started with the world famous “Tough Guy” from that moment he caught the bug, started to lose more weight trained for OCR and hit “The Nuts Challenge” Race and only made the 7k (one round) – this pushed him further and started hitting around 30 races a year and bagged the X 25 Tough Mudder , the ever growing and Famous Nuclear races, Savage race, BattleFrog and Ran the first Spartan Race in the UK

While all this was happening, he decided to add to his career plan and not just race but became a trainer to teach people to live a better lifestyle and to this day he still stands by this ethos.

For over 5 years he was hitting around 50 races a year between the UK and USA and ended up taking the SGX exam and passed in 2018 and has been a proud member of the SGX team for the last 5 years .

Gino is very passionate about OCR and helping people and making change for good…

Coach Andrew

Andrew has been in the fitness world since he was a teenager.

Always trying to better himself and always pushing his boundaries by utilizing weights and calisthenics.

Andrew attended college and graduated with a Bachelors degree and Masters in Education.

While still being a regular at his local gym and keeping fit, Andrew was introduced to Spartan Race in 2018.

After his first race Andrew was hooked and knew what he needed to do. He signed up with NASM and became a certified personal trainer. Once his training certificate came through, he turned around and started his SGX certification.

Andrew has trained hundreds of new Spartans in how to tackle the course, from training people outdoors, in gyms and even on race day; by the SGX coaching zone and open houses.

Andrew has become well known in the OCR community in Arizona and with being involved in the Spartan Race; he finally found his calling, which is making people into better human beings.