http://www.instagram.com/J_Ren13_fitness

JRen Fitness, Leavenworth, KS (2026)

04/18/2022

Hey everyone, it has been quite a while since a post. So let me know what you want to hear about. Any questions about fitness? Performance? Nutrition? Picking up heavy things? Putting those things back down? Let me know what you are curious about!

05/31/2021

Getting that next generation of coach primed and ready!

12/07/2020

We have a new intern taking his turn at programming this week. Fear not that if you have any questions or need any help I will be the one to answer them. But our intern will be right there learning the ropes (pay no attention to the trash on the table, he is kind of a slob right now)

09/27/2020

Happy Birthday to our founder and head coach Jared. But we are giving you the gift today! See below for your free workout, as per our historic obscure holiday workouts this will be a gem. Get your water and post workout snack ready... you'll need them.

BW= body weight, DB - dumbbell, KB - Kettlebell, BB- barbell

"The weight of adulting"
10 goblet or back squats with 50% BW
10m heavy farmers carry (can be anything heavy with a handle)
10 DB overhead press
10m heavy farmers carry
10 DB single arm row (do 10 on each arm)
10m single arm KB overhead carry (just once, don't do both arms)
10 pull-ups
10m single arm KB overhead carry (other arm this time)
10 BB Romanian Deadlifts
10m farmers carry (heavier this time)
10 DB Bench press
10m KB Suitcase carry (1 arm at a time, aka do this one twice)
10 squats (heavy, but be smart)
10m single arm overhead KB carry (do twice)
10 squat jumps
10m farmers carry
10 pull-ups
10m farmers carry
10 single leg RDLs (Do both legs for 10)
10m Farmers carry

Good you're done!!!

05/24/2020

I know it’s been a while so let’s talk about something easy and lite, like goal setting. I’ll go first. To be honest I set a couple of my goals for this summer too low. Last summer I started kayaking and stand up paddle boarding, this summer I have finally set a few goals that I would like to achieve on those two apparatus. My first goal on the kayak was to paddle across the width of the bay I live on. It looked pretty far so I figured that would be a good goal. After my first kayak session of the season and 3 miles later, I checked that goal off the list. Today I checked my second goal off the list of paddling around an island at the mouth of the bay, after 4 miles and a little choppy water that goal is done as well. Now to be fair I was setting goals based on the unknown distances and perceived challenge, but after a brief “hey I did it,” I don’t feel any more accomplished than I did before. Today’s accomplishment was only .04 miles longer than my previous longest kayak outing last year. Now my goal for the end of the summer is a 10.5 mile round trip which I know will be a challenge and require a decent amount of pre-planning. Compared to my two previous goals this seems to be a much larger jump than I thought it would be. So when setting your own goals it is always good to have that one goal that is out there seemingly impossible, but then also have other smaller goals along the way to check off as accomplishments on the road to the final goal. Just don’t be like me and make them too close to the start that you have to find new mile stones to guide your way.

01/06/2020

Many of you say it every year, and some of you do a great job of following through. We have all been that person who says they "want to lose weight" or "get in better shape". What does that mean? New years resolutions are essentially goal setting for the new year. In setting goals we should set specific actionable goals, ambiguously losing weight or getting in better shape is too open ended? Set specific goals with a measurable outcome. Otherwise you can't measure your progress, if you can't measure progress you are more likely to not follow through on your goals. Post below what you specific goals are, try to set out actionable steps to reach that goal. Even write down your goal and the steps, putting your goals on paper gets them out of your head and into the real world. This again makes them real and helps with adhering to your goals. So get off your ass, get out there and destroy your specific actionable goals!!!

11/11/2019

Sometimes you just need to let the hate out... just make sure you PR when you do... and someone gets video for the gram.

11/11/2019

Happy Veterans Day!! Thank you to all of the veterans out there. In honor of your service,here is a free workout!!
Its a circuit type workout, rest and get water as you need. 11 total rounds, so be smart!! The exercises are:

Body weight squats x 10
Push-ups x 10
Inverted Row x 10
Plank x 45 sec
Single Leg glute bridge x 5ea
Squat jumps x 10

Have fun everyone, if you have the day off enjoy it, and thanks again Vets.

11/06/2019

Hey why didn't you say it anything??? It's been TWO weeks since I have featured a JRen Fitness Athlete. I guess that means this one had better be big.

So in order to make a statement this week, everyone meet Brittney Martinez! Brittney came to JRen Fitness early this year with the goals of improving overall at OCR which means, run faster, jump higher, be a bigger badass, you know all that fun stuff. Oh yeah and get on the podium at a Conquer The Gauntlet, because that is a super easy thing to do.... (it's not).

But with all of those goals in mind we set forth on a new program and workouts for Brittney. To make things easier Brittney decided to move across the state to be with her other half Jason, in the process of moving Brittney made sure to get in the majority of her workouts and make them count rather than just going through the motions.
Over the course of the season and training Brittney PR'd her 5k twice, and also improved her mile time. Let's not forget to mention her 12 podium appearances with 4 on the overall podium and 8 being for age group. Most recently Brittney decided to sweep the weekend at Savage Race with back to back gold medals in her age group for the full and blitz events. (geez leave some for the others... actually don't) With the goal of a podium at CTG we worked on grip strength, overall strength, power, speed, everything really. However, CTG can be ruthless at times and unfortunately that is one goal we missed. As her trainer it beats me up just as much, trust me.
But even after frustrating races Brittney would usually find time to go explore the area with Jason and find some cool spots for hiking and other cool pictures. Speaking of pictures she is way better at "the race photo" than you are, she just is don't debate it, I think Jason teaches her.
When she isn't racing or training, you can find Brittney hanging out with her dog Lucy or she will probably be with her race family Ashley and Dustin doing some sort of cool, fun, wacky adventure to give everyone of her social media followers FOMO.
So, what are the take aways from this weeks athlete? She is better than you at race pics, her pup is cuter than yours, she can probably beat you in a race (OCR or otherwise), and she is just a genuinely cool person.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Brittney Martinez.

11/04/2019

What ever that little voice in your head is saying about going to the gym, this simple graph has your answer.... you're wlecome.

10/28/2019

This one works both ways. Tag our workout partner guy or girl who is guilty of this.

10/16/2019

This week is another JRenFitness original!! Let me introduce the guy who is having the most fun on the course, Steve Richardson. As I mentioned Steve was an early client to JRen Fitness, the second client actually. Steve came to me wanting to improve on his OCR abilities and to be able to keep his belt at his next Conquer The Gauntlet, if for no other reason than to talk trash to the owners, David probably got the brunt of it. Over the next few years Steve not only kept his belt at one, but nearly every CTG event after that. Steve also qualified for OCR World Championships numerous times, even making the trip to compete in Canada in 2017. Now that we have his accolades out of the way lets get to the fun stuff. On top of being an amazing athlete Steve is an equally if not better trash talker, he would be at the race having a blast, encouraging others, and if you happened to be faster than him Steve would less politely ask you WTF you were doing back with him and that you should be beating him. In the spirit of a good time, Steve rarely turned down the opportunity to run a lap or two fueled by a cold beer. Sometimes they were only for after a hard fought race, other times you may have been cautious about trying a quick swig from his camelback. Away from his antics Steve was never one to shy away from helping others at the expence of his own race, on more than one occasion Steve would halt his race and sacrifice his placement and a possible personal best to help friends struggling on the course, sometimes just to make them laugh or smile to get them out of the bad mindset that racing can sometimes put competitors in when things don't go according to plan. On top of helping others on the course you may have noticed Steve's racing attired to be the same. For each an every race Steve wore pink to awareness to breast cancer. It also made him easy to find if you just wanted to hangout after the race as well. For 2016-2018 Steve ran in a lot of OCR events while balancing the job of being a dad to two great kids (who happen to think I was his twin). As dad duty has taken a bigger roll Steve has moved from athlete to coach in coaching his son's soccer team, and being a full on Dance Dad for his daughter (ask him about it, you won't regret it). I personally want to say thank you to you Steve, for trusting me with your workouts and training for so long, and for talking s**t to me just to keep me on my toes.

JRen Fitness

04/18/2022

05/31/2021

12/07/2020

09/27/2020

05/24/2020

01/06/2020

11/11/2019

11/11/2019

11/06/2019

11/04/2019

10/28/2019

10/16/2019

Address

Website

Alerts

Shortcuts

Share

Category