Julianne Russell
Julianne has over 12 years of experience working with the body from mobility to strength with all demographics.
Julianne has specialized in working with prenatal and postpartum women through their fitness.
Julianne’s most important goal as a coach is to create a plan for success with each and every client and work to execute it together.
Julianne has been teaching yoga and coaching fitness in San Diego for 12 years. Starting as a yoga instructor and building upon her knowledge of movement and the body through a decade in studios, she began coaching strength and conditioning in 2014.
With over 10,000 hours of experience as both a Vinyasa and Yin yoga instructor, she has spent the last decade plus learning how to teach to the body as an individual, and adjust for each human she works with. She has multiple additional yoga certifications that apply to yoga therapy, working through mobility and spinal injuries, developing safe movement practices and specifically working with athletes across a multitude of sports.
As her career grew through hard work and relentless commitment, Julianne transitioned to a full time Strength and Conditioning coach, making yoga more of an addition to her life, instead of her career.
At her last gym, Julianne was the Head Coach and programmer for 5 years. Through working with her athletes and her own journey, she has learned even more about the body, and it's capabilities. She worked to achieve certifications in FRC (Functional Range Conditioning) a mobility certification that has changed the way she approaches and teaches movement. Julianne is also a USA Weightlifting Level 2 Coach, as well as specializing in working with pregnant and postpartum athletes thanks to the seminar she attended with BirthFit, as well as the dozen or so mamas that have come to her specifically to train for birth, which led her to pursuing her certification as a Doula as well.
As a coaching and fitness professional, Julianne’s goal is to help you with your mindset and challenge you to surprise yourself with what you’re capable of. Her confident nature and command of a room allows people to trust her and leave class feeling successful no matter what. Her clientele has been wide ranging and eclectic from Olympic athletes, Military Special Forces, competitive power and weight lifters, pregnant and postpartum mamas, adaptive athletes, to everyone in between.
Julianne is currently pursuing her Backcountry and Urban EMT through National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) to further build upon her knowledge of the human body, as well as leadership skills and how to respond to anything that can happen in a remote area. As an avid skier and surfer, this is just another tool to add to the box of being outside and potentially helping those around her, as well as those she works with daily. When she’s not coaching or working with clients she can be found skiing, surfing, eating, or drinking a good Hazy IPA.
Certifications
USAW2
CROSSFIT L1
ISSA
TSAC (Tactical Strength & Conditioning)
FRC
Art of Breath
RYT500
BirthFit
StrongFit
BLS CPR
WEMT
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