Coaches

Logan Gelbrich

Born in Santa Monica, Logan feels right at home coaching at DEUCE Gym. With a background in collegiate (University of San Diego) and professional (San Diego Padres) baseball, Logan is used to high performance, heavy workloads, and accountability.

Luckily, Logan was blessed enough to work with world renowned strength and conditioning coaches, sports psychologists, and nutritionists during his career. It’s during this time that the seeds were sown for the belief system that led him to both the CrossFit Games and Strongman Nationals. These experiences guide his coaching today.

Forever a “student of the game,” Logan is always looking to strengthen and question his understanding of humans. Today his work includes his best selling book, "Going Right: A Logical Justification for Pursuing Your Dreams", and diverse offerings of education in leadership and group dynamics via the Hold the Standard™ Summit and Hold the Standard™ Podcast, and consultancy.

Teal Montgomery

Teal was raised in the South Bay area of Los Angeles. In school she played softball, basketball, volleyball, and enjoyed running 5K and 10 K‘s for fun. Her real love came when she found CrossFit. She dove in headfirst soon becoming CrossFit Level 1 certified along with becoming USA Weightlifting certified. This love of movement led to her studies of and majoring in kinesiology with the bonus of being a student athletic trainer for four years.

After college, a car accident caused a spinal injury and left Teal unable to run, lift weights, or swim and told that she would never be able to do those things again. Not acccepting the prognosis for a life of pain with limited movement she searched for any and every possibility to try to get her life back, she found ELDOA, a method founded by French osteopath Dr. Guy Voyer. She committed herself to the restoration and full function of her spine. Now, she is pain-free and can do all that she was told that she couldn’t do and more.

Now, Teal is both a Coach and certified ELDOA Trainer. Her goal is to help others to become not only strong, but pain-free, as well.

Jess Ryan

Jess takes the noise out of health, fitness, and rehab - and turns it into something simple enough to use. She leads by example - and being coached by her elevates yours.

Australian-born, Venice-based - her resume as an athlete is unusual: AFL football, soccer, track, sixteen years of competitive Irish dancing across Australia, Europe, and Asia, then Powerlifting, CrossFit, Hyrox, Strongman, and the running circuit. Fourteen years into coaching, she's her own first guinea pig - she teaches what she lives.

The depth behind it: BSc Osteopathy · BSc Exercise & Sports Science · DNS Clinical · NLP Practitioner · WAG-certified nutrition coaching - academic precision behind hundreds of coached students across strength, performance, rehab, running, and behaviour change. She's led across multiple industries - and has spent years developing other coaches through internships and mentorships - including Coach's Prep at DEUCE. It shows up in how she runs a room: clearly, calmly, with standards that make everyone around her better.

Coaching with her looks like this:

1. You'll understand the 'why'. Every cue, every load, every modification has a reason - and you'll learn it.
2. Pain doesn't sideline you. Training is rehab. Rehab is training. You stay in routine, with your usual training buddies. All you gotta do is keep showing up.
3. High standard. It's not that serious. Show up. Work hard. Yap hard. Have fun.

Where she goes deepest: clinical injury management, prenatal and postnatal training, women's health, and giving people agency in the body they live in - all through a biopsychosocial lens, with wellbeing and longevity as the long game.

Build a strong, robust body. Build a life that doesn't limit you.

Find her in DEUCE Bodybuilding · Nutrition 101 & 202 · GPP · Saturday Run Club.

Meredith Miller

Meredith loves coaching anyone that is willing to work hard and have fun! She believes that training is an amazing tool that improves our mental, physical and emotional health. Throughout her 20+ years of coaching, she has experienced first-hand how training builds strong communities, friendships and unstoppable teams.

Growing up in Texas, Meredith started coaching football players in the weight room when she was a senior in high school. As a student-athlete, Meredith earned a degree in exercise science while playing softball for Baylor University. Meredith has the wonderful opportunity to learn from top-level coaches and mentors of various disciplines. She works with high school to Olympic athletes that compete in a variety of sports. Those experiences have shaped her into the coach she is today.

Meredith values being part of a team whose players are intelligent, highly motivated, creative, and always finding ways to grow. She has found her family in DEUCE Coach's Prep, where she continues to develop her coaching skills. Meredith takes great pride in teaching Strongman 101 at DEUCE Gym. She agrees with fellow SM101 graduates that is it the most fun you will ever have training! Meredith also has the honor of leading the strength and conditioning programs for two local fire departments in the South Bay.

Meredith believes that keeping things simple and trusting the process are keys to success.

Jun Endo

Jun was born and raised in Torrance, CA where he started playing baseball from a young age and would eventually play at the collegiate level at El Camino College and Mount Mercy University in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Wanting to take his training to the next level while in college, Jun started training back with DEUCE Gym Owner, Logan Gelbrich, back in 2011 in pursuit to be able to play baseball at the highest level.

After being in the corporate world for a several year, Jun decided to make the jump to start his coaching journey as he received his CrossFit Level 1 in 2021 and his USA Weightlifting Level 1 in 2022.

Colton Waltner

Colton was born and raised in Newbury Park, Ca, where his love for sports and movement started at a young age. It was apparent from a young age that baseball would be the vehicle that would lead him to playing collegiately for the University of San Diego and later professionally when he was drafted by the Minnesota Twins.

After numerous injuries and surgeries, he had to medically retire from baseball but luckily he found a community and home at DEUCE Gym as a student. Not long after he received a challenge from Logan and encouragement from other coaches to join coach’s prep and begin his new journey in fitness.

Now hungry as ever, Colton continues to grow as a young coach. Utilizing his experience as a high level athlete and his understanding of primal and functional movements, he strives to make training in the gym as transferable to an individual’s life as possible. Leading from a place of love and connection, Colton understands that training isn’t always about the fitness but it is always about the person.

Juvie Gonzalez

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Juvie brings an East Coast grit and a lifetime of athletic curiosity to his coaching at DEUCE. A “Newyorican” with deep Puerto Rican roots, he eventually made his way west after college and has called it home ever since.

Juvie’s athletic path started long before formal training. From inline street skating in the 90s (grinding rails and jumping off city buses), to competing on the track team at Wheaton College (200m/400m), movement was always the throughline. After earning his B.A. in Sociology in 2004, he spent the next two decades testing the limits of endurance: marathons, triathlons, Spartan races, Frogman challenges, and more from 2006–2022.

Blessed with exposure to world-class methodologies along the way, Juvie expanded his training into martial arts (Capoeira, Krav Maga, Jiu-jitsu), CrossFit (since 2010), and ultimately strength sports like Olympic weightlifting and strongman. His coaching lens today is shaped by certifications from CF Kids, CF Endurance, CFL2, CorePower Yoga, USAW, TAKONO Athletics, and Westside Barbell.

A forever student of the craft, Juvie is driven by a fascination with human performance, resilience, and expression. When he’s not coaching or training, you’ll likely find him on his motorcycle, at the range, or somewhere outdoors enjoying the simplicity of being with his family.

Chris Pascual

Chris Pascual’s passion for sports performance was manifested at an early age through baseball. His career extended through to the collegiate level playing at San Diego Christian College while receiving his B.A. Chris currently works with major league athletes during their off-season and focuses on helping every individual enhance their performance by helping them get stronger, faster and improve their overall athleticism.

Kyle Henmi

Kyle was born in Torrance, where he grew up learning and loving the game of baseball. Through baseball he learned valuable lessons such as, hard work, determination, and a will to be the best. He ended up playing college baseball at El Camino College and Azusa Pacific University, where he graduated with a degree in applied exercise science.

From his days of playing baseball, Kyle was introduced to strength and conditioning at a young age. It was training for baseball where he ultimately crossed paths with Coach Logan, who trained him in high school. His love of training and realizing the benefits it has on sport performance gave him the passion and drive to want to learn more. Through his time in college and his internship at DEUCE, he now spreads his knowledge to other athletes so they can also reap the benefits of performing at a high level. He is currently coaching multiple top college and high school players in the country, as well as serving as the head strength and conditioning coach for his alma mater South High School's baseball team. He is also one of the four Project Speed coaches, who look to empower motivated athletes by teaching them the fundamentals of speed and agility.

Emily Crawford

Originally from Philadelphia, Emily spent five years in Baltimore before making the move to sunny Southern California in 2021. Always seeking a strong community, she joined DEUCE Athletics just days after arriving. After three years of being a member and completely loving the DEUCE Athletics vibe, she took a leap of faith and turned her passion into a career, transitioning from medical device sales to become a coach at the gym.

Her background in athletic training, with a Bachelor of Science from West Virginia University, fuels her dedication to helping others achieve their fitness goals. What excites her most is empowering others to feel confident and strong in the gym and beyond. She believes fitness is a journey, not a destination, and she’s here to support you every step of the way.