Coaches

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Scott Brengel• Owner & Head Coach

Scott Brengel has been in the practice of strength and speed development for over 20 years. Coach Scott is a specialist in bio-mechanics, energy system efficiency and sports nutrition. He continues to develop his personal strength and the strength of all of his athletes through discipline and years of programming experience – boosting their performance to earn starting positions, win championships, gain scholarships and provide the opportunity to compete at the professional level.
In addition to his work as an athletic performance specialist, Coach Scott has competed in a wide range of sporting events throughout his athletic career from winning championships in football and earning titles in track & field and martial arts.

He played wide receiver for Kean University in Union, NJ starting wide receiver as a true freshman. He transitioned to Orange County, California in 1998 continuing his education as a Strength & Speed Coach along with many other athletic endeavors. For a 3 year span beginning in 1999, he was brought into many camps/combines in the NFL, CFL, AFL and the XFL. And as a result from his consistent display of speed – clocking in a consistent 4.4 second 40-yd dash and remarkable power – pressing 30 reps in the 225 lb bench press, he was placed in the draft with a select few players down from over 1000 recruits.

In 2003, Coach Scott began competing as a strength athlete in multiple disciplines. In his very first Strongman pro qualifier in May 2004, He competed in California’s Strongest Man among many of the best strength athletes the country has ever known and became one of the first Professional Lightweight Strongman to ever exist in the U.S. He went on to compete in an unprecedented 8 America’s Strongest Man competitions, finishing as high as 4th place in 2006. Located in Costa Mesa California in Orange County, He is regarded as arguably the most accredited Professional Strongman coach in the U.S. With the most titles across every division in strongman, including 8 pro cards, the top 2 at the Strongest Woman in the World, 4x America’s Strongest Man, America’s Strongest Woman, Arnold Pro World Champion, 3 Strongman Corporation National Titles in 3 different divisions, dozens of state championships and countless national and world records. He integrates strongman training into all of his athletes programs as he feels this style of training is excellent for building 3-dimensional strength and the type of conditioning that most anaerobic athletes will see unmatched results from. In addition to Strongman, he has also competed in the Scottish Highland Games – winning multiple titles in the Orange County Highland Games and the Queen Mary Highland Games. Coach Scott has been studying and practicing traditional Martial Arts since 1999, Mixed Martial Arts and grappling since 2008 as well as Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (Gi) since 2019 and continues to enhance his knowledge of the sport for the benefit of his athletes, integrating this knowledge into his study of human movement and power in combat sports.

Scott is a life-time drug-free athlete. It is a daunting task in the modern competitive arena, for an honest athlete to compete head-to-head with the truly genetically gifted and pharmaceutically-enhanced athletes of today. Leveling the playing field takes an extraordinary knowledge of human body and the way it adapts to stress.

sherri fontes

Sherri is an NASM certified personal trainer and NPC fitness competitor with over 10 years of experience within all aspects of fitness. In addition to training for general fitness, she has been involved in strength training, boxing and kickboxing since 2000. She was introduced to brazilian jiu jitsu, strongman strength training, and Olympic weight lifting by West Coast Head Performance Specialist Scott Brengel in 2009.

2013 NAS Excalibur Figure Championships 2nd place, California’s Strongest Man – 1st place, CSM 2017 – 2nd place, 2014,2015,2018 – 3rd place; 2014 Golden State’s Strongest Woman – 2nd place; Northern California’s Back to Basics 2015 – 1st place; USS LWW Femme Fatale – 1st place; Odd Haugens Chicago Strongman Classic 2016 – 1st Place; Worlds Strongest Woman competitor in 2017

Sherri has held titles of Miss Hawaiian Tropic in 2002 & 2004, placed first in her class and first overall as a fitness competitor in Oxygen Magazine’s Model Quest America, Costa Mesa, CA 2002, placed 2nd Oxygen Magazine’s Model Quest America, Las Vegas, NV 2002.

In addition to her fitness accomplishments, Sherri is also a mother and has first-hand experience coming back from a post-pregnancy weight of 175 lbs, losing a total of 50 lbs.

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