Get to Know Our Staff!

Get to Know Our Staff!

Have you ever wanted to know more about your trainer outside of their skill of counting
reps and torturing you? With a few new trainers being added to our team, we thought this would
be a great time to get to know us all a little better outside of the gym.

Nick Klein
1. Where are you from/ where did you grow up?
a. Grand Rapids MI. I grew up in Conklin Michigan around farm country
2. What is your favorite dessert?
a. Icecream all day
3. What is your favorite show/movie?
a. Sporting events for the most part. I also enjoy Cinderella man as one of  my favorite movies.
4. 10 million dollars shows up in your bank account, what’s the first thing you’re buying?
a. Pay off debt and look into owning a private plane

5. What is one of your favorite things to do outside of the gym?
a. Shoot at the gun range, golf and hunt
6. Random/ interesting fact about yourself?
a. I stood on my head for 60s in the 1st grade talent show.
7. Would you rather go skydiving or free diving with sharks?
A. I don’t like the idea of either, but probably sky diving.
8. What is your biggest piece of advice for our clients?
A. Fight to be consistent. Days to weeks, weeks to months, months to years. The goal is constant improvement that is sustainable.

Dylan Blazon
1. Where are you from/ where did you grow up?
a. Right here in Grand Rapids!
2. What is your favorite dessert?
a. A concrete mixer from Culvers with the right combination of toppings will always be my favorite.
3. What is your favorite show/movie?
a. Spider-Man 2
4. 10 million dollars shows up in your bank account, what’s the first thing you’re buying?
a. A beautiful house on a lake with lots of land for animals for my mother and a brand new boat for my father. 

5. What is one of your favorite things to do outside of the gym?
a. Going out boating with friends and family in the summer and watching football, basketball and MMA in the fall and winter.
6. Random/ interesting fact about yourself?
a. My college football team played two seasons and won two titles in a single year in 2021 due to covid pushing the 2020 season to spring 2021.
7. Would you rather go skydiving or free diving with sharks?
a. Skydiving!
8. What is your biggest piece of advice for our clients?
A. Decide what your end goal is and then from that point forward focus on what you need to do one day at a time to achieve it and focus on that! Change doesn’t happen overnight so buy into the process and enjoy it! Be intentional with everything you do.

Nathan Kendrick
1. What is your go-to breakfast?
a. Venison steak and cashews
2. What is your favorite lift/exercise?
a. Changes pretty regularly but always a lower body lift
3. What is your favorite show/movie?
a. The Office, How I Met Your Mother, and Friends
4. What is the most interesting thing about you?
a. Big fan of the Tennessee Volunteers
5. What would you be doing if you did not work at Body By Choice?
a. I have no idea
6. What is your favorite junk food?
a. My wife’s homemade chocolate chip cookies
7. What is your dream vacation destination?
a. No real “dream vacation”. There are certain sporting events that I would really
enjoy going to or maybe visiting certain historical sights.

8. What is your biggest piece of advice for our clients?
a. Ask questions! I think understanding “the why” can be really motivating and help
create a better understanding of training, overall health, and achieving goals

Stephanie Roop
1. Where are you from/ where did you grow up?
a. I am from Grand Rapids.
2. What is your favorite dessert?
a. Anything chocolate!! Especially chocolate cake, but you can’t underestimate a classic chocolate chip cookie!!
3. What is your favorite show/movie?
a. I don’t watch much tv & I definitely don’t watch many movies, but my favorite movie is a movie most people have probably never heard of, The Mighty Macs.
4. 10 million dollars shows up in your bank account, what’s the first thing you’re buying?
a. I’d go to Disney World.

5. What is one of your favorite things to do outside of the gym?
a. I love coaching basketball and hanging out with my husband and our dogs.
6. Random/ interesting fact about yourself?
a. I broke my middle finger in 9th grade at basketball practice because our coach was so mad at our passing she made us play monkey in the middle. I was in the middle and a ball hit my finger. I thought it was dumb so I didn’t tell anybody and continued practicing. By the time I told somebody it had healed so I would’ve needed surgery to re-break it and set it correctly so now my finger is permanently bent.
7. Would you rather go skydiving or free diving with sharks?
a. I’m not a big fan of planes & I really don’t like water, so neither. I prefer my feet on the ground.
8. What is your biggest piece of advice for our clients?
a. This is your journey, don’t compare yourself to others.

Tiffny Harmon
1. Where are you from/ where did you grow up?
a. Grand Rapids
2. What is your favorite dessert?
a. Peach Cobbler
3. What is your favorite show/movie?
a. Person of Interest
4. 10 million dollars shows up in your bank account; what’s the first thing you’re buying?
a. A home in the Rocky Mountains

5. What is one of your favorite things to do outside the gym?
a. Cook
6. Random/ interesting fact about yourself?
a. I once walked onto the set of a tv show while they were filming an episode, thinking it was a farmers market.
7. Would you rather go skydiving or free diving with sharks?
a. Neither
8. What is your biggest piece of advice for our clients?
a. 1. It takes longer to create a habit than you realize. Practice consistency over perfection.

Lisa Bosch
1. Where are you from/ where did you grow up?
a. Local. Wyoming and Hudsonville, MI
2. What is your favorite dessert?
a. Apple Pie or ice cream with oreo’s
3. What is your favorite show/movie?
a. All Creatures Great and Small.
4. 10 million dollars shows up in your bank account, what’s the first thing you’re buying?
a. Paying off debt/kids college. 4 season porch addition.

5. What is one of your favorite things to do outside of the gym?
a. Anything outside
6. Random/ interesting fact about yourself?
a. I have identical twins. Played softball for MSU.
7. Would you rather go skydiving or free diving with sharks?
a. skydiving
8. What is your biggest piece of advice for our clients?
A. Keep it simple. You can’t  out train a bad diet. Focus on longevity.

Kolby Semrow
1. What is your go-to breakfast?
a. Chicken shake. 1 fully cooked chicken breast, handful of kale/spinach, tiny bit of
olive oil, half cup of rice/oats, optional spoonful of peanut butter. Blend to
perfection. Slam it, do not enjoy
2. What is your favorite lift/exercise?
a. Deadlift. Close second is the reverse hyper
3. What is your favorite show/movie?
a. The Sandlot
4. What is the most interesting thing about you?

a. I am a twin, we are nothing alike
5. What would you be doing if you did not work at Body By Choice?
a. Anything hands on
6. What is your favorite junk food?
a. Lays BBQ chips, sour patch kids, twix, double chocolate moose trax, buffalo
wings, french fries, starburst to name a few
7. What is your dream vacation destination?
a. Somewhere quiet, destination doesn’t matter to me
8. What is your biggest piece of advice for our clients?
a. A couple classics: Motivation doesn’t last. Become disciplined.
b. In the end, your effort dictates your results

Diana Klein
1. Where are you from/ where did you grow up?
a. Grand Rapids
2. What is your favorite dessert?
a. Tiramisu
3. What is your favorite show/movie?
a. Longmire
4. 10 million dollars shows up in your bank account, what’s the first thing you’re buying?
a. A cabin in the middle of nowhere with a mountain view and a river…….minus bears 

5. What is one of your favorite things to do outside of the gym?
a. Experiment in the kitchen cooking, baking and preserving food and sharing with family and friends to indulge
6. Random/ interesting fact about yourself?
a. I run from any and all bugs… no matter what I’m doing or where I am. 
7. Would you rather go skydiving or free diving with sharks?
a. neither
8. What is your biggest piece of advice for our clients?
a.  Set goals that you can easily maintain and turn into sustainable habits

9. What is your biggest piece of advice for our clients?
a. Never compare yourself to anyone else, inside or outside of the weight room; we
are all designed with a unique and special purpose!

Garrett Oginsky
1. Where are you from/ where did you grow up?
a. Flushing, MI
2. What is your favorite dessert?
a. Chocolate. Brownie and ice cream will always be my favorite
3. What is your favorite show/movie?
a. Peaky Blinders, Step Brothers or The Boys 
4. 10 million dollars shows up in your bank account, what’s the first thing you’re buying?
a. A truck or a house 

5. What is one of your favorite things to do outside of the gym?
a. Golf, spend time up north or hang out with friends
6. Would you rather go skydiving or free diving with sharks?
a. Definitely skydiving
7. What is your biggest piece of advice for our clients?
A. If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you!

Taylor Holshoe
1. Where are you from/ where did you grow up?
a. Born in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, grew up in Caledonia, MI
2. What is your favorite dessert?
a. Nothing Bundt Cake- Chocolate Chip Cookie flavor
3. What is your favorite show/movie?
a. Yellowstone, Peaky blinders, the office
4. 10 million dollars shows up in your bank account, what’s the first thing you’re buying?
a. Personal chef

5. What is one of your favorite things to do outside of the gym?
a. Eat and hangout with my kids and husband
6. Random/ interesting fact about yourself?
a. I love to hunt.  My first hunting experience was in South Carolina hunting wild boar at night.  I made a 150 yard shot using a thermal scope on a rifle I had never shot before
7. Would you rather go skydiving or free diving with sharks?
a. Free diving!
8. What is your biggest piece of advice for our clients?
a. You cant outwork a bad diet, you will have to make sacrifices

Gina Huizingh
1. Where are you from/ where did you grow up?
a. Grand Rapids/Jenison, MI
2. What is your favorite dessert?
a. Dark Chocolate anything really, flourless chocolate cake
3. What is your favorite show/movie?
a. Bridesmaids
4. 10 million dollars shows up in your bank account, what’s the first thing you’re buying?
a. An airplane (and a pilot!)

5. What is one of your favorite things to do outside of the gym?
a. Be outside – beach, hike, camp, travel, spend time with friends and family
6. Random/ interesting fact about yourself?
a. I like to knit like a little old lady when I have time and a creative project.
7. Would you rather go skydiving or free diving with sharks?
a. Skydiving for sure
8. What is your biggest piece of advice for our clients?
a. Set realistic goals and have someone to be accountable to.

Rachael Leach
1. Where are you from/ where did you grow up?
a. White Lake, MI
2. What is your favorite dessert?
a. frozen yogurt
3. What is your favorite show/movie?
a. Grey’s Anatomy
4. 10 million dollars shows up in your bank account, what’s the first thing you’re buying?
a. house on Torch Lake

5. What is one of your favorite things to do outside of the gym?
a. Beach Volleyball 
6. Random/ interesting fact about yourself?
a. I was a competitive dancer for 15 years and I hold 2 state titles.
7. Would you rather go skydiving or free diving with sharks?
a. Skydiving 
8. What is your biggest piece of advice for our clients?
a.Weight loss is a marathon not a sprint, take your time and enjoy the journey!

Heather Blush
1. Where are you from/ where did you grow up?
a. Bristol Bay, Alaska
2. What is your favorite dessert?
a. Apple dumplings
3. What is your favorite show/movie?
a. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
4. 10 million dollars shows up in your bank account, what’s the first thing you’re buying?
a. Crab legs. Lots and lots of crab legs. 

5. What is one of your favorite things to do outside of the gym?
a. Watching my kids play sports and anything outdoors. 
6. Random/ interesting fact about yourself?
a. I am writing a screenplay for fun and I worked the corner for a title fight at MSG.
7. Would you rather go skydiving or free diving with sharks?
a. Sharks, definitely. 
8. What is your biggest piece of advice for our clients?
a. Be consistent and enjoy the process! 

Roy Scarbrough
1. Where are you from/ where did you grow up?
a. Fruitport, Michigan. Grew up in Muskegon/Ottawa County
2. What is your favorite dessert?
a. Ice Cream!
3. What is your favorite show/movie?
a. A Knight’s Tale
4. 10 million dollars shows up in your bank account, what’s the first thing you’re buying?
a. Land

5. What is one of your favorite things to do outside of the gym?
a. Jiu Jitsu
6. Random/ interesting fact about yourself?
A. I can dance with my hands
7. Would you rather go skydiving or free diving with sharks?
a. Skydiving
8. What is your biggest piece of advice for our clients?
a. Don’t obsess over numbers and listen to your body. True change is achieved through consistency and accountability!

Nathan Hoshiko
1. Where are you from/ where did you grow up?
a.Westville, Indiana. It’s a prison town surrounded by cornfields.
2. What is your favorite dessert?
a. Fresh peach cobbler with ice cream on top
3. What is your favorite show/movie?
a. Band of Brothers and Lord of the Rings
4. 10 million dollars shows up in your bank account, what’s the first thing you’re buying?
a. A farm out in the countryside

5. What is one of your favorite things to do outside of the gym?
a. Anything outdoors or hands on, I enjoy all sports and being out in nature.
6. Random/ interesting fact about yourself?
a. I’m part Japanese and I’ve always wanted to visit Japan.
7. Would you rather go skydiving or free diving with sharks?
a. Skydiving, if I die at least it’d be quick.
8. What is your biggest piece of advice for our clients?
a. Strive for progress not perfection, the most important part of a workout is showing up.