STAFF

Zack Marler

Owner of CrossFit Essentials

Certified CrossFit Level 1 Trainer

Certified CrossFit Kids Trainer

11 yrs US Naval Special Warfare Combatant Craft Crewmen (SWCC)

Certified Growth Life Coach (Dream Releaser Coaching)

BSSS in Public Safety from Mercer University

AAS in Criminal Justice from Griffin Technical College

The most important thing about Zack is that he has been lucky enough to marry the woman of his dreams, Rachel C. Marler. They have a beautiful 12 yr. old daughter Adeline and a son on the way! (MAY 2nd)

Zack has always had a passion for helping and teaching others, he was raised in the gym. Zack’s mother has always been mindful of health and fitness and has instilled that into her son. Zack has been exposed to almost every view or out look on fitness from 24-hour fitness clubs, to health spas, gymnastics gyms, martial art studios, outdoor boot camps, CrossFit gyms, and some of the world’s hardest military training as a US Navy SWCC / Special Warfare Combatant Craft Crewmen.

Zack has been blessed with the gift of ADHD, which gives him the ability and energy to take on multiple training regiments with a relentless upbeat and positive out look towards his students and their goals. Those regiments can range from the ability of sedentary to the most elite Olympic athlete. Zack’s training methods are based on his years of experiences in Naval Special Warfare, the revolutionary fitness culture of CrossFit and the supportive and encouraging techniques from being a certified Dream Releaser Growth Life Coach.

As a Dream Releaser Growth Life Coach Zack has learned how to come along side an individual, without judgment, with support and encourage this helps keep that individual accountable to themselves. He uses primarily the G.R.O.W. model which is used in a way to establish the client’s fitness goals/needs, realistic starting points, fitness options/possibilities, and to establish the will to act on self established goals/needs.

Zack joined the Navy in 2001, where he served 5 years active and the rest as an active Reservist. Zack has travel around the globe conducting a breadth of missions for Special Warfare Units. Working with such operators as the Polish GROM, Jordanian Naval Special Forces, Australian SBS, Kuwait Special Forces, US Marine Corps Amphibious & Force Recon, US Army Green Beret, and US Navy SEALs.