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Our Mission

We provide an integral approach to wellness that empowers students to articulate and achieve their personal fitness goals. This approach integrates awareness, nutrition, CrossFit, and body work to achieve high performance. Students grow and develop through education, goal setting, training, and coaching with the support of a community of like minded athletes.

Our Team

Shane Deines — Head Coach

Shane was a co-founder and the head coach at Coal Creek CrossFit. Shane grew up in Longmont with a background in wrestling and football and now seeks to share his passion for fitness and athletics with all of our students. Shane returned to Colorado after serving in the United States Navy as a Command Fitness Coordinator.

His qualifications include:

CrossFit Level 1 Certified Trainer
CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting Certification
CrossFit Gymnastics Trainer
Fire Fighter Lyons, CO VFD
Ninja

Jim Pascucci — Owner, Coach

The founder and owner of Integral CrossFit, Jim is also an Advanced Certified Rolfer. Jim discovered CrossFit though his son, Nick, in May 2009. When Nick went to college Jim joined a local CrossFit gym and began training hard. The results were profound: a weight loss of 80 pounds in less than a year, blood work that is off the charts positive, and an increase in strength, agility, and cardio-respiratory endurance. After realizing that the benefits of his work as a Rolfer would be amplified in his clients who were also doing CrossFit, he decided to become a certified trainer and to bring this amazing fitness modality to his clients.

His qualifications include:

CrossFit Level 1 Certified Trainer
USAW Sports Performance Coach
CrossFit Endurance Trainer
CrossFit Rowing Trainer
CrossFit Gymnastics Trainer
Advance Rolfer (17 years experience)
Board Certified Structural Integrator
CPR Certified

Emily Gunter — Trainer

Emily has played sports since she was 4. She played soccer, basketball, and field hockey throughout high school and continued to play soccer at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. She played semi-professional soccer in 2006 for the CDSA Future while the women’s professional league had folded. She has coached many soccer teams since graduating from college in 2008 with a degree in Elementary and Special Education. She currently teaches Special Education at an Elementary School in Louisville, CO. Emily found CrossFit after moving to Colorado and needed to find a workout program that she could stick to.

Her qualifications include:

CrossFit Level 1 Certified Trainer

Nathan Ellis — Trainer

Nathan stepped up and answered the call after the attacks of 9/11/01 and left college as a sophomore to become an Army Ranger. As a Ranger he was deployed multiple times to Iraq and Afghanistan. He was chosen by his command to attend special military fitness trainers course, where he was taught how to program and lead small unit fitness programs in austere environments–as though humping heavy ruck sacks up mountains in Afghanistan isn’t enough–called Ranger Athlete Warrior (RAW)! After leaving the military he started his own company utilizing his skills as a Radio Operator working in support of Counter Narco Terroism operations worldwide. Nathan found CrossFit while still in the military, and continued to pursue it once out coaching at Tri Yoga Endurance in Golden, Colorado and now with us. He is the undisputed Double Dutch jump rope champion of Integral CrossFit!

His qualifications include:

CrossFit Level 1 Certified Trainer