Rise Gym

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Aaron Delgerbat

Aaron is happy to start this journey at Rise! As an ACE Certified Personal Trainer with 11 years of experience teaching group fitness classes and effective one-on-one sessions. Aaron is ready and excited to help you with your fitness goals! When working with Aaron you will focus on technique and actively working towards results and challenges. His expertise lies in coaching, instruction, nutrition principles, weight management and healthy living. Aaron is also an accomplished body builder and enjoys hiking and riding his motorcycle!

Personal TrainingSmall Group Training Instructor

Brandi Szabo

Brandi is a 42-year old mother and has spent 13 years pursuing personal fitness, and teaching friends. She has been certified for 3 years as a Personal Trainer, an Insanity and Cycling instructor, and a P90X trainer.

Fitness is the fountain of youth, and Brandi loves sharing that gift with others. It’s her goal to find a way to make it fun so you want to come back for more. Brandi has back and knee problems, so she knows a lot about strengthening the core, back & knees. It is her goal to help you reach your goals in a healthy and happy way, and help strengthen you for your future.

Her interests include endurance races, yoga, sand sculpting, and fitness in general.

Brenda Crysler

Brenda is a Certified Personal Trainer and a U.S. Coast Guard Veteran. Certified through NASM with a Corrective Exercise Specialty, she enjoys programming workouts focused on interval training, weightlifting, and functional movement. She appreciates getting to know each client, their fitness history and goals, and finds it a pleasure to craft tailored workouts that challenge people mentally & physically, while progressing toward a common objective. As a part of her team, you’ll gain strength, knowledge, and improve your personal body mechanics to turn your fitness goals into lifetime habits. As a mother of two boys, Brenda is also passionate about working with pre & post-natal clients in order to maintain an enduring and healthy lifestyle during these significant life changes and milestones.

Emmy Kastning

You may recognize Emmy as one of our managers as he spends most of his days at our front desk. He is now expanding his career in Rise as a group fitness instructor. Emmy found his passion for fitness when beginning his transition (female-to-male) in 2018 and throughout his time at Rise. He enjoys helping people reach their fitness goals and pushing them to their limits for a great workout while incorporating bodyweight exercises, functional training and weightlifting. Emmy will help you gain strength, stability and body awareness throughout his classes.

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Jessica Lizardo

Jessica discovered her love for yoga asana in 2010. After many years of studying to become a classical cellist, she decided to channel her devotion to music into her new found love for yoga asana. Awareness of the immediate impact this practice had on her mental and emotional wellbeing led her to pursue a 200-hr RYT training, and through exposure to the different practices of movement, and contrology, opened up her world to Pliates. She started teaching yoga in 2014 and became trained in the Power Pilates Mat series in 2019. She has taught yoga asana in studios and community centers in Orange County, as well as a trauma-informed yoga series at her alma maters, the University of Southern California and UC Irvine and through mental health and trauma center in Burlingame. She is proud to have been a part of the Rise BodyWorks community since 2019 and carries the same trauma-informed lens and approach in her teaching through the use of language and modifications, and facilitates safe exploration of exercises in students’ bodies. In addition to teaching and practicing, Jessica provides mental health services for youth and families, seeks to deepen her knowledge and skills in these professions, and hopes to merge her skills in ways that help others experience a sense of freedom and alignment in both body and mind. In her down time, she enjoys exploring the greater outdoors with her doberman and going on food adventures with her loved ones.

Jessica Richman

Jessica is a graduate of the National Personal Training Institute, a NASM certified personal trainer and NESTA certified mat pilates instructor. She believes exercise is fundamental to living a well-balanced life, and truly enjoys helping people to become a better stronger version of themselves.

Noelle Wilson

Noelle started her fitness journey at the age of 5, and continued into her adult life. She has a 3rd degree black belt in Kajukenbo. She has trained in Filipino martial arts and muay thai. Noele studied for the NSAM personal trainer certification at PT Pro Academy of San Francisco. Noelle has worked as a personal trainer and has trained many people in general fitness, and traditional martial arts, as well as kickboxing. She is an insured and certified personal trainer through PTA Global and ACE. She holds a current CPR/AED card. Noelle brings 10 + years of martial arts and functional fitness experience and is excited to share her growing knowledge with all her clients and gym members! Fun fact: Noelle is also a Firefighter Trainee for the Alameda County Fire Department Reserves!