MEET YOUR COACHES
Built for women
Hey there! We’re Lu and Shantell, best friends and co-founders of Dropgym.
We started Dropgym because we couldn’t stop talking about how we wanted to change the world. For us, that starts with helping women get stronger, understand their bodies, and carry that strength into everyday life.
With more than 50 years of combined experience coaching women through movement and breath, we’ve learned that strength starts with connection. Staying present in your body instead of checking out of it.
We are coaches, athletes, writers, and speakers based out of Medford, Oregon. For over a decade, we have committed our lives to motivating and inspiring those around us. We firmly believe that inside of every woman is potential far beyond anything she could ever imagine. We see each woman who walks into our gym, challenge her beyond her comfort zone, call her out of mediocrity and into the fullness of her potential. We are a tribe of fully alive, powerful, badass women championing each other to be better.
Together, we bring a shared philosophy and our own areas of expertise to the work we do at Dropgym.
Two best friends teaching women to
feel strong, capable, and fully alive.
Meet Shantell
Shantell is a coach and martial artist with 28 years of experience helping women build strength, confidence, and resilience. An award-winning instructor who recently earned her seventh-degree black belt, she brings a lifetime of discipline and movement expertise to her coaching while making hard work feel approachable.
She believes growth can be challenging without losing its joy. At Dropgym, Shantell brings warmth, humor, and an instinct for seeing what is waiting beneath the surface. She helps women move through fear, trust their strength, and become more fully themselves.
Meet Lu
Lu is a coach, athlete, and entrepreneur with 24 years of experience in the fitness industry. She holds a BA in Exercise Physiology, played Division I soccer, and founded one of the first 200 CrossFit gyms in 2006. Throughout her career, she has studied how strength, movement, and breath can help women create meaningful change in their bodies and their lives.
She believes women are capable of more than they have been led to believe. At Dropgym, Lu makes the science of training practical and personal, helping women work with intensity, understand their bodies, and build strength they can trust.
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