Meet Our Team
Jena Franz
Owner, Head Coach, and Manager
Jena was a competitive gymnast for eleven years and also competed at the collegiate level in pole vaulting. With a passion for athletics, she decided to pursue fitness as a career.
Jena obtained her Bachelors Degree in Exercise Science and her Masters Degree in Educational Leadership for Sports Management at Winona State University in Minnesota. Jena has worked with a wide range of clients and over 10,000 hours of personal training, coaching, and programming experience. When not in the gym you can find Jena playing with Marshall, her puppy, hiking, or spending time with friends and family.
Devin Perreault
Owner & Head Coach
Devin strives to empower clients with customized tools and principles to enhance their health and well being, while expanding their perception of the body’s amazing capacity for change. Having trained hundreds of people over the past eleven years, he has learned to measure his success by his clients’ progress. At the heart of it, Devin wants to show as many people as possible how capable their lives can be through the pursuit of strength.
Ciara Van Ness
Coach
As a lifelong athlete, I have a passion for coaching and helping others reach their highest potential. Running has always been a passion of mine but eventually, I wanted to try something new. This is when I finally began my Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu journey. It has allowed me the opportunities to not only learn self-defense but has also filled my training with purpose. It has taught me valuable life lessons, renewed my self-confidence, and inspired me to help others who have self-doubts about their own physical and mental strength. I am currently a purple belt under Professor Matt Jubera and Sensei Xande Ribeiro representing Six Blades BJJ. I have every intention of eventually earning a black belt. I have won major tournaments and even graced the podium at a world level. Allow me to teach you how to face your fears head-on and show you how powerful you truly are. I believe everyone has the potential to reach any fitness goal. My goal is to help others become the best version of themselves.
Zac Lokay
Coach
Zac has spent his whole life playing soccer, even playing at a DIII level at the University of Puget Sound and going as far as Sweden to play semi-professionally. While at school, Zac majored in Exercise Science with a Neuroscience Emphasis. Zac has worked with a wide range of athletes of various ages and skill levels, doing sports performance for athletes of all ages from 11 to college aged. He has also helped lead group classes for people of all different experience levels. When not in the gym, you can find Zac coaching and playing soccer, dabbling in guitar and piano, enjoying hiking the Colorado wilderness, and on a very rare occasion playing a very poor round of golf.
Karen Abrams
Founder
Karen is the founder of Town Strength. She brings with over one hundred hours of various fitness certifications, and over 20 years of instruction. She has taught well over 10,000 classes to more than 100,000 people of all ages and fitness levels.
After experimenting and coaching so many different fitness routines over the years, Karen witnessed numerous overuse injuries from bad movement pattern and no real plan on how to achieve your goals. Her frustration with unsustainable results in the fitness industry grew into a deep passion to help people not only get fit, but stay fit for life.
At 40, Karen is stronger, fitter, and more confident than ever. She attributes this to eating clean, meal prepping and following a sustainably smart, simple and safe strength and conditioning program consisting of squats, deadlifts, pushes, pulls, gymnastics and proper mobility work.