Our Staff

Mike Claytor

Mike Claytor was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and moved to Santa Barbara, CA in 1998 to begin his personal training career. Mike spent the first year training at Club 93101. While at the club, Mike worked as general fitness trainer gaining knowledge and understanding of the fundamental body building concepts as well as core training principals. Mike uses this foundation for much of his training today.

Mike continued his training to Platinum Fitness in Montecito, CA. During this time he developed an extensive knowledge in cardiovascular performance enhancement and sports specific training programs. He began competing in triathlons and mountain bike racing. With the knowledge he gained from his personal experience of training and racing, Mike was better able to coach and motivate local athletes in these endurance sports. Mike's abilities extend to sports nutrition, assessments in biomechanics, physical therapy, and rehabilitation.

Mike earned a degree in business and finance as well as a minor in kinesiology. His education credentials include Certified personal trainer through ISSA, USAT triathlon coach, certified EMT, as well as current CPR and AED certification. Mike's education enables him to bring a wide variety of skills and competencies to every client.

Now, Mike has opened a state of the art private personal training facility. In the future Mike hopes to share his love for fitness with his clients and staff both. Being a motivator and working to inspire the people around him by practicing the discipline he teaches. As he has often been quoted saying "You get back what you put into something and there is no substitute for hard work."

Jenny Schatzle

Jenny Schatzle began personal training over five years ago. Jenny joined S.B.Training in 2006 bringing her charismatic and enthusiastic personality to all clients. She has transformed her love of dance and sports into instructing kickboxing, spinning, group fitness classes, and body boot camp. Through exercise, Jenny improves the quality of your life by transforming your body, boosting confidence,increasing energy levels, and overall strength.

Jenny offers motivation by personalizing and teaching the fundamental approach to fitness based on your unique needs and objectives. Jenny's philosophy to fitness is, "No two bodies are alike; Designing personalized effective and safe training programs while inspiring clients to adapt a fit lifestyle and produce results." Jenny will encourage you to identify and reach your fitness goals beyond your imagination.

Rochelle King

Rochelle is a certified personal trainer with NSCA, and a graduate of UCLA’s Fitness Instructor Program. In addition, Rochelle also is certified in Ellen Crofts Supreme Pilates method. Rochelle’s athletic background is rooted in aquatic based activities such as swimming, surfing and paddle boarding where she is a successful competitor in all three disciplines. Whether running the local trails with clients, playing soccer on a local women’s league, or teaching Pilates Rochelle has been fortunate to create a balance between her athletic pursuits and her professional goals.

Rochelle is offering dual or private Pilates sessions on the Supreme Pilates equipment. Sessions will focus on stabilization, core strength, and posture with an emphasis on stretching.

Lydia Kitahara

Although born in Santa Barbara, Lydia grew up in rugged northern California. From an early age she developed a passion for the active outdoor lifestyle. Exposure to sports such as snowboarding, surfing, ocean kayaking, backpacking and rock climbing only reinforced a love of the outdoors and the thrill of a great challenge to the mind and body.

After returning to Santa Barbara in 2003, Lydia decided to turn her love of health and exercise into a career. She now is a certified personal trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM). Lydia originally started at SB Training through their internship program in early 2009. She has gained a wealth of knowledge in the fundamentals of methodical, personalized training. Lydia is also able to draw from personal experience. She has learned firsthand the challenge and success of endurance training, competing in road and trail races of varying distances and completing her first marathon at age 24.

Today Lydia enjoys training private clients as well as teaching group classes of all ages and fitness levels. What Lydia enjoys most about personal training is the relationships she builds with her clients and being able to see people achieve their goals through hard work and discipline.

Shaun Bahn

Shaun was born and raised in San Diego CA where he was always encouraged by his parents to participate in sports. Spending most of his summers in soccer and baseball camps, Shaun grew comfortable in the team sport atmosphere and found baseball to be his sport of choice. Shaun played shortstop and outfield in the minor and junior leagues. In between baseball seasons, he picked up surfing at the age of ten when his father gave him a surfboard and pushed him into his first wave. Joining the surf teams in junior high, high school and college, Shaun found competitive surfing a good fit for his competitive drive. Shaun even joined the NSSA, which is the highest profile amateur competitive surfing association in the United States, and began competing all around the beaches of CA. Shaun moved to Santa Barbara to continue his degree at UCSB, and was introduced to the world of training by Mike Claytor who got him on a path to turn his passion for exercise and sports into a career. Now under the tutelage of Mike Claytor, Shaun has found a way to balance his life and his love of the water and training, through exercise and hard work in and out of the gym.