Esteban & Christa Jacobo, Owners
FTCT, ISSA
Certified Personal Trainers

Esteban and Christa share a lifestyle of health and fitness and their goal is to help their clients achieve this for themselves. They have always been active in many different fitness activities and love to share their experience and knowledge with others. Although always remaining active, they have overcome many obstacles and challenges of their own and easily relate to and understand their client’s personal needs. They attribute much of their personal success and strength of mind, body, and spirit to exercise and overall balanced health. Esteban and Christa are I.S.S.A. certified personal trainers and have also been trained and certified as FT Owners on how to successfully, own, operate and manage a Fitness Together franchise.

Christa and Esteban personally hand select and train their FT staff and team. The personal trainers they employ all go through their in house FT Certified Trainer Program in addition to the unique qualities, experience, education, and other certifications that each individual trainer brings along. Each trainer shares their personality, experience, and passion with a consistent and unique FT style of personal training. Esteban and Christa are very proud to have the best team of trainers available to their clients to help in their success and results!

It has been a dream come true for Esteban and Christa to bring their Fitness Together one-on-one private personal training studio to the Rita Ranch community in which they reside. They believe in local community business, service, and support and are thrilled to be serving the Rita Ranch, Corona De Tucson, and Vail areas.

Esteban and Christa share their passion of health and fitness with their clients daily. Their goal is to help their clients get into the best shape of their lives and to live life to the fullest! They are rewarded from the experience of helping their client’s change the way they look and improve the way they feel. “We believe in long term lifestyle changes that you can stick with and living in healthy balance and moderation. We are here for our clients every step of the way! We will reach all of your health and fitness goals TOGETHER!”

Christa Jacobo, Owner
FTCT, ISSA
Certified Personal Trainer

Christa originally got involved with Fitness Together as a trainer at another local FT. She was instantly impressed by FT’s philosophies, beliefs and unique approach to personal training. She especially enjoyed the personability of the one-on-one training and loved seeing how she was influencing and helping change her client’s lives through health and fitness and her proper exercise programs. Christa’s passion of health and fitness in addition to the love of the business is what prompted her to open her own FT studio in Rita Ranch. She is very excited to be serving her local community and looks forward to sharing her passion, knowledge and experience, through safe and effective exercise instruction and proper nutrition guidelines.

Christa believes in living an active and healthy lifestyle. At a young age she stayed busy and kept in shape through dance and aerobics. She took up cardio kickboxing in her teens and enjoyed learning self defense techniques in combination with an awesome total body cardio work out. She also started weight training and learned how to most effectively work out and eat proper nutrition for the best combined results. Christa continues to stay active in the Tucson community and enjoys running, biking, hiking and sharing an active healthy lifestyle with her husband Esteban.

Christa promotes staying active and healthy to her clients inside the FT studio and on their own and helps guide them through each step of the way. She designs specific programs based on each client’s individual goals and needs for exercise and nutrition. Christa and her team of trainers will keep you motivated and hold you accountable to achieving all of your goals!

“My goal is to share my passion of health and fitness with you and to teach you how to achieve this for yourself. For people of all ages, weights, and abilities the benefits of a healthy lifestyle are endless! There is no better time to start than now and for many people getting started is the hardest part! It is never too late! FT personal training is such a rewarding experience for both the client and the trainer! Your results are my results and I am passionate about helping my clients with all of their wants, goals, and needs.”

Esteban is very proud and excited to be fulfilling one of his dreams as a local owner of Fitness Together Rita Ranch! Esteban believes in living a balanced and healthy fitness oriented lifestyle and is glad to share his own experience with his clients. He shows his clients how to relate to him and his team as “real” people, and not just “fitness freaks” (as fitness professionals are sometimes labeled) and to feel more comfortable and relaxed in the work out room and studio. He wants his clients to feel comfortable confiding in him openly and honestly. Esteban understands and genuinely cares about his clients and he will do all that he can to help you stay strong (especially when you feel weak), focused, and dedicated to your goals.

Esteban is a very well rounded individual and he enjoys sharing his fitness knowledge and experience with his clients. He ran track and started lifting weights in high school and now loves to run, hike and bike with his wife Christa. He has been trained in various martial arts, and loves to incorporate some of the basics into his training sessions for a fun cardio, strength building, and functional workout. He’s very good at mixing up his training sessions and is always learning new things to keep his clients from getting bored during their workouts.

“My goal is for you to make a lifestyle of fitness and wellness. I will help you achieve physical goals that you never thought yourself possible of doing. I want to show you that working out is fun, exciting and extremely rewarding not only for you, but for me. When you succeed, I succeed.”

Danny Keefe
Certified Personal Trainer

Danny was born and raised here in Tucson, Arizona where he developed a passion for swimming very early in life to cope with the hot summers. Since he was five he swam almost everyday of every summer. When he wasn’t swimming he was playing basketball or running.

In high school, Danny got very serious about competitive swimming. He took weight training classes and working out became a big part of his life. During swim season all his time and energy was devoted to swimming and work outs. His freshmen year he finished First Place at the regional meet and was the only freshmen to qualify at the state championships. His senior year he made all American and was awarded the 1st team All State Champion. After wards, Danny became a lifeguard and coached kids swim lessons. He enjoys mentoring and guiding children towards their goals and helping them reach the next level in their own swim careers.

Nutrition has been an important part of his life as well. Eating the right foods was very important for Danny’s swimming performance and staying healthy overall.

He still loves to swim and he plays basketball as part of his daily exercise routine. Danny enjoys learning about and keeping up to date on new sports, different exercises, and all the many different ways to challenge his and his client’s bodies. He is currently majoring in physical therapy.

“I think that helping people succeed in areas where they only think they will fail is the greatest reward out there. Working at Fitness Together has given me the opportunity to help people succeed in life and get past their greatest obstacles to reach all their goals. I am always excited to work with our different clients and help them achieve their individual goals. I believe that if you put limits on what you do, physical, mental, or otherwise, it will spread into all areas of your life. I believe there are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

Brittany Johnson
Certified Personal Trainer

Brittany has always had a passion for fitness and nutrition.  Growing up she played softball, soccer, volleyball, basketball, cheerleading and enjoyed swimming for various club teams during summertime.  In high school Brittany also volunteered her time to help coach and train for Tucson Pop Warner Cowboys Midget cheer squad.  She loved being able to help the girls not only learn about themselves and teamwork, but also start to understand what it means to have a positive outlook on life and the benefits of staying in shape.  Brittany stay healthy now by living an active lifestyle and paying attention to what she puts into her body.

Brittany recently graduated from the University Of Arizona Eller College Of Management with a degree in Marketing.  In college she was very involved in Intramural athletics.  She played CO-rec soccer, softball and basketball and was the co-captain of the teams.  After taking a few months off after college graduation, she realized that she wanted to find a career where she was able to make a difference in peoples’ lives.

Fitness Together is the perfect venue where Brittany can “make a difference” and at the same time share her love for nutrition, exercise and overall health with those who need guidance and/or motivation.

“Believe it to achieve it and you will succeed it”

Natalie Budak
Certified Personal Trainer

Natalie grew up in Rock Springs, Wyoming where she spent most of her time outdoors playing sports, hiking, camping, and fishing.  She moved to Tucson when she was fourteen where she continued participating in outdoor activities and quickly became involved in golf.  Natalie began golfing competitively and played throughout her high school years and her first two years of college.

During her college years Natalie decided she wanted to be involved in the health and wellness community therefore, she set her sites on medical school.  While studying she spent her time volunteering at UMC hospital and Odyssey Healthcare Hospice, working in a cancer research lab, and exercising.  Natalie graduated in 2005 from the U of A with a B.S.  in General Biology, a B.A. in Classics, and a minor in chemistry.  Since graduating Natalie decided that she would rather be involved in preventative healthcare rather than medical treatment and is now pursuing her masters in Physical Therapy.

Natalie has always led a healthy active lifestyle and understands the importance of proper nutrition and exercise. She spends her free time educating herself in sports medicine, health issues, and proper wellness so that she can share her knowledge with others.  Natalie remains involved with her outdoor lifestyle by golfing, camping, hiking, running, snowboarding, and wake boarding.  Her current goal is to compete in an Ironman Triathlon within the next year.

“Being involved in the health and wellness community is not just a job for me, it is my passion.  I dedicate as much of my time as I can to those who need and want to start living a healthy lifestyle.  It brings me great satisfaction to look at the faces of the clients that I have helped and see the huge obstacles they have overcome.  Fitness Together has given me the opportunity to work with those who want to possess the same passion about fitness as I do and I am excited and eager to help.”