WIN-YOUTH CLASSES

Kris Gruner spent the first 25 years of his career in the commodity option trading business where he built and managed his firm's risk. Along the way, he trained and coached many young traders the art of risk taking. At the end of 2017, he decided to retire from the option trading business.

Having been a collegiate athlete and high school football coach for many years, Kris decided to join with a business partner, Chris Falcon, and create an entirely new business built around fitness and performance. Kris’s passion has always been teaching and coaching to help connect people and build relationships. That energy is now fully focused on building the WIN community. A community committed to a fitness experience that is better shared!

Kris teaches Punch45 and HIIT45 as well as Youth SAQ

Erika Gruner was a Division 3 collegiate athlete as a swimmer at Depauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. At Depauw, she met her husband and co-founder of WIN Athletic Club, Kris Gruner, in a class called “Teaching and Coaching Individual Sports.” While coaching for the Evanston McGaw YMCA swim team, Erika competed in several triathlons in the Chicago-area. Aside from athletic pursuits, Erika worked as an account-executive for Fedex and then became a stay at home mom for her 3 children while running her own small computer consulting business.

She is a spinning certified instructor and loves to fill in when needed teaching WINSpyn and PLYOSpyn. Her main focus is building a strong community at WIN Athletic Club while keeping the administration of building a new business in check.

Austin is a certified personal trainer who specializes in sport performance and body composition. I’d consider myself a “Jack of All Trades” Trainer and Coach, with knowledge and experience in many aspects of human performance.

I like to take a principles based approach where context is the driving factor for the type of exercise or tools we are utilizing to achieve our goals" From growing up being extremely active and playing a variety of sports, I developed a passion for fitness with an emphasis on improving the composition, performance, and movement optimization of my body. This led to me wanting to help guide others in their pursuit of becoming better physically and mentally, so that they may live longer and healthier lives.

NASM- CPT, CES (corrective exercise specialist) PES (Performance Enhancement specialist)

WIN is so fortunate to have Kim Carter on our team! Her main job is a 2nd grade teacher in Wilmette and she loves to teach her yoga practice to as many kids as possible.

Kim has practiced yoga for over 12 years. She is certified in Radiant Child Yoga and has her 200 Hour Yoga Certification. Kim teaches yoga daily to her 2nd graders in Wilmette and has taught adult Yin Yoga, Hatha Flow & Vinyasa Flow studio classes. She taught Evanston Community Yoga at the Dawes Mansion by the lake and assisted Shakta Khalsa (Founder of Radiant Child Yoga), during her Radiant Child Yoga training at Kripalu.

Kim benefits from the healing power of yoga for the mind, body & spirit and loves to share this with her students so they can find peace throughout their daily lives.