Introducing the RAW Kickboxing and Fitness Team
Meet the fitness experts ready to help you achieve your fitness goals and your potential.
Our Founders
Mark and Allie Barker
We started this gym in 2012 with 2 simple goals:
1. Provide high quality coaching and guidance to our local community in order to improve overall health and wellness.
2. Help people create a path to success, and build a healthy relationship with nutrition, exercise, and fitness.
Our Professional Coaches
Roman
This is Coach Roman, an NCSF Certified personal trainer with over 7 years of competitive powerlifting experience at the National level. He is a graduate from Florida International University where he was Captain of the FIU Powerlifting Team. Throughout his leadership he's been able to secure multiple State Championship titles for Team and Individuals! If you ever find him not lifting, he's either producing music, playing video games, or watching anime.
"You're only as strong as you think you are." - Roman
"You're only as strong as you think you are." - Roman
Carlos
Coach Carlos started his time at Raw Kickboxing as a member, learning the fundamentals of boxing. With a passion to help others, he was given the chance to take what he has learned to teach others about the "sweet science". Carlos has his Level one Box n Burn certification. He is currently working on getting his Degree in Computer Animation at Lynn University. You can usually find him at Raw gathering members for pictures and selfies!
Toye Jackman
My name is Toye Jackman, affectionately known as AJ. I am a retired Veteran of the United States Army after 20 years of active federal service. I am a graduate of Keiser University where I studied both Sports Medicine and Dietetics & Nutrition. I have a passion for nutrition, fitness, and building love/hate relationships with my clients.
Amani
Amani started at Raw as a member looking for a way to get active and try something new. She discovered not only her love for boxing and kickboxing, but for fitness overall. That later turned into wanting to help others along their fitness journey and reach their goals. She recently graduated with her bachelors in Behavioral Neuroscience from Nova Southeastern University, and is continuing to work towards a degree in higher education. If she's not at the desk, she's in the office, if she's not in the office, she's in the gym, and if she's not in the gym, she's picking up coffee for the crew!
Kaylyn
Kaylyn played a variety of sports growing up and comes from an athletic, active family background. In college she joined a local gym and spent 3 years on a strength team. After graduating she moved to Florida and continued to expand her fitness knowledge and strives to obtain as much experience to better herself as an athlete and more so, as a coach. You can often find her encouraging other members through their workouts or discussing their efforts after class.
Charity
Charity grew up playing sports year-round and has been an avid fitness enthusiast her whole life. She graduated with her BS in Biology and later moved onto nursing and then earned her Master's in Nursing education, She has found that teaching others and helping them with their own fitness journey is highly rewarding. She feels blessed to be able to impact those who are looking to improve their health and wellness.
