COACH Z

I BUILT THE ROOM I NEEDED.

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Before Safari, there was Buena Vista.

I worked construction by day, and somewhere around midnight I would run to Peak Fitness, train, run home, sleep, and do it again.

Krys and I were building our family. I was becoming a coach. And somewhere inside that repetition, I learned what strength meant to me.

It wasn't attention.

It was a promise to myself when no one was watching.

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THE LONG WAY UP

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I have summited four Colorado fourteeners:

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Mount Antero with Krys and Paisley

Mount Yale with Paisley

Mount Princeton with my foreman, after convincing him to climb his first.

Mount Sneffels with Krys.

And many days in the backcountry.

There are more ahead.

Mountains don't care how prepared you feel. They ask what you are willing to keep doing when the summit still looks far away.

That is how I train.

That is how I coach.

I cannot climb for someone else-but I can help them prepare, walk beside them, and remind them why they started.

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WHY SAFARI EXISTS

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I returned to Hannibal in 2019.

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Safari began in a one-bay garage and grew into something larger: a private place for people who want to train seriously without performing for a room full of strangers.

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For the underestimated.

The uncomfortable.

The ones rebuilding something nobody else can see yet.

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Here, privacy does not mean isolation.

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It means the room belongs to your work.

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Zachary Shipley

founder and coach

NASM PES, CES, FNS

Competitive Powerlifter

2025 Readers Choice Best Personal Trainer

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Credentials tell you what I studied.

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Safari tells you what I believe:

The room is private.

The work is personal.

The strength follows you out.

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in strength,

safari

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- 2022 82.5kg Open Raw Full Power Gold Medalist USPA Drug Tested Squat 2 Depth Summer Showdown, St. Louis, MO.

​ 2022-2023 USPA Drug Tested Nationals Qualifier. Atlanta, GA - Las Vegas, NV.

​- 2022-2023 IPL Drug Tested North American Championships Qualifier. St. Louis, MO - Columbus, OH.