Kate Blake

About the trainer

Kate “K8” Blake is a personal trainer at Full Throttle Fitness and the founder of Elev8 with K8, a Fit + Glow brand focused on strength, confidence, and feeling good in your body at every stage of life.

Kate’s path into fitness wasn’t linear. After years of playing soccer, fighting injuries, and trying (so many!) workout trends, starting and stopping and restarting, she finally found lasting change through consistent strength training, intentional nutrition, and learning how the body actually works. As her own transformation unfolded, she became passionate about educating herself — studying health, fitness, movement, nutrition, and longevity — eventually earning her personal training certification and deciding to take the leap into coaching. After more than 20 years in corporate sales and leadership, she built Elev8 with K8 around what truly lights her up: helping others feel strong, confident, and empowered.

Now in her mid-40s, Kate is stronger, healthier, and more confident than ever. Her passion is helping women and moms like herself build strength, confidence, and consistency in a realistic, supportive way. Her coaching style is encouraging, relatable, and focused on progress over perfection. She also works with anyone looking to get started, get stronger, move better, and feel more confident in the gym.

In addition to personal training, Kate runs Elev8 with K8’s custom airbrush spray tanning services out of Full Throttle Fitness. Using premium Aviva Labs solutions, she offers natural-looking, skin-loving tans designed to enhance confidence — whether clients are preparing for vacations, competitions, weddings, events, or simply want to feel their best. Elev8 with K8 was built on the belief that feeling strong and feeling good go hand in hand, and both services are an integral part of Kate’s work inside the gym.