About Get Outdoors Fitness
Welcome to Get Outdoors Fitness, your one-stop-shop in the Southeastern US for personal training, outrigger and dragon boat coaching and clubs, and competitive paddlesports productions like the Pottsburg Distance Classic.
We are a family-owned business helmed by Bekah and Andrew Alenduff, with our son, Micah, along for the ride! Combining our love of fitness and the outdoors, we operate GOF in line with our core passions and values: that fitness is a lifelong journey and that we feel our best outside under the open sky. We strive to create a welcoming environment where everyone feels like part of our ohana, no matter where you've been or where you're going. Join us on the water or in the gym and let us show you what you're capable of!
Meet the Get Outdoors Fitness Family
Bekah Alenduff
Founder, GOF Clubs Program Director,
Nalu Uliuli Head Coach
Coaching Qualifications: USDBF Level 2 Certified Coach, ACE Certified Personal Trainer, CETI -certified Cancer Exercise Training Specialist, SafeSport Trained
Bekah was born and raised in Marietta, GA, where she first began her love of watersports. From the ages of 12-18, she was a competitive swimmer, and transitioned to collegiate rowing as an adult. She moved to Jacksonville, FL to pursue early education, where she discovered her love for paddling.
Despite her love for the traditional classroom, Bekah soon realized that her passion lay in educating others about fitness and pursuing her own professional career in paddlesports. With that realization, G.O. Fitness was born.
She has served as the head coach of the Jax Fire Dragons, the Jacksonville Dragon Boat Club, the Jax Limitless Dragons (a dragon boat team for breast cancer survivors), and has trained a number of athletes for competition on the US National Team. In 2017, she discovered the sport of outrigger canoeing, and is currently an elite paddler with the Puakea Designs-sponsored outrigger club, Florida Paddling Hui, with whom she has earned medals at several national and international events (including earning a spot at the US Outrigger Canoe Association World Spring Championships in Hilo, HI in 2024). She founded her own outrigger canoe club, Nalu Uliuli, in 2023, who will begin competing in the 2024 race season. When she's not on the water, she can be found spending time with her husband, Andrew (A.J.) Alenduff and her son, Micah, running ultramarathons, volunteering at a local food bank, and singing loudly to her favorite Taylor Swift ballads.
A. J. Alenduff is a bonafide midwesterner, but we don't hold that against him (ope!). Always athletic, he played varsity football and baseball in high school, and also owned two standard canoes while developing his love of water on the countless freshwater creeks, rivers and lakes in the region. As an adult, he traded the cornfields of Indiana for the palm trees of sunny Florida, where he met his now-wife Bekah Alenduff. For his day job, A. J. works in IT management and procurement and has a passion for software application development and implementation.
A. J. began dragon boating in 2013 in the Jacksonville, FL area and quickly ascended to leadership in a local club. He began paddling outriggers in 2016 and paced for a team in the 2016 Liberty Challenge in New York City. One of his favorite paddling accomplishments was steering for two seperate bronze-earning small boat crews at the 2021 Club Crew National Championships (CCNC) in Sarasota, FL. In his free time, he's game for any kind of outdoor adventure and loves taking the whole family wherever their travels may take them.
Andrew (A.J.) Alenduff
Director of Operations, GOF Steers Coach,
Duval Dragons Assistant Coach
Micah Alenduff
Director of Boat Snacks
Micah might be the smallest paddler on the team, but he's got the biggest personality! Micah is a great paddler, but he also loves Minecraft, his cats, and spending time with his pint-sized pals. Favorite boat snacks include Cheetos and Yoo-Hoos. Dislikes bedtime and baths.
Gareth Hall
Duval Dragons Head Coach
Coaching Qualifications: SafeSport Certified,
USDBF Level 1 Certified Coach
Gareth joins the GOF team from across the pond; more specifically, he was born in Wales and raised in Worcestershire, England. His experience in sports started with martial arts, which he started practicing at the age of 8, and is currently a 4th dan Taekwondo black belt. He co-founded the London Chinatown Taekwondo (LCTKD) studio in 2006, andstarted teaching and coaching there in 2008. Rising to the level of Chief Instructor, he discovered his passion for coaching and educating others at LCTKD, and we’re so glad he did!
He also was involved in the Royal Air Force Air Cadets from 1998-2003, where he was awarded the highly competitive and internationally-recognized Gold Duke of Edinburg Award for youth achievement (and he was even presented with the award in-person by Prince Philip!) It was during his time with the Air Cadets that Gareth first stepped into a dragon boat, where he and his peers entered local festivals. Stateside, Gareth moved to Jacksonville, FL in 2018 for his work, and immediately started looking for groups to join that were centered around fitness, the outdoors, and meeting new people. As so many of us have, this is how Gareth found his first dragon boat team in Jacksonville in 2020. While COVID dashed some of his early festival plans, he has become an expert paddler, and has competed in numerous premiere races as a pacer, drummer, and all-around paddling ringer! We’re so thrilled to have him coaching our Duval Dragons now, and we can’t wait for you to meet our favorite Englishman!
In his spare time, Gareth is an outdoor enthusiast: he enjoys indoor rock climbing, badminton, martial arts (of course), and anything related to fitness and getting outdoors (see what we did there?) He even tolerates his teammates myriad attempts at a British accent with a smile, although he’s mum on whether any of us are actually any good at it. See you on the water old chap! Cheerio!