Coach Don Nava

Don Nava is a 51 year old coach with a passion and vision for launching a Wellness and Fitness movement within the Body of Christ. He has been involved in sports, athletics and fitness for most of his life and has been a fitness coach for 25 years.  Don founded and currently manages The Prevail Team Inc., a Fitness Think Tank. The Prevail Team designs and develops programs and solution processes with the emphasis on wellness and high performance individual and team development.  Don has also worked with professional football players for over 18 years, training with such notable players as Joe Montana, Ronnie Lott and Jerry Rice.  Don has also developed several programs for young people addressing issues such as child obesity, bully-ism, and teenage drinking.

He enjoys the process of influencing people by discovering the need of a work team. Don designs a program or system to address specific work need, resulting in the team becoming a High Performance Team. Don has also developed a dynamic on line accountability system called the Team of 3, built on Relationship and Accountability. This simple yet effective system creates Contagious Camaraderie among members.  Don has taught HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAM BUILDING principles throughout United States, Australia and Europe. He has trained corporate Senior Executives how to be Highly Effective Leaders by modeling and tapping into the power of Servant Leadership.  Not surprisingly, he has built successful Team Building Programs for numerous companies, including Cisco Systems, NIKE, Silicon Graphics, and ATT.

To celebrate the fact that LIFE REALLY DOES BEGIN AT 40, on his 40th birthday, Don worked out for 40 continuous hours, to showcase the importance of fitness and living a healthy lifestyle in his local community. Finishing on the exact minute he was born, 40 years earlier.  When Don turned 50, he ran up and down 5,000 bleachers at the Stanford University football stadium. He believes that chronological age doesn’t have to be a barrier to physical accomplishments.  Don received his BS degree in Physical Education from West Texas State University.  He lives in Los Altos with his wife Becky and their three children.