About US

Hi there! I'm Ashley Schafer, child of the Most High God, Veteran, mother of 3, and owner of The Vault Gym and Training. I spent a majority of my life in Central Texas but ended up here in Rio Rancho after a job offer at Kirtland AFB as a DoD contractor. The idea and desire to own a gym had been weighing on my heart for about 5 years prior to our open. I had previously competed in bodybuilding and took a huge interest in the nutritional side of the industry after I started doing my own research and experimentation with different foods and supplements to try to find the most optimized diet/supplement/training combination. What I found sounds so simple and yet, so under utilized. Get back to REAL food, REAL nutrition, and REAL meaningful movement. I felt like there was a huge gap in the industry and no one was taking on the responsibility of sharing the truth about food, hydration, supplements, and training and how to do this with a heart postured towards Jesus. It was all about vanity and doing whatever was necessary to achieve an impossible-to-sustain physique. I felt called to enter the space with a focus on stewarding our bodies to bring glory to God. I took a leap of faith and a giant cliff dive of trust in God's plan and quit my fulltime job to focus on bringing this idea God gave me to life. I'm so excited to share the gym and all I've learned along the way regarding fitness, training, nutrition, recovery, and how to do it all in Jesus's name.