335 squat
405 deadlift
3:57 marathon
CF-L1
As a kid, I played a variety of town league sports, always for fun and never really competitively. In middle school, I joined the cross country team, and by high school was running year-round doing cross country, track, and indoor track. Bored of running by college, I started going to the gym a few times a week to mess around with the weight machines. Over time I became increasingly interested in how I could improve different aspects of my fitness, and bounced around between different training styles. These included hypertrophy training, powerlifting, and a return to distance running, first completing a half and then a full marathon. Throughout this time, these training programs were largely all or nothing for me, and I always felt that I had to sacrifice one aspect of training in order to improve in another. In 2019 I stumbled upon the CrossFit Games and was blown away at how versatile and well-rounded the athletes were. This inspired me to give CrossFit a try, and I fell in love with it immediately.
Although discovering CrossFit was a pivotal moment in my fitness journey, the real turning point for me was shortly after college as I began to become more invested in my training. It was really the first time in my life that I set difficult goals for myself, stuck to them over the course of months, and slowly started to see the results. I started making lifestyle decisions outside of the gym that would support my goals as well, and found that the more effort I put in, the prouder I was when I achieved what I set out to do. I gained a lot of self-confidence during this time, not because of how my body changed physically, but because I was proving to myself that I had the ability to change and grow, and shape my life for the better.
I know first hand the impact that good habits can have on people’s lives. My main motivation is helping all of our members both to feel confident in the gym no matter their experience level, and to enjoy the process of showing up every day.
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