I started CrossFit in 2010 after having almost given up on Exercise, I had lifted weights in high school for sports and even went to the gym on my own in the off season. During College I had tried the body building routines and even training for a Triathalon, the first was ineffective and the second ended up injuring my knees. I was over weight and out of shape but I had to get an internship as a part of my degree and CrossFit Malibu had just opened up.
So I walked in December 2009 just a couple days before I left on winter Break and went through my intro session. I was hooked almost from the beginning ( I say almost because it took me a while to be able to think coherently ) That January I started my OnRamp class and began learning about CrossFit and getting my self back in shape. Over the course of My CrossFit Training I was introduced to the Snatch and the Clean and Jerk and a coach by the name of Sean Waxman.
Sean Waxman owner of Waxman's Gym was the first one who put the idea in my head that I might be able to be good at the sport. That got put on the back burner however because I was moving 3 hours north and opening up my own gym in my home town. A few years later I was introduced to Coach Charles Shipman of Be Strong Athletics, who became and is still my current lifting coach, I was given his information at the grand opening of another CrossFit Gym. Here is the thing, Right now i freaking love weightlifting. Perhaps it is because I am much better at, not great just better than I am at CrossFit. CrossFit was my gateway drug into the sport of weightlifting, it informs a whole lot of my training still but right now I am a weightlifter who does a little CrossFit instead of the other way around.
Look I am still friends with CrossFit, I still introduce all my Friends to CrossFit and we hang out a little still, but I am a weightlifter I like to pick up heavy stuff and put it back down.
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