Success Story – Kari Hoblitzell

Kari Hoblitzell CrossFit has without a doubt changed my life! In combination with the Paleo diet, I leaned out 20 pounds within the first six months, and five years later I am maintaining weight and healthier & more fit at age 44 than ever before. Before CrossFit, my sport was running beginning with track and cross-country through high school. In my late 30s, I noticed my body was gaining...

Success Story – Steve Martinez

Steve Martinez Before CrossFit my only exercise was running, whether it was a half marathon or up and down the soccer and lacrosse fields as a referee. While working in Aliso Viejo a few years back, I found out that there was a CrossFit gym next door to my office. A friend who had done CrossFit in the past convinced me to give it a shot. Of course 2...

Success Story – Liz Crean

Coach Liz What I did before CrossFit: I played soccer throughout middle school, high school, and college, and also did TaekwonDo for over ten years. I hold a second degree black belt in TaekwonDo, competed twice at Junior Olympics, and taught TaekwonDo classes for about five years. I also played softball for exactly one day but they put me in the outfield and I was bored out of my mind...

Success Stories- Jeff & Chelsea

Jeff Irvine I joined Ruination in February of 2016. Prior to joining, I worked out at 24 Hour Fitness lifting weights and occasionally doing cardio. I worked out at 24 Hour Fitness on my own for several years but was not getting the results I was looking for. I noticed my workouts became routine and I was frustrated with the overcrowded weight room at the gym. One of my...

Success Story – Dennis Cajigal

  Dennis Cajigal I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I decided to join, Sonya in her one-on-one training session she had with Paul.  She attempted to explain to me what CrossFit was and how exciting and horrible the workouts she had to do were.  Paul too had talked to me about it, but I wasn’t comprehending what CrossFit was.  I assumed you had to...

Success Story – Polly McKinstry

2015 Games Masters Athlete Polly McKinstry   I grew up on a small farm in Pennsylvania where activity, hard work and strength were encouraged. My grandfather had been a distance runner in the 1924 and 1928 Olympics. My past lifting experience consisted of helping with farm chores during the summers. I participated in varsity sports (usually three seasons a year) in my small high school and college. I was...

Success Story – Kevin Spykerman

Kevin Spykerman I played sports growing up and had the privilege of playing baseball collegiately. I considered myself a pretty active person but after college I found myself sitting behind a desk 40 hours a week. I didn’t realize I was quickly becoming the typical office employee eating garbage and thinking that going for a 20 minute run in the evening was working out. My wife was getting into...