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...

Success Story – Eric Ison

Eric Ison Ruination CrossFit’s 2015 Male CrossFitter of the Year   I was a pretty normal kid growing up in rural Kansas, playing sports and being probably an overactive boy. During college, my athletic endeavours were limited to some intramural sports. After college I was pretty much desk-bound as I worked at furthering my career. Prior to CrossFit, I had run several half marathons and one full marathon. I...

Success Story – Didi Kovacs

  Didi Kovacs   I started CrossFit in June of 2014. I have always been that girl trying to lose those last 10lbs and participated in long distance running, gym workouts and hot yoga… But I felt that if I had a bad week and didn’t attend, who would know if I didn’t go? I knew something was missing to keep me motivated, maybe accountability, maybe the lack of...

Success Story – Ken Granger

Ken Granger What month/year did you first start CrossFit?  I started CrossFitting in early 2009. Why did you start CrossFit?  I was going to a “globo-gym” 4+ days a week consistently for several years. I felt like I was in reasonably good shape, but in reality I had plateaued and was basically just going through the motions at the gym. I almost never did any “cardio” and I slowly...

Success Story – Chris Reza

Chris Reza Junior year of high school, 2011, I had spent my summer days working at Dairy Queen. It was my second job as a teenager. The pay was great for my age, even better, the free food. I spent many lunch breaks occupying the store’s food trays full of french fries, onion rings, blizzards (blended ice cream), shakes, burgers, and anything consumable basically! It was a disaster, to...

Success Story – Alina Weinreis

Alina Weinreis  Prior to CrossFit, I did interval type workouts at 24-Hour Fitness, incorporating lots of repetitions of several different types of combined movements. I would also use the stairclimber, elliptical machines, and bike for cardio, 30-45 minutes. I also tried Turbo Jam, P90X, and Insanity DVD programs. Those didn’t last long before I was bored again. I heard about CrossFit one day when I was working out at...

Success Story – Mitchell Yaffee

  Mitchell Yaffee  Mitchell Yaffee competed in his first CrossFit event at 14 years old as a coincidental participant. Mitchell was expecting to watch his brother Taylor and mentor Josh Aycock compete in the CrossFit South County’s September 2010 “Fight Gone Bad” when there was a need for one more competitor to have an even number of athletes. In round three with seconds counting down on the box jump...