Sean S

Crossfit Sarasota was definitely the source of a huge change in my life. Everything about my life, not just the way I work out has been affected by the lifestyle that Crossfit has shown me. The way I eat, the way I think, how I feel, and how I look. All of these things are completely different than before being introduced to the Crossfit method.  Crossfit has enabled me to reach my immediate goals, and is propelling me towards my long term fitness goals! I feel like Crossfit is a program that, due to it's incredible scalability, can have this same dramatic effect in anyone's life. From a semi-pro footbal player, to a police officer, to a grandma that wants to get in better shape to keep up with her grandkids. They can all benefit from crossfit.

  Prior to finding Crossfit Sarasota I was heading down the same path that many young Americans are on. I was working out in an underequipped gym full of exercise machines, treadmills, and stairmasters without a barbell in sight. I was eating lots of garbage food, drinking plenty of beer, and supplmenting this diet of champions with over processed and poor quality whey protein and creatine powders. I saw  very few results, besides a lighter wallet after purchasing my beloved "supplements". After many months of essentially going in circles with my ineffective workout routine I was beginning to get quite frustrated. I had gained very little weight, and put on very little muscle, and although I had gotten stronger the visual results weren't what I was looking for. So as any typical human being would do, my determination and consistency began to slide. Week by week I just returned to my normal routines.

 Things stayed that way until I found Crossfit through a friend. I went to see just what this crazy fitness program was all about, thinking to myself that it was just going to be another gym. My very first workout included a fair quantity of power cleans and I can't remember what else, but by the end of that fateful first hour of crossfit exposure, I was sold. I completely exhausted and I loved it. My body was so much more effected by one half hour of solid work than countless hours in the gym could have done. I signed up right away for more classes. Over the course of the next few months the gym owner/coach Matt  showed me the ways of the Crossfit mentality, and taught me a ton about nutrition and how I should be eating, how to recover, how to, well.. live the lifestyle of a Crossfitter! He is an excellent trainer, and a particularly good olympic and powerlifting coach, as well as a great source of nutritional info. By following his advise and maintaining a consistent (minus a few relapses) paleo/primal diet and even only attending classes 3 days a week the way I feel, look and perform has changed dramatically.