Derrel

About Derrel

I've been doing CrossFit since at least 2014, and coaching since 2023. Simply put: CrossFit is life-changing. The sense of accomplishment, the community, the life transformation that can be achieved not by the weights or the movements, but by the mindset that is developed via the discipline, and the risk it takes to challenge yourself to go above and beyond what you believe you can achieve.

How I Found CrossFit

I learned about CrossFit in 2008. I learned about the “300” workout that was going around from the movie (I wanted abs like Gerard Butler). I started researching workouts and came across the original CrossFit website and videos they posted of the “Girls” workouts. I ended up downloading and following the workouts as off-season workouts to prep for my amateur baseball seasons. The rest is history.

Motivation & Passion

As an athlete and a coach, the sense of accomplishment, confidence and achievement that is instilled when you successfully accomplish a new movement, hit a new PR or make it through a workout you didn’t think you’d survive. The smiles I see when an athlete does something they didn’t think they could do makes me want to improve as a coach. As an athlete, I’m driven by a daily desire to see how I can become better. The discipline and drive I have as an athlete translates into my personal and professional goals.

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