Affiliate: Crossfit Alaska
Years as a Coach: 10 years strength & conditioning, 5 years CrossFit
Favorite CrossFit movement: Clean
Favorite song to WOD to: Lunatic Fringe by Red Rider
Fran Time: 3:21
Most recent PR: 245 lb squat snatch
Last cheated on a WOD: Never.
What inspired you to become a CrossFit coach?
I went to college to become a strength and conditioning coach - I love training motivated athletes. 5 years ago I opened an athlete training center, I was doing CrossFit myself so I decided to affiliate; the rest is history.
What has been your best coaching experience so far?
Using CrossFit alongside traditional strength and conditioning to help numerous athletes reach their goal of college athletics.
What's your biggest goat and what are you doing about it?
I have trouble getting to my ideal competing weight of 220-225 lb by the Open, which is following the heart of winter up here. Our winters are dark and cold, which is very conducive to weight gain, thus making dieting difficult; did I mention I love food. This year I have gotten a jump on lowering my caloric intake and by the Open I should be at my ideal weight. Squat snatching is my lifting goat due to an old injury, this year I have put quite a bit more focus into getting stronger on it in particular.
Using CrossFit alongside traditional strength and conditioning to help numerous athletes reach their goal of college athletics.
If ‘TONY’ was a WOD, what would it be?
It would have to be heavy and hard of course!
It would have to be heavy and hard of course!
- 30 clean and jerks at 225 lb,
- 1,000 ft elevation on mountain top to bottom
- 50 weighted pull-ups at 1.5 pood for time
What's your biggest goat and what are you doing about it? I have trouble getting to my ideal competing weight of 220-225 lb by the Open, which is following the heart of winter up here. Our winters are dark and cold, which is very conducive to weight gain, thus making dieting difficult; did I mention I love food. This year I have gotten a jump on lowering my caloric intake and by the Open I should be at my ideal weight. Squat snatching is my lifting goat due to an old injury, this year I have put quite a bit more focus into getting stronger on it in particular.
Tell us about the community at CrossFit Alaska
Our community is great and very diverse. We have high school and college athletes, CrossFit specific athletes, recreational CrossFitters and both young and old using CrossFit as their primary mode of fitness.
Get hooked up with a good trainer/gym right away, and do your research in picking the right facility.
Our community is great and very diverse. We have high school and college athletes, CrossFit specific athletes, recreational CrossFitters and both young and old using CrossFit as their primary mode of fitness.
Do you have any success stories amongst your athletes you’d like to share?
One of my favorites involves a hard working young football player that didn't start or play very much as a junior in high school, with a lot of hard work he was a starting linebacker and full back his senior year and was named first team all-conference.
What’s the most common mistake you see amongst new athletes at your affiliate?
Not trusting the trainers advice concerning form, efficiency, and load suggestion.
One of my favorites involves a hard working young football player that didn't start or play very much as a junior in high school, with a lot of hard work he was a starting linebacker and full back his senior year and was named first team all-conference.
What’s the most common mistake you see amongst new athletes at your affiliate?
Not trusting the trainers advice concerning form, efficiency, and load suggestion.
If you could give someone new to CrossFit just one piece of advice, what would it be?
Get hooked up with a good trainer/gym right away, and do your research in picking the right facility.
What was your last cheat meal and on a scale of 1 to 10 how good was it?
It was Mexican food and a margarita followed by an ice cream twix bar. Mexican food and margarita were an 8, twix bar was a 10!
Would you share with us your favorite tip or cue that we might find useful to use in our training?
I can't think of a great cue, but I will give some more advice: Get strong, have confidence, be realistic, learn different paces for different wods, develop a game plan for each wod, and keep up on mobility and recovery/rest.
Find out more:
(w) www.revolutionsportstraining.com/CrossFit
(t) 907-277-2348
(e) info@revolutionsportstraining.com
FB: CrossFit Alaska
It was Mexican food and a margarita followed by an ice cream twix bar. Mexican food and margarita were an 8, twix bar was a 10!
Would you share with us your favorite tip or cue that we might find useful to use in our training?
I can't think of a great cue, but I will give some more advice: Get strong, have confidence, be realistic, learn different paces for different wods, develop a game plan for each wod, and keep up on mobility and recovery/rest.
Find out more:
(w) www.revolutionsportstraining.com/CrossFit
(t) 907-277-2348
(e) info@revolutionsportstraining.com
FB: CrossFit Alaska
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