Tim Hill – Bio coming soon
Dusty Sulon
B.S. Exercise Physiology Chico State 2008
Crossfit level 1
Crossfit mobility and recovery
National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA)- Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (C.S.C.S.)
National Association of Sports Medicine (NASM)- Certified Personal Trainer
Dusty’s interest in sport came early as he started t ball when he was 6 and never turned back. His baseball career continued all the way through college. As the years passed he got more and more interested in how to make make him perform better at his sport. In his second year of college he became a certified personal trainer and began training people to help others obtain their fitness goals as well. At that point he switched his major from architecture to exercise physiology and decided that he wanted to study exercise and its effects for his career. He graduated in 2008 with a B.S. in exercise physiology and is looking forward to going back for a masters degree.
After experimenting with several different training methods Dusty got bored of back and bi’s, chest and tri’s and looked around YouTube for some different stuff to do. He stumbled across a routine that consisted of 10 exercises 50 reps each, that’s right “filthy fifty”. He was hooked from that point on and started following the workout of the day religiously on crossfit.com. After following the main site while going to school in Chico he moved back to Danville where he found Crossfit San Ramon and increased his work capacity even more. Crossfit is now is life/obsession and has replaced the one time impossible task of replacing baseball as his favorite sport.
Travis Sleighter
A Personal Journey
Many years ago I began working out with weights. In the beginning it was to gain some muscle mass since I was always such a little guy. During that time I was able to go from 140lbs to 180lbs this took me about 10 years to achieve. I had always viewed myself as a pretty fit guy. True my cardio was horrible but I thought who needed it considering there weren’t any lions or such going to eat me. Also I accomplished some other goals over the ten year period. I managed to get a kinesiology degree a number of different personal training certifications and 9 years experience doing personal training. The funny thing was I had never heard of crossfit and so was a little skeptical as to its methodolgy.
Personal stuff was going on with me during this time frame as well. For starters I was extremley bored with my own workouts, I would push myself to go to the gym do a half ass workout and then roll out as if i had accomplished anything, what a joke. In conjunction I was tired of training other people because it felt like monotany doing the same junk for hours a day. I began sliding back even further having major issues with insomnia, and severe abdominal pains that would double me over, not to mention my diet was horrible. I would hit this burrito stand four to five times a week and put down a monster meal in a sitting, and yesI was getting fatter. In an attempt to ramp myself up I would clean up the eating and hit the gym hard, this usually lasted about a week. Around this time I headed in and tried my first crossfit workout. I was surprised with how tough it was and how much I sweated. I wish I could say I fell in love with it from the beginning but it didn’t happen that way I worried about not hitting individual muscle groups with enough sets to maintain my muscle mass while also having enough energy to make it through one of these workouts. I was losing my identity!! As cheesy as it may sound it felt like a midlife crisis with nothing out there for me to feel passionate about. My family was making comments to me while slapping me on the stomach and I would think I really don’t care anymore I can see how people lose interest in going to the gym.
Then it happened mid workout I was doing the filthy fifty and really pushing myself and about fifteen reps into the knees to elbows I felt extremely light headed jumped down ran over and puked into the trash can. Laying on the ground I felt like death and angry that I a previous super athlete in my younger years couldn’t make it through a workout, I felt pathetic. So I got up and finished the workout feeling sick with a pounding headache so intense I would see double and triples. Similarly that week I watched a guy named Jeff do grace (30 clean and jerk #135) in a minute and twenty two seconds being utterly amazed. I knew I could deadlift the weight but there is no way I could push that weight over my head. I tried to do overhead squats and felt like a weakling with a 45 pound bar and I could barely hold it, my upper back would cramp and I would throw it down in disgust. Now up until this point I had always figured that I was still above almost everyone in fitness I know I know what an ego but it was how I felt. Everytime I learned a new exercise I found that if I could do the presribed weight or exercise I could barely squeeze the reps off. Muscle ups haha I told Tim he was crazy for even suggesting I try. I started with a green band sitting down for the workout. Running was the worst of all we had murph and I had to stop and walk about 400 meters into the run because I was so winded. I was glad that no one saw me.
As I was going through all of this I started using the zone for my food. At first weighing everything and feeling like it was taking forever to get my meals put together. I started getting a little stronger and in a month noticed a huge improvement in my strength and PR’s I was shaving like 2 minutes off of times I had done 6 weeks before. I was still gasping for breathe every workout. I did one muscle up a few hand stand push ups and was overall feeling a lot better. I remember going home and telling everyone about how hard the workout was and how exhausted I was blah blah blah.
It has been about 7 months now since I started training crossfit and I can tell you what a difference it has made for me. My love for fitness has come back and the midlife crisis is over. I now am doing a paleo diet where I usually only cheat one meal per week bye bye burritos. My insomnia is gone and my horrible stomach pains have not come back once. I lost all the body fat and have a full six pack. I can do ten muscle ups, decreased my old times by at least half of what they were and just the other day was alble to deadlift 405lbs weighing personally at 170lbs. Oh and remember when I said push a 135lbs over my head was an insurmountable task haha. I just did that same workout with 165lbs and it wasn’t really that bad. All of this I would never have been able to accomplish without crossfit. It is what I was looking for and finally found. I hope that people are able to get out of it even a smidgeon of what I have because it has changed my life.
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