i am a husband (carla 33 yrs), father (chelsea 26 yrs), a business owner (HVAC), and i try to be an all around good friend and person. i enjoy hunting and fishing and my weekends in dewey beach. i played baseball through college, shortly after college i went to work in the family business and have been doing that for the last 33 years. i have always kept myself in good shape lifting the old conventional way. my wife startied doing crossfit and i was the typical hater that said it was a cult etc., then i tried it one day after watching some open workouts with her and of coarse i said i can do that. she headed off to the box i headed to the basement and tried it and it killed me, what they were doing in 15min took me 32, thats when i said maybe i should try this (2015) and did my first open in 2016. i was very lucky to have a good coach (jud dean) close by and i have been with him from the start. we had a setback in 2016 after the qualifier, i had hernia surgery and shoulder surgery then another shoulder surgery in april 2017 that finally fixed it, i got back with my coach in october and have committed to the training and the meal plans and weve been battling ever since.