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Quinn Shortal

What is CrossFit to you? CrossFit to me is camaraderie. CrossFit gives me the same atmosphere as being on a team everytime I step into the box. Everyone in the box is competing against each other in every WOD, but they are also encouraging everyone to get better.

What is your proudest CrossFit accomplishment? Making it through a WOD w/ unbroken DU’s.

What is your favorite CrossFit workout? Bear Complex. Favorite exercise is the Clean & Jerk

What keeps you motivated to keep training at Atlas? The coaches and other CrossFitters keep me motivated by wanting to compete with them and they are always helpful on the days when you just aren’t feeling it.

Stats: Body weight: 185lbs, Fran: 3:51, Isabel: 5:48, Cindy: 22 rds, Murph: 37:22, Grace: 2:56, Deadlift: 405lbs

Goals:

Continue to overall improvement (strength, mobility, endurance)

Amelia Levin

What is CrossFit to you? The essential tool in a healthy, happy, balanced and fit lifestyle.

What is your proudest CrossFit accomplishment? Being able to do pullups without a band. And doing my first handstand! Unassisted handstand pushups are next.

What is your favorite workout? Any Crossfit endurance WOD that usually includes running and maybe pullups.

What keeps you motivated to train at Atlas? The coaches, the people, new digs and plenty of continuing opportunities to improve and challenge yourself.

Stats: Fran: 7:03, Max Thruster: #110, Max deadlift: #195

Goals:

Mastering Overhead Squats

Laura Reasons

What is CrossFit to you? A place where I can count on like-minded people to support me in making positive, healthy changes in my life.

What is your proudest CrossFit accomplishment? Winning the IAC Challenge summer 2010!

What is your favorite CrossFit workout? I can’t pick just one… Linda, Murph, Freddy’s Revenge, and bear complex.

What is your least favorite CrossFit workout or exercise? Wall balls.

What keeps you motivated to train at Atlas? Never getting bored; new challenges; and the people.

Stats: Deadlift: 240#, Back Squat: 165#, Front Squat: 145#, Clean & Jerk: 100#, Overhead Squat: 115#, Bench: 95#

Goals:

A kipping pull-up without a band

John Guilford

What is Crossfit to you? For me, Crossfit is a great way to push myself both physically and mentally with a group of people I enjoy being around.

What is your favorite Crossfit workout? The box I started at is in Cali and we did our Saturday workouts at the beach sometimes in the summer. This one was in Newport Beach and was a partner WOD. 5 Rounds – Both people swim 200 M, 30 KB swings as partners, 30 box jumps as partners, 30 burpees as partners. It was cool because we were all in our trunks on the beach working out in the sand and ocean. Burpees are actually nice in the water and box jumps suck in the sand. Good times!

What is your least favorite workout or exercise? By far man-makers.

What keeps you motivated to train at Atlas? 1. To keep progressing. 2. The people

Stats: Weight: 185; Eyes: Brown; Clean: 205; Good snowboarder :)

Goals:

Be able to do competition standard muscle-ups.

Noel Christopher

What is CrossFit to you? CrossFit is an outlet for me. I have always participated in team sports and now that I am older CrossFit allows me to stay fit and gives me the group environment that I love.

What is your favorite CrossFit workout? Box Jumps, burpees, and deadlifts.

What is your least favorite CrossFit workout or exercise? Handstand pushups.

What keeps you motivated to train at Atlas? Staying young so I can be healthy for my daughter and future children.

Goals:

Progress in my overhead lifts

David Farmer

What is CrossFit to you? Crossfit is a celebration of respect for the individual and what is possible when people work together. Crossfit codifies a challenging, fun, intellectual pursuit of fitness. Learning a new, challenging physical movement to the point of proficiency and subsequent expertise requires thought and discipline. It’s body and mind candy!

What is your proudest CrossFit accomplishment? Being able to come back to Crossfit after liver transplant and PTLD lymphoma.

What is your favorite CrossFit workout? Chippers

What keeps you motivated to train at Atlas? Atmosphere. Opportunities to work strength and conditioning. Great coaching.

Stats: Deadlift: 265, Squat: 225, SOHP: 140, Overhead Squat: 115, 50 burpees for time: 3:03

Goals:

5 rep max of 1.75x bodyweight deadlift; 5 rep max of 1.5 bodyweight squat; completing Fran as Rx; 5 HSPUs and a muscle up I am also on Team Illinois for the Transplant Games of America in July-Aug 2012, where I'll be participating in the swimming events (I was a swimmer through college). The main goal is to go sub 1:00 in the 100y fly!

Harvey Henao

What is CrossFit to you? It’s a lot of things – community, hard work, and even pain, but overall I see it as a true measure of fitness

What is your favorite CrossFit workout? I enjoy deadlifts and push presses

What is your proudest CrossFit accomplishment? Probably that I can now actually run without blowing out a lung.

What is your least favorite CrossFit workout or exercise? Overhead Squats for sure. and Burpees.

What keeps you motivated to train at Atlas? It’s the only workout that’s actually fun to me, plus I just want to see how much more I’m capable of.

Stats: Pretty proud of my 300lb deadlift! Though I hope to PR on that soon.

Goals:

Mastering Double unders and making this my fittest year yet!

Jeff Eberhard

What is CrossFit to you? CrossFit is a way for me to stay in great shape and is a way for me to work on my overall health every day.

What is your proudest CrossFit accomplishment? The fact that I’ve stuck with it for over a year and have made so much overall improvement – going from someone who couldn’t do many of the lifts to being competent in the complicated movements and being able to keep up with the much younger athletes in class.

What keeps you motivated to train at Atlas? Great coaches and members. It’s a great community, and my life wouldn’t be the same without it.

Goals:

To squat 1.5x my bodyweight

Emanuel Balarie

What is CrossFit to you? A lifestyle change.
What is your proudest CrossFit accomplishment? Dropping 40lbs of weight!
What is your least favorite CrossFit workout or exercise? Wallballs
What keeps you motivated to train at Atlas? The amazing people.

Goals:

Keep the weight off!

Alex Berg

What is CrossFit to you? The calming portion of my otherwise hectic day.

What is your proudest CrossFit accomplishment? Taking 7+ minutes off my baseline WOD.

What is your favorite CrossFit workout? Bear Complex

What keeps you motivated to train at Atlas? The positive changes I’ve seen so far.

Goals:

Become a better overall athlete.

JS Irick

What is CrossFit to you? Crossfit is the collaborative research of fitness applied to individual cases. Every athlete’s progress is equally valid, and equally celebrated.

What is your proudest CrossFit accomplishment? Each time someone I’m encouraging finds a way to succeed.

What is your favorite CrossFit workout? Anything really different, that causes a class to ask the previous class for advice. I’m also a complete softy for weighted running.

What is your least favorite CrossFit workout or exercise? All out running followed by heavy lifting.

Goals:

Win the Chicago Indoor Rowing Championship. Win the over 200lbs Chicago Running Championship.

Kelly Balarie

What is CrossFit to you? Friends, fun, extreme Pain, toned muscles, starting off the day with a sense of accomplishment, a huge encouragement, a killer workout.

What is your proudest CrossFit accomplishment?

Crossfitting until I was ready to almost literally go into labor. I am also proud of making the leaderboard on the mile run.

What is your least favorite CrossFit workout or exercise? Rope Climbs.

What keeps you motivated to train at Atlas?

The thought of not working out at all in the winter months. Plus, the thought of not working out with Coach Emily is enough to make anyone depressed.

Goals:

Kipping Pull-Ups!

Kristin Seubold

What is your proudest CrossFit accomplishment? I can still remember when I pressed 90#. I didn’t think I could do it, but Emily thought I could, so I tried and I did it. Stringing together double-unders was also pretty sweet (I might have done a little dance).

What is your favorite CrossFit workout? I love the heavy lifting WODs.

What is your least favorite CrossFit workout or exercise? I dread WODs with box jumps, rowing, and running.

What keeps you motivated to train at Atlas? The community and the coaches. Everyone pushes me to do better every day and that’s what keeps me coming back.

Goals:

I really want to get a muscle up Stringing together more than 3 chest to bar pull-ups.

Gerard Martin

What is CrossFit to you? The opportunity to work out in a way that is highly effective, frequently scary, and never boring, which keeps me continuously challenging myself and learning new things.

What is your proudest CrossFit accomplishment? I dropped over 60 pounds doing CrossFit.

What is your favorite CrossFit workout? Grace – elegant and brutal.

What keeps you motivated to train at Atlas? The people and the results.

Stats: I did my first half-ironman and my first marathon this year, with 100% CrossFit training.

Goals:

To do all my WOD's as Rx

Dan Cadenas

What is CrossFit to you? CrossFit to me is a new challenge everyday. Although CrossFit is a part of my routine, there is nothing routine about the workouts. I always look forward to showing up and seeing what is written on the board.

What is your favorite CrossFit workout? Anything that includes hanging from something or jumping onto or over something.

What keeps you motivated to train at Atlas? It’s important to me to feel like I am healthy and in shape for anything at anytime during the year and I feel like Atlas keeps me there.