This month on the coaches’ podcast we meet one of our new coaches who is finishing up her training period. Additionally, our coaches talk about what their strategy will be leading up to the BCS Classic as well as what their strategy will be for each of the events. 

Since this podcast will air AFTER the BCS Classic, listen in to see if they were able to stick to their plan for Saturday’s events!

Meet Maribel. She works here in College Station at the Association of Former Students. Whoop!

She moved here right as COVID-19 hit, and really struggled at first at finding her community. Once gyms opened back up, she found College Station CrossFit, and has flourished in the gym’s friendly community. 

Recently, she found @faithrxd. At first she was just excited about the free workout—but the cool thing about Faith RXD events is that it also includes a bible study afterwards. 

Needless to say, her little crossfitting-heart was HOOKED! Maribel shares how Faith RXD and her faith has complimented her health journey, and how the two works so well together. 

She also mentions the Faith RXD camp that is taking place right here at our gym October 15-17. Its going to be SO awesome, and if you are on the fence—you definitely need to listen to this podcast!

Charlie sits down with Kyle Boeck, who was able to partner with Rich Froning at the 2020 BCS Classic through the fundraiser with Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Texas. Charlie and Kyle talk about how fun the experience was, from meeting Rich for the first time to what it was like to work out with the G.O.A.T. himself. Kyle also shares how the Ronald McDonald House has personally impacted the life of him and his wife, Hannah. 

To win your chance to be Rich Froning's partner at the 2021 BCS Classic, visit https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/bcsclassic2021 to sign up for the fundraiser!

You may remember Jon Devlin from the 2019 BCS Classic. He was the first person to have the honor of working out with Rich Froning, raising almost $15,000 in the inaugural BCS Classic fundraiser benefiting the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Texas.

Charlie sat down with Jon this week to reminisce about this awesome experience and to talk to Jon about how he has grown since the 2019 BCS Classic. If you haven’t heard Jon’s incredible story, you definitely need to give this a listen.

Jon is extremely excited to continue to help raise money for the Ronald McDonald House, and he mentions something he is doing to help out this year’s fundraiser winner…but you’ll have to listen to find out!

This month on the July gym update, Kyle shares some big and excited news with us! 

Give it a listen and send him well-wishes!

Meet Farah. She is now 60 years old, but emigrated here back in 1985 after getting married. She has known Charlie for a LONG time—she met him back when he worked out at the Aggieland Fitness Dome!

She originally planned on coming to earn an education and go back, but after 35 years she is still here and considers the US her home now. 

Farah has two adult sons. She is a bio-chemist, researcher, and a pharmacist, which is her favorite because she is able to really help people. In this episode, Farah covers dealing with depression during graduate school, some of it due to the cultural differences between the US and her home country, and how she really had to dig deep and find the root cause of it in order to get better. 

One thing she found that helped her was exercise, and this has stuck with her—and now she does Crossfit! Through all the different programs she has tried, she loves Crossfit the most, mostly due to its unique culture. We can’t argue with her on that one!

Give this one a listen to be inspired on SO many levels. We are so proud of Farah!

This month the coaches sit down to talk about the BCS Classic and what competing or volunteering for this event means to them. If you’re new to our gym or new to Crossfit, don’t miss this podcast where we discuss all things BCS Classic. 

The BCS Classic is a Crossfit competition our gym hosts—and its an AMAZING event to be a part of, whether you are participating as an athlete OR a volunteer. The competition is for all levels of athletes—whether you’ve been doing Crossfit for 6 months or 6 years, there is a division for you.

Oh, and some guy named Rich Froning will also be there competing alongside you. 

The qualifier is going on this week, and if you are at our gym, you’re already doing the workouts, so if you get that competition bug, sign up before July 19th. If competing is not your thing, sign up to volunteer! Its a great way to hang out with your fellow CSCF members and meet some other Crossfitters from across the state!

Meet Stephanie Curtis. She is 34 years old, grew up in the Angleton/Lake Jackson area, and graduated from Texas A&M in 2009. After college, she decided to go into ministry and got into Crossfit while doing ministry in Houston. 

In this episode, she and Charlie discuss how it can be difficult to eat healthy while living on campus. Stephanie is grateful that she had a group of friends who were always active, whether that was going to the Rec center or getting together to play volleyball. 

Stephanie also shares about a bad car accident she experienced in 2015 that lead to a difficult concussion recovery. Despite taking time to recover, she kept experiencing strange symptoms wile working out, and was eventually diagnosed with Dysautonomia.  However, she was determined to keep exercise in her life as she knew she felt better when she did. Now she knows what she needs to do to treat the symptoms so that she can keep Crossfit and exercise in her day-to-day life. 

If you want to hear how Stephanie does NOT let her diagnosis define her, give this episode a listen. This is one you do not want to miss!

This month’s edition of ‘What’s going on around the gym’, Kyle welcomes and gives a shoutout to some of our new members, and Julie discusses what it looks like to be a new member here at College Station Crossfit versus what you might see at a commercial gym. 

Kyle and Julie also discuss the Advanced Theory course we are doing this month—its something that if you want to know more about programming or what its like to be a coach, you will definitely want to sign up for this course!

They also discuss something big  we are doing the week of July 12—but you’ll have to listen to find out what it is! ;)

Listen in to hear what else is going around the gym this month! 

In this month’s pep talk, Charlie talks about how you can’t do this by yourself. 

To find out just exactly what Charlie means by this, give this quick 10 minute episode a listen!