Welcome to the Apogee Fitness Podcast.  Today we had the absolute pleasure of sitting down with an OG in the CrossFit world, Paul Burkert of the greater Grand Rapids/Holland, MI area.  Paul is the owner of CrossFit affiliate, CrossFit Lake Effect.  In this episode we learned more about Paul's background, how he found CrossFit, and how his vision for CrossFit turned into a flourishing Affiliate before owning an Affiliate was a cool thing to do.  He has traveled around the world and has dropped into over 170 different affiliates, bringing in some awesome knowledge on how to appropriately run a successful CrossFit business.  There have been several various games athletes that started their CrossFit aspirations at CrossFit Lake Effect such as: Anthony Davis, Danielle Dunlap; and of course yours truly, your hosts David and Zach!  We love Paul and we know after you listen to this episode ya'll will too!  You can Follow Paul on IG at, @burk556 and @cflakeeffect