Kimberly Worthy
How long have you been doing CrossFit at GymCore?
2 years
How many days a week did you do CrossFit before the challenge/during the challenge?
5 before/7-8 during
What were your goals going into MM?
Improve my WOD times
What was the hardest part of the challenge for you?
Coming on the weekends. Oh, and the workouts.
What was your favorite part of the challenge?
When it was over and WINNING (in my Charlie Sheen voice).
What benchmark did you make the biggest improvement in?
DT workout-the push jerk was easier the second time around.
What’s your favorite thing about CrossFit?
Variety and the people.
Favorite exercise?
Burpees…ha!! Situps.
Biggest/most helpful motivator?
When I can’t motivate myself (which is often) my fellow CrossFitters with special mention of Rita and Amy G.
What’s the biggest challenge/hardest part of CrossFit for you?
Upper body body-weight exercises
Any personal goals for the coming months you’d like to share?
When they were rebuilding the six million dollar man (yes I’m dating myself), they said they would make him better…stronger…faster. My goal is to rebuild myself (w/o bionic parts of course). One meal at a time. One WOD at a time. One day at a time.
Did you workout much before CrossFit?
Does getting up from and sitting back down on a couch count? Probably not… Then no. However many years ago (ok decades really), I played basketball and worked out at a gym after college.
Have you known any improvements or changes in the rest of your physical activities since starting CF?
Crossfitting is all I do outside of day to day activities. I suppose if I played basketball now, I would probably be able to dunk! LOL
Tell us a little about yourself… What do you do when you’re not at crossfit?
When I’m not working out, I’m caring for 3 wonderfully high maintenance girls. I also have a husband who is equally as wonderful and very supportive. He is secure with the fact that I am stronger than he is:^). When I ask him to carry the laundry basket up from the basement, it’s not because I can’t but because he’s still my hero!
Lance Durgan
How long have you been doing CrossFit at GymCore?
Since Thanksgiving 2011, so almost 6 months now.
How many days a week did you do CrossFit before the challenge/during March Madness?
5-6 days, mostly 5 days.
What were your goals going into MM?
To get stronger, I was just coming back from a broken rib, so I wanted to try to get my strength back as quick as possible.
What was the hardest part of the challenge for you?
Probably “DT”, but the row WOD was surprisingly difficult too.
What was your favorite part of the challenge?
Just being able to really push myself as hard as I could.
What benchmark did you make the biggest improvement in?
My biggest improvement was in the Deadlift 1RM I went up 60 lbs, and the 10 Hang Power Cleans, 50 Squats, 20 Pushups WOD, I bettered my time by 4m 35s.
What’s your favorite thing about CrossFit?
I love the style of working out the best. For all my life I have done sports, since sports have ended for me I felt a void. With CrossFit, it’s really apt they call it the “Sport of Fitness”, because it really is. The challenges, the competition (if you want it) and the camaraderie are so similar to being on a sports team it really fits in with what I was missing.
Favorite exercise? Squats
Biggest/most helpful motivator?
My wife, and my kids. And when I’m at the gym, Dave K. for giving me something to shoot for.
What’s the biggest challenge/hardest part of CrossFit for you?
Any body weight lifts such as dips, pullups, and running.
Any personal goals for the coming months you’d like to share?
I want to work on my body weight lifting like the dips, and I also want to get better at the running WOD’s. I would also like to lose 20 more lbs.
Did you workout much before CrossFit?
I used to. In college I lifted everyday, but in the year or two before I started CrossFit, I was not working out much at all.
Have you known any improvements or changes in the rest of your physical activities since starting CF?
Yes, I feel so much better physically since starting Crossfit.
Tell us a little about yourself… What do you do when you’re not at CrossFit?
I have my wife Nicole who is also at GymCore, my 2 kids Tyler (4) and Alexis (2). I work for an energy company called Sprague Energy managing an oil terminal for them in Everett. I am a former Merchant Marine Officer, and used to drive large ships all over the world. I attended Maine Maritime Academy where I played football all 4 years. I enjoy anything physical, so all sports, and love to stay active.
THANKS KIMBERLY AND LANCE!!!