Age: 22
Height: 5’6″
Weight before MBS CrossFit: 211.5 lbs
Weight May 1st: 191.3 lbs
Total Weight Loss: 20.2 lbs and who knows how much muscle gain
Favorite Part of Crossfit: Lifting, hitting those PR’s shows how far
you come every day.

Leah Before

Leah After

CrossFit helped me start the process of becoming the fittest person I can. My friend Doug had been pushing me for months to come to the gym and experience CrossFit to see the difference between my lame, boring workouts and MBS workouts. After finally convincing me, I came to a weekend WOD to participate in honoring his fallen friend. Not to
mention this was probably the hardest WOD ever (at least to me when I started), I did complete it with my group and couldn’t move for the next three days. After that I realized that crossfit was what I needed to become fit. CrossFit is a new challenge for me at every WOD. Whether is is to get a PR, work on my endurance, get a faster time on a previous WOD, or even work on my technique. It’s not only a challenge physically every day but mentally too. Everyone can grow physically but when you add the mental growth, that is when you see the difference.

The transformation for me began right from the beginning with on-ramp. After every on-ramp class I felt worked and some days it was difficult to move. I couldn’t get enough of CrossFit at this point. I had started CrossFit after being accepted into Louisville’s Fire Academy. I had passed the physical agility test, but had the slowest time out of all
the guys. I knew that I needed to be getting full body workouts with high intensity to prepare myself for the physically demanding academy. I started a month before the academy started; which wasn’t enough time to see transformations before classes begun. But as the academy went on and continued religious workouts everyday, I started to notice the changes. My clothes were fitting differently all over and I was able to lift more weight and push longer than I could before. I have since graduated from the fire academy and couldn’t have done it without the MBS gym and community.

I have lost 20 lbs of fat and who know how much muscle gain. Even though I do not know how much muscle I have gained, I can see the muscle definition coming in and the
increase in how much I can lift. From barely having the muscle strength to do very many push-ups on my knees, I am now able to do true push-ups. I have gradually moved down in resistance bands for pull-ups and I am finally days away from getting my first kipping
pull-up. If you hear someone screaming and yelling in joy it may be that I have gotten my first pull-up. I am moving on the the big kids club of pull-ups. I have also got faster in my running and have begun to not hate running.

The future can only hold more improvements in my strength and weight loss. There are so many goals that I look forward to and they are always changing after completing one. Crossfit leaves a never ending future of what can be accomplished.