Before starting Crossfit, Zack never thought of himself as an “athlete.” He didn’t grow up playing sports and was never focused on health and fitness. Through high school and college, he gradually put on weight and picked up other bad habits, including a pack-a-day smoking addiction. After college, he decided to make a change. “I didn’t want to be a person who came home from work and just plopped down in front of a TV,” he said. He cleaned up his diet and started working out — losing over 50 pounds in the process — but something didn’t feel right. “It was like I was on a hamster wheel, trying to keep going so that I wouldn’t slide backwards and re-gain weight, but also never really moving forward.” Almost four years ago, he jumped off the hamster wheel and into Crossfit. “I loved that it was about doing things, not...
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