Hello, my name is Rafael or (online) WraithOwl. When I was a kid I was bullied for being overweight, a lover of books, and an all-around nerd/geek; which I still am to this day. This bullying stopped after the summer preceding 8th grade, when I finally took swimming (I had been in the sport since I was 5 years old) seriously and started eating like an athlete. Over that summer I lost fat, put on muscle, grew 3 inches to hit my current height f 5' 10" (thanks to general old puberty) and, frankly, became a bit too imposing a physical specimen for bully to bother with anymore. A year later I started including martial arts as part of my cross-training for swimming and later on joined the military. To make a long story short, I was in excellent physical condition until about 10 years ago. When I left the Navy's Officer Candidate School in 2001 I weighed 199 lbs and had a 8% body fat percentage. Afterwards I started slacking off and when I left the Navy Reserves in 2008 I was up to 230 lbs and had somewhere around 13% to 15% body fat. Fast forward to today after 8 years working in Higher Education and spending most of my days in a chair and I maxed out at 335 lbs with a whopping 30% body fat. Enough is enough. About a month ago I cut all candies, pastries, etc. out of my diet and have already gone down to 320 lbs. Two weeks ago I started Crossfit and did my first modified WoD yesterday. The goal is to get down to 205 lbs. and/or more importantly somewhere around 12% body fat.
Hello everyone. I just signed up for the Academy and I just started Crossfit a month ago here in Fort Myers, FL. All my recent reading has lead me to believe that Crossfit is a great way to start back on the road to getting into excellent overall physical condition but that it can sometimes be unbalanced as well as using what could be some dangerous workouts and/or combinations of workouts. I would like to see if anyone live in or near Fort Myers that would like to start a small Nerd Fitness group to help keep each other accountable and talk about fitness, etc. in an effort to keep each other balanced and on track.