Matt Wilmoth

I found CrossFit in late 2007. Having grown up playing everything there was to play from football to basketball to soccer I immediately loved the idea of being good at a lot of things. The potential to help people become healthier versions of themselves was obvious.

As a freshman at the University of Florida I took a sociology class. The professor described the difference between sociology and psychology as two ends of the same profession. Psychology was attempted to save people who had fallen into the river while sociologist were downstream trying  to keep them out of the river in the first place.
When it comes to health and fitness Crossfit was and still is the best way to keep people from falling in that river and getting sick.
It seemed only natural then to open a CrossFit Affiliate back in 2008. Since then we have been able not only to help those members, a lot of them are still with us, but after all this time we are teaching there kids who are now starting to grow up the lesson on how to be fit and healthy humans.

I walked into a Publix on  34th street in Gainesville Florida and stepped on the scale. Something I still do every time I walk into this day. I was maybe two years post-college and into real life and I stopped exercising and was making excuses to eat whatever I wanted. So naturally when I stepped on the scale the number wasn't small.

From right behind me a voice with a thick southern drawl said "Wow that's a lot of terds"  It was the kid who was coming back from collecting the carts. It was funny but a huge wake-up call. It set me on the journey I am on today. I had to stop the excuses and put down the pizza and beer and take a hard look at my life.

It was an overnight success.  Oddly diets and random gym work didn't fix the problem long-term. I would make progress and then lose it only to start over.
It took years to really understand how to get and stay healthy and fit experimenting with everything under the sun and putting my biochemistry education to use before I found the system that works but eventually it did and I owe it all to that cart guy at the Publix.