winnipeg's biggest loser

What if I told you that could wake up in the morning full of energy, hop out of bed and marvel at the beauty of life?  What if I told you you could go to sleep at night giddy with excitement about tomorrow’s 6AM workout?  What if I told you that you could walk with confidence and poise and smile and say “thank you for the compliment’ every time someone tells you how great you look? What if I told you that you have the ability to empower yourself to do things you never thought possible?

I’m quite sure that after over 30 years of searching I have discovered the key to happiness.  It has very little to do with how much money you have, what kind of job you have or whether or not you go to church.  The truth is, once your body works the way it was meant to work, everything else seems to fall into place.  Healthy people are happy people.  In fact, the description above is composed entirely of words I’ve heard coming directly from the mouths of our own members here at CrossFit Winnipeg; and over the next 3 months, we’re going to help Shirley, Marie, Jerri-Lynn and Trish find health and happiness.  Team Intern will win big!

I have a confession to make: I’m doing all of this just for me.   I’m a really selfish person.  I want to be happy and almost everything I do is working toward that goal.  As  it turns out, making other people happy makes me happy, so opening CrossFit Winnipeg and getting involved with the Winnipeg’s Biggest Loser is totally egotistical.  I’m sorry.

Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s talk about Team Intern a.k.a. Team Energize Me.  I love that they chose that name because that’s exactly what we’re going to do…

You’ve read their stories and you’ll get to hear more about the cool stuff they get to do over the next few months.  We’ve got Trish, who makes me laugh every single time I talk to her or get an email from her.  But even better, she works her ass off.  She’s only done one workout in my presence so far, but I can tell she’s a beast (and I mean that in the best possible way).  Then we’ve got Jerri-Lynn, the sweetest, most dedicated mom I’ve ever met (except for maybe my sister in law Michelle, but I guess I’m biased).  Her kind demeanor will make it very difficult for me to yell at her during workouts, but I think I’ll manage.  Next up, we’ve got Marie.  I just want to hug her every time I see her.  So willing to listen to my rants and hopefully learn and thing or two, and dedicated to boot.   And I hear she’s got a decent squat and a beautiful singing voice.  Will confirm in future posts.  Last but not least is Team Leader Shirley, and she is a born leader.  A dedicated student, she has more positive energy than I know what to do with, no scratch that – I will definitely figure something out!  With her busy schedule, she still manages to take time to stalk Lloyd the Intern!

So now we know why; what about the “HOW?”.  I’ll save that for the next post, but I will give you a hint,  it involves:

- Eating real food

- Getting enough sleep

- Managing stress

- Getting your ass off the couch

More about that in our next post…

–Coach Turbo