website builder Too slick. Never get caught. Just people who think “Gotcha Gotcher” is terribly clever. 😉 Oh, and my call-sign at one point was “Sunshine.” Go figure. Ewan McGregor. Or Tom Holland. They could definitely pull it off. Just barbells? 4 years Active duty Navy for 7 years, Reserves for 3. Superhero secret sidekick, but my only power is bad dad jokes, so they kicked me off the team. … I’m probably Matt’s worst client 😉 Get yourself out there right now. Don’t just do ‘form check visits’ and seminars. ASAP, work with real, messy people with different goals and challenges. Fail a lot. Cooking. Reading. The rest is classified. Press Oceanside, California Liger cat Started doing CrossFit in 2006, started lifting real weight in 2013. Wasn’t paying attention, distracted, I misloaded the bench by a full 25KG plate. I unracked it, it slid sideways, and somehow, I managed to flip it over like a caber into the medball rack. The science experiment of it. Each rep, my diet, my sleep, is all data towards the experiment of Life GainzZz The excitement you can see in someone’s face when they realize they have new options in the world. Being part of the Ironmonger’s Team win for the USPA 2017 Nationals Magically increase one of my lifts by 100% Not have to eat food and have my ideal body composition. 11-20 *Sigh* If I don’t do this, I’ll have to explain to Matt why I missed the workout… 😉 Water. Chalk. Coffee Sunday NYT – Leah Nobel Weak – AJR Counting Bodies Like Sheep – A Perfect Circle Blood Year – Russian Circles I have no shame… and it’s “She Blinded Me with Science” I have a lucky PR shirt of a deadlifting unicorn Crush my enemies. See them driven before me. Laminate their dumbbells. Prepping for a meet with a goal of a 1400+ total @181. Probably hit the goal next year, but we’ll see. Success is rarely about the obvious—the time in the gym. It’s about properly managing the REST of life—diet, family, work, expectations. Hawkeye. Imagine what he could do with some meat on that frame. I pull from too many voices to pick a single one. Worst-Matched Gym Clothes 3 We cook a shrimp scampi the whole house really likes. Any type of pasta works, and we cook the shrimp with garlic, lemon, a bit of oregano, white wine, and olive oil, cover it with bread crumbs and parmesan cheese to give the sauce some body, then take the whole mess to broil for 6 minutes. The bread and cheese end up just the right side of crispy and melty… the whole thing’s just good. Beast Wars Monty Python and the Holy Grail How do you know when a joke is a dad joke? When it becomes apparent. Keep your eye on what matters to you. If it’s your lifts, give it 100%. If your lifts are in support of something else, give your strength training the dedication needed to support that other thing, but it doesn’t have to be your life. Hot Tub Boiz!
Coach Spotlight: CJ Gotcher
What are some of your lifting-related goals for this year?
"Crush my enemies. See them driven before me. Laminate their dumbbells."
Coach CJ Gotcher
What do your parents or spouse call you when you are in trouble?
Do you have any embarrassing nicknames? What are they?
What actor or actress would you like to play you in a movie?
How long have you been coaching?
Have you had other careers, or currently work in another field? What are they?
Who’s your favorite BLOC client? (JK, don’t answer that.)
Who’s your least favorite BLOC client? (JK, again.)
If you could time travel back to when you first started coaching, what advice would you give yourself?
What are some of your favorite things to do when you’re not working or training?
What is your favorite lift?
Where do you live?
What is your favorite animal print?
Gym cat, dog or something else?
How long have you been training?
What is the most embarrassing moment from any dark days of “lifting” that you may have had?
What do you love about training?
What do you love about coaching?
What lifting achievement are you most proud of?
Would you rather magically increase each of your PRs by 20%, or magically increase one of your lifts by 100%?
Would you rather not have to eat food and have your ideal body composition, or get to eat 6,000 calories per day and have your ideal body composition?
How many lifting-related shirts do you own?
What or who gets you to train when your motivation is really low?
Pre-workout of choice
What are some of your go-to lifting songs?
What is the most embarrassing song you like?
What’s one of your personal lifting superstitions?
What are some of your lifting-related goals for this year?
Do you plan on competing in a meet this year? If so, what are your goals?
What have you learned about yourself from barbell training?
Who is someone you’d love to try barbell training and why?
Do you have a role model? Who is it and why?
If BLOC made a yearbook, which do you think you’d most likely win?
How much do you love to eat? 1 – It’s a chore … 5 – What are we eating next???
What’s your favorite meal? Please use as much detail as possible.
What was your favorite childhood TV show?
What is a movie that you have watched over and over and over again?
Tell us your best dad joke.
What advice do you have for a new lifter? Or a lifter who’s been doing this a while?
Anything else you would like to share with your BLOC brethren and sistren?
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