Living Better Podcast – Ep. 39 – Kenny Kicks Butt; Loses Gut
How Kenny lost 35 lb., gained a 450-lb. deadlift and stopped running from the camera. Kenny Kicks Butt; Loses Gut Kenny had been in great shape all of his life. He played football in high school and baseball in college. But once he joined the working world, his fitness took a turn for the worse. […]
Living Better Podcast – Ep. 38 – How Sarah Palmer DeFrank Rewrote Her Story
Sarah Palmer DeFrank has been many things: Single mom. Broke graduate student. Chef. Overweight. Unhealthy. Unhappy. Listen and learn how she used CrossFit to rewrite her story. How Sarah Palmer DeFrank Rewrote Her Story Sarah used to cry at her kitchen table after workouts. She thought she was no good, and couldn’t understand how it […]
Living Better Podcast – Ep. 37 – 500 Days of Food Tracking
In this episode, CrossFit Hale coach Wendy Medina tells us about her experience tracking everything she’s eaten for the past year and a half. 500 Days of Food Tracking When Coach Wendy started tracking her daily food intake, her goals were simple. “I wanted to feel better and perform better in workouts,” she said. While […]
Living Better Podcast – Ep 36 – Un-retirement with Phil A
When Phil came in to Hale, he was thinking about retiring. When I asked him about his goals, he said he wanted to get in the shape he was in his 20’s and 30’s. He wanted to lose a few pounds and feel better overall about his health and his body. What good is retirement […]
Living Better Podcast – Ep 35 – Deadlifts and Hot Cheetos with Coach Wendy
“If you want to eat bags of Hot Cheetos, you need to do some running” – Wendy’s mom Wendy’s athletic career started with a simple rule her mother made to get her out of the house. She started with sports like soccer and running, but eventually she found her way to 24 hour fitness. Not […]
Living Better Podcast – Ep 34 – Losing 50 at 50 – Meet Edison
“It’s the closest thing to feeling like a kid again” – Edison Murillo Talk to Edison and you’ll walk away feeling better about yourself. His enthusiasm and happiness infects everyone around him in a way you can’t measure. He makes you feel good about life. You’d never guess that he has been up since 3:30 […]
Living Better Podcast – Ep 33 – Food, Fitness, and Family – Meet David
David’s whole kitchen was flooded. After a heavy rain in Port Costa, the creek filled up and started flowing right through the kitchen of his Bull Valley Road House. Worse, it happened right in the middle of his Christmas party. So they went from drinks and celebrating to buckets and bailing water. It was a […]
Living Better Podcast – Ep 32 – Starting from Scratch, Meet Candice
Candice had almost no fitness background when she started. Any time she’d been to the gym in the past, it had only been because a friend had invited her. “This seems like fun, I’ll do it too!” But she was never really into it, and when her friend dropped off, she’d drop off as well. […]
Living Better Podcast – Ep 31 – Putting in the work – Meet Angie
We couldn’t put our finger on what we liked about Angie the first time we met. Her passion, knowledge, and experience was clear, but there was something else…something that stood out and made us think “we need her at Hale”. You get clues about it when you hear the story of how she sold everything […]
Living Better Podcast – Ep 30 – Cullen’s winding path to fitness
Cullen went from athlete to police officer to 250 lbs, and back to athlete. Hear his amazing story in this week’s episode of the living better podcast.
