Name: Sarahy Esquivel AKA: Sunny Age: 20 Occupation: Barista When did you first start CrossFitting? I started Crossfit on April of 2015. Tell us about your sports & fitness background. I did Track, Cross Country, volleyball, and club soccer from middle school through high school. I have always been a very energized, active, outdoors person, so anything that gets me moving interest me. Currently I have fallen in love competing in Crossfit competitions. How did you first get into CrossFit? How did it go? I got into Crossfit because I gained the Freshman 15, and I was disappointed I had let myself go so much after high school.. My old friend Jr introduced me to it. I began to do it because I wanted to lose weight, but now my goals and mentality have changed, and I just want to persevere to be the best physical version of myself. What...Read more

Name:    John Sullivan Age:   60 Occupation:  Facility Manager When did you first start CrossFitting?   June 2014 Tell us about your sports & fitness background. Moderate workouts, some hiking, running, biking but not really structured which left my workouts or activates good but not gaining anything for event to event. How did you first get into CrossFit? How did it go? My wife, (Terri) attended a class at Eclipse Crossfit and came home so excited she said to me “that I needed to try Crossfit”, so I went to a class. I was hooked the first night in the mod. class. For the first time I was being pushed beyond my comfort zone even in the mod. Class. Each class got better and better. What sort of changes have you seen in your body, health, and fitness since starting CrossFit? I am much stronger, faster physically and better than ever mentally...Read more

Name: Tim Barlow Age: 57 Occupation: Paint Contractor When did you first start CrossFitting? January 2011 Tell us about your sports & fitness background: Didn’t play sports in High School and didn’t go to college. How did you first get into CrossFit? How did it go? I actually got started when my youngest son was in the military. My oldest grandson played soccer at that time and would need someone to practice with. Being at least 50 pounds overweight I could barely run across the yard which was not much help. Not knowing anything about fitness I researched on how guys my age got into shape. Crossfit came up and Eclipse was close to my house so I decided to check it out. When I went in there was guy in Army uniform so coincidence or not I decided to give it a shot. That first night I wasn’t sure...Read more

Name – Rachael Arrington Age – 27 Occupation – Physical Therapist Assistant Sports and Fitness Background – I did gymnastics from 4 years old to 7 years old. I played basketball and softball competitively through 6th grade. First get into crossfit? How did it go? – I was working at Fleet Feet, and one our delivery guys was a coach at a local gym. For 6 months he tried to get me to go, and I finally gave in to get him to quit asking. Also, lots of my customers were mentioning crossfit, and they would say that in crossfit, running is where you get to catch your breath. I thought what could possibly be harder than running? Lots of things. Lots of things are harder than running. From there I was hooked, although as I was finishing college, I was inconsistent with attending regularly. Changes in my body, health, fitness...Read more

Name: Blake Hollingsworth Age: 30 Occupation: Tulsa Firefighter/EMT When did you first start crossfitting?: I guess I started some form of crossfit around a year ago at my fire station. We started doing crossfit based workouts. We would set up some circuit workouts with some Olympic lifting incorporated in it. I really enjoyed them some I started dropping into boxes around Tulsa, Jenks and Claremore to see what real crossfit was all about! I’ve been a member at Crossfit Eclipse for about 5 months now. Tell us about your sports and fitness background: I was always involved in sports growing up. I really focused on fitness after my playing days were over to channel my competitiveness and to stay in shape for my job. It was mainly just weightlifting 5 day a week with cardio mixed in. How did you first get into crossfit? How did it go? A fellow...Read more