Athlete of the Month: David Wicki

We are excited to feature Dave Wicki as May 2014 Athlete of the Month. Dave has embraced the philosophy of CrossFit as a whole. Not just through his performance in the workouts, but also through his lifestyle (which is the hardest part) by changing his diet.

I started CrossFit in November 2013 and I started because of my wife. She had been doing CrossFit for several months and had made great improvements and looked forward to working out each and every day. I was looking for something that would challenge me, keep things fresh, and help me stick to a schedule. She suggested that I give it a try and I joined her for a friends on Friday class and I was hooked.

I have improved in several areas. My strength and endurance has greatly increased. I am able to do things that I have never been able to do such as various Olympic lifts. To put it simply I feel better than I have in years.

While I was always athletic all of my life, weight training always consisted of using the weight machines at the gym. Since joining CrossFit Salus I have learned various Olympic lifts and how to work your full body. I can also do a handstand push-up and my greatest accomplishment so far is learning how to do a muscle up.

Visually, I have more definition in my muscles.

I tell them that it is a full body workout. That it is a combination of weight lifting, cardiovascular, and body resistance training. I tell them that it is a lot of fun and the workout is different everyday.

There are several things that keep me motivated, the fact that the work outs are different every day, that I am challenged every time I work out, the environment that has been created by the coaches. It is like one big family and everyone is always there to encourage each other.

I would say that my most memorable WOD I ever did was a METCON we did where we had to do 50 power cleans, 50 HR push ups, 50 T2B and 50 back squats with an EMOM (Every Minute On the Minute) of 5 burpees. This WOD took me just shy of an hour. I remember this WOD the most because it would have been a workout that I would not have finished before starting CrossFit.

Not to be intimidated to start at their own pace. That all of the work outs can be scaled to fit them at where they are at. I would also tell them that the people at this box are some of the nicest people and that they will root you on and encourage you until you finish and no one cares how long it takes you to finish a workout.

My biggest challenge that I am currently working on is my double unders. This has been something that has been hard for me and I continue to work at it and I am getting better at it. I have worked my way up to 8 in a row but not on a consistent basis. The other thing that I am working on is my strength training. Lastly, one of my goals is to compete in a CrossFit competition.

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