I see one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking sights every morning at 5:30am. As Maja and I drive in to start the day and coach the morning Workshop crew, we pass through Sandymount and by a retirement home. Most mornings, sitting outside in his electric buggy, is an old man. Alone. Deep in thought. His stare is almost as deep and burning as the sunrise he’s looking out towards. Every time I see him, I get hit with different waves of emotion. Part of me thinks how beautif
One of the pillars The Workshop is built around is community. It’s a word that gets thrown around far too often without much respect for what it actually means. When Dad and I started The Workshop, we were adamant that we would never let business get in the way of our customer service. No matter how busy we got or how much we grew, our community would always come first. It’s the foundation we’re built on, and we’d do everything we could to protect it. Over the last few years,
This year, I did something I’ve been dreaming about since I first started CrossFit back in 2013: I qualified for the CrossFit Semifinals. If you had told 2013-me that this would happen, I would have laughed you out of the gym. Back then, my medical chart read less like an athlete’s bio and more like a car crash report. I’ve had four knee surgeries (including three ACL reconstructions), a broken jaw, torn ankle ligaments, and fractured wrists. The medical experts gave me the s
