Jacklyn Parks

Jacklyn Parks 2009

Jacklyn Parks 2009

Jacklyn Parks 2011 USPA Meet. Deadlifting 308 lbs.

Jacklyn Parks 2011 USPA Meet. Deadlifting 308 lbs.

My relationship with Crossfit NorthFulton started the end of 2009. My best friend was getting married and I didn’t want to be the fat one standing up with her. I went to the crossfit.com site and found an affiliate gym close to my job. I then googled Kim Trego (her email began with kic and I thought that was cool for some odd reason) and saw that she had been involved in different types of fitness. From my google search on Crossfit I had some reservations but my best friend looked great and could do a one armed pushup – I didn’t’ need to know too much more. I called and set up the intro classes (Elements) with Kim Trego. I then started a semi regular workout routine. It hurt a lot and I loved it and I was scared and happy all at the same time. I loved all work outs involving powerlifting and HATED everything else, like burpees, wallballs, running and box jumps.I ended up quitting for 6 which was a big mistake.

Well the feeling I had gotten from my first taste of crossfit did not go away. Kim reached out to see where I was andI blew her off. I then told her I was coming back in. I felt terrible for blowing her off and apologized, got my mind right and started once again. All the time Kim never showed any annoyance and just picked up where we left off. Did I mention I’m slow to warm up to people and didn’t want to ever go to a group class?Well, I did. It was scary. I was last and still am most days but it’s a great feeling to come in last to people who have become friends, to be ahead of your original coach during a wod (yes, you lose in the end but it was fun while it lasted). I had terrible stress and anxiety but showing up to work out each day helped greatly. I hurt my back deadlifting (because I didn’t warm up correctly , even though I was told to and asked if I did (just didn’t answer). I got my PR but I was out for 6 weeks.

2011 was my best crossfit year to date. I got back to 5 days on, cleaned up my diet some and just let go of the body I thought I should have (the 17 year old body). Every single coach and the member have helped me get to this point. The point where I’m better than I was when I started and my attitude and willingness to get out of my own way and succeed has returned. I found my rabbit in Hagler and she pushes me everyday to go harder. In late 2011 due to the inspiration from Pebbles who did a powerlifing competition in 2010, I decided to sign up for a competition. Brad and Pebbles and everyone supported me. It was so boring training and I wanted to do crossfit again but realized that it’s ok to change your goal. Ben a fellow member always encouraged me to just keep going. He coached me on a big PR and would not let me talk myself out of it. The days leading up to my competition the blog was about the competition. The day of the competition Pebbles and Brad showed up and I was sooo happy. They facebooked it. Murph sent me good luck socks and when I came in Monday the box clapped for me. I won my competiton and Deadlifted a new PR of 308 ilbs!

CFNF and Brad and Kim Trego have been awesome. Combined with the other cool personalities of the coaches at CFNF I continue to get out of my comfort zone and do better, not settle. CFNF rocks!!! I’m glad to be a member of this family. New, old, current or slacker, I’ve been it all and they still welcome and support me. If I could list all the people who have helped and inspired me it would be the entire gym lead by the great coaches, Kim, Brad, Pebbles, Meatball and my friends Hagler, Murph, Ben and G-Dog and many others. At some point they’ve all helped me in some way. I continue to train CrossFit each day I can work out and am currently in a competiton with in our gym with my mentor ben and we are doing well and having a BLAST.

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