Another testimonial

[Chewie_jrc]

I know these pop up all the time, but I just wanted to say thanks and testify to the program's efficacy.

I started squatting 110LBS with a body weight of 160 at 6'3". Holy sh*t....

Now:
BS: 295
DL: 315
BP: 215
Press: 130 (I know, I know, working on it)
Body weight: 205 (lookin' healthy finally)

This was about 3-4 months of following the program and ramping up the milk intake from about a glass a day to full on GOMAD (I was lactose intolerant). Ate a lot of eggs, bacon, fruit, steak, almonds, then anything I could touch.

I attended his barbell cert at Crossfit BrandX in Jan. Extremely helpful. Rip, Jeff Martin, and the rest of his team were extremely professional, fun, and of course effective. Periodic coaching now keeps my form in check.

Also, if you push a bit too much and get hurt....follow his recovery program. I don't know if you remember Rip but I asked you about my knee at the cert, was worried about my MRI results blah blah blah. Well, it's at about 98% now and feeling better everyday. I need to be a little careful with cleans (inflame the sh*t out of my knee if I get crazy) but other than that, I'm still trucking. Leaving for some military training in a few so I've switched to vanilla Xfit but I plan on some SS then maybe Xfit strength bias once I'm back. Thanks for everything.

P.S. Buy your goddamn weightlifting shoes

[Mark Rippetoe]

Glad we could help. And I hope the cert wasn't as boring as the CF Journal videos make it appear to have been.

[Chewie_jrc]

Hahah not at all sir. The Cert was a lot of fun as well as cementing the knowledge from your literature and teaching me new and interesting things (worth every damn penny).

To y'all who watched the journal vids: The CFJ vids only captured the "pure lecture" part. The practical exercises and open-ended conversations we had at the end of the instruction/training were much more interactive.