Saturday, May 18th will be special at Stand firm Crossfit. We have a guest coach that morning and we will be making a special presentation to a long time Granby resident. Below you can read a little bit about our guest coach, “Sarge“. Everything starts at 8 am.
Shawn M Wentz is an Exercise and Human Behavioral Scientist. Most know him by his nickname “Sarge”. He was a quiet little child whom started studying the Humanimals in his young teen years. Shawn’s early experience with trauma, gave him some new perspectives. These perspectives allowed Shawn to see and study our behavior, noticing how we interact with each other, our self and how we interpret our own behavior and interactions. Shawn’s interest in us was the begging of a career as he sought to understand our relationship to exercise and movement as it related to being Human. In his later teen years, he continued to find worth in seeking to understand the human body. Shawn used exercise, that he experienced as a wrestler and weightlifter, to drive his early studies and observations. These observations helped him to better understand how movement, stillness, and embodiment directly affect our human condition.
Shawn’s formal training started the day after high school graduation, as he found himself on the yellow footprints of Parris Island, at zero-dark thirty. He graduated USMC bootcamp in the late summer of 1998 and continued to have a “colorful” 4-year active duty tour as a USMC Infantry Mortarman Corporal. “My short tour, was living proof that it is still possible to be a 3x Rifle Expert, Decorated Marine, Infantry Cpl and still be a range safety violator.”~ Sarge. More on that over coffee if you understand the lingo.
Shawn continued his education as an NCAA Student Athlete at Kent State University in Ohio! He was commonly referred to by his teammates as “diesel” or “Division 1 body/Division 3 ability”, joking of course, but yes true. Shawn became a Marine with a degree in Exercise physiology. His formal experience with Coaching also started here, as he was awarded a Coaching position with the wrestling team and in the weight-room during his final years at KSU. This was a platform of success Shawn used to secure a coaching position as a Strength Coach for the 2004 Olympics. Shawn’s Coaching experience at the United State Olympic training center in Colorado Springs gave him the chance to, not only work with and study elite Athletes, but also to continue his studies and observations as an Exercise Human Behavioral Scientist.
In the last 10 years Shawn continued his work as an Exercise Behavioral Scientist. From 2011-2018 Shawn had the pleasure of owning and leading the CrossFit Longmont Community, located in Longmont Colorado. The CFL community still stands and thrives today under new leadership. Shawn still values and holds close many of the individual relationships that had been built while leading his community. In between the many task of running a CrossFit, Shawn used that time to develop a coaching ideology called “Body Map” that will span the entire health and fitness industry. The Body Map style of Coaching provides both the Coach and Athletes alike the opportunity to add to their own knowledge of how to navigate all exercise by taking a cognitive and collaborative approach to Human Movement
In the future Shawn has plans to expand the “Body Map” style of coaching in an endeavor to promote his “Non-Profit” business called Warrior Saber. The main mission of Warrior Saber is to seek out Humans that have demonstrated a positive transition from warrior to Civilian Veteran. Shawn strongly believes that recognizing these Veterans could be a “cure all tonic” that we can use to, not only help the Veterans who are struggling but also to help improve our whole community of Humans, by putting into motion a butterfly effect. In knowing that our actions of awarding deserving Veterans, not only reinforces continued good behavior in that Veteran Human and also promotes good behavior in the other Humans around them. Shawn (Sarge) believes that through collaboration, cognition and recognition we have an extraordinary opportunity to Co-Manifest a better Human Community.
Warm-up: Coaches Choice
Strength: Seated Barbell Z Press
On a 15 min. clock
10-8-6-5-6-8-10
Build weight through the 1st 4 sets then attempt to finish the last 3 sets at that weight.
WOD: WANTED SUNSHINE
15 Min AMRAP
15 KB Swing 55/35
10 KB Goblet Step-up 20/16 (Hold your Kettlebell at your chest.)
25 Double Unders
Compare to 5.9.16
Icing: Tabata Strict HSPU / Air Squats