Darin Keener

I have been through several fitness cycles in my (quite long) life. I grew up relatively fit but college was a terrible influence on my health, and by the time I graduated from college I weighed 320 pounds and felt terrible about myself. In graduate school, I finally started taking care of my self and through diet and exercise lowered my weight to 185 pounds and was

regularly running 10k races and completely hardcore boot camp regimens.

Almost fifteen years ago, I tried my first CrossFit class. It was one of the harder things I’d ever done, but I was hooked. For almost fifteen years, I have been regularly doing CrossFit. Six years ago, I discovered my love for Olympic weightlifting and through my training and the help of a lot of great coaches, I was able to qualify for Masters National, Pan-American, and World competition.

Coaching has become a new and exciting focus to help others accomplish goals that they never thought they could reach, and I now enjoy that success more than my own. Whether it’s your own competition or life goals, I love helping others achieve that success.

At the same time, we’re all running the same race in the end. We all want to feel good about ourselves. We want to stay healthy for as long as possible according to what is in our control. And we want to be independent and able to experience this life and all of its joys for as long as we can. I am humbled and honored to be a small part of that.