Pam Sullivan

I joined CrossFit in the hopes of finally losing the weight that i had slowly gained over the years. I had tried every single fad diet and exercise program there was, only to find myself back to square one within a few months of losing weig…ht. To date i have lost 65 pounds….but what I have gained means so much more to me. Never in my wildest dreams believe that at 41 yrs old I could feel better than I have in my life! For the first time I didn’t just lose weight I completely changed the way my body looks and more importantly performs! Thank you Tommy, you and CrossFit changed my life!

Mo “Rip” Tini-Hamm

Turned 40 and decided to join yet another gym and try to tone up a bit. I always thought i was good because i didn’t have a weight problem, i was Wrong. I friended my old friend Tommy Casey on FB and he told me about his new gym and gettin…g strong and healthy and it was a great age to start. Freaked me out for the first month thinking i would never be able to do these kinds of workouts…but 9 months later, still here and feel great! Still freaked out by some of the WODs but I think thats a good thing, still gives me something to strive for and makes me want to go, even though i complain “sometimes” I know no one notices….. ty Tommy

Maria “Fire” Rossi

I started CrossFit because Ryann and my brother were doing it and figured if they could so could I. So after my ego and knees healed after the walking lunge/burpee WOD, I went back to “SuperFIt 360″ and haven’t looked back since. Not only …have I lost weight, I am in the best shape of my life and stronger, the aches and pains have gone away–except from the WODs and have gained muscle!! Best decision I ever made. Thanks Tommy! and Kaleena–she was my 1st trainer and kicked my ass. Loved every minute of it and still do.

Gina “Quiet Storm” Boccadori Kuloszewski

I saw my old friend Mindy talking about Crossfit and then I think it was fate that I won a month membership, which brought me in to check it out. I grew up not having an athletic bone in my body and although I have been working out since I went to college, I never pushed myself as hard as I have since starting Crossfit! I will continue to crossfit until they put me in the coffin.

Kaitlin “Supa” Marino

I joined Crossfit becasue my friend Keith was obsessed with it and thought it might be something to help me lose weight. Now, weight isn’t what i look at anymore. Yes, I’ve lost over 15lbs, but what i’ve gained is so much more important – strength, agility and mobility. I’m completely addicted! I’ve never felt so good about myself before! Thank you Tommy, and thank you everyone, we all push each other to better ourselves in a way more people should!

Stephen “Pirate” Sorensen

When I first started CrossFitting, (July 2010) I lost about 30 pounds in two months. I was also smoking a pack a day and quickly cut that vice out. Just doing that made the membership affordable. Plus, I felt that breathing during WOD’s was… pretty important.
People usually gain weight when they stop smoking, so I was worried I would be a victim of that as well. not so. Although it seemed like I was constantly hungry, with some adjustments to the quality of food I was eating, I continued to loose fat and put on muscle.
One of the greatest things about the CrossFit community is the unlimited informational resources available to everyone. I don’t have to take anyones “word for it”. If I have questions, I can go out and find the answers for myself. I like that.
CrossFit isn’t just a workout. It is a way of life and for me it starts with what I eat. Everything else suffers when I fail to give my body the proper fuel to effectively workout and reverse the years of damage I’ve done through neglect and apathy. I’ve never felt so strong. Even in my youth I NEVER had strength, stamina, cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, accuracy, agility, balance, power, speed, or coordination like I do now. CrossFit changed my life, as well as what I expect to get out of life. Why settle? Sure, it would be so much easier to just “tomorrow” myself into next year and into the next size up in pants but what good would that do me or my family? Like Gina, I expect to have “RX” chisled into my tombstone. CrossFit works.

Pete “Champ” Mielo

By 2008, I was up to around 200 lbs. I had lower back pain radiating all the way down my right leg so bad I couldn’t stand for more than 5 minutes at a time. I actually had to put a chair in front of the stove to sit down when I would cook …dinner. Physical therapy, my chiropractor and strengthening my back (and everything else!) through CrossFit saved me. During that time I would drink every night because I couldn’t go to the gym or do anything without pain. CrossFit main site gave me the raw material, CrossFit Scranton is perpetually sharpening my skills. Now every night when my son asks me to carry him on my shoulders up to bed, I don’t have to tell him I can’t because I’m in too much pain and see that sad look on his face. Instead of being content with trying to look ok for my age and spending most of my night on the couch, I’m 36 and I’m confident my fitness potential will only be limited to the day God decides I’m done here. CrossFit will never end for me, there will always be another goal to achieve. Tommy also give me the privilege to be a trainer at CrossFit Scranton which is a dream come true. I can’t thank Tommy and the CrossFit Scranton community enough. I’m anxious for others to join our family and benefit from CrossFit as well.

Natasha “China” Butler

Crossfit has not only transformed my body but also my entire life! I have yo-yo dieted and exercised since about age 15, abusing supplements, laxatives and even ipecac…yuck! I ranged in weight on my 5’10″ frame between 130-265 pounds cons…tantly up and down throughout the course of the year, not healthy! Even as an active duty U.S. Marine, my weight issues wre completely out of control. My eating was all of disordered, a binge, purge, restricton and indulging roller coaster consumed my body and my health. This was simply a manifestation of underlying emotional problems hiding deep within. ~CUE CROSSFIT~ Its been 13months since I began my relationship with Crossfit and this one will last forever. I have never bees so healthy in my whole life! Initially I lost some weight, maybe 20 pounds or so, I dont know for sure, I lied about my weight so often I dont recall whats accurate. But now I weigh more that when I started crossfit but my body is an entirely different makeup. I used to weigh myself countless times a day, now I look in the mirror to gauge my progress… I’ve decided that I could care less if that damn scale says 300 pounds, as long as I like what I see when I’m naked in the mirror! I could go on forever about the emotional effects of Crossfit…I love myself! I never thought I could say that but I am so proud of myself and I acually like myself and cant wait to see how far I can go with Crossfit, the sky is truly the limit! Health wise I am the healthiest Ive ever been, I was plauged with backpain for about 18 years, having scoliosis, my back has not felt this good since adolescence.

Rich “Turtle” Beshada

I usually don’t do this sort of thing but please allow me to break character for a minute.
When I started CrossFit(superfit360) roughly a year and a half ago I wasn’t exactly headed down the right path to put it lightly. Without getting into… too much detail I was smoking a pack or more of cigarettes a day, eating and drinking like I was a bottomless pit. Nothing I did for fun involved being ‘sober’. I’m not sure I knew what sober fun was to tell you the truth. I was extremely unhealthy and my body felt more like 82 than 28. I was miserable, I hated myself and was in denial of the fact I was headed towards, lets face it, an early death. Then one day through chance I came in contact with an old friend Tom Casey through fb and he told me to stop down the gym. I did and decided to give it a try. I’m not going to lie, that first workout he put me through was brutal(fight gone bad). It was a huge ego check for me. I could easily have left the gym that day and never looked back and honestly I fully intended on doing just that but something inside of me told me to stick it out for a little while longer. I know a lot of you are newer and weren’t around for my early CrossFit workouts(thank god) but lets just say I wasn’t exactly killing WOD’s back then but I kept training and fighting through them none the less. As Tommy’s clientele grew I started getting exposed to a great group of positive, highly motivated, good people that inspired me and ultimately helped me change my life for the better. Since then I haven’t looked back. Every week day at 5:00 pm my CrossFit familia continues to help me accomplish things I never thought were possible, stuff that I shouldn’t be able to do. I can sit here all day and write about the things that “I” have accomplished and write about how “I” changed my life by going to CrossFit Scranton but the truth is I would have never accomplished any of it without you guys behind me, believing in me and constantly motivating me. I know I may not show it sometimes but I am extremely grateful to have found such a great group of people to train with and when I call all of you my familia I’m not just saying it, you are all like a part of my extended family and there in lies what makes CrossFit so special to me.
So tomorrow when I come in mean mugging all of you and crush everybody just know I’m doing it out of love. …