Aaron Kramer

I began playing multiple sports growing up, football, baseball, and basketball. As I got older I found my true sports passion was for football and lifting. My dad was always an avid lifter and got me started at 13 in our basement. Football taught me a ton about teamwork, leadership, and coaching. We were a final four team my senior year at the D1 level in Ohio. As football phased out of my life I became more interested in the weight room. and how the body worked. This also led me into experimenting with a multitude of drugs during my younger years. My body was my science experience. I quickly became a heroin addict but my biggest accomplishment to date is that I am sober from heroin for 7 years as of writing this. My passion reignited in the weight room which eventually led me to CrossFit where one of my best friends was a games athlete so he had a lot of pull, getting me to join our local box. He ended up buying the gym and encouraged me to get my CFL1 and the rest is history.

The biggest turning point and lesson in my life was being a former heroin addict. Going down that path has taught me so much about myself and how resilient I can be. Some people might go back in time and wish they could change going through something like that, but I would never change or take that away from who I was because it has made me the man I am today.

I just want to see people and individuals do the best they can. Not just in fitness but in life too.