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Name: David Dellanave Nickname: ddn & Dellanavich Age: 35 Location: Minneapolis Movement Minneapolis team member since: Jan 2013 Role at the Movement: Owner What’s your athletic/fitness background? I played soccer for pretty much my whole youth, but since the soccer team never used the weight room my lifting experience consisted of my doctor recommending I get a weight bench and me laying

If this New Year your resolution is to finally lose that 10 pounds or to get that bikini body ready for summer, you might want to stop reading right now. There’s nothing wrong with those goals — but over the years we’ve learned that they tend to be false prophets, leaving people wondering what’s next

Name: Crystal Marie Moten   Nickname: C-mo (or, if you’re my high school BFFs: Remote C-mote)   Age: 35   Location: Minneapolis, MN   Member since: August 2016   What’s your athletic/fitness background? Only five years ago I discovered I my inner athlete. I love weightlifting/powerlifting but had not gotten into it seriously until I

Lee Carter Nickname: Lee Age: 30 Location: South Minneapolis Movement Minneapolis member since: 2015 What’s your athletic/fitness background?  Benchwarmer, Middle School football. Around that time I also did some push-ups to prep for a date at the pool, but I didn’t look ripped when the date rolled around 3 days later. Fast forward to 2012, I started

Name: Myriah Myers Nickname: Mimi Preferred pronoun: I am okay with they/them and she/her. I identify as non-binary. Age: 26 Location: I live in the Whittier/Wedge neighborhood, a block away from the Movement! Movement Minneapolis member since: September 2016 What’s your athletic/fitness background?  One could say my athletic background is the absence of one, really. I had

Adam Greenwald Location: Loring Heights in Minneapolis Movement Minneapolis member since: May 2016 What’s your athletic/fitness background? I played soccer and tennis all through school with occasional bouts of lifting at the YMCA. What brought you to the Movement? Do you remember your first workout and what you thought of it? I was at Vinna Fitness downtown

Name: Rebecca Age: 31 Location: Northeast Movement Minneapolis member since: June 2015 What’s your athletic/fitness background? Does playing the piano count? What brought you to the Movement? Do you remember your first workout and what you thought of it? Fate? I used to live in an apartment on the street behind Rudolph’s. The Movement was the closest gym to

Name: River Cook Age: 40 Location: Minneapolis Movement Minneapolis member since: April 2013 What’s your athletic/fitness background? I was sporty as a kid, then dabbled in weighlifting and kettlebells through college and beyond, with lots and lots of bike riding. Then I found CrossFit, which was great to learn skills and challenge myself physically and