Lillian "CrazyWife" PerkinsCrossFit Level I certified - May 08
CrossFit Kids certified - Aug 08
CrossFit Nutrition certified - Oct 08
CrossFit Running & Endurance certified - Nov 08
CrossFit Basic Barbell certified - Dec 08
CrossFit Gymnastics certified - Jan 09
Michael "CrazyHusband" PerkinsCrossFit Level I certified - May 08
CrossFit Kids certified - Aug 08
CrossFit Nutrition certified - Oct 08
CrossFit Running & Endurance certified - Nov 08
CrossFit Basic Barbell certified - Dec 08
CrossFit Gymnastics certified - Jan 09
Lillian is a Captain (Promotable) in the US Army Nurse Corps currently working in the 121 General Hospital in Yongson, Korea as a Nurse Anesthetist.
She has been active in sports and athletics since her basketball days at "HillHi" in Hillsboro, Oregon.
She has been hooked on CrossFit since her month-long trip to Tampa, Florida and
CrossFit Sparta in April of 2008. "Thanks Master Diaz..."
Michael is a Major in the US Army currently working in the Medical Operations shop at the 65th Medical Brigade in Yongson, Korea. He has spent the better part of 18 years keeping himself and his soldiers "Combat Ready" and physically fit.
Mike is a native of Idaho with a degree in Zoology from the University of Idaho. He grew up in the shadow of the great junior college Men's basketball program at the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls, Idaho where he became a full-time gym rat.
During 1998, after months of aggravating back pain, he began studying the very physical Hatha Yoga and saw fantastic results in eliminating all of his pain. Perkins has continued to include some form of yoga in his own training to this day.
In 1999, while deployed to Egypt, he was introduced to the Australian Army's physical fitness methods. Working closely with some of Australia's finest physiotherapists, he was able to learn proper swimming techniques, like those outlined in Terry Laughlin's
Total Immersion Swimming and for the first time, found his own resting heart rate lowered dramatically with an innovative lunch-hour, high-intensity aerobic circuit training routine. While in Egypt, he also trained in the Korean martial art discipline of Hapkido with the Fijian Infantry. He has also studied Judo and Aikido. He is currently training towards his black belt in Judo.
In 2001, while on a year-long deployment to Honduras, he raced in his first Sprint Triathlon. He has been searching for fun adventure races and triathlons ever since.
In 2002, at the Nashville Country Music Half Marathon, he was introduced to Runner's World Magazine columnist, John Bingham, dubbed "the Penguin" for his unique, slow running style. Perkins spent the rest of '02 busily training for the 27th Annual Marine Corps Marathon (his first) and despite battling nagging knee pain, finished in a respectable five hours.
In 2003, he experimented on himself with the "Zone" Diet written by Dr. Barry Sears and easily lost more than 20-pounds in four weeks. He continues to incorporate the easy-to-use, low-carb menu planning techniques in his daily life.
Just prior to deploying to Iraq in early 2004, he discovered Matt Furey's
Combat Conditioning bodyweight calisthenics and fell in love with the lightning-fast results. Never a true gym rat, Perkins always shied away from those overcrowded, overpriced gyms with too many mirrors and too many people flexing and grunting with too little to show for it.
He is currently devouring all the information he can get his hands on about his greatest fitness addiction...
CrossFit.