John Weiss
I have been involved in training and working out ever since I can remember, since I found CrossFit I have immersed myself in it. I was involved in power lifting as a young man and then transitioned to endurance events in my twenties while serving in the United States Navy. It wasn’t unusual for me to run a 12-14 miler every weekend. I studied all things endurance, and spent countless hours running, cycling, and swimming. Still being a gym rat, I would train my endurance events in the mornings and then perform the same useless bodybuilding routine every evening. Monday through Friday was always the same: chest, back, shoulders, arms, then legs. I was spending roughly 3 hours a day training, which left little time for anything else other than work and sleep. One workout, that was all it took, I was hooked and have been ever since. I have never looked back, CrossFit gave me my youth back, I can do things now that even as a high school wrestler and football player I would have never imagined possible.
Certifications
CrossFit Level I
CrossFit Olympic Lifting
CrossFit Kids
CrossFit Running and Endurance
CrossFit Nutrition
CrossFit Gymnastics
USAW Level 1 Olympic Lifting Coach
Jody Hutchings
I’ve been active and into fitness mostly my whole life. I began dancing at the age of 3 and started competing at 6 years old. As I got older, we were required to stay in top shape through additional fitness/calisthenics classes as well as our daily dance training. It’s here where I learned to love fitness even more and learned that I was capable of pushing my body even more than I already did. I continued to dance and perform until my mid twenties. After earning a degree in Exercise Science with a concentration in Health Education, I began personal training. My first encounter with Crossfit was when I was working as a trainer in a personal training studio and a co-worker showed me the video of “Nasty Girls”. That one video changed my whole outlook on fitness. I immediately needed to know what I was watching and had to find out what this was and how I could do it! After a little research and initial introduction through a local affiliate I registered for my LEVEL 1 Cert.. I am a firm believer in the Crossfit training style and have used it over the last few years and even through the duration of my pregnancy .
Certifications
Crossfit Level I
Crossfit Gymnastics
Crossfit Kids
Crossfit Running and Endurance
Crossfit Kettlebell
USAW Olympic Lifting Coach
Olympic Lifting Seminars w/Chris Wilkes
NSPA Certified Personal Trainer
AFAA Certified
Courtney “Court” Butowicz
Being an athlete for most of my life, I am always looking for new ways to challenge myself physically. After college, I was infatuated with endurance sports and immersed myself into the triathlon and half-marathon subcultures of fitness. In an attempt to spice up my “cross-training” and normal weightlifting regimen, a friend showed me a video of Fight Gone Bad and said I should try this CrossFit “thing.” After a few hours of watching every video I possibly could, I called up my local box and scheduled my fundamentals for the very next day. After my first workout, I was addicted. Four years later and I’m still addicted!
Favorite workout: Grace
Most Hated workout: Kelly
Goals: Be better than I was yesterday.
Certifications
Bachelors and Masters in Exercise Science
CrossFit Level 1
NSCA-Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist
Lisa Meer-Lewis
My life of fitness began at the age of 8 when I chose the swim team over girl scouts. I’ve been active ever since with competitive swimming, long distance running, triathlons, rock climbing, backpacking and yoga. I’ve always needed to be outside or given the freedom to use my own body as my fitness tool. Traditional gyms bored me! I never saw the value in being stuck indoors with a bunch of useless machines. This caused me to dive deeply into my yoga practice for many years and I grew to love yoga so much, I opened The Space Above Yoga Center. I relished in the spiritual tradition, but there was always something missing for me on a physical level. Then I found Crossfit! Yoga gives me flexibility of mind, body and spirit, but I had found something that made me a stronger, faster, and more balanced person.
When I walked into my first CrossFit affiliate in 2007, the camaraderie and support was reminiscent of being part of a team. CrossFit and my wonderful trainers helped me build the strength and courage I needed to break through some of my own physical and mental barriers. I am looking forward to sharing all of these experiences with our clients at Crossfit 757 while continuing to set new goals for myself (like doing more WODs as RX’d) and celebrating all small victories with my new family here.
Through my work in massage and yoga therapy, I have developed a discerning eye for safe, physical alignment of the body and, armed with that knowledge, I encourage everyone to break through their own perceived boundaries with a sense of humor and an open heart. I enjoy motivating my clients to figure out what they are made of and then give them the encouragement to continue growing into vibrant, well-balanced human beings. I also work hard to shatter any pre-conceived notions that a person can’t be strong AND gentle; that a girl can’t be sweaty AND beautiful; and that yogis can’t be aggressive or assertive when the situation arises.
Certifications
CrossFit Level I
CrossFit Movement & Mobility
CrossFit Gymnastics
CrossFit Olympic Lifting
Robb Wolf’s Paleo Solution Seminar
Nationally Certified Massage Therapist
500-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher
Adam Law
All I can say is this: Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, has had a bigger impact on my wellness than CrossFit. I was referred to the program by my very athletic sibling, and given how I was not an athlete in high school, I was downright scared of the entire notion of something like CrossFit. That all changed after experiencing my first WOD. I think I may have returned to my globo gym once more, but was so put off by the dysfunction and pretentiousness of the expensive machines and mirrors and cable televisions, that I just never looked back. That was in the Spring of 2008, and I can say now that I don’t regret giving up the countless hours of bicep curls, breathing slowly, and elliptical warm-ups. Let’s face it folks, when the stuff hits the fan, your biceps and glutes won’t save you. It will be your ability to move quickly, lift heavy, and aim true. Even years of triathlon training did not give me the results that this has. It has taken what I knew about fitness and literally turned it upside down. I chose to be part of the 757 team, because I am passionate about sharing this knowledge and enlightening others to the power of intensity and virtuosity. I look forward to growing with a family of people at 757 truly devoted to pushing past personal limitations, freeing themselves from ego, and growing old with bodies and minds that are capable of doing much more than the status quo expects of them.
Certifications
CrossFit Level I
Will Bucciantini
I had a biography to convey what I’d like you to know about me, but it took two paragraphs so I removed the articles (and some other stuff) to make this short and sweet. I don’t normally speak or write in Caveman, as my “real job” is as a Structural Engineer at NNSY where I write technical work documents and evaluate submarine structural soundness. What’s left here should give you the gist of how CrossFit came into my life: I years traditional gym off-and-on. I person who rarely cancel plans once made, my attendance consistent if I had workout partner. Take away that, I more stay at home for day. Day become week, week become months. I had brief introduction CrossFit visiting friend John Weiss 2007. He raving about for months, said, “Yo. I really can’t explain it to you; you should just come try it. You’ll do fine. He took me first CrossFit workout ”Fight Gone Bad.” I NOT fine! I got CaRuShEd! I got crushed 17 minutes, I knew this workout I stick to! Year later when moved to Virginia Beach friend John open own CrossFit gym Norfolk, I watch John’s dream become reality, good friends grow as trainers and CrossFitters. My experience CrossFit positive. I met great people, people become good friends. I don’t go gym to build muscle, I go I have FUN. Fit body side-perk. You approach every workout with premium on intensity and integrity and leave ego at door you great results, too. Trust me, pain good time!
Certifications
CrossFit Level I
Charlie Mirkle
A little about me: I live in Great Bridge with my wife and three kids between the ages of 12 and 15. So yeah, it’s never a dull moment in my house. I grew up in East Texas, came to Norfolk in 1990 for the military and never left. I’ve been selling advertising since 1998 and currently work for WVEC-TV here in downtown Norfolk. I started Crossfit in October 2008 and received my Crossfit Level One Certification in Wilmingon, NC in June 2010.
I’ve always been somewhat of an athletic, outdoorsy , and active person. After high school, I joined the Navy and was what I thought was in great shape while there. Once I got out of the military, the activity level left and the pounds came in. Over the next 10-15 years, I tried going to Gold’s and YMCA gyms off and on and just never could maintain the drive to keep going. I would think to myself, “I should just join the military again. Then I would lose the weight. Maybe they’ll just let me go to bootcamp.†Yeah, right?! What I was missing was variety, intensity, and functional movement that the military provided. We didn’t have elliptical machines in the military; it was all body weight movements. Then one day a workout buddy/co-worker mentioned a website called “Crossfit†and said we should check it out. This “Crossfit†thing definitely looked interesting and it seemed to be exactly what I was looking for. I didn’t waste any time. I went straight to Crossfit Virginia Beach and tried a fundamental class. Two fundamental classes later, I was on my Crossfit journey and never looked back. Thanks to Crossfit, I have gotten amazing results both physically and mentally. As far as weight loss…..I started at 220lbs and got down to 195lbs in about 6 months by doing Crossfit and utilizing the Zone diet. Now I weigh just over 200lbs because of added muscle. Mentally, I’ve done things I never thought I could do and that has helped my self confidence tremendously. But the most surprising part of this journey has been the people and the community that Crossfit provides. Not going to the Workout of the Day (WOD) is like missing a family function. I’m obviously a huge supporter of Crossfit and training is my way of spreading the philosophy that changed my life. Seeing the joy in people that accomplish their first pull-up, deadlift their body weight, or when they tell me how Crossfit has helped them pick up their grandchild without pain for the first time is very rewarding.
Certifications
CrossFit Level I
Seth Grey
Growing up, I was constantly surrounded by athletics and fitness. I followed my passion through college, graduating from Virginia Tech with a degree in Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise. I am currently a graduate student at Old Dominion University, studying Exercise Science and Wellness. I worked as a personal trainer through undergrad and found CrossFit in August of 2010 – I’ve been hooked since. There is no greater training methodology that elicits a similar response. Constantly varied, highly functional movement, executed at high intensity has forever changed my approach to fitness – I am grateful to of discovered CrossFit and am glad I have the opportunity to help others experience the same success.
Certifications
CrossFit Level 1
ACE
Don McCutcheon
I was born and raised in Arizona where I ran cross country and distance track during high school.  Immediately following high school I joined the Marine Corps, which has been my career for the past 19 years.  As I gained rank in the Corps, it seemed like I had less and less time to work out and fitness became less of a priority.  Then, in 2004 I realized just how out of shape I had become.  I made a valiant attempt to get into the gym, and run, but it was a struggle.  The gym didn’t seem to challenge me and running became monotonous (I don’t know how I did it in high school!).  Soon after arriving in Norfolk my former boss introduced me to CrossFit.  My first WOD was Tabata Something Else.  Looking at it on paper, I was not impressed.  Less than eight minutes later, when I was reduced to doing one push up in twenty seconds (and still had sit ups and squats to go), I thought there might be something to this CrossFit thing!  It didn’t take me long to realize CrossFit was humbling, challenging, interesting, and anything but monotonous; all the things I needed in a fitness program.  Two years later it is still humbling, challenging, interesting, and anything but monotonous.  I can say, without a doubt that CrossFit has gotten me into the best shape of my life.
Certifications
CrossFit Level 1
