PH31 Robert Porter and his coach Patrick Flannery on losing 90 pounds with CrossFit and finding the right community for you

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Robert Porter was a swimmer growing up and active through high school and college. As the years passed, he became more sedentary, and with his job as an insurance broker he ate a majority of his meals at restaurants. His weight slowly crept … Continued The post 31 – Robert Porter and his coach Patrick Flannery on losing 90 pounds with CrossFit and finding the right community for you appeared first on Julie Foucher | Reebok CrossFit Games Athlete.

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0:00.0	I believe every person has a right to basic knowledge of how to optimize their mind, body, and spirit.
0:14.0	Here, I bring to you influential individuals and ideas
0:18.0	to help you live a more healthy, fulfilling life.
0:21.0	I'm Julie Fusheilhay, and I'd like to welcome you to pursuing health.
0:24.1	Welcome to pursuing health.
0:27.0	Welcome back to Pursuing Health. This is episode number 31. I'm so
0:38.1	excited to share this episode with you. Here I sit down with Robert Porter
0:42.3	and his coach Patrick Flannery to discuss his very transformative
0:46.6	journey with Cross Fit.
0:48.8	Rob has a very common story.
0:50.6	He was a swimmer growing up and active through high school and college, but as the years passed, like for many of us, he became more sedentary.
0:59.0	He wasn't eating well and his weight eventually peaked around 240 pounds.
1:03.0	What's not so common about Rob is that he then decided that he needed to make a change in his lifestyle and he stuck to it.
1:10.0	However, his first experience with Cross Fit wasn't as smooth as he would have hoped.
1:15.2	Luckily, his childhood friend, Pete Katz, who was another guest on episode 16 of pursuing
1:21.4	health, finally convinced him to give it another shot a year later.
1:26.0	That time he found the right affiliate and community for him.
1:29.5	And since then he's changed his diet, he's lost 90 pounds, and he's influenced dozens of his friends and family
1:35.4	members to change their own lifestyles as well. I caught up with Rob and his
1:40.1	coach Patrick Flannery at his affiliate Great Lakes Crossfit in Bedford Heights, Ohio.
1:45.9	Here I learn more about Rob's journey, Patrick's approach to coaching, and what made this
1:50.4	affiliate and community a perfect fit for Rob?
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