{"id":139,"date":"2022-12-18T14:30:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T21:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gym244.com\/?page_id=139"},"modified":"2023-03-01T18:23:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T01:23:37","slug":"ant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gym244.com\/instructors\/ant\/","title":{"rendered":"Ant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide reverse-on-mobile is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is your fitness story?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A life long athlete playing just about every sport there is to play, football and wrestling ended up being what I excelled at. I was Introduce to lifting in high school through my football team. Personally, I fell in love with the process of developing my strength and explosiveness to help my performance in sports. I Never saw lifting as a stand-alone sport or a focus until I met Chris Gartrell late into my senior year. He explained to me that people actually compete in the sport, being that my athletic career was about to come to an end, I immediately said yes and joined Gym 244. I\u2019ve been competing in Olympic Weightlifting since 2015 as a member of SAS Weightlifting Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is your favorite movement?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Without a doubt my favorite movement is the clean! It was major focus in high school and I got decently good at it over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is your favorite quote?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBe comfortable with being uncomfortable\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Advice for beginners?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It takes a lot just to walk through the door, but it\u2019s the start! Remember everyone started somewhere, everyone\u2019s fitness journey and goals are different. Don\u2019t compare yourself to anyone, trust yourself, trust the coaches. Fall in love with the process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1638\" src=\"https:\/\/gym244.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ant-jpg.webp\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"ant, one of our trainers, standing in front of a brick wall with street art painted on it\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gym244.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ant-jpg.webp 2048w, https:\/\/gym244.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ant-300x240.webp 300w, https:\/\/gym244.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ant-1024x819.webp 1024w, https:\/\/gym244.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ant-768x614.webp 768w, https:\/\/gym244.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/ant-1536x1229.webp 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is your fitness story? A life long athlete playing just about every sport there is to play, football and wrestling ended up being what I excelled at. I was Introduce to lifting in high school through my football team. Personally, I fell in love with the process of developing my strength and explosiveness to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95,"parent":126,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gym244.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gym244.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gym244.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gym244.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gym244.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gym244.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/gym244.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/139\/revisions\/283"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gym244.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gym244.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gym244.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}