Muscle Fitness Muscle & Fitness UK - April 2018 | Page 126

S P O RT S
PERFORMANCE
PRACTISE WHAT
YOU PREACH
H
AVING CONSISTENTLY
appeared as a finalist at the
CrossFit® Games over the last
decade Jason Khalipa can
confidently be referred to as one
of the fittest men on the planet.
But his success as an athlete is
dwarfed by his success as both a
businessman and as a family man.
M&F’s Mark Laws speaks
exclusively to Jason to find out how
he replicates
success in
every part
of his
life…
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BY MARK L AWS /// PHOTOGR APHS BY ALI SAMIEIVAFA - NCFIT MEDIA
It all started back when Jason was
at high school and he began working
on the front desk of his local gym.
Then he went to College and started
working in the sales department but
the budding young athlete soon
realised that the dream he was selling
people could never be achieved in that
mainstream gym environment.
“Something wasn’t adding up for me”
he explains, “the results I was
promising people weren’t actually
happening for them and I found
a lot of that was because they didn’t
have a coach or a community to
support them”.
Good quality coaching and being
part of a team or community are
instrumental when it comes to
excelling at sports, which is exactly
what this young man was doing. But
when he realised that his customers
were not achieving their goals by
working out alone in a rudderless
environment he took his first step in
what has become a lifetime
commitment to practising what
he preaches.
In 2006 the future Games winner
was introduced to CrossFit® and
after spending a year familiarising
himself with its nuances and getting
to grips with the intensity he never
looked back.
There are no grey areas with Jason,
he is either doing something or he
isnt’. He is either 100% committed to