Ryan C. Pratt

Ryan attended high school in Michigan and earned his bachelor’s degree in Packaging Engineering from Michigan State University. During his formative years, Ryan played virtually every sport you can imagine—baseball, football, track and field, ice and roller hockey, golf,snowboarding, and he was a 2-year Co-Captain on the Michigan State Rugby team.  “I’ve always loved the camaraderie and ‘shared suffering’ of team sports, and after college, I was never able to really find that and tap into the same feeling I had about activity and fitness as a younger person.”

After college, Ryan moved to Chicago and worked as an engineer for about 6 years.  “I fell on and off the fitness bandwagon more times than I can count.  I would decide I needed to get in shape, find some fad diet, and go to the gym to run on a treadmill and lift weights without having any idea on what I was doing.”  Ryan then moved to Colorado to pursue his M.B.A. in sports and entertainment management, but…really just to snowboard 150days a year.  Shortly after moving to Oklahoma, Ryan drove past a CrossFit box, wondered what it was, and did some research.  “I was immediately intrigued by CrossFit—it spoke to everything I had been lacking since college. Someone told me what to do and how to do it safely, but more importantly, there was a team and competitive atmosphere. 

But, it was still a year before I was brave enough to walk in the door and give it a shot, and thank God I did.  It’s where I’ve found my true calling.” Ryan has been participating in CrossFit for 3years and coaching for 2.“I love to talk about and teach the methodologies of CrossFit and ho wit can better your life in any number of ways.  It’s not about being the best or the fastest; it’s about YOU being better than YOU were a day ago or, a week ago, or 5 years ago.

I get more joy in seeing and helping others reach their goals than I do in my own accomplishments. Nothing makes me happier than seeing a person who has worked hard and achieved something they never thought they could do."

5 principles that Ryan lives by:

1.  Focus on the things you can control and everything will work out

2. Happiness will always mean more than money

3. Comparison is the thief of joy

4. There is no such thing as free time, only life -time

5. Batman will beat anyone in a fight