Introduction

Hello world this is Steve Clegg writing in from Melbourne Florida. Before we dive into this course let me introduce myself to you, so you can understand me as a person better. I am originally from the great state of Massachusetts go Patriots, Celtics, Red Sox, and Revolution. I moved to Florida when I was two years old in 1995 and have been living here for the past 20 years.  I currently live in a house with my grandmother, grandfather, mother, and one of my 3 brothers. I am the youngest of my siblings, and the only child in the family to attend the University of Florida. One of my brothers did graduate from The University of Miami, but I prefer to not talk about such tragedies.  Moving forward, I have attended two other colleges before deciding on The University of Florida.   I went to a local community college in Brevard County called Eastern Florida State College, and then I transferred to Santa Fe in the beginning of 2015.   After spending eight months in Gainesville I quickly learned that the dense city life was not for me and I preferred to live in a smaller town.  So, I moved back home to save money, and now I work for one of my uncles selling aircraft parts. I gained acceptance into UF’s online degree program last semester and have been taking classes towards my bachelors in Business Administration since! I am really working towards this degree to gain knowledge in the field of general business so I can apply what I learn now to some real work situations, and more importantly in future endeavours. 

My real passion is Crossfit training. I train every single day, and sometimes that means getting to the gym at 5:30am and going back at 5:30pm.  Some days I only train once for a few hours, but most days I train twice for a total of four hours.  I love training and this is something I want to seriously pursue beyond a hobby in the next few years, because I see myself being in the spotlight soon!  If you have never heard of Crossfit take 15 seconds and google search Rich Fronning. That is the type of training I look forward to every single day, and I could not be happier doing it.  Now, you are probably asking why I love training like this so much.  Well, when I was a kid I was obese and a candidate for early onset diabetes. I used to eat Snickers for breakfast pizza for lunch, and junk for dinner every single night. One day in high school I decided to join cross country to lose weight, and be more social. After several years of cross country running I lost over 50lbs and gained confidence in myself and made tons of friends. Going into college I learned about this new style of training called Crossfit. I was hooked after my first week of training and I have not looked back since! I have so much fun training with the friends I have made over the past two years.  There is always something to improve and always new skills to learn or teach other people. In a sense Crossfit is very similar to entrepreneurship because people are always looking for ways to improve anything and everything to some degree.  Crossfit actually started just 16 years ago in someone garage training B list movie starts, and now there are over 10,000 Crossfit gyms around the world. If that isn’t the best example of revolutionary entrepreneurship I don’t know what is!

As a person this is really what drives me and keeps me interested in everyday activity. Training is something I fell in love with a few years ago and I just try my best to be the best version of myself. Sometimes that entails doing a 400lb squat, but can also include activities like reading 100 pages of a book a day, or learning something new about myself.