Scott Mattern

My first real fitness experience was the day I agreed to run stairs with my college roommate. As I lay clutching my side halfway up my roommate passed me again and again. That is when I discovered fitness wasn’t a one-time event, but rather a commitment. For the next several years I pursued running and weight lifting with the goal of getting “fit”, but not really know what I was doing. At 40 I was introduced to CrossFit and every changed. For the first time, my workouts were planned and coached and I began to reach a level of fitness even greater than 20 years prior. Almost a decade later, I decided that it was time to push myself even further and I earned my CF-L1. I have been coaching ever since (and loving it!).

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I was very active in my college years and early twenties, but after graduating life picked up speed. Before I knew it, 15 years without any sort of regular exercise had gone by. I realized I had become a MAOW, a Middle Aged Office Worker! Around that time, my wife, who had been doing CrossFit with some of her friends, invited me to ‘Bring a Friend Day’. CrossFit proved to be an awesome way to combat the sedentary lifestyle of an office worker. I was hooked! Middle age is an inevitable reality that sneaks up on all of us. That doesn't mean we need to take it sitting down.

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Everyone who walks through CrossFit Flathead doors is an athlete. Many of us have untapped strengths and are capable of more than we think. My biggest passion as a CrossFit coach is helping people push past what they think they can do and achieve goals they didn’t think possible. Whether you are a fire-breather who needs someone to yell “Go faster!” or a beginning athlete who needs to hear “You can do it.”, I will coach you.

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