Gavin Woken

My passion for health and fitness is fueled by always being doubted, being the underdog if you will. I come from a home with a single mother, so I struggled with having the mentality that I will ever be strong enough to stop an intruder of coming in and hurting my family, at 13. I remember having no confidence, motivation, discipline until I stepped into the gym. Through fitness and health, I have not only had an outlet to work through the struggles of life, but a way of improving myself daily.

My favorite way to train and stay fit is to focus on volume by progressively overloading, however continuing to get my steps in on a yearly basis to be combat ready through activities like Rucks and HIT workouts. I want to be the biggest, strongest, most lethal individual that I can be. I will incorporate deload weeks and things of that nature but a majority of my training is focused on the Eccentric / Time under Tension. Also since Iraq this past year, I have been heavily focused on boxing.

$20,000 would change my life completely. Firstly, I would Tithe 10% of it. This past year, since I returned home from Iraq I’ve been hit with some unexpected expenses and I’m at a point right now where I’m debating on deploying again just to make ends meet. With $20,000 I would pay off the rest of my degree that I am finishing this semester, that it is looking like I will have to take a loan out for, which the military failed to pay for all of my college. I would also use it to pay bills.