Built in Focus

Name: Built in Focus
Address: Round Rock, TX, 78681, US
Telephone: +13372818404

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✨ Mind | Body | Memories Built in Focus

10/28/2026

Anne Hathaway said it best. I’m really into the reason that I’m tired.

10/27/2026

I’m watching four things in your first session.

🤞🏻 How you breathe. If your chest & neck rise every time you take a breath, your nervous system is already on edge before we even start training. That tells me we need breathwork & downregulation before we introduce anything challenging.
🤞🏻 Where you avoid. Sometimes it’s obvious, you skip a movement because of an old injury. Sometimes it’s sneaky, you rush through reps using momentum instead of control. Sometimes your body avoids it for you. Think a step up where your knee caves in every rep, quietly dodging the glute work it should be doing & dumping pressure onto the joint instead.
🤞🏻 What you believe about your body. “That’s just what happens when you get older.” “I’m just broken I guess.” “I don’t strength train because I don’t want to hurt my back again.” Those sentences tell me as much as any movement screen does.
🤞🏻 Your fitness age vs. your actual age. A HIGH fitness age is GOOD! It usually comes from years of training & real gym experience, but it often comes with overtraining, pushing past what your body can actually recover from. A low fitness age usually means little to no training history, which often comes with undertraining, not knowing how to load your body safely yet. Either direction tells me where to start.

If any of this sounds like you, I’m your person. Not because I have a magic fix, but because I actually look for this stuff instead of handing you a generic program & hoping it works.

10/26/2026

11 years ago, I joined CrossFit Round Rock as a member. I’d just moved to the area & hadn’t found my people yet. I knew I needed that to stick around, or I was moving back to Louisiana.

A year after joining, I got let go from the corporate job I’d had for 9 years. So I did the only thing that made sense. I went to the gym.

I walked in & Adrien greeted me with her usual “HEY! How are you?!” & I lost it right there. Full meltdown. “I got let go. I don’t know what to do.” She didn’t even blink. “We’ll figure it out.”

She asked if I’d consider an admin job while a coach went on maternity leave. I said sure, what’s the process? The process was talking to Landon! We found him on the tailgate of a truck. That’s where the interview happened. First question he asked me “Batman or Superman?” I said Batman. He said “hired”.

For the first year, I did emails, Facebook, whatever admin work needed doing. Then one day Adrien said I should try coaching. I said absolutely not. Standing in front of people & expecting them to listen to me sounded like my worst nightmare.

If you knew me 10 years ago, you probably didn’t really know me. I was the person who showed up to class, worked out in the back corner, & left the second it was over.

But as you know, Adrien’s very convincing, so I got my CrossFit Level 1 & started coaching a few classes. Somewhere in there, I felt a sense of purpose I’d never felt before. At my old job I was angry, stressed, bitter. I didn’t know there was more to life than that.

Coaching gave me that. Working on my own health + doing something I loved every single day. That showed me what life could actually look like. It also convinced me to make this career work. To prove that you can make an honest living out of helping people move & feel better.

10 years later, I’m happier than ever. I don’t think of life in absolutes. I have the best job, partner, dog, LIFE I could ask for. I just want to say that I am grateful.

10/20/2026

It took over a YEAR to get here. There were sleepless nights, complete breakdowns, and pure anger at points during my rehab. I just wanted to “be back to normal”. Now here we are. A year later. Way past “normal” & stronger than ever. Thanks Logan Jenkins & Method of Excellence

10/17/2026

Most people treat stress like something to avoid. Stress gets a bad reputation it doesn’t deserve.

Say you’ve got your first public speaking event coming up & you’re terrified. So you hand it off to someone else. Problem solved, stress gone. Except your body & mind never got the chance to adapt. You never proved to yourself you could handle it, so next time you’re just as scared.

It’s the same thing in the gym. Skip the heavy set because it’s uncomfortable & your body never learns it can handle heavy. Walk away from the movements that always hurt & you walk away from the adaptation that comes after it.

Stress to the body & mind isn’t the enemy. Avoiding it is. Your body & mind only grow from what you actually let them go through.

10/16/2026

We are a concert family! This year has been light on concerts. Only 7 so far. Last year we ended with 13 total concerts & 2 music festivals. We have Zhu, Kascade, & Bob Moses left. I think those will probably be my top 3 of this year.

10/15/2026

4 years of movement screens in one stack of papers.

Let me tell you…one thing is for sure. No two people are the same. Not their bodies, not their histories, not their why.

Sometimes people say their goals out loud & they laugh, almost like it’s the most outlandish request. But I’ve seen what the human body is capable of. I’ve seen hundreds of people get out of chronic pain & accomplish things they never thought they’d do again.

It all starts with honoring where they are at, learning what they want to accomplish & teaching them not to doubt themselves that they can get there.

I strive to always be the person who believes in people. I know there are people out there willing to put in the work. Willing to show up even when the progress seems small. Willing to self reflect & change lifestyle habits

It’s our job as coaches to help them understand how to get there & show them what it will take. I believe a lot of people don’t lack motivation. They lack a plan, & the knowledge of why that plan would actually benefit them.

To ever name on each of these pages…I want to say thank you. Thank you for sharing your story with me. Thank you for sharing your goals with me. Thank you for helping me learn more about how the human body works & adapts.

If anyone is interested in scheduling a Movement Screen to learn more about their body I would love to hop on a Discovery Call with you! Comment SCREEN & I’ll send you a message.

05/13/2026

“We are saving an endangered species.”
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The active human.
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That sentence sounds dramatic until you really sit with it for a second.
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Most people in the U.S. don’t even average 8,000 steps a day anymore.
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Not because they’re inherently lazy.
Because modern life has made movement optional.
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Groceries get delivered.
Entertainment gets delivered.
Validation gets delivered in 15 second clips.
I even saw a TMobile commercial the other day…
YOU CAN DOORDASH A PHONE! Stop the madness!
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You can spend an entire day inside without ever feeling sunlight on your face.
And somehow that’s become normal.
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We’ve become obsessed with convenience.
Quick fixes.
Fast results.
Immediate comfort.
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And slowly without realizing it we forgot what effort feels like.
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What patience feels like.
What building something over years feels like.
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People want the transformation without the process.
They stare at the finish line they created in their head…
and it feels so far away that they never even start.
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Or they stand at the start line staring into the unknown…
terrified of failing.
Terrified of looking stupid.
Terrified of finding out how much work it actually takes.
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But the truth is…
life happens in the space between those two points.
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That’s where confidence is built.
That’s where resilience is built.
That’s where health is built.
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Not at the start line.
Not at some imaginary finish line.
There is no finish line!
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There’s just the daily decision to keep moving.
To keep trying.
To keep choosing effort in a world designed to make you comfortable enough to stop.
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That’s the part that scares me the most.
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Not that people are incapable of hard things.
But that we’re slowly being taught to avoid them altogether.

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