Nate Pontius

Well, I kind of hit some rock bottom after I competed at CrossFit Games Regionals as an individual.

it was like, that was something that like I built up in my mind as like being the biggest thing for like six years I built to being able to compete there.

And so when it was all over and I had $37 in my bank account and I went to, I was in Del Mar and I went to the train station to buy a $27 train ticket to get me back to LA.

It's like, well, I've got

$10 my bank account.

I accomplished my goal that I've set out of doing with all these ups and downs over the years.

And I came to find that I was just kind of like filling a void of like all of this...

unresolved stuff that I didn't want to deal with from the Marine Corps.

I went from just being drunk and numb to going hyper-focused on this one target of competing professionally in CrossFit.

And then I got there and it's like, okay, here's all these things now that you've buried under the rug right in front of you.

It's time to deal with them.

And I didn't.

I didn't deal with them.

I went on and I found another void to fill.

I started boxing, competitive boxing at the amateur level.

And so I put those problems off for a couple more years until I met my now wife.

And those problems surfaced with her in our relationship, which led to her and I splitting apart.

It's like, here's all your problems again.

It's time to deal with them.

And it wasn't until then that I dealt with my problems from the Marine Corps.