Mike Schorr

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Mike Schorr from STRONGSIDE Woodstock

“At this point I am an OG STRONGSIDE. I have been a member of STRONGSIDE. since September 2018. Before starting at STRONGSIDE, I had lost a LOT of weight dropping from 323 pounds down to about 205 pounds. I was going to Lifetime Fitness bored to death basically walking on the stairway to nowhere (the stair master) just waiting for my workouts to be over and not making progress.

 I met Matt Burden though our daughters when they were playing volleyball and he told me about STRONGSIDE. So I decided to give it a try, that was over 5 years ago. I kept the weight off for a long time, but through COVID and after, the weight started creeping back on and I could feel my performance at the gym diminishing to the point that I was basically scaling everything but the weightlifting. I let my weight get back up to 287 pounds and I was disgusted with myself. Fast forward to the beginning of this year and I decided to do something about it, I started tracking my macros again and then started taking the generic Ozempic shots to help kick start my weight loss.

I am now down about 55 pounds, getting back to my old form at the gym and even doing burpees again (hey wait a minute, maybe I shouldn’t have lost the weight if it involved doing burpees). I even started having FOMO seeing everyone sign up for STRONGSIDE’s annual intramural competition, The Spooktacular, and decided to sign up at the last minute (thanks Bri for matching me up with Jacob) and we won 1st place in the Fitness Division.

I still have about 20 more pounds I would like to lose, but I definitely feel like I am back on the right track.”

-Mike Schorr