![]() Speegle admits: “He knows me better than anyone, my strengths, my weaknesses, my attitude on good and bad days, when I’m tired and need to have a lighter training day,” and perhaps most importantly, “and when I just need to eat and stop complaining.” ![]() There has to be a genuine connection between athlete and coach, and it’s something that Gordon and Speegle’s relationship outside of the gym has helped develop over time. The desire and drive to be great – while certainly admirable – is fairly common amongst aspiring coaches, and alone isn’t enough to dictate success in this sport. “I’m trying to push the boundaries of fitness and you have to want to work your ass off to do the type of training we do, which does. “I want to be excellent at my craft and I want to continuously learn and evolve with the sport as it grows,” Gordon said. ![]() “He knows me better than anyone, my strengths, my weaknesses, my attitude on good and bad days, when I’m tired and need to have a lighter training day and when I just need to eat and stop complaining.”īut after Regionals and finishing just three spots away from qualifying, Speegle realized she needed a full-time coach that “would program for me, dial in my nutrition, keep me on track, the works.” Gordon was up to the task. “We started working out a lot together which is where our relationship started, we trained together leading up to 2018 Regionals.” “We were on the same regionals team in 2017, which is how we met,” Speegle said. Their relationship began years prior on the competition floor and in the gym, which is about as organic as you can get in CrossFit. “Obviously dancing around the boyfriend-coach dynamic can be difficult at times, like mixing business with pleasure but we’ve gotten into a good groove,” Speegle said. The dynamic of having a significant other for a coach in sports can be complicated, but it hasn’t swayed Speegle and Gordon in the midst of a spectacular 2019 season. She currently sits third overall, and if she qualifies there will be an added bonus of getting to share the accomplishment with her coach, training partner and boyfriend Alex Gordon. Three weeks of the Open are all wrapped up, and Dani Speegle is on the path towards earning her first trip to the CrossFit Games.
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