Kyle Hiddleson 

CrossFit Certified Instructor
Boot Camp Instructor
Certified Jiukido Jiujitsu Instructor
Contemporary Wushu Instructor
CPR Certified
Kyle@FitnessBattalion.com

I started training martial arts on a whim when I started at Georgia Tech, and that whim has lead to a hundred other decisions that have come to define my life. A decade as a competitive martial artist, training 30 hours a week in half a dozen different martial arts, and several years as an instructor of those arts has taught me more than a few important things about fitness and the human body, and each one is an integral part of what is now my approach to CrossFit. The most paramount of those lessons is that a person's body is capable of far more than they give it credit. Whether you are getting kicked in the head and fighting for consciousness or fighting for breath while getting slapped around by that second round of Fran--because you have trained it to, your body will be there to do all you can will it to. A fact that I prove to myself year after year fighting through injury.

My time with martial arts has brought me plenty of injury, including more than a handful of broken bones, but in 2009, after breaking my back for the second time, I had a surgery that put me out of commission for a full year. I picked up CrossFit on a whim coming off of that relatively major reconstructive back surgery, and it has turned out to be another one of those chance decisions to redefine how my life turns out. Beyond finding an arena in which I can push myself to my absolute limits, in CrossFit I have found an amazing community of people who I consider friends and family. I have a profound level of enjoyment for teaching people how to feel physically better and become stronger, and CrossFit gives me yet another outlet to share that with people.

I look forward to sharing that pain and that success with all of you. :-)