R3VIVE’s Member of the Month, October 2024
Introducing our Gym M.O.M. (Member of the Month) for October 2024 … Mikel Garcia-Marcos (he/him/his)!
We are thrilled to recognize Mikel as our Member of the Month! Mikel’s passion and dedication to fitness and wellness are truly contagious, inspiring everyone around him—including us coaches.
Mikel’s impressive performance during training never goes unnoticed, and what’s even more remarkable is how effortless Mikel makes it look. Mikel’s commitment to maintaining great health, both in and out of the gym is an inspiration to us all!
Learn more about Mikel below:
Q: What made you decide to start functional fitness training?
Full blown midlife crisis, I didn’t even know what I was signing up for. I am secretly hoping that the crisis will last for the second half of my life, so I keep it up with coming to the gym. Not really, just kidding. Please rescue me 
Q: Are you a student/working professional/both? What do you do for a living?
Big shot university professor 
. But I really don’t teach that much, most of my time is dedicated to running a biomedical research lab.
Q: What are your hobbies/interests outside of the gym?
(Mikel laughs nervously, scratches his head, and then remains silent)
Q: What are some of your favorite things about R3VIVE?
This would be a long list of things! Coaches and people would go first. Really feels like you are welcome, and that coaches care about you and are invested in your progress. The next thing on the list is that you get R-E-S-U-L-T-S. At a personal level, I also enjoy the “me time” when I can erase everything else in my mind during a workout. Last one is when Coach Derek says “Let’s make it more fun” in the middle of a training session and get completely destroyed in the minutes that follow 
Q: How much progress have you made during your time here at R3VIVE?
I am in the best physical shape I have even been. The twenty-something-year-old version of me would be envious.
Q: What current goals do you seek to accomplish?
Stop sucking at doing cleans, and learn kipping pullups and double-unders. And back squatting with 3 big plates per side (an idea living rent free in my mind thanks to Coach Derek).
Q: What advice do you have for someone considering our gym?
Stop *considering*, just come. No downsides, all upsides.
Q: What is your guilty pleasure?
I have two: pain and suffering.
Q: Tell us an interesting fact that we probably don’t know about you…
I was arrested once and thrown in a jail cell of the police station overnight (if you ever ask me why, I will invent multiple stories to spread false rumors)
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