James

Coach James Howe is a CFS coach and one of the gym’s owners. You’ll most often find him filling in for early morning classes—or welding a pull-up bar to the rig and tackling some other project around the gym. If you didn’t already know, James is responsible for much of the incredible construction work that makes our gym the awesome space it is today.

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When asked what he loves most about CrossFit, James said it’s always there waiting to punish him after he’s skipped workouts for a while. His favorite “skill” to coach? Demonstrating how to demo the old office space with an excavator to create more floor space for classes. Back in the CrossFit realm, James says his favorite workout is Chad because it makes him feel like he’s prepping for a pack-out on a hunting trip. On the flip side, James claims he hates any workout his wife, Candis, beats him at… so basically, most workouts.

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When James isn’t coaching or building something, his favorite food to enjoy is broccoli, and his favorite places to travel are the mountains of Wyoming and Colorado—which perfectly explains his favorite hobbies: hunting, talking about hunting, packing for hunting, talking about hunting, buying new things for hunting, trying to get his kids into hunting, and, of course, talking about hunting. Outside of hunting, James has a dog named Harvey, though he frequently references “my old dog Smokey.” Let’s hope Harvey never finds out.

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James’s favorite quote and go-to dad joke are one and the same:

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“I can’t, I have to work.”