Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Fitness with Friends. On today's episode,

we are talking with the co-owner of Power Monkey Fitness, Dave Duranty.

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best offer of the year, woop.com. Be sure to check them out. Dave Duranty is a former American

artistic gymnast. He was the 2007 All-around Champion and one of three alternates to the 2008

Summer Olympics. Duranty now helps run Power Monkey Fitness and teaches gymnastics to athletes

of all levels at his power monkey camps. Dave talks about how he got involved in CrossFit.

Why gymnastics is so important for performance in other sports and how close he thinks we are

to the ceiling of what CrossFit athletes can do when it comes to gymnastics.

Join now by the co-owner of Power Monkey Fitness, Dave Duranty. Dave, how you doing, man?

Good, man. Thanks for having me on. Appreciate you coming on. We were just chatting

a little bit before we came on here. But for people who don't know you, I'm sure your name is

somewhat familiar to them because it's out there in the ether of the CrossFit community.

But let's go back. How did you get involved in the CrossFit space?

Sure, sure. So I was a gymnast. So for those who don't know, I was a competitive gymnast for

USA, first at Stanford University in Northern California, and then for Team USA for a number of years.

And then after I retired from the competitive world, I started to try to figure out what was

next in terms of me trying to stay fit. And at the time I was coaching Stanford after I retired,

moved back to Northern California and I coached Stanford in 2009 and 10. And I started doing

kind of my own workouts. And it evolved into searching out for something new and CrossFit was what

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