08/28/2025
Meet Jen & Eric – the hearts behind CrossFit Magnolia 💛💪
Our journey started like any good love story:
2001
👦❤️👩 Boy meets girl. They fall in love, get married, finish school, Eric goes to grad school, they move to Texas 🤠, and somewhere along the way, they have five amazing kids 👶👶👶👶👶 (that part took a while).
2016
👩👧👦 Jen (now wrangling five kids) is doing zero structured exercise—unless you count chasing children and running a real estate business 🏡.
🏋️♂️ Eric has tried every fitness trend imaginable—P90X, personal trainers, online programs—you name it. He loves working out, but chronic back pain leads to a diagnosis of spondylolisthesis (“spondy”) 😖 (blame gymnastics 🤸♂️ or cliff jumping 🌊).
He wins a free month at the local CrossFit gym—something doctors advise against. Naturally, he goes anyway… and falls in love. This time, with CrossFit. ❤️🔥
2017
😅 Burnt out from corporate life, Eric tells Jen he wants to quit. Jen (reasonably) reminds him they still have a mortgage 🏠 and five kids.
Eric’s solution: quit the job, keep the house and kids, and become a CrossFit coach so his membership is free. ✔️ Jen cautiously agrees—and even tries a class herself.
2018
An opportunity to buy the gym pops up, and we say yes 🙌.
Eric makes CrossFit his full-time job, and Jen—once convinced CrossFit was “too intense”—falls in love with the community, coaching, and belonging. 💪🤗
2018–2025
🌟 From 60 members to 250+ members today! 🌟
We’ve been blessed with incredible growth, an inspiring crew of coaches, and the most supportive, sweaty, high-fiving 🙌, goal-crushing 🏆 community.
It’s been an honor raising our kids in this gym family and working every day with the most inspiring people around.
Whether you’re a seasoned athlete 🏋️♀️ or don’t know what a kettlebell is 🛎️, we hope you feel welcome here.
Thanks for being part of our story.💛