MEMBER PROFILE: Jonathan Ide-Don

Jon as a round young pup: on the right.

What’s your name? Where are you from? 

 Jon, born in Berkeley, raised in Moraga, California (a small suburb just east of Oakland).

1) Let’s start with something super simple; What’s your story with Crossfit?

I was lucky enough to meet one of the coaches, Sean McBride, when he interned at the physical therapy clinic I worked at a couple of years ago.  He introduced me to it, and after talking to him a bunch about it, I decided to dive in.  I took an intro series with him, and after my first class I was hooked.

2) Why the internship?

 I’ve learned a lot about movement in general, and strength and conditioning more specifically, from all of the coaches at the gym already just by training there and taking the 7 am classes.  I tried to take stuff I learned in the gym, and then apply it to patients I was treating at work, but I realized pretty quickly that I needed to get a lot better at watching,  teaching, and correcting movement.  So I thought why not go to the source and learn from the people who were teaching me how to move better?

 3) What’s the most personal thing you’re willing to share with me this instant? …And with the whole box really?

 How about a couple of things?

1. I was really fat as a kid, like up until 8th grade, then I dropped a ton of baby fat when I started to run in high school (see kid pic).

2. I was super intimidated the first time I walked through the front door of San Francisco Crossfit, I think the first workout I did had heavy back squats and some Olympic lifting in it.  Scared the crap out of me.  But I’m glad I stuck around!

3. I love beer, my top two favorites are green flash west coast IPA and Russian river supplication.

4) Either Or’s!! Which do you prefer?

Pepsi or Coke:  Coke

PC or Mac: Mac all the way

Bacon or Gluten:  Can I say both?

Truth or Dare: Truth

Truth: What is the first thing you notice in people?

How they walk, then I try to guess if they have an old injury on one leg or the other.  It’s a weird game my wife and I both play.

5) What’s your story in the grand scheme of things?

Okay this is going to be a bunch of random things ran together:

I’m a campolindo cougar, UCLA bruin, physical therapist, and now intern at SFCF.  I met my wife in graduate school, and she’s probably more competitive than I am.  I love to learn, and I think if I could be paid to be in school, I would probably do it.  Aspiring professional beer taster.

6) Is there anything that you would like to share that you haven’t been able to?

I own more Lululemon clothing than my wife, and she never stops reminding me.