Ruben has been doing various sports since he was 7 years old. Starting out with athletics, this was later on followed by judo, basketball, rowing and cycling. He likes the odd challenge, having run five marathons, completing a 300 km bike ride around the IJsselmeer lake in one day and cycling up the Alpe d’Huez six times in one day as well. Not the same day though.

He was introduced through CrossFit by an ex colleague who couldn’t stop posting about it on Facebook. Hmm, sounds familiair. After attending a WOD he was hooked and has not looked back since. He loves the diversity of the sport, that you have to be able to do everything in order to do well, you know that Renessaince man type.

As both an athletics and rowing coach, Ruben knows how to motivate both individuals and teams and help them get the best out of themselves. He also has a keen interest in life leadership methodologies like Getting Things Done and The 7 Habits, which makes him effective in achieving things, but also a bit of an annoying structopath.

Ruben is your go to guy when you want to learn how to row properly, run instead of jog or if you want to lift heavy sh*t off the ground.