Matt Rodwell is the owner and coach at Arc Athletics. He's been in the CrossFit space for 9 years. He first went to regionals in a team in 2012 with CrossFit Plymouth, before moving to London to better himself as an athlete. In 2014, he then individually qualified for regionals. He was juggling coaching at a few gyms in London while pursuing his athletic career.

In 2015, he tore his lat during the third open workout, meaning he missed the season and then in 2016 he narrowly missed out on regionals individually again. From here he began to question his why, and made the move to Qatar, where things began to spiral out of control. From his lowest of lows, it then made him realise this wasn't what he was meant to be doing.

An opportunity to open a gym arose, he caught wind of one of the gyms he used to work at closing down. Jumping at the opportunity to make it his own, his gym is close to its 1st birthday. This has opened the gates to build a community that he can help and support, and that will do that for him in turn. It has allowed him to get back into training and to look after himself better.

He's still got plenty to work on both as a person and athlete, but he's in a great space, which is great to see.

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