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thoughtful.

helpful.

Ryan Scothern

Height: 5’7”

Weight: 155 lbs.

Max dead lift: 405# (post broken back)

Max front squat: 285# (post broken back)

Max power clean: 215# (post broken back)

5,000 m row: 18:26

2,000 m row: 6:55

1,000 m row: 3:18

500 m row: 1:29

Ryan has been an active part of Vitality since March 2010. His dedication to fitness and growth is indescribable. His drive, focus, and mental capacity are like non other I have seen. Even after reconstructive surgery on his knee, and an unfortunate skydiving accident resulting in a broken back he has come back to crush any goal I set for him. Ryan’s brain does not allow for stagnation, so his future plans are ever evolving.

Ryan is a national champion skydiver. He is a professional skydive instructor with over 5,000 jumps and countless hours in the wind tunnel. His main focus this year will be competing in national skydiving events, and hopefully world’s. Even with most of his attention driven towards those goals he still finds time to run, bike, and swim, which will allow him to participate in his first sprint distance triathlon the summer of 2011.

Ryan had this to add, “while blossoming into an american consumer, I played football, baseball, wrestled, power lifted and crushed hella track. Skydiving consumes most of my time. I recently transitioned from work/fun jumping to pro competition. As an individual I am committed to doing anything which sets me apart from what I'm told to be. I loathe authority and question everything and everyone. If I'm told something is status quo, you'll generally find me doing the opposite. Most of all I question myself. Can I go beyond the pain threshold established by my brain? Can I extinguish burning anxiety? I am committed to finding out.

My future plans are to do whatever my brain resists. Dan Dennett said, "the only meaning of life worth caring about is one which resists our best efforts at examining it." I want to examine the parts of myself which my brain, body and will resist being examined. Hopefully in the end I will find meaning to my life.”"