Killing The Fat Man

Join Roberts-and CrossFit HQ filmmaker Sevan Matossian-on the 16-week journey to "kill the fat man" at Oceanside CrossFit in California.

Gary Roberts knows it's going to take work to reclaim his body and his fitness at Oceanside CrossFit, and he's up for the challenge in Episode 2.

For the past eight years, Gary Roberts says he's been going through an identity crisis. He's contemplated suicide, gone to counseling to better his relationship with his teenage daughter and tied his happiness to his business.

The last time Gary Roberts weighed 230 lb., he was in his 20s. Now, at almost 40 years old, he's down to 236 lb. after a few weeks of WODs at Oceanside CrossFit and eating Paleo.

Finally, we meet the wife. In this episode we hear from Gary Roberts' wife about what life has been like since her husband started his CrossFit transformation. It's the beginning of Week 5 and the Mrs. is noticing a trend.

he scale now reads 225.4 lb.-a drop of about 45 lb. from when Gary Roberts started working out at Oceanside CrossFit. In this episode the physical and mental changes in Roberts are becoming increasingly apparent.

In episode 7 of Killing the Fat Man Gary divulges how his new body is affecting bedroom time with his wife. "I will say as a fat dude trying to have sex is like a sumo wrestler trying to dance in a china shop," he jokingly says. "It's not very pretty."

Get ready for a svelte Gary Roberts. After two months and 24 days of CrossFit, he's down about 70 lb. "I feel like worlds have gone by," Roberts says. "I just want to get more fit, more healthy ... I'm pretty much feeling mentally unstoppable right now."

Nearly 50 workouts later, Gary Roberts has gone from being focused on his weight loss to being focused on general healthy living. In this episode Roberts is once again talking about bedroom time with his wife.

Gary Roberts has reached the turning point familiar to so many CrossFitters: He's completing the Level 1 Course. Gary is in Oahu, Hawaii, for the seminar. "I've never been this excited about fitness. I don't know what's going on."

Roberts is finishing his Level 1 seminar in Oahu, Hawaii. "It taught me there's still a freakin' whole world of stuff I need to learn and master and practice," he says of the seminar.

In this episode we catch up with Gary, the father of original "fat man" who's now behind the camera. Roberts the elder just turned 68 and has had triple-bypass surgery, aortic valve replacement and pacemaker implantation.

In this episode Roberts invites his friend to do a workout at Oceanside CrossFit. "I will have beaten a demon that I have inside because when I've always looked at Harold, he's always been the big guy He's always been better at everything than me."