In the Rocking Chair With Coach Burgener: Episode 3

In this three-part series, get to know Coach Mike Burgener, who runs the CrossFit Weightlifting Trainer Course and coached the American Women’s Junior National Team for about a decade beginning in the mid-’90s. He’s also the man behind Mike’s Gym, a two-car garage in Bonsall, California, that serves as a USA Weightlifting Regional Training Center. In the final episode, we learn how Burgener’s now-famous garage gym came to be. “When I moved to Rancho Buena Vista High School, I had a gym that was state of t