Wes Piatt: Holding the CrossFit Standard

CrossFit Seminar Staff sits at the front line of a global movement, shaping how the world learns, coaches, and lives health and fitness. Every year, more than 1,000 seminars take place across continents, bringing together aspiring coaches, athletes, and everyday people chasing something more: real, lasting health. These aren’t just courses. They are experiences led by the iconic Red Shirts — elite trainers recognized not just for what they know, but for how they live it. Wes Piatt is one of them. A Senior Trainer and Seminar Staff member since 2013, Piatt has led more than 100 Level 1 and Level 2 Certificate Courses, impacting thousands of lives along the way. But his mission goes beyond the whiteboard. As the owner of Coast Range CrossFit in Gilroy, California, a husband, and a father of two, Piatt lives the standard he teaches: real food, daily movement, kindness, and consistency. For Piatt, wearing the red shirt isn’t just a role; it’s a responsibility. Being on Seminar Staff means more than teaching others. It means holding yourself to a higher standard, every single day. It means staying curious, staying humble, and never arriving. “To be on the CrossFit Seminar Staff means that I’m constantly pursuing excellence,” Piatt says. “I’m constantly pursuing the white-belt mentality of never feeling like I’ve made it.” — CrossFit is the world’s leading platform for improving health and performance. In the 20 years since its founding, CrossFit has grown from a garage gym in Santa Cruz, California, into the world’s most effective program for improving health and performance through nutrition and exercise. CrossFit is the world’s leading provider of accredited performance-based training courses and certifications and has more than 125,000 credentialed coaches across the world. The program can be modified to welcome people of all ages and abilities and millions of people have already experienced CrossFit’s transformational benefits in more than 13,000 affiliated gyms across 158 countries. CrossFit also directs the CrossFit Games season, beginning with the annual CrossFit Open, through which athletes at every level compete worldwide, and culminating in the CrossFit Games, where top athletes compete for the title of Fittest on Earth®. Learn more about CrossFit → https://www.crossfit.com/what-is-crossfit/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=youtube&utm_campaign=crossfit Find a CrossFit gym near you → https://www.crossfit.com/map?utm_source=social&utm_medium=youtube&utm_campaign=crossfit Find CrossFit Courses near you → https://www.crossfit.com/courses-near-you?utm_source=social&utm_medium=youtube&utm_campaign=crossfit View CrossFit workouts → https://www.crossfit.com/workout?utm_source=social&utm_medium=youtube&utm_campaign=crossfit Subscribe to CrossFit email newsletters → https://www.crossfit.com/newsletters/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=youtube&utm_campaign=crossfit Learn more about the CrossFit Games → https://cf.games/games-learn-more