Portside Fitness (formerly CrossFit Portside) was formed in 2013. I fell
in love with the barbell while I was coaching collegiate basketball at
Louisiana Tech University. I was in my 5th year there when I decided I
was going to move to my home town and open a gym. People often ask, how
did you get the name Portside? My brother had just moved home and named
his periodontist clinic Gulfside Periodontics so I asked him if I could be
Gulfside and he said no! So then came the name Portside. What started
as just a place to get a badass workout out and trust me we still do but it
is much more than that. Our mission at Portside is to inspire our
members to be the best version of themselves! We do this by educating them
on nutrition and fitness. I want people to walk in no matter what kind
of day they had and leave with a smile on their face because they had the
best hour of their day with us. I could not be more proud to be the owner
of Portside Fitness and blessed to help so many people along the
Mississippi Gulf Coast.