Women's Fitness

‘I TRAIN TO FEEL HAPPY’

don’t think I did gymnastics from a young age and started athletics and cross country at the age of 11, but I only heard about CrossFit from a friend at school when I was 14. He explained how CrossFit combines many fitness elements such as gymnastics and athletics with skills work, and I thought it sounded like so much fun. So, I went along to my first kid’s class on a Sunday at the CrossFit IOM [Isle of Man] gym with my two best friends and, 10 years later, I’m still doing it.

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