Wednesday, November 9th, 2016

She was not born a naturally gifted athlete nor blessed with the genetic make up of a six pack. She never played sports and couldn’t hang from a bar for ten seconds.  For most of her life, she struggled with her weight, her body image and her eating… and tried every trick in the book to “fix it”. But the struggle was real and not going away. In 2011 she discovered CrossFit and for her, it refined ‘beauty’ and what it meant to be ‘skinny’.  She shifted the lens through which she viewed herself.  She focused on the weight she added to the barbell vs the weight that appeared on the scale. She cleaned up her eating and started fueling her body with the nutrients it needed (in fact, she’s now built a business off of this simple principle!).  And while she’s a beast for sure, she’s not a machine.  She is human.  She might have too many drinks on a night out.  She might fall face first into a Ben and Jerry’s pint on occasion.  But she realizes that 1) life IS about balance and 2) you just have to get back on track before you derail. Brittany is an experienced CrossFitter by almost any definition.  She’s far past that “CrossFit Honeymoon” where every day is a PR, yet she is proof the romance doesn’t have to end. Even at an elite level, her growth is staggering.  She went into this past year’s Open without bar muscle ups and got her first in that workout.  And then proceeded to hit four rounds of them.   She is a regular person doing exceptional things.  Scratch that — she is an exceptional person doing things a “regular person” can do — with a lot of work and heart. And we couldn’t be prouder of her.