August 2015

If I can do Crossfit, believe me when I say, anyone can do Crossfit. I started Crossfit in August 2014 after saying I was going to give it a try for months before. I had a goal to get fit and toned after having 3 children in 6 years but I really had no idea […]

It all started with a desire to run.  In 2012 I joined a running club when people started telling me I have the ability to run.  However, by 2013 I started to feel stagnant.  I wanted more and wasn’t getting it in that club. In 2015, I met a young lady by the name of Dallison

“CROSSFIT trains you for Life”, these were the first words from the coach at Crossfit 12-12-12 and I thought, how the hell could exercise equate to life? Then I tried it. Crossfit not only trains your body, it instantaneously reprograms your mind. I realised that simple actions like bending, lifting, carrying shopping bags – I

Having never experienced any formal gym training, starting from scratch with Crossfit was an intimidating prospect. Being initially dragged by my brother to CrossFit 12-12-12, I’m grateful to be a member today. When I first joined, I was the epitome of physical weakness; I struggled to lift the lightest weight, could barely run a few

There I was minding my own business, enjoying my Rev class… In runs a group of people I didn’t really know, looking “half dead”.   The group had just run from Las Cuevas to The Oval – WOW!!  I wondered if I could ever do that!   Dial back a year. I was on a

I thought I knew what to expect when I arrived for my first day at Crossfit 12-12-12. After all, though I was new to the gym, I’d been doing Crossfit in the United States for several years. I was well familiar with the movements — Olympic weightlifting, gymnastics feats, daunting numbers of burpees — and

In 2010 I was in a mess physically. I had been previously 200 pounds and admittedly I lost some of the weight very badly. I starved myself, eating like a rabbit and like so many other women I concentrated only on cardio and feared weights. I ran my life away- literally, spending hours on a

What CrossFit means to me. My story is not unique. In fact, it’s quite boring. I wasn’t plagued with illness, obese, crippled, depressed or suffering with an eating disorder. In fact, when I discovered CrossFit, I was just bored! I was an open water long-distance swimmer who was fed up with swimming up and down a pool

The only weight I panic about now is my back squat weight! I can sit here and tell you I used to weigh 300 plus lbs and that CrossFit helped me but I’m not. I’m going to tell you that CrossFit changed my attitude, I went from having an obsession with my bathroom scale to

Strength isn’t only about how much weight you can clean or snatch. Strength is also about facing challenges with a positive attitude and a smile and an inner fighting spirit that can’t be daunted. This my friends is personified by one of the members of our Box: Yim. Read Yim’s short story about why she