Tell us about your sports and fitness background?

Played some cricket and other sport at school, but became progressively unfit/unhealthy throughout the next 14 years.  Started maintaining a regular exercise/gym schedule from the beginning of 2011 and have now lost nearly 40kg.

What do you do for a profession?

I’m a lecturer in theology.

How did you get involved in CrossFit?

After improving my health and fitness I felt like I needed a challenge to push myself towards the next set of goals that I had – and after some encouragement from friends who were coming to Andfit (and some rather persistent prodding from my wife) I thought I’d give it a go.

Do you remember what your first WOD was?

 It was a series of TABATA exercises – pull ups, push ups, squats, etc.  It was a shock to the system!

When did you start coming to AndFit?

Oct 2012.

What is your favorite WOD/Movement(s)? Least favorite?

Favourite movement is probably deadlift… and I love double-unders.  But I am terrible at wall balls.

 

What are your short term and long term goals of CrossFit?

 

Short Term: In the short term I’d like to be able to do pull-ups RX in the WODs.

Long term: To do as many WODs RX as possible.

 

What is your biggest accomplishment in CrossFit so far?

I think even being able to cope with CrossFit feels like an accomplishment to me given how hopelessly out of shape I had become…  and being able to do pull-ups and sit-ups is something that I’ve never been able to do before in my life so that feels great.

 

What is something that we don’t know about you?  (Interesting fact, accomplishment you are proud of, obscure/unique talent, funny story, etc.)

My arms and legs are much shorter than someone with my length torso should have.  So if I’m sitting down I can appear quite tall, but when I stand up my height barely changes  I think this contributes to my lack of proficiency at wall balls!