About
A former high school cross-country and track runner, I stopped running in 2009 due to a ganglion cyst in my foot. While I had surgery to remove it in October ’09, it grew back and forced me to find an activity with far less impact. I love pushing my body to its limit and I hold myself to a high standard (a holdover from my years in cross-country), so it wasn’t until I began crossfit that I felt like I was finally getting the type of workout I could be proud of.
Crossfit forces me to constantly assess my progress and see how much faster/further/heavier I can go. I completely re-evaluated and took ownership of my diet. Food has become fuel. I’ve become incredibly in-tune with my body and how it functions at its highest level. I can say with complete confidence that Crossfit has changed my life and I’m grateful that I found it this early in my life. Oh yeah, and I’m completely obsessed with lifting heavy-ass weight.
Age: 24
Height: 5′4”
Weight: 135 lbs
Date of Birth: 1986
Place of Birth: Orange County, Calif.
Started CrossFit: February 9th, 2010
Cindy: 16.5
Fran: 5:42
Nancy: 15:37
Mr. Joshua: 22:00 (DL @ 115#)
Helen: 9:41
Back Squat: 180
Press: 85
Overhead Squat: 120
Dead Lift: 250
Push Jerk: 125
Bench Press: 120
Favorite WOD: Nancy
Favorite Lift: Dead Lift
Least Favorite WOD: Hansen
Least Favorite Lift: Clean and Jerk
2000m row: 8:09
Brooke, very impressed with your total commitment to the crossfit journey… I think you will be coaching me one day soon. The whole9 would be the max I could do the whole 30 would literally be impossible (WINE) that is where it all goes wrong. I will be reading your blog now.
Ha! Thanks Andre!
Those are some nice numbers! Can you do a muscle-up? I’ve never seen a woman do a muscle-up on a bar, but I believe it’s possible. Maybe you’ll be the first?
I haven’t done a muscle up yet, but hopefully by the end of the year. Bar muscle-ups were a movement for the advanced women’s division at a recent competition I competed in, so I won’t be the first unfortunately
I didn’t say a woman had never done one. I said I’ve never SEEN it. So you can still be the first one that I’ve ever seen! Just curious, how many women at that competition were actually able to perform a proper bar muscle-up?