My name is Alanna Fisk Colón. I've been doing CrossFit for 5 years. I reside in Florida.
I have a gymnastics background of 10 years before CrossFit. Turned out not to be my thing. The conditioning I was taught in this phase of my life though is a different story.
My gymnastics coach was a past navy seal. I remember as a child, him screaming at all of us to hold a hollow and flutter kick; I recall him telling all of us to come down from a pull-up hold because we were starting over, since “so-and-so” decided it was a good idea to drop from the bar. I remember him whispering in my ear, “Never let anyone see you cry”. It felt like it was a battle each time I showed for practice to prove I couldn’t be broken.
The conditioning pieces were run like I really was at BUDs. Those days have been burned into my psyche. So as you could imagine I took to the brutality of CrossFit training really well when I found it.
I love CrossFit because it gives me the opportunity to choose being strong minded over accepting the world as it’s given us.
