Beauty in Strength

CrossFit can change how a woman both defines beauty and feels about her body, as Rita Benavidez, Jackie Perez, Erin Cianciolo and Andrea Ager discuss in this video.

Once thinking beauty was a picture of a waify woman on a magazine, Benavidez feels differently now. “My perception of beauty has changed over the past few years,” Benavidez says. “True beauty … is strength and fitness, and confidence in yourself.”

Perez was originally motivated by trying to be skinny. “That wasn’t getting me anywhere,” she says. “With CrossFit, I set goals. I want to deadlift 225, I’m going to hit that faster than I’m going to look in the mirror and like what I see.”

Ager says putting in the work is key to getting what you want. “I think that hard work and the way that your body looks go so hand-in-hand,” she says. “Once you do get a body that you want, you’re very proud of it … you’re proud of what your body can do.”

Through CrossFit, these women are confident, stronger and fitter. They are mothers, tomboys, coaches. They are CrossFit athletes.

(CrossFit Journal Sept. 2012)

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WOD – 01.09.2013

All Levels:

Skill/Strength work:  7×2 touch-n-go power cleans (heaviest possible)

4 rounds for time of:

400m run

10 ring dips

20 wall balls

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Level One:

Skill/Strength work:  7×2 medball cleans

4 rounds for time of:

400m run

10 dips

20 wall balls

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Teen:

“Warrior Wednesday”

15 minute AMRAP of:

100m farmer walks

8 box jumps

100m sprint

8 dumbbell or Kettlebell push press

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