Beth
33 years (34 in August)
3 y/o little girl who is a straight up threenager (but precocious and sweet and all that is awesome) and a husband (of 9 years) who has dabbled in CF but as a former juco bball player, he prefers his 3on3 basketball and weight lifting to WoDs.
l live in upstate NY and am a professor at an Ivy League school...I go up for tenure in the fall and am under just a tad bit of stress since it means either I have a lifetime job or am fired lol
Crossfit about 4x a week--don't do anything else.
Background--athlete my whole life: dance, gymnastics, cheerleading, basketball. Collegiate competitive dancer. Did some auxiliary lifting in college, but mostly just aerobics. Didn't take anything that seriously until I found CF two years ago looking for some way to reclaim my body after birth (and while nursing my daughter). My biggest strength, then, is coordination and body awareness..really helps with the Oly lifts and the gymnastics movements. Biggest weakness is endurance. I'm built for speed, not distance. haha

Fav thing about CF: meeting women who care more about what their bodies can do than what they look like. After having dance coaches giving body fat tests once a week and telling us to "just eat ice if we're hungry" or to "chew the food and then spit it out" if we crave something (and fighting an eating disorder), it's been an amazing thing. I was worried about starting MFP that I would get obsessive again, but groups like this--and all the positivity at the gym and in my support systems--have made it great, and not dangerous for me at all.

I'm not a regular contributor here, but I'll bite.

I returned to Crossfit regularly a few months ago after a year and a half struggle with viral gastroparesis that pretty much wrecked my life. I had been going to Crossfit for nearly a year before that and was really starting to see some nice gains and weight loss when I got sick. It's been really exciting to me that the gastroparesis is finally going away - I never thought I'd miss cruciferous veggies so much. And it's made it really obvious to me that diet has a HUGE impact on how I feel and how I perform athletically. I tried to continue CF during the year and a half I was sick, and I just couldn't do anything, I had no energy and when you feel pukey all the time you don't want to do something that will make you feel more pukey.

I CF 3x a week, bike 3 hours a week (which is currently a little over 30 miles a week, trying to improve that distance). I usually try to get up to the mountains to hike or ski once a week, but the past few months have not been kind to me in that regard. I was never interested in athletics or an active lifestyle until I moved to Colorado and decided one day that I was going to climb a mountain, 8 years ago. I was always the slowest kid in gym, and spent a lot of years with untreated hypothyroidism and a whole lot of really bad nutritional and health information that led me to get really fat.

My husband's idea of staying fit is strolling around the block a few times and maintaining a healthy weight. I honestly think he'd die if he tried Crossfit.

I'm in the process of re-entering the workforce - we have a small business that we started so I could stay home with the kids while they were small, but they're old enough now that I can go get a real job.

I have two kids, a 12 year old boy and a 9 year old girl. My 12-year-old does the grown-up Crossfit classes with me and has been for a year, but he'll have to cut back once soccer season ramps up again. Both my kids play competitive soccer.

One of my gym's two owners is a woman, and the women that work out there are some of the most badass, supportive, awesome women I've ever met - and no cattiness or tearing each other down. The men are pretty awesome too, they're respectful and encouraging and there's none of that experience I hear women talk about with men being objectifying or telling women that they don't want to get bulky or being rude. (It might help that the other owner is a cop, and the gym has a large population of cops, firefighters, EMTs, and ex-military, both men and women.)

^^ I would move to Edinburgh in a heartbeat, lovely city

31
Childless
Partner-less (I'm a picky, sensitive, defensive, untrusting a**hole )
One cat
Based in Cambridge, UK

Been doing Crossfit since January 2014 and am actually considering switching to pure powerlifting and competing (I want to compete but I suck too much at gymnastics and cardio to consider it worthwhile in CF)
Have had problems with my weight since my early twenties and I've fluctuated a lot between obese and underweight.

Full time job in IT maintaining and developing web-based business applications.

I've spent my entire career in a man's world and Crossfit is the first place where women haven't been held back, objectified and gawped at for lifting heavy weights.

I also started rowing regularly. I mean real rowing, in a crew. It's really popular in Cambridge and it's also very social.

Andy
38 in August
Single with no children, no pets
St. Louis, MO
Work in IT
Doing CF for 2 years
I try to go 5 or 6 days a week
Background – athlete in high school and college, got really heavy once I was done with sports and spent most of my mid to late 20s and early 30s as an obese person. Started my fitness journey back in 2011 and lost over 100 lbs just doing regular stuff at Gold’s Gym. I started with CrossFit because I moved and there was not a Gold’s location that was convenient to my new place but there was a CrossFit gym.

I enjoy all the challenges that CrossFit presents and it is a good feeling whenever I PR. It has also helped to foster an appreciation for women who can lift heavy objects.

Amanda
31
domestically coupled with a cute redheaded child - see profile pic
Accountant by day
Coach youth girls lacrosse as well in my spare time

I've been doing crossfit for almost 2 yrs, but since October of last year been mainly on the powerlifting/strongman programming. My gym has evolved more to that style as people come and go.

Like some of you, i was an athlete all my life til College was over, them reality set in, and worked a job that i easily put in 60hrs during not busy times, up to 100hrs a week others. No time for much else other than work and sleep. I was coming up on 30 and said YIKES!, I need to get my *kitten* in gear.

So now i try to hit the gym 3-5 times a week and eat IIFYM, who cant like a eating plan that can include hashbrowns, ice cream and gummy bears... YUM!

Ashleigh
32
New York, NY
Married for 5 years, no kids, but 2 fur-babies (French Bulldog and tabby cat)
Work in finance
CF 1 year, 10 months
5-6 days a week

I generally WOD 5 days a week with 1 day of barbell training and I just added in 1-2 days of running. I started CF with absolutely no athletic background (except for high school basketball and lacrosse). I started essentially from scratch and have been gradually getting stronger and fitter. I initially lost 35 lbs and then have steadily gained about 7 of those pounds back over the last year and a half. I'm working on leaning out but I do believe some of those added pounds are muscle.

I discovered that I'm a very fast rower (500m - 1:37.7, 2000m - 7:28.7, 5000m - 19:59.7) and I've worked up to a 275lb deadlift and 200lb back squat! These are things that I never though I was capable of.

As someone who is generally bored very easily, CF has kept me coming back day after day. I love the unpredictability of the WODs and the feeling of accomplishment when I've finished something that I didn't think was possible.

I don't tend to post here often, but I do lurk a bit...

I'm Stef - 31; married and I have an almost 2 year old daughter.

I found Crossfit in 2012 after yo-yoing back and forth between dieting and cardio workouts... I finally got into lifting a bit via New Rules of Lifting for Women, and then came across a Living Social deal for 1-month of Crossfit. I was hooked instantly.

It seems like just after I started to gain some strength and confidence in my lifts, I got pregnant. I continued to WOD until I was about 7 months pregnant and got back into it about 8 weeks after my daughter was born. Since that time, I've struggled with trying to find balance between my home, work and Crossfitting lift, but I finally feel like I found my routine.

I try to WOD at least 3 (sometimes 4) times a week, I compete when I can - I've done 2 competitions so far this year and am looking to do at least one more this year.

32, married with a 5 & 3 year old we live in Idaho and I work for the Government. I started CF September 2014 on a whim with my sister in law that was visiting. It was miserable and I loved every minute of it.
I played volleyball and basketball in high school but I've never been a natural athlete. I like the challenge I get every time I step into the box and I really like that for the most part it's a challenge against myself. My husband joined me this past February, he didn't even finish the WOD. To my surprise he now there just as much as me, Friday night dates are often a 9 pm WOD. We have a whole other family now, it's been amazing for our kids and marriage. Not to mention our waistlines!

Jeff

45 years old, born just outside of Boston MA and now live in Belmont, MA. Married (second time has been a charm) with no kids and no pets. I love cats, but the landlord won't allow them.

I started Crossfit almost two years ago. I have lifted weights fairly consistently since I was 26 or so. Before that I had strong legs from soccer but my upper body was pathetically weak. I played sports my entire life (baseball/softball, basketball, soccer) until I tore my ACL at age 22. I pretty much stuck to softball after that and stopped that a few years ago.

I'm definitely as strong as I have ever been and have CF to thank for that. I dropped about 20 lbs when I started CF, but since that initial drop I've dropped and gained the same weight 3-4 times. My goal with the Paleo challenge I'm doing now is to finally get underneath that "floor" weight where I keep stalling and get down to my first weight goal, which would be around 240lbs.

I want to evaluate what I look like at that weight and then decide where I go from there (either start adding muscle or cut further fat.) I've never been that weight at my current muscle mass so I really don't know what I'd look like there. But I want to find out.

I'm a financial advisor for a large bank and love helping people meet their financial goals and helping them build a financial plan they can feel confident about.