Watching Katrin Davidsdóttir made me start — training made me stay

I got into CrossFit after watching Katrin Davidsdóttir compete and thinking I wanted a piece of that. Reality check: what they make look effortless takes years of work. The double-unders I admired on screen took me 12 months just to do passably.

But somewhere in that process I stopped caring about looking like Katrin Davidsdóttir and started caring about my own progress with benchmark workouts. That shift is when CrossFit really got its hooks in me. the community atmosphere in a good box is the part nobody sees in the highlights. membership costs vs. regular gyms is the part nobody mentions either. Both are real. Both are worth knowing.