Fay Watson

40+ year old women can be strong, fit and beautiful.  All it takes is motivation and a goal.  Amazing women abound, these are women who have gotten off the couch and left the bonbons on the counter!  These are the women over the age of 40 who love Crossfit as much as I do.

Heide Mairs, Fay Watson, and Christy Hoffman

I met a couple of these women last year at Crossfit Champions in Tomball's Oktoberfect Obliteration II, last year.  The master's division for this competition was 45-54.  Angie Bender and Betty Smith are wonderful Crossfit Athletes who show us how to be tough and beautiful!  This year they were back again along with some more women who were reaching out and trying something competitive, some for the first time.  Christy Hoffman is such a beautiful strong woman she placed second this year and really pushed me to do my best.  I met Nellyn Laurel at Crossfit 1525's Barbell's for Boobs Fundraiser.  Nellyn was definitely out of her comfort zone, and she put it all out there and worked hard during each workout!

Martha fighting through her 2 kettlebell snatching!

Beautiful Crossfitters Over the age of 40- Stacy, Tina, Martha and Fay

This past weekend, I met several women at a competition in Tomball.  Watching these women inspires me to keep it up!  One woman Tina, has only been doing Crossfit for 4 months!  She signed up to compete in the scaled woman's division.  She has an amazing positive outlook and an infectious smile.  She struggled with the weights but worked through and finished every WOD.  Martha Flanagan was the only woman in the Masters 50+ division.  Her enthusiastic attitude and good Crossfitting skills helped her get through these tough workouts! Martha, her coaches and fellow Crossfitter Stacy Fitts are all from Mt. Pleasant, TX.  Neither Stacy nor Martha had ever competed before.  Stacy is very strong, beautiful and developing into a great Crossfit athlete.  Congratulations!  You two were great!  Thank you for coming to this competition, getting to know you was the best part of the whole weekend!

I hope that meeting these women through me will inspire someone one else in their 40s to 50s to get up and try Crossfit.  You start out with scaled weights and movements.  As you build strength and endurance you will be amazed at what you can do!  Each of us has a story, come visit a Crossfit Box and talk to someone "our" age.  You will find that we all started our fitness journeys in different places but the one thing you will find that we all have in common is that we have all come to love CROSSFIT!