With the Rx WOD Girl Shorts now finally available to purchase ONLINE we are very excited to be adding to another phenomenal female athlete to our incredible team. This sponsorship has been particularly difficult to stay quiet about as we’ve been talking to her for a while but wanted to wait until the women’s shorts were available to make it official. Now that the shorts are done we couldn’t be more pleased to announce that our newest female athlete is Taryn Romanowich from FUNCTION in Yorkton Saskatchewan!
Taryn is a co-owner and Coach at CF FUNCTION and an incredible athlete. Just like Steve Howell, and other top level competitive CrossFit athletes, Taryn works closely with one of the most well respected coaches and trainers in #CrossFit, CJ Martin of CrossFit Invictus. Finishing 14th in this year’s Canada West Regionals, Taryn is an amazing athlete and is on a serious course to keep moving up the leader board. Here’s a little bit more about Taryn:
“Being a small town tomboy, I occupied myself with sports. Hockey, basketball, soccer, you name it – I played it. The only way to keep ourselves sane in this small town was to play sports. I fell in love with basketball in particular, and it became who I was. For as long as I can remember, basketball has always been the pillar of my identity.
Enter CrossFit.
It’s 5 AM. We’re in a globo gym. “Fran”. I don’t know what I’m doing – thrusters? pull-ups? I can’t do a pull-up! Eight minutes later, I have no idea what just happened, but whatever it is, I’m hooked.
My CrossFit career started in a globo gym, much like many others. We would haul the rowers from the cardio center upstairs, to downstairs in front of the squat rack. We’d elbow the guys doing cable rows out of the way so we could do pull-ups. We were the ones that got into trouble for making too much noise, dropping the barbell, and spreading chalk everywhere. Sprinting out the front doors, nearly knocking people off their feet, so we could get our 400m run in.
I entered my first local competition two years ago, and after placing fourth, I never looked back. I competed at the Canada West 2010 Regionals with the CrossFit Regina team, placing fourth. But after opening our Affiliate, and working with some of the best coaches in the industry, I took my first shot at individual this year and placed fourteenth in the Canada West Regional. With a fire underneath me, and all the focus and support in the world, I’m set for 2013.
Before I was able to realize it, CrossFit became my identity. This sport is everything to me: as cliché as it is, I eat, sleep, and breathe for CrossFit. My life revolves around this sport. My life *is* CrossFit.”
We pinch ourselves daily to have the opportunity to work with the incredible athletes that have come on board with our brand and been so incredibly loyal. They all have a love for the sport of CrossFit that pours through in everything that they do which is exactly what we want the Rx brand to be about… the sport and the athletes first. Taryn is certainly no exception. She is so positive and upbeat it’s impossible to be down around her! We’re excited to help support Taryn in her CrossFit journey. Please help us welcome her to the team. I keep coming back to Steve’s quote from earlier in the year but no one has said it better….
THIS TEAM IS A FORCE.
After tagging along with a friend to a couple of CrossFit classes I was shocked to find how unfit I really was. At the beginning, because I was very cardio based, I would boycott certain workouts and attend workout days when there was running in the WOD. I was intimidated at first, as there where so many things I couldn’t do. I was so excited about my first pullup until I realized that I needed to do them without using a band as a trampoline. Eventually I did my first ‘kipping pull-up’ and there was no turning back, I was addicted. Everyday athletes from my gym push me to become better and challenge me to exceed my limits. Instead of being intimidated by the heavy weights and movements, that I cannot do, I now feel motivated and driven to work harder to conquer my weaknesses. Now that I have been doing CrossFit for about two years, I can push myself to beat my previous WOD scores/times showing that I am getting fitter and stronger. I may not be where I want to be as a CrossFit athlete yet, but I am closer than I was yesterday and I will be even closer tomorrow.
Additionally, I have always had a reason or a specific goal as an athlete; this was lost when I left soccer. The CrossFit Open and Regionals gave me back specific goals to help motivate my training. With a little extra focus and effort, my abilities as a CrossFit athlete steadily grew, as I set new personal records (PRs) each week and acquired skills in movements such as pistols, hang cleans and muscle ups that I never thought possible, all in just over a month. The Open and Regionals this year gave me that adrenaline and competitive rush that I thrive on and that I missed in my life. The exhilarating competition environment and required workouts created such an amazing experience that I can’t wait for next year. Now that Regionals are over, I am looking to set new and ambitious goals for next year. I am so excited to see what lies ahead for me in CrossFit as I still have so far to go and so much to work on. Instead of saying that I am soccer-fit, I am proud to say #IamCrossFit.
