A bit about Julija
If you could have a superpower what would it be?
Teleportation!
What would your specialist subject on mastermind be?
Very niche, but plants. Species, types, random facts.
Favourite type of coffee?
Oat Milk Latte
One item of food you would never want to live without?
Cheese! Anything is better with melted cheese.
I first caught the CrossFit bug while visiting a friend in LA in 2012.
She asked if I’d come to a class with her and, with the confidence of someone who only did an occasional run on a treadmill and an odd group class at the local leisure centre, I said ‘sure!’.
‘But we do weights’, she warned me. ‘Sounds like body pump’, I shrugged.
That day saw some of the ugliest cleans in the history of lifting and some seriously questionable rowing technique, but it also changed everything for me.
Fast forward through 5 years of CrossFit & Olympic Weightlifting competitions, getting CF lvl1 and BWL lvl1 with no actual plan to use them, and I found myself saying yes to yet another thing I only had a vague idea about: temporarily coaching Beginner’s weightlifting at my local box.
It was totally love at first sight! Within 10 minutes of taking my first class I realised THAT was all I wanted to do. Working with people and helping them improve every day, figuring out what makes each person ‘tick’ and how to get the best results, being a part of someone’s journey to a complete change of mindset around fitness and strength; all of these reasons made it easy to take a gamble and exchange corporate life for that of a coach.
Another 5 years later and I am as in love with the process as ever – nothing makes me more excited than working with someone who maybe had never stepped in a gym before or is looking at unlocking a certain skill, or challenging themselves more!
- CrossFit Level 2 Trainer (CF-L2)