Gina’s Story

Gina wins ‘Fight Gone Bad’ Women’s Elite Title!

I moved here from Canada almost three years ago. Being a fitness nut I was looking for something I could take up that would give me the same challenge that ice hockey did back home and I struggled to find a sport that had that same intensity.

I had always kept fit at the gym but never thought of it as a place to compete or excel until I discovered CrossFit. The minute I tried it I was hooked! It was a way of turning my everyday workouts into a competition with myself and others.

Ryan Wall, who manages Lifestyle’s Wellington club, reckoned I was pretty good and encouraged me to start training for this particular citywide competition. It was a charity event that was run every year, this year raising money for the Life Flight Trust. The competition was one workout called ‘Fight Gone Bad’, which was the hardest 17 minutes of my life! But despite the butterflies I managed to put in a good effort and came out on top of the Elite Women’s division.

It really spoke volumes to me about the calibre of training we are doing at Lifestyle and inspired me to keep pushing with hope of doing another competition in the new year.

Gina Di Rienzo