Final up to date on April third, 2025
Jennifer Muir has completed an important deal in a brief interval. After discovering CrossFit in 2021, she rose by means of the ranks rapidly, incomes the title of Fittest within the UK by 2023.
She has gained extra expertise over time, not solely by competing within the CrossFit season but additionally in low season occasions corresponding to FitFest and TYR Wodapalooza.
- As Muir racks up increasingly more competitors expertise across the globe, she will get nearer to her final aim: qualifying for the CrossFit Video games.
Some Background
Muir started aggressive sports activities as a swimmer at 9 years previous. She excelled there for 5 years, and shortly found she additionally had a pure expertise for operating.
She determined to check out for the Scotland Triathlon group, utilizing a motorbike purchased particularly for the event from Gumtree, the UK’s equal of Craigslist. She made the group at 14 years previous.
After two years of competing in triathlons, Muir discovered it difficult to steadiness a heavy educational load along with her coaching, so she stepped away from the game. Nonetheless, she was in a position to transition into one thing totally different.
- “After I began College, I went to the fitness center to maintain match, and there was a powerlifting group there, who stated, ‘Hey, you’re actually robust, it’s best to begin powerlifting,’” Muir advised Morning Chalk Up.
She competed in powerlifting for a yr and a half, which prolonged into 2020 and the COVID-19 lockdown.
- “As a result of powerlifting coaching is so totally different than triathlon, the place you solely prepare 4, perhaps 5 instances every week, and perhaps one session, I used to be bored. I had all this time, so I began operating, biking once more, and swimming out within the lochs,” Muir stated.
At the moment, a pal made a suggestion that modified the path of her life.
- “It was my greatest pal; she stated, ‘You’d truly be actually good at CrossFit – you’ve acquired this endurance base and a energy base.’ I had all of it simply beside the gymnastics. However at the moment, I had no social media, so I had by no means even heard of CrossFit. I didn’t even comprehend it existed,” Muir stated.
A Turning Level
As soon as the lockdown was lifted in 2021, Muir joined the native CrossFit field, which was solely 400 meters from her mother’s home. She had simply by no means observed it earlier than.
Throughout her first week at CrossFit Kirkintilloch in Glasgow, her class tackled Open Workout 20.1, which consisted of 10 rounds of eight ground-to-overhead lifts and 10 burpees over the bar. After finishing the exercise, she and her coach reviewed her rating and in contrast it to scores from 2020. They realized her rating would have ranked among the many prime on this planet.
After that, she was hooked. When she left the triathlon group, she missed the competitors and felt aimless, missing function.
- “I studied sport at college, however nonetheless, I didn’t know what I wished to do and every little thing like that. So I knew that once I joined CrossFit, the competitors aspect was all the time the component that I wished – it was by no means a hold match factor for me. I wished to compete,” Muir stated.
From that time, she began setting objectives. Within the 2022 season, she completed the Quarterfinals in ninety fifth place. From there, she realized that with one other yr of coaching, she might break into the highest 60 in her area, which she completed by a large margin.
- She went on to compete in Semifinals in each 2023 and 2024, simply barely lacking a qualifying spot however edging nearer every time (she completed fifteenth in 2022 and twelfth in 2023).
In September 2024, she signed a contract with Adidas, a choice that supplied her with safety and confidence.
- “I simply have a lot respect for the model. I’m not a CrossFit Video games athlete, and nonetheless, they’re taking me on,” she stated. “It simply speaks volumes about them as a model and the way supportive they’re.
This partnership feels very full circle for Muir as properly.
- “I’ve been utilizing their merchandise my complete coaching profession – in triathlon, I wore their spikes, in powerlifting, I wore their lifters, and now this… I’m so grateful,” Muir stated.
What’s Subsequent
She completed the Open in 57th place worldwide, plans to take part within the In-Affiliate Semifinals, and can be dedicated to the Wodland Fest, one of many two European In-Individual Qualifying Occasions. Moreover, she accomplished the World Health Challenge qualifiers, the place she at present ranks unofficially in twenty third place.
- “So I’ve some good alternatives to compete in a brief little bit of time,” Muir stated.
Along with qualifying for and competing within the 2025 CrossFit Video games, Muir has a big aim of collaborating within the Rogue Invitational. Final yr, she completed eighth within the qualifiers, and the considered competing on her dwelling turf because the fittest in Scotland, surrounded by family and friends, is a dream she hopes to appreciate.
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