Kelly (Burnsy) Burns

Posted by Lee on Jun 1, 2011 in Athlete of The Month, WOD | 7 comments

How long have you been doing CrossFit?
April 2009 weighing in at 70.9 kg Kelly walks into crossfit sc and thinks these people are all crazy! Did my workout went home few hours later was Wondering What caloundra hospital would be able to do for me as my body felt like it needed to be in plaster, well parts of it anyway

Was there a moment, or maybe a WOD (or its aftermath), when you realized you understood what CrossFit was about?
Alot of wods scared the he’ll out of me to a point I felt sick and didn’t want to go but today whatever xfit throws at me I really don’t care! I will give it a go so somewhere in that time I became addicted.

How has CrossFit impacted your life outside the box?
Outside the box I’m happier healthier and fitter, sometimes I have to tell my friends little white lies that I can’t go out or go for coffee I have told work no! plenty of times because secretly I have to go to crossfit

Do you monitor your diet?
Oh my diet is so clean compared to what it was ,when I am focused I follow the zone.90% of the time I will take the healthy choice and eating right does improve your training you feel so much better. Crossfit has taught me so much about nutrition, when I do have a bad day,and I do have bad days I hate it cause all it comes down too is laziness

Do you ever get discouraged or burned out? How do you overcome that?
Burnt out Ha I burnt out years ago crossfit has given me a new lease on life Discouraged yes absolutely but I’m not a person to dwell on things I move on quick !

Who in the CrossFit community inspires you and why?
I admire every athlete that does xfit and gives it there all.I really don’t need to look out of our box because everyone of you have a different quality that inspires me really we have miss America at xfit sunny coast , we have Lori who is 5mnths into motherhood and there she was in Sydney at the xfit regionals competing with the best of them. we have coach Klein one of the best on the sunshine coast! We have miss Burt who lives and breathes crossfit and so good at what she does I could say something about all of you but it would take so long I will tell you next time I see you:)

Which pr—for a WOD or lift—are you most proud of and why?
My proudest moment I have a lot but it would have to be the xfit games just recent. I was not doing them fullstop and Ellie’s sitting beside me and says mum are you going to register for the games I say no she says oh that’s disappointing you should have a go! So I did whether I got a score of 1or 101 I did it along with all the rest of you awesome athletes for 6wks RXD and made it to the end yehhhh !!!!!!

Thanks to everyone at crossfit sunshine coast for your encouragement and inspiring me it definitely is a different world we live in at crossfit and the people who choose not to be in it really don’t know what there missing out on BURNSY X

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