Remy has come to us from CrossFit South Bay in southern California where she coached CrossFit for a year and a half and did nutrition programming and education for several gyms in LA. She runs a food education business called HuntGather Saute and is an aspiring ruminant farmer. She’ll only be with us until April at which time she’ll be moving to Mexico to start CrossFit Farm. Remy will be coaching Tuesday and Thursday nights and will be offering nutrition consulting, seminars, cooking classes, and will be running the next Paleo Challenge in January.
Here’s a little Q&A on Remy:
Why did you move to Chicago?
Darek and I moved to Chicago to save some money by living with my in-laws, to help them sell their restaurant and to gear-up up to move to south Baja (north of Cabo). We both went to high school and college in the Midwest, so we do understand what ‘pop’ means and that, alas, it will get colder than this. You will, however, see me wearing ski pants outside if it drops below 40.
What’s your favorite thing about CrossFit?
I’ve never seen such wide-reaching positive outcomes from any other activity/job/hobby. The CF crowd tends to promote bucking all kinds of status quo, seeking better answers, and it has shared goals across demographics where I think such community and cooperation is lacking in ‘society today’. And that’s all on top of looking good naked and living better/longer.
What’s your favorite thing to coach?
I’d say my favorite thing to teach are the olympic lifts. I trained for a time at Waxman’s Gym, a weightlifting gym where I became an enthusiast for the snatch and clean and jerk and where I gained an appreciation for what professional coaching and athleticism looks like and how to apply what I learned to the CrossFit world.
What’s your CF story?
I was a book-wormish, type-A gal who always had stomach aches and fatigue and didn’t get to participate in sports as a kid. I tried improving my health in college (Case, ’06, Biology) in all the normal ways: cycling, globo-gym, avoiding fat, being a vegetarian. After college I met a demanding working world (biz consulting, Accenture) with my health way in the toilet. No protocol from an MD, trainer, ‘healer’ seemed to help what docs told me were Crohn’s and pre-diabetes symptoms. So, I went to grad school for a dietetics (RD) program (heal thyself?). In ’09 I finally found CrossFit and through it, Robb Wolf and the greater ancestral health scientific community. With paleo I fixed mine and my fiance’s autoimmune symptoms (and pre-diabetes) and then several other friends’ and their friends’ myriad issues. I left the RD program out of a moral conflict: I couldn’t Rx the FDA/ADA/USDA protocols to healthy people let alone sick ones, a required part of the curriculum. With that, I decided to started my own food education business, pursue my dreams and complete the package with learning to farm. The long version is here as a CFSB blog post.
What do you want to accomplish by the time you leave Chicago?
- I’d like to meet/exceed my prior lifts and a muscle-up would be sweet
- I’d like to be able to talk shop (farming) in Spanish (¿Quieres tutor mí?)
- Do at least one of my epic cooking classes here in Chicago and I want to leave behind some excellent nutrition
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