BROOKLYN SITTNER: Like, my hard work is paying off, like, Brooklyn you are 10 years old and
you are benching with 25-year-olds and 27-year-olds. It’s just super crazy.
BROOKLYN SITTNER:: Hi! I am Brooklyn Sittner, I am 10 years old and I am from Montana.
I am a Olympic Lifter and Crossfitter and my goal is to make it to
the CrossFit games when I am 14 years old in 2021.
COMM: This pre-teen has dedicated her life to CrossFit, the high intensity mix of gymnastics and weightlifting.
BROOKLYN SITTNER: When I wake up in the morning, I love having a purpose for life, I love having
a goal, a drive and I am not the type of person, when I wake up in the morning I just go with
the flow. That’s definitely not me. I am very competitive. I always want to be working
to make myself better.
COMM: Brooklyn first began training with her dad, Cory, when she was just 6 years old.
CORY SITTNER:: Brooklyn first got into the CrossFit about four years ago when I went
in. Yeah, she had that obsession for the rings and she would just go to the rings every day.
You know, I don’t even think she knew what they were. She would just like, try and pull
herself up on them for like, hours. And then all of a sudden she got her first muscle up
and it was like smile from here to here. Floodgates have been open ever since.
BROOKLYN SITTNER: How often do I workout? I workout six to seven days a week.
BROOKLYN SITTNER: And I am at the gym usually for eight to nine hours.
COMM: Brooklyn even home schools so she can focus on her training.
BROOKLYN SITTNER: Do I ever feel like I am missing out on other things kids are doing?
No, because when I am travelling I am thinking to myself, like, ‘Brooklyn, you are doing
awesome. Like, other kids in your neighbourhood aren’t going to be travelling to Miami and
all these other places and they are not going to get the same opportunity that you are getting with CrossFit.’
BROOKLYN SITTNER: The CrossFit Gym is my friends and family. So my neighbourhood friends they
are always like ‘Wow! You are so strong, like, I bet you could like, pick me up and
throw me across the room if you tried to.’
BROOKLYN SITTNER: Crossfit is the biggest family I have ever had. CrossFit is community.
So when I am with the people from my gym I am like, ‘Man, like, this is where I belong.’
COMM: At just 10 years old, Brooklyn is already out-lifting adults.
KELLY ARMSTRONG: It’s super fun to see her succeed and make crazy lifts on her percentages
and her body weight workouts that she beats me up the majority of the time; you would
never really expect that from a 10-year-old.
BROOKLYN SITTNER: Robin and Kelly’s face sometimes when we are doing pull-ups or something.
I will be like, ‘Oh, you're going to do pull-ups today. I can’t wait to race you.’
KELLY ARMSTRONG: Sometimes, all the time. Whatever!
CORY SITTNER: Brooklyn trains with me every day. I train with her. Now, like, she teaches
me just if not more than I teach her.
CORY SITTNER: So, it’s pretty amazing.
BROOKLYN SITTNER: My number one goal is to make the CrossFit games. When I achieve that
goal which I will, it will be the biggest reward I could ever have. I mean I have been
working at this thing for over three years now and so when I finally make it to the games,
I will be seven years into CrossFit and that’s the first year I can actually compete.
I would really also like to make the Olympics for weightlifting. Do I think I will ever
get bored of CrossFit? No way José, there is no way that I could ever get bored of CrossFit.
You can never beat the game of CrossFit, there’s no other sport that I could be in that would
make me as happy as I am with CrossFit.