Jess Towl: Longevity, Patience & Elite Performance

Yeah.

And then where did the transition from like, did you still do triathlon when you did CrossFit and did you prefer the like longer CrossFit workouts? And then where did you go from CrossFit to get into High Rocks? Who told you about it or?

transition from triathlon to crossfit kind of happened because you hear this a lot in a lot of different sports but the politics of british triathlon at years of it wore me down and doing things like ticking the boxes to qualify for the olympics but then not being selected and then doing another four-year cycle and the same thing happening again i got to like I think I've got to like 19 or 20 years old and I've been doing it since I was 14.

And I just was like, I don't enjoy it anymore.

Like I'm chasing this four year cycle all the time and I'm just going to knock back.

So my coach at the time said, if you're not enjoying it, you're not having fun.

There's no point doing it.

Take a break.

In that break, I decided to go to the gym and start doing some strength training, which I actually never did when I was a triathlete.

I never did strength training.

Yeah, because I...

Back then, it wasn't really known that you should do strength.

And I remember the first day in the gym that I couldn't squat an empty barbell.

I remember the coach gave me a broomstick squat because I just physically couldn't stand up with a 15 kilo barbell.

So I kind of transitioned into strength training after I stopped triathlon and was like, this is so cool.

Like, I feel amazing.

And then that kind of transitioned into CrossFit when I moved to Dubai.

I found CrossFit really when I moved here because the fitness thing here, like, you know, is insane.

It's big.

Yeah.

What was the move to Dubai? Like what made you move to Dubai? Sorry, from the UK?

Yeah.

So I graduated with a degree in journalism and everywhere at the time.

I was not.

I don't know why I was doing that,