Start Your Engines: My Unstoppable CrossFit Journey

About this book

You dont get biceps like Briggs by giving up when the going gets tough CrossFit superstar Sam Briggs aka The Engine is a true hero in the sport with a level of endurance unparalleled in the game. This is the story of how she got to the top and battled with everything she had to stay there. Sams memoir takes in the whole story from being kicked out of ballet lessons as a child but being accepted on the boys sports teams to working as a firefighter in West Yorkshire for ten years tackling dangerous and adrenaline-fueled situations on a daily basis and to taking up CrossFit at the comparatively ancient age of 27. Sam tells of what it took to become champion a mere three years later and after a year out with a broken patella. Despite the numerous setbacks and debilitating injuries that have plagued her in the years that followed when most other athletes would have thrown in the towel Sam has fought and continues to fight to be the very best that she can be. Start Your Engines is the story of how with a combination of grit training and dogged motivation its never too late to achieve your dreams.