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Coach Janine Harris poses with her two daughters at CrossFit Postal. Photo by Sophia Lyons
CrossFit Coaches Ensure
Exercise Is For Everyone Tucked next to Publix and behind the post office on Blowing Rock Road in Boone, CrossFit Postal is a gym with pull-up bars and racks lining the walls, black mats covering the wide-open floor space and athletes joking with each other as they arrive for their workout. Air and light enter the building through the
two large open garage doors. On their way out the door, a few athletes ask coach Beth Sibley about some post-workout drinks in the gym’s fridge, and they stop to talk for a few minutes. She has been coaching CrossFit since 2014 after CrossFit Postal’s owner encouraged her to give leading a try.
“People accomplish stuff in CrossFit that they never thought they would,” Beth says. “Like a pull up, or just being able to squat a heavy-for-them weight. And so, being a part of that is really exciting and really rewarding.” Continued on next page September-October 2021 | 23
