2019 Third Fittest Woman Jamie (Greene) Simmonds PH145

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Jamie Simmonds, formerly Jamie Greene, made a huge splash in the CrossFit arena when, as a relatively unknown athlete, when won the 2016 CrossFit Open. Since then, she's gone on to compete at the CrossFit Games four times, and stood atop the podium twice: first as a member Team CrossFit Yas in 2016, and most recently, as an individual at the 2019 CrossFit Games. Perhaps even more remarkably, Jamie didn’t even start CrossFit until 2013. Her background as a gymnast and rugby player helped propel her from a novice athlete to a force to be reckoned with. Jamie’s journey to becoming the third Fittest Woman hasn’t always been easy: along the way she’s been challenged by a ruptured Achilles tendon, a team disqualification, and a dislocated shoulder, but her commitment to constantly improving herself has shaped her into a formidable competitor. Jamie is a native of New Zealand, but since 2014 has lived in Abu Dhabi where she coaches and trains at CrossFit Yas. She and I recently caught up to chat about her experience at the 2019 CrossFit Games, what her 2020 training season has looked like so far, and how she stays motivated and committed to her training in the face of challenges.

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0:13.0	I love competing and like just making like testing and just you know what you're like the last time you competed or the last time you did the sort of training block or whatever nice like building on like trying to get better. So there's that also like I know growing up like trying to get better. So there's that. Also like I know growing up like what my parents and my sister sort of like put into me
0:18.0	to try help me build like something like that.
0:21.0	So I'm like, for me I'm doing it for them and also like when I
0:24.1	compete at different places they come and see me so like I don't get to see like
0:28.1	mum dad Mr Becky much so they always travel over to like the games or come to Madrid a few times and
0:36.1	it's just like the motivation to train to like get them to watch me compete is
0:41.8	motivation in itself.
0:48.8	Hello and welcome to pursuing health.
0:50.9	I'm Dr. Julie Fushe, family physician and former cross-fit
0:54.1	games athlete. Here I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the
0:58.5	gap between fitness and medicine and support your journey toward your
1:01.9	healthiest self.
1:03.0	Thank you so much for joining me.
1:05.0	Now let's get started with this week's episode.
1:07.0	In this episode of the podcast,
1:10.0	I sit down with reigning third fittest woman on earth Jamie Simmons.
1:14.4	She stood on the 2019 Cross Fit Games podium with her maiden name Jamie Green,
1:19.4	but she's been busy since then including getting married to fellow games athlete Elliot Simmons
1:24.8	and spending some time in her home country of New Zealand earlier this year.
1:28.7	Jamie has a background as a gymnast and rugby player and she made a huge splash in the Cross Fit seam when
1:34.8	is a relatively unknown athlete she won the 2016 Cross Fit Games open.
1:39.8	Since then she's gone on to compete at the CrossFit Games four times and stood atop the podium twice.
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