Meet The 10-Year-Old CrossFitter Aiming For The Olympics

An amazing 10-year-old girl is weightlifting more than adults twice her age at her CrossFit gym - where she trains up to nine hours a day. Brooklyn Sittner, from Billings, Montana, started weight training at six-years-old after falling in love with the sport at her dad’s gym and can now lift 45 kgs (almost 100 lbs) - the equivalent weight of a teenage boy. The pint-sized weightlifter set three state records at the Montana State Weightlifting Championships - lifting a combined total of 74 kgs (163 lbs) - and is on her way to dominating at the Youth Nationals in June. Her ultimate goal is to compete in the Olympics when she turns 14.

Her love for the sport developed when she set eyes on the rings. She would try to pull herself up on and on and nowadays she does it with an extreme ease. She is highly competitive and doesn’t mind challenging others twice her size and triple her age. She takes them on and wins almost every time. Even her father admits that she has mastered the sport to a point where now she is the one training him.

Brooklyn is very happy doing what she does. She says that this way of living is giving her a purpose, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. She has dedicated a lot of her time to CrossFit, training 6 or 7 days a week and getting homeschooled so that she would have more time to do what she really loves. She admits that one of her favorite things about it is that she can travel a lot, something that her peers aren’t able to do.