The Gym That Proved I Wasn’t Crazy

In 2014, I co-founded Momentum Training, a gym tucked away in East London’s gritty backstreets. To most people, it looked like just another CrossFit box.

To me, it was everything.

It was the moment I finally proved, to myself and everyone else, that I wasn’t crazy.

Six years earlier, I’d walked away from a secure, well-paying corporate job in Australia. Four years before opening the gym, I’d stepped off the corporate ladder entirely to become a personal trainer.

I left behind the suit, the steady paycheck, and the “respectable career” I’d worked so hard to build.

My dad thought I was nuts. My mates didn’t get it.