Bad ass Christmas Abbott is one of my favorite ladies to follow on social media!! At only 5 feet, 3 inches and 118 pounds this women has a tone of spark inside of her! Her hard work ethic and zest for life is so contagious! I started training in CrossFit in 2012 and stumbled upon her, and I was instantly a fan! Christmas has been through a lot of ups and down over her life. It is funny how life takes dips and turns and some of those experiences shape us for the rest of our lives. One of those moments was when her and her younger sister got into a bad car accident. It changed her and she turned down the wrong path, smoking, drinking and partying.
Another turn came when she was in her 20’s and she decided to work in Iraq as a civilian contractor. Planning on staying there for only one year, she realized how much good she was contributing and ended up staying for four years. When she was there someone showed her a video of a CrossFit workout and she was instantly hooked. She found a passion for life through CrossFit and started training. CrossFit has helped Christmas to create an amazing foundation for how her life is today. She is a business owner, CrossFit competitor, CrossFit Invoke owner and head coach, Olympic Lifter, Trainer and most recently works as a pit crew front tire changer in NASCAR.
“My intentions is not to blaze trails or to walk in the footsteps of women who have come before me it is simply to follow my passion, allow my hart to lead me, and so far I like where it’s taken me.”
~ Christmas Abbott
Christmas Abbot is from Lynchburg, Virginia and currently resides in Raleigh, North Carolina. Since she has opened her own gym she has become a member of the highly-respected CrossFit Headquarters Seminar Staff. She also runs a Christmas Abbott Workshop to help people work on their nutrition and their workouts. In December 2013 she also became nationally ranked as an Olympic Lifter at the American Open.
Christmas named her french bulldog “Fran” after a CrossFit workout that is considered as CF’s100m sprint. It consists of three rounds, 21-15-9 reps of 95-pound barbell thrusters and pull-ups, all done for time. Fran is hard! After two minutes, even elite athletes hit a wall, struggling to maintain speed and intensity. 