Andrea Martinecowner/coach
Andrea has over a decade of experience in the Health and Fitness industry. In addition to being CrossFit Level 1, CrossFit Olympic Lifting, CrossFit Gymnastics and AFAA Personal Trainer certified she holds a Master's of Elementary Education and bachelor degrees in Health Promotion & Rehabilitation and Commercial Recreation.
She has worked and held different positions in a variety of fitness settings including as General Manager at World's Gym, Fitness Specialist at Chrysler and Personal Trainer and Group Exercise Coordinator at the North Oakland YMCA. Her athletic background includes state level high school swimming, triathlons, Olympic Lifting, short course running races and a variety of CrossFit competitions.
The depth and breadth of Andrea's experience has allowed her to develop a keen sense of what works in the gym and what doesn't. When she found CrossFit she found not only the most effective fitness program she'd ever worked with but also an entirely new lifestyle; a lifestyle of increased function and capacity, both physical and mental. A lifestyle that not only provides and promotes fitness but celebrates it.
Recognizing what CrossFit represents as a fitness protocol and its efficacy Andrea made the plunge, along with her husband Matt, into finally breaking out of the "globogym" scene to open Oakland County CrossFit in the spring of 2009. Since then she's built an entirely new respect for the lifestyle and community aspects of CrossFit.
Andrea has experienced and been party to the transformative powers of not only effective exercise but of a genuine community. Her family lives and breathes CrossFit but she's spent the last two years building another family of people from all walks of life centered on this same passion. Anyone willing to check their egos at the door and lay it all on the line are welcome under her roof at Oakland County CrossFit.
Andrea takes great pride in cultivating and caring for her family and when you join - or even visit - Oakland County CrossFit you aren't joining the gym, you are joining her family. This fact is no accident nor is it lost on any member.
