Carly Archer

I grew up playing competitive fastball. I’ve been on teams that won championships at the provincial level. I played varsity 3 of my post-secondary years and nursed an injury for the other one. I was named MVP in my last year of club ball and decided it was the perfect time to retire. I started coaching fastball and have done private lessons and teams from ages 12 and up to Ontario College Ball. When it was no longer cool to get mad when we lost, I  learned how to play hockey and I’ve turned my baseball swing into a 200-yard drive down the fairway (or a slice into the rough).

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I once was pretty fit and strong and then I got married, had kids, and craft beer got really popular. Now I’m relearning how to be fit and strong as a wife, mom, and lover of beer.

I love seeing people surprise themselves. So often we downplay our abilities in life to “fit in” and the gym is somewhere that embracing those strengths and trying new things is admirable and badass. My favorite takeaway from my post-grad degree is creating team environments from silo environments. GritFit adapts to all levels of abilities and strengths so everybody is running their own race, but at the end of the workout, we all finish as a team.

Also, coaching people through cleans and seeing it click. That is money.