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Athlete Spotlight: Laura Okumu
"The needs of the elderly and professional athletes vary by degree, not kind. Where one needs functional competency to maintain independence, the other needs functional mastery to maintain dominance." -Greg Glassman

Laura O and Coach Mini
Laura O began working out at CrossFit Oakland in November and has been consistently coming three days a week since she started. Laura has made big gains since November, not only has she changed her body composition (Zoning too!), but she has also made big strength gains (65#1RM Deadlift), and continues to increase her metabolic conditioning. At 74 years old, she is showing all of us how it's done! You are an inspiration to be around Laura--keep it up!
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You are a strong and beautiful woman Laura, keep up the good work!!! We are praying that Mike will age as gracefully as you.
Damn straight. I definitely hope to age as gracefully as Laura, and continue CFing.
Congratulations, Laura! You are an inspiration in so many ways...
Pretty inspiring, Laura. I'll know I've done something right if I'm CFing at 74 years of age with an 84 year-old Lance there sprinting right past me, as he usually does.
theres no say shes 74!?!! that's incredible.... Laura, you're awesome...
Whoa, this Laura chic is smokin' hot! Same last name as Nicole.. is this your sister? Clearly I've been coming to the wrong class times. The prettiest thing I see is Connor doing hand stand pushups. Deeeelish!
Nice job Laura, keep up the great work!!
Laura you rock!
Anyone interested in doing this wod mid day tomorrow at the track?
Laura - very impressive indeed!
Great job.
Laura - you're awesome. I hope I'm still CFing at 74.
very inspirational. I'm sending this post to my Dad. He'll have no excuses now :)
Right on, Laura. Look forward to meeting you in person.
Laura: you are an inspiration to us all! Keep up the good work!
Laura - You definitely inspired me to keep coming back to CFO in the early days. Thank you!
thanks a lot laura.
you've taken away my excuse for what may kindly be characterized as sub-optimal wods
and she's always smiling!
Laura -
Crossfitting at 74? What the...heck? That is amazing.
Laura,
Keep it up! I hope I'm still doing this at your age and beyond...I think we all do.
Thanks for the kind comments. I have super trainers--and the Crossfiters who work out when I'm there give me lots of support and encouragement. I really enjoy my (scaled) workouts and don't mind being the oldest person in the gym!!
Hooray for Laura! I'm sending you some Ohio love, lady:)