CrossFit: Sara Sigmundsdottir joins Noah Ohlsen and Training Think Tank mastermind looking to fulfil potential
- The 28-year-old Icelandic star moving back to the United States to join stable of athletes
- ‘I’m learning to trust my body again while also trying to improve my fitness’ says Sigmundsdottir
Sara Sigmundsdottir has tapped Max El-Hag as her new coach in the hope of returning to winning form in the CrossFit world.
The move, first reported by CrossFit blog Morning Chalk Up, comes as Sigmundsdottir faltered yet again on the biggest stage. She came 37th in 2019, and 19th in 2020 after finishing no worse than fourth the previous three seasons.
“I’m learning to trust my body again while also trying to improve my fitness,” she said. “I’m also learning to trust someone else in that capacity. I was my own coach for a season so I’m pretty bad at communicating, which means I’m also relearning that process and putting that into someone‘s hands. It’s a big area of growth for me.”
Sigmundsdottir is trying to tap the same type of magic Ohlsen found with El-Hag. After Ohlsen joined the Training Think Tank crew, he came fourth in 2017, sixth in 2018 and second in 2019. At one point during the 2019 CrossFit Games, Ohlsen was leading five-time CrossFit champion Mat Fraser (who has since retired) but faltered in the last few events.