Another of Australia’s young female triathletes is poised to take the sport by storm. For 21-year-old Courtney Gilfillan, a career in sport has been in her blood since the early days of school, born from a childhood roaming free in the countryside and spurred on by her athletic sisters and supportive parents. From her fi rst track running accolades, to her taste for triathlons in high school and relocation to the Gold Coast to concentrate on her chosen career, Courtney is a woman who believes triathlons are “not a sport as such, but a lifestyle.”

As I look back over the past 25 years of Ultra FIT’s history (I’ve personally been an avid reader for 21 of those years), I remember reading with great interest about the latest equipment, classes and concepts that were hitting the industry each year.

Back in 1985, John Travolta was slipping on the leg warmers as a Rolling Stone journalist to attend Jamie Lee Curtis’ aerobics class in the hit movie, Perfect. People were stepping their hearts out, with beads of sweat falling off their mullets to the pumping beats of Wham, Chaka Khan, and The Pointer Sisters. 25 years later, the glam aerobics class workouts along with the hypertrophy sessions of fake tanned, bikini wearers are a thing of the past. In 2010, we’ve toughened up, and the fitness world is changing as we witness the rise of the intense, broad, and functional sport of CrossFit in gyms from Sydney to New York to London.

With more and more fitness bootcamps popping up across the country each year, Ultra FIT decided to catch up with the founder and global master trainer of Original Bootcamp, ‘Chief’ Brabon, to learn a little more about the program that started this fitness revolution.