In this episode Abby Ehler focuses on fitness specifically for sailing and chatting to three different guests who are related to sailing and or fitness in varying forms.  Her first guest is Joy Fitzgerald,  a competitive sailor having raced competitively inshore and offshore from a young age. She has competed in three Maxi Transatlantic races and iconic offshore races such as the Fastnet Race and Caribbean 600. Joy works as a Personal Trainer at Pinnacle Performance gym in Hamble, UK using her practical knowledge of the sport in order to optimize training for her sailing specific clients.
 
Kelly Lees originates from Durban, South Africa and works shore side in the Sailing industry, she is also a competitive power and olympic lifter.  Kelly talks about her journey into the fitness world and discusses various ways of getting started and what to look out for.
 
And finally Abby catches up with an old friend Haley Nixon who has through her career been a professional athlete, competing in the 2017 Ocean Racing World Champion, 2016 Worlds Surfski Series Champion; athlete of the 2012 South African Olympic Rowing Squad; and a competitive participant in mountain bike racing, trail running, triathlons and ocean swimming. Hayley has worked in both biokinetics and sports science, as a practitioner at the Kings Medical College in Durban, South Africa, and shares her knowledge of injury prevention in upper body dominant sports.
 

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