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CrossFit Crab Trap
Walk through the doors of CrossFit Crab Trap in Thibodaux, and you’ll find a community dedicated to meeting people where they are in their fitness journey.
For co-owners Kari Rodrigue and Harlie Legendre, leading programs at their gym presents a valuable opportunity to empower women to find balance in their everyday lives and to provide them with a support system.
“We have a majority of women, and as kind of leaders in the gym, they look up to us and say ok, well they can balance work, being a parent…and also accomplish some of these [fitness] goals,” Rodrigue said. “And that’s a big thing around here – all the women getting excited for each other and just pushing each other.”
The programs at CrossFit CrabTrap are geared toward being modifiable to each trainee’s needs and applicable to everyday life. Knowing firsthand the pressures that women face to look and be a certain way, Rodrigue and Legendre are not focused on appearances, but rather on building confidence.
“We’re not geared toward making somebody thin or a woman [having] six-pack abs. We’re not encouraging that sort of fitness,” Legendre said
“I get super emotional and happy about being a part of helping like women after postpartum…and feeling confident again.”
As women leaders in their field, Rodrigue and Legendre hope to help other women to leave behind the pressures they face and find peace in a community of like minded people who understand their everyday struggles.
“We really try to make this the best hour of anyone’s day,” Legendre said. “You can leave all the stress of your day job or home life at the door.” •
