Video | How CrossFit helps a Hong Kong mum keep her family fit and fab
Tax expert and mother of three Tobey Hill gets up at 5am every weekday do to CrossFit before work, an activity that has helped her build strength, confidence – and an active family
For Tobey Hill, fitness is a natural a part of her daily routine – a trait she shares with her husband Tom and their three sporty children.
Tobey, 45, and Tom, 47, roll out of bed at the crack of dawn each weekday to travel to CrossFit Asphodel in Chai Wan for their daily dose of high intensity workouts. Then their workdays begin: Tobey’s at investment bank CLSA, where she heads up the tax group, and Tom’s at HSBC, where he is a foreign account tax compliance act manager.
Tobey has tried many sports. As a youngster, she hung out with a neighbour who was a former Rockette precision dancer, and also picked up gymnastics. She later took up running, track and skiing, and in college became a regular gym-goer, trying all the fads, from step aerobics to Tae Bo. When she had children, she stayed active, working out to home-exercise videos and zipping through the neighbourhood with a jogging stroller.
“I have always been active, but get bored easily,” she says.
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When the family moved to Hong Kong in 2008, she joined a dragon boat team and visited gyms in the city, but nothing really clicked. Then she overheard fellow commuters talking excitedly “about this new class that was like circuit training, but wasn’t, had weights and was always different, and really good coaches”.
