Twenty Years of Resistance, Five Kids, and One Dream: How Tonisha Monteith Found Her Way Back to the Gym

Tonisha Monteith spent 14 years doing gymnastics she didn't want to do, quit at 18 when she dislocated her elbow, and spent the next two decades resisting anything that looked like a gym. In between, she had two kids, fostered five more, adopted three — including one she had a dream about before she knew he existed — navigated adrenal fatigue, panic attacks, and autoimmune issues, and tried CrossFit once when she was at her worst and walked out even more depleted.Last August she walked into SSC and said just get me started. A few months later she became a coach.This conversation covers all of it, including why the gym finally worked, what she thinks about youth sports, and why her mom — a gymnastics coach who wouldn't let her quit — is somehow still mostly right about everything.