About Us

Karim Sultan · Founder & Head Coach

Karim Sultan

CrossFit found me the way it finds most people who stick with it — not because a single workout was impressive, but because progress kept showing up in places I didn't expect. A lift that used to feel impossible became routine. A conditioning piece that used to wreck me became manageable. What kept me coming back wasn't any one PR, it was the process: showing up, tracking the work, and doing it again with a little more discipline than the day before.

Somewhere along the way, training other people started to matter more to me than training myself. I began coaching friends, then a small group, then a gym — writing programming by hand, adjusting it session by session, and watching people who'd never touched a barbell build real strength and real confidence. That's the part of this that I care about most: not the sport of CrossFit, but what structured, honest coaching does for the person doing the work.

Train Gritty exists because I got tired of programming living in group chats, sticky notes, and half-finished spreadsheets. I wanted every athlete I coach — whether that's one person training alone or an entire gym — to open one place every day and know exactly what to do: their strength work, their Olympic lifting, their WOD, their accessories, built specifically for them. That's what this platform is. Not a generic program. Coaching, delivered daily.

Grit isn't a personality trait. It's a habit you build one session at a time — and it's my job to make sure you never have to guess what that session is.