About
WOD Around the World
The idea began when planning vacations and realizing we were centralizing them around a box and the WOD schedule. We wanted to plug in to a trip in paradise, embrace the suck of a workout, and have other fun activities to do. The concept of WOD Around the World was born.
Mio Nitta
Mio is the founder of WOD Around the World. She has been doing CrossFit since 2017 and immediately fell in love. One of the things that drew her in most was the sense of community found at any great box, and around the globe. She obtained her Level 1 in 2020 and is a partner at two CrossFit boxes in San Francisco. She loves to travel and has dropped in at various cities across the US and around the world. She is passionate about health and fitness, and also has competed in bodybuilding.
Mio’s day job is spent as a biotechnology sales and marketing executive, and she has her MBA and MPH. She feels strongly about health and fitness as a lifestyle and serves as the Chairwoman of a non-profit which helps make the CrossFit methodology more accessible to underserved populations.
Kat Yiannakis
Kat serves as a consultant on WOD Around the World retreats, providing nutrition expertise and education.
Kat is an occupational therapist, a personal trainer, a fitness expert, a certified nutritionist, and holds an L1 CrossFit certificate. Kat works on improving the relationship that athletes and members of the community have with nutrition, training, and body image.
She has experienced and recovered from 7 eating disorders and is passionate about using the concepts of Behavioral Therapy and Cognitive Neuroscience, as a means to collapse old habits, and build positive new behaviors around nutrition, training, and body image.