The Power of One Plus One Plus One

Wilna Appel is the owner of CrossFit Power Beyond Measure (PBM) in Pretoria, South Africa. Appel and her brother, Gerhard van der Merwe, are former professional athletes and now full-time trainers. “We both love … new stuff, and CrossFit was the thing for, I think, both of us … . There’s always new things to learn,” Appel says. For the brother-sister duo, the focus is community and personal relationships. “It’s not about the numbers for us,” van der Merwe says. “I think it’s more