{"id":19610,"date":"2014-07-20T16:03:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T08:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=19610"},"modified":"2014-07-20T16:03:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T08:03:58","slug":"ninja-warrior-competitor-wants-to-inspire-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/20\/ninja-warrior-competitor-wants-to-inspire-others\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ninja Warrior&#8217; competitor wants to inspire others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OnR5heFYeEc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8212; A YouTube video that shows Kacy Catanzaro, a 5-foot, 100-pound gymnast, breezing through an obstacle course where others twice her size often fail has garnered more than 6 million views since she competed in the &#8220;American Ninja Warriors&#8221; TV show.<\/p>\n<p>But being the first woman to complete one of the show&#8217;s most grueling courses is not enough for her. Catanzaro tells The Associated Press she wants to inspire women and young people to get off the couch and start getting fit.<\/p>\n<p>The show, a remake of a Japanese program called &#8220;Sasuke,&#8221; airs on Mondays on NBC and is repeated the next day on Esquire Network. NBC has picked up the show for a seventh season. Catanzaro qualified earlier this week in Dallas for the final round in Las Vegas. That&#8217;s set to air in August.<\/p>\n<p>For her, being strong enough to effortlessly scale the 14-foot-high curved &#8220;warp wall&#8221; has meant a lifetime of sacrifice. &#8220;I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Catanzaro said she will submit a new application and video to be considered for next season as she did this year. &#8220;But I&#8217;m pretty sure they&#8217;ll let me back in,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>As for plans beyond next year, she said, she wants to spread the word about the benefits of fitness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s nice to look good and have a great body, but you enjoy your life so much more if you are fit,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That is the message I definitely want to get out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former collegiate gymnast said she hopes to become a motivational speaker in schools to encourage young people.<\/p>\n<p>For now, Catanzaro and her boyfriend Brent Steffensen &#8211; who is also one of the star contestants in the show &#8211; are part of the traveling obstacle course Alpha Warrior, which visits cities across the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8212; A YouTube video that shows Kacy Catanzaro, a 5-foot, 100-pound gymnast, breezing through an obstacle course where &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":19611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,2],"tags":[6789,6790],"class_list":["post-19610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-entertainment","tag-kacy-catanzaro","tag-ninja-warrior","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}