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Your first time in, we want you to feel comfortable. One of our awesome coaches will give you a tour of the facilities, we’ll sit down with you and walk through your history with working out and your goals, and if you’d like we can show you a few basic movements and have you try out a CrossFit workout!

We know you may have a lot of choices on where to workout. What’s best… A treadmill at home? The gym down the street that is $50/month? A CrossFit membership? We’d actually encourage you to ask a different question. What would you like from your fitness experience? Personalized attention? Trained, professional coaches? Accountability? Working out with a group of like-minded people who cheer on your success? If the answer to any of the above is “yes”, then we’d encourage you to check us out.

We love nothing more than having visitors from other CrossFit gyms come throw down with us!
If you are just passing through, we charge a drop in fee of $20 per day.  If you’ll be here for a while, let’s chat about a short-term membership agreement.

Please plan on arriving 15 minutes before scheduled class time so we can provide you with a waiver to sign and introduce you to our facility. You can find our class schedule Here.

You may find that we do things a little differently than your “box back home.” We hope that you enjoy the change in scenery, clientele, maybe even music. If anything makes you uncomfortable, however, please don’t hesitate to let us know.

If CrossFit is your sole training method, we recommend slowly (over the course of a month or two) building up to 4-5 days per week, depending on how you are recovering in between sessions.
If you are also incorporating a running, weightlifting, or other regimen to train for an event, 3 days of CrossFit per week will be sufficient to bolster your training.

CrossFit is constantly varied functional movements performed at high intensity. All CrossFit workouts are based on functional movements, and these movements reflect the best aspects of gymnastics, weightlifting, and conditioning exercises (running, rowing, biking, etc). These are the core movements of life.
Intensity is essential for results and is measurable as work divided by time—or power. The more work you do in less time, or the higher the power output, the more intense the effort. By employing a constantly varied approach to training, functional movements and intensity lead to dramatic gains in fitness.

… or just check out this video

In short, you can’t outwork a bad diet.  You might make some short-term gains, but your long-term fitness and indeed your HEALTH is what is at stake with your nutrition plan.

From CrossFit’s founder, Greg Glassman:
Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch, and no sugar.  Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not bodyfat.

Pretty simple, huh?  But hard in practice to be perfect.  We’re not looking for perfection unless you’re planning on stepping on stage, but just in consistently making good choices.  Eat more of the good stuff (whole foods that don’t come in packages), eat less of the bad stuff (sugar, processed foods).

All of our coaches are very well practiced, if not educated, in sound nutrition habits.  Ask a coach for help in determining the nutrition strategy that works best for you — something you can stick with.

Yes. CrossFit is the program that will get you in shape. No matter what your current fitness level is, you can start CrossFit. As you become fitter, workouts will become more challenging. Every workout is designed to help you succeed, improve fitness and move you toward your goals.

Sure! This is a great link that will help get you started – http://greatist.com/fitness/ultimate-guide-crossfit-lingo.  Word of caution: No need to be intimidated by this… ☺ We’ll walk you through it all!

Sorry, no. During class times, having people do their own thing is distracting, and potentially disruptive if space or equipment would become limited.
Please feel free to follow your own programming during our Open Gym times (check out our Schedule page).

Yes, please!
If you’re dropping in from out of town, you can purchase a class online here.
If you’re an experienced CrossFitter and you’d like to join, you can check out our membership options here.
If you’re new to CrossFit and want to check it out, you can schedule a Free Intro session here, or email ryan@crossfitkentisland.com to schedule some time to check out a class.