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What we do right at CrossFit Elysium
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Over the past 3.5 years I have read many articles about CrossFit. Most of them are a positive view of CrossFit but lots of them are negative as well. Most of the negative articles that I read now days are about the same complaints as the articles I read 3 years ago. People are still hating and that will never stop.
Actually a lot of the complaints that people make tend to be valid points. A lot of the time, thanks to the magic of the interweb, they have video evidence of some one either in their gym or garage doing some movement with totally terrible form... and normally accompanied with some lame “trainer” (notice how I didn’t say coach, because I feel that is a term that is earned) in the background yelling terrible motivational non-sense (while ignoring the problematic or dangerous form).
I have also read many articles from other CrossFit gym owners talking about what they view as “problems” with other gyms and how they alter things to try and provide the best experience possible. Normally the writings from other CrossFit owners tend to be the best because they can admit where they went wrong and how they are trying to change their gym for the better and for the long term.
I am not going to go into all of the things that I think some boxes do wrong and how they should be better. Rather I am going to go into what I feel we do right around here at Elysium.
Actually a lot of the complaints that people make tend to be valid points. A lot of the time, thanks to the magic of the interweb, they have video evidence of some one either in their gym or garage doing some movement with totally terrible form... and normally accompanied with some lame “trainer” (notice how I didn’t say coach, because I feel that is a term that is earned) in the background yelling terrible motivational non-sense (while ignoring the problematic or dangerous form).
I have also read many articles from other CrossFit gym owners talking about what they view as “problems” with other gyms and how they alter things to try and provide the best experience possible. Normally the writings from other CrossFit owners tend to be the best because they can admit where they went wrong and how they are trying to change their gym for the better and for the long term.
I am not going to go into all of the things that I think some boxes do wrong and how they should be better. Rather I am going to go into what I feel we do right around here at Elysium.
- Strength training- We do it every day and we allow ample time to warm up and rest for your work sets. Everyone needs to be stronger. Very few people have walked in to our doors with a solid strength background. Going heavy often forces your body to figure out how to move properly (with proper coaching and proper movement patterns, of course)
- Beginners classes- We do that. Learn how to move properly and get a general understanding of what is going on before you start to hang with the regular classes. Don’t worry about keeping up with those that have been here for a while. Do your own thing and work at your own pace.
- Technique work- We do a lot of that. Have you noticed that around here you won’t here a lot of bootcamp style yelling at people? That is because we are coaches, not cheerleaders. We want you to move well. That way you can move safely as well as being stronger... because efficient technique is stronger than not... who would have thought? We are not the biggest form police but we expect you to know how to do things right.
- personalization/scaling- We definitely do this. whether you are newer or you are injured (most of the time people are injured from something that WASN’T CrossFit, wait that happens?) we will adjust the work so our people can train and not worry about hurting themselves further.
- Intense met-cons- We try to keep are conditioning component of class pretty short compared to other gyms. This helps us have more time for strength but also allows the work to be more intense. When wods become too long there ends up being a lot of “slogging” happening. That is the part of the workout where you are barely moving because you are well past the sprinting part and nowhere close to the finish. So we try to make wods that are primarily the sprinting start and the sprinting to the finish. We do work in long met-cons here and there, but not too often.
- Mobility work- We teach you how to do it that way you can customize your warm up to yourself. We teach our members to show up early and roll out or stretch according to what they need. That we we don’t have to use a bunch of class time just for warming up. We can then use that time to train.
- Expectations- We expect our people to progress and get better... and they do. We keep track of personal records so that way we can tell how and when you make progress. And this allows you to set goals and stay motivated to train.
- Having fun- We do that. I mean, have you ever heard some the jokes the coaches make... they are damn funny people. Some of the athletes say some funny things sometimes also. We joke around with each other through out the class but we are also running on time and working hard along the way.
So next time you have a friend that tells you “what’s wrong with CrossFit” you just send them this way. Hopefully instead of reading some random blog on the internet they can drop in at Elysium and give it a shot.
Coach P
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