Getting what you paid for..

Picture this:

You walk into your local 24 hour gym. You sign up for their basic membership package. It's only $9.95 per week, super cheap how could anyone say no to that? You book an intro session, they set you up with a personal trainer and program. He or she takes you through it, shows you the nice shiny treadmill with a TV built in. Life is great, you're gonna be super fit in like 3 weeks, lose all of that winter weight.

Flash forward to 3 - 4 weeks.

You can't quite remember how to use this machine, am I using it properly? Hold on you could ask someone, oh you can't find a staff member and the front desk guy is busy, so you just skip it. Wow this program is starting to get a bit repetitive, that machine looks cool, I might try it, wait I'd better get someone to show me, maybe I need a new program this one doesn't seem to be working. Oh I have to book in for a session with one their trainers, thats an extra $60 on top of my membership. Its just easier to go for a run by myself, but I'll keep that membership there just in case.

I could go on.

You may have heard about CrossFit, you maybe haven't. You may have heard we are more expensive than an average gym membership. Well you heard right. You must be wondering why? Let me explain:

At a box (nickname for a CrossFit gym) your training session will be different every time, thats because your coach has programmed it to be that way, it is part of a carefully constructed week or months worth of programming that is designed to be 'constantly varied' which means we work on something different everyday. We do the hard work of deciding what to do in that training session for you and rather than you individually having to get a new program every 4-6 weeks we design it so you don't have to 'change it' its just what we do.

Rather than you paying extra for a one on one with a gym trainer, we host small classes, its really the equivalent of small group personal training, our classes rarely have more than 10-12 people at a time, so you get one on one time during a class setting for a fraction of the price of a personal trainer. A coach is a little different than a trainer in the sense that we aren't there to count reps and scream motivational quotes at you (sure we do that sometimes, we do keep you motivated) we are there to instruct you in how to move, how to move well, to keep you safe, to help you reach your potential in strength and conditioning, mobility and flexibility and nutrition. We are like human being optimisers, we take you from a regular human and enable you to become as strong, fast and lean as you possibly can.

To provide this excellence of care will cost you a little more than you would pay at conventional gym.

But you need to weigh up (haha I love puns) what is going to be better for YOUR results in the long run:

The cheaper gym membership, where you don't really know what you're doing in there or why you're doing it, having to pay extra for every little bit of advice or help you need. Having no support, no accountability, headphones in, talk to no one.

OR

A community based fitness program that covers all bases and allows you to make friends, have fun, makes you accountable to your community and all of the hard work like programming and nutritional advice is done for you.

Each one has it's place, but which one is best for YOU.

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