CrossFit Energy is first and foremost dedicated to changing the lives of all age groups. From children 6 to Senior Citizens, we are focused on improving every life we can touch.

CrossFit Energy is different from anything that has ever been introduced to this area.  Most gyms offer elaborate treadmills and expensive equipment. They offer high priced memberships hoping that the majority of their clients will never come. These “other gyms” are missing out on the big picture.

At CrossFit Energy, we offer the idea of fitness and all its entities. We are in this industry to change lives; change people’s way of thinking; change peoples way of obtaining their fitness goals. We are offering a “Back to Basics” atmosphere instead of a Country Club “Glitz and Glamour” ambiance.

We specialize in small group fitness training, private training sessions, and nutritional counseling. You will find our workouts to be more effective than spending hours on a treadmill or weight machines. What’s great is we can accommodate all ages and fitness levels!

CrossFit Energy vs. The “Big Box” Gym

How does CrossFit Energy compare to “box gyms” like Fitness 19, Fitworks, Curves and 24 Hour Fitness? How can working out with a personal trainer in your home or in a garage be better than working out in a large gym with lots of machines, aerobics classes and much more space? Here’s just a few reasons why:

1. The Power of Camaraderie. In the “box gym”, no one wants you to succeed. They don’t care if you get a new personal record, your first pull-up, or do perfect squats. At CrossFit Energy, you will always train with a certified CrossFit and ACE certified trainer who focuses around your success. You may also train with other CrossFitters who really do want you to do great. We celebrate everyone’s victories and don’t hesitate to shout out encouragement to help you lock out your shoulder press, finish your burpees or get a pull-up. Our trainers and members will not let you fail.

2. Instruction and Attention. We’re not like regular gym trainers that prevent you from fully understanding their program to protect their job security. Our goal is not to make you dependent upon us so that you have to keep coming back. Our goal is to get you results. And we hope that you’ll come back because of the results and our community.

3. Increased Fitness and Real Results. A typical gym workout consists of isolation movements and extended aerobic sessions. The mainstream fitness community leads you to believe that lateral raises, curls, leg extensions and the like, combined with long sessions on the stationary bike or treadmill are going to pave the road to fitness. At CrossFit we work exclusively with compound movements and shorter, but higher intensity cardiovascular sessions. Why? Because compound functional movements and relatively high intensity exercise is radically more effective at eliciting nearly any desired fitness result.

4. Break Free of Routine. Three sets of 10 is not what we do. We use various functional movements, like deadlifts, squats, dips, pull-ups, push-ups, cleans, presses and sit-ups. We run, bike, jump, throw and try new sports. We mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Our workouts are exciting, fun and intense. Routine is our enemy.

Training Philosophy

CrossFit Energy training will help you excel at any and all activities by providing you with functional skills that are transferable to all aspects of life. CrossFit is a strength and conditioning program focused on constantly varied, functional movements executed at a relatively high intensity.

We use movements that utilize multiple joints and muscles, which require core stabilization and total body coordination. We vary mode, exercise, metabolic pathway, rest, intensity, sets and reps. This produces fun workouts that yield functional results faster than traditional weight lifting and cardio regimens.

CrossFit Energy focuses on ten physical skills to promote fitness: cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, speed, flexibility, power, coordination, agility, balance, and accuracy. Balancing your training across these ten domains will help you perform better at every task imaginable. We do not specialize in any one of these skills, but focus on creating well-rounded athletes. By combining these skills into single workouts we create a training program that will produce the greatest results possible.

Our training is scalable to all levels. CrossFit has been used by MMA fighters as well as housewives, businessmen and the elderly. The workout that challenges an elite athlete will have a toned down equivalent for a beginner – less weight, fewer reps, more rest…whatever is required. This makes CrossFit Energy’s training ideal for anyone. Athletes, children, senior citizens, and everyone in between can benefit from this type of training. Whether you want to improve at a sport or simply maintain your independence longer, CrossFit has the program for you!

At CrossFit Energy, we celebrate small gains and work with your ability level to improve your long term health and well-being. The support and instruction you will receive are unmatched.

You need not have any training experience to begin. All levels of fitness are welcome!

Is CrossFit For You?

You don’t compete in any sports, you think you are pretty healthy and you think you are active enough. Do you really need CrossFit? Yes! The health benefits and increased quality of life delivered by CrossFit training cannot be denied.

CrossFit can help you survive emergency situations, such as fighting or running from an attacker, making it through a car crash or other accident, and allowing you to aid others who need help. You will be better prepared to run, jump, climb or claw your way to safety should you find yourself in a bad situation.
But, maybe you are banking on slipping through the cracks your whole life. Of course you don’t think any of that will happen to you. So, you don’t need CrossFit, right? Well, what about the physical demands placed on you everyday? Playing with your kids, running to catch a bus, yard work, shopping and other everyday tasks could be much easier and more enjoyable with a fitness base that CrossFit can provide.

CrossFit’s broad, general and inclusive fitness is perfect for everyone. It fits easily into your busy schedule and hectic days. Since it is short, intense and constantly varied, it leaves you time to enjoy the rest of your life, not to mention better prepared to deal with it.

Health benefits from CrossFit:

• Increases your level of energy throughout the day
• Strengthens your immune system
• Strengthens your hearth and lungs
• Lowers your risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and osteoporosis
• Helps you get to your ideal weight and stay there
• Increases sleep quality
• Decreases your stress levels
• Puts you in a better and giver you a more positive outlook on life
• Improves you mental resilience and fortitude

Who wouldn’t want that? CrossFit is designed to make you thrive in life, rather than just make it through the day. Contact us to start seeing the benefits of CrossFit training!

CrossFit For Women

CrossFit training isn’t just for guys. It won’t make you huge – women actually can’t get very big without supplements. Some of the top benefits of CrossFit training, applying especially to women, are:

• Increased and restored bone mineral density to combat osteoporosis
• Increased lean body mass (say hello to curves!)
• Increased balance, coordination and confidence
• Increased metabolic rate – burn more calories when you’re not working out
• Increased performance in everything you do – climbing stairs, picking up kids or groceries and walking the dog
• Age gracefully – strong muscles build a strong body
• Feel better & look better – reduces overall body fat and gives you more energy

Check out this pretty cool publication about being strong, powerful, independent and just plain beautiful. You Are Beautiful by Jon Gilson

CrossFit For Kids & Seniors

CrossFit works for everyone – even kids and senior citizens. You are never too old or young to be active. When working with the young or the old special attention is paid to utilizing progressions for difficult or compound movements, but the same program still works! So grab your kids, your parents, or your grandparents and try a CrossFit workout!

CrossFit Seniors and Kids

Functionality

CrossFit Energy endeavors to lead a revolution in fitness training. Our methods are a radical departure from the ineffectual, non-functional training found in most gyms. We’re waging this revolution in our garage, at the park, and in your home. It starts with functional training.

What is functional training?

The bulk of human action is comprised of a limited number of irreducible fundamental movements. These fundamental movements are what we call functional. Functional movements comprise functional training. Some functional movements we employ include squats, deadlifts, cleans, running/walking, jumping, throwing, climbing and pressing. Functional training utilizes movements most representative of natural movement and are all transferable to things we do in our everyday life. Here are some examples:

• We do a partial squat every time we stand up from a chair and a full squat if we’re getting up from the ground
• We deadlift every time we lift something off the ground such as groceries, kids or boxes
• We clean to get those objects to our arms or shoulders
• We press to get objects overhead, such as getting boxes to a top shelf

These functional movements use essential and universal motor recruitment patterns found in sports and life. Ideally, the movement should transport either the body or an external object practically and efficiently from one point to another. To do this, the movements recruit a wave of contraction from core to extremity.
Curls, lateral raises, leg extensions and cable cross-overs have no place in our training. These aforementioned non-functional movements have a blunted neuroendocrine response and work only one joint at a time. CrossFit Energy replaces these inefficient exercises with the deadlift, clean, squat and jerk, which are functional, multi-joint movements.

Functional training will benefit everyone. For the elderly, functional movements transfer into independent living. You squat to stand up. You deadlift your grandchildren to pick them up. These seemingly simple tasks become harder as we age. Functional fitness can completely reverse your current state of strength and fitness, allowing you to be independent longer. For the athlete, functional training means better coordination, agility, balance, speed and power. All of which will help your game.

Functional movements are important to everyone’s fitness. There is no circumstance of disability, gender, age, stature, weight or fitness level that reduces the need, safety or effectiveness of functional movement.

Benefits of Functional Training:

PREPAREDNESS
General physical preparedness (GPP) prevents injury, increases work threshold and is the basis of any sport specific training and elite performance. The key features of GPP and CrossFit are functionality, generality and intensity. Functional movements better prepare you for everyday tasks as well as unknown circumstances; CrossFit athletes have done very well in competitions based on skills and activities for which they have had little or no training.

CORE STRENGTH
Core strength and midline stability involves the transfer of significant forces through the trunk. This may be through rotation, as in punching, kicking or throwing, or through maintaining a rigid torso, as in the deadlift and Olympic lifts. The movements we employ in our functional training make Swiss ball crunches superfluous. There is no need for added “ab work”. Through functional training, your core will be stronger than ever.

SAFETY
Functional movements support and protect joint and tissue integrity at any loading parameter via biomechanical efficiency and sound motor recruitment patterns. This makes functional training safer than non-functional training, which does not provide this benefit. Non-functional movements create muscle imbalance, promote faulty motor recruitment patterns and compromise joint integrity.

REHABILITATION
Functional movements are also the basis for dramatically effective rehabilitation from injury and illness. Functional movement coupled with common sense and patience offer the quickest path to full habilitation and is the future of physical therapy

Variability

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Is this where you are with your fitness program?

CrossFit Energy training provides a constantly varied stimulus to prepare you for anything that may come your way. Our aim is to elicit as broad an adaptational response as possible. Our specialty is not specializing. This leaves you prepared for any sport you play, and activity or hobby you like, and any unforeseen events that may occur.

Our training is limited only by our imagination and will power. Each workout adds a different aspect to our training program. By varying mode, intensity, reps, sets and rest, each workout offers a distinctly unique metabolic stimulus. Some workouts provide more strength work, while others have a stronger aerobic flavor. Others work with anaerobic intervals and some incorporate maximum efforts or loads.

The fact that every day is a different workout can be scary or liberating, depending on your temperament. Rest assured we will never ask you to do anything beyond your abilities. All our movements are scalable or can be altered to fit your specific needs.

Why is constantly varied exercise better than sticking to a routine?

• Repeating the same exercise for long periods of time will reduce it’s effectiveness.
• Varied exercises increases the chances that you will stick to the program. The University of Florida actually did a study that confirms this. Find it here.
• Changing your routine prevents overuse injuries. Read what the American Council on Exercise has to say about variation here.

One of the most routine exercise programs out there is Curves. These franchises are opening in every city across the United States. While doing something is always better than doing nothing, the Curves program may hinder your results and prevent you from achieving your goals. Why? Well, if you don’t die from boredom first, you could be sidelined from an overuse injury. If you are lucky and make it through unscathed, you will likely reach a plateau due to the lack of variation.

Why Train With Us?

10 Reasons to Train With CrossFit Energy

The benefits of CrossFit training are numerous. If you are looking for fun and challenging workouts to help you meet and exceed your fitness goals, we have the program for you! Some of the benefits of our training include:

1. Fun and challenging workouts – this is not your average day at the gym. The workouts we do are varied and non-routine so you will never get stuck in a rut. Your workout will rarely be the same twice. Each session is tailored to meet your individual needs and goals.
2. Overall fitness and health – our training provides a comprehensive fitness program designed to improve overall fitness. Our methods are broad, general and inclusive to provide you with a more complete training program.
3. Community – train with friends and family, or share your progress with the CrossFit Energy community. Celebrating your accomplishments with others is rewarding and motivating!
4. Scalable – our workouts can be scaled to any fitness level from a beginner to an elite athlete. Workouts can also be modified for older clients as well as kids.
5. Weight management – lose weight, gain weight, or maintain your current weight. No matter what your goal, you can be assured our program decreases body fat and increases lean muscle mass.
6. Functional movements – utilize movements that are transferable to all activities and create a sound fitness foundation. Since functional movements closely mimic those in everyday life, these are the safest of all movements and will aid in injury prevention..
7. Reasonable rates – we want everyone to be able to train with us and provide competitive individual and group rates. We will work with you to find a way to make training with us possible.
8. Knowledgeable trainers – you will train with a trainer certified through both CrossFit and ACE. You will not find better quality training at any gym.
9. Flexible scheduling – hour long sessions can fit in anyone’s schedule. Workout as little or as much as you want…we will work hard to fit into your schedule so training is as convenient as possible.
10. Results – our method of training produces results more quickly than any other program. We will not waste your time. You will have to try it for yourself to believe it, but you will not be disappointed.

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