There are all kinds of benefits to Crossfit and what it can do for your fitness, health, and life, but there are additional things that separate it from your daily trip to the Globo gym (LA Fitness, 24 Hour, etc). For instance, when you walk into LA Fitness and scan your card do you think that staff member really knows your name if they can't see it on the computer. When you look around the facility how many people do you know? Do they know if you have a spouse, children, or what you do for a living and if so do you think they really care?
Recently it was one of our members birthdays and we celebrated the best way we know how with a little something extra in the WOD. Not surprisingly by the end of that day all the classes were very aware of this person's birthday, which of course is all in good fun, but my point is that if you walk into any of the classes people know each other. They know if they are married, have children, what they like to do. They even know things about each others fitness preferences. These are the starting blocks for developing friendships.
We are just getting off the ground as a fitness center and hopefully very soon Crossfit affiliate, but something that is different about how we approach things is that we actually care. You are not a number on a scan card. Your fitness and health is what is truly important to us. Wanting to make a change is what brings you in but the sacrifices that each and everyone of you make for your health is what brings you together and watch as time passes how many of you will begin to consider the people you see everyday in these classes friends.
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