Short workouts consisting of varied, natural (functional) movements designed to make you fitter, healthier and happier. We train the way evolution meant us to. Oh yeah, it’s fun too.

A mixture of gymnastics, olympic weightlifting, powerlifting and metabolic conditioning such as running and rowing. From there, questions either arise or don’t.

Constantly varied functional movements performed at high intensity!!

Thank-you, gentlemen!

I swear we already had a thread for this. Maybe in the old forum…..

I just gave up on explaining and say it’s just different. But lately i’ve been wearing my tyre flipping mofo shirt and it gets some interesting questions….

I will often explain that a difference between CF and the Gym is that at CF there is no ‘maintaing’.  You don’t get to a certain standard, feel happy with that (as it keeps you looking trim and makes you sweat just that right amount that you like) and then stick with it as your daily workout.  At CF everyone is ALWAYS trying to go faster, lift heavier, stretch further.  It’s also got a more PT approach to it and much more social (a very big part of it actually).

Great reply adrian!

I get asked this question a lot. 

I generally say it is the opposite of going to a gym and sitting on a bike, watching Desperate Housewives and wondering why you don’t lose weight.  There is no time to slack off.  No easy days in the gym.

I explain why I like it.  Its competitive, challenging and I still have so much to learn.  I tell them about the group of people who come to class at 6am in the dead of winter and sweat it out in the gym.  Lastly I show them all the bar track marks down my shins, the blisters and callouses on my hands and tell them its all worth it.

I try not to, but I do find myself tailoring my answer to the person.  I know its not business sense to say “it isnt for everyone” but if I know the person, and they are not committed with other things in their life, I might be a little cooler in my response.