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We asked ChatGPT these 10 questions: What if you LOVED your gym? What if you missed it while you were away? What if you enjoyed your workouts? What if you were excited to see your Coach every day? What if you were tempted to exercise – even on your off days? What if your Coach was keeping an eye on your progress? What if others missed you if you DIDN’T show up? What if you went home laughing every time? What if you could track your progress to your goal? What if you started to actually LIKE it? What would happen? ChatGPT responded with: “If you found yourself in a scenario where you loved your gym and experienced all these positive feelings and interactions, several beneficial outcomes could likely unfold: 1. **Increased Motivation and Consistency**: Enjoying your workouts and the gym environment can significantly boost your motivation to exercise regularly. When you look forward to your sessions and the people you'll see there, skipping a workout becomes less appealing. 2. **Enhanced Physical Fitness**: With increased consistency and enjoyment in your workouts, your physical fitness would likely improve. You might see faster progress towards your goals, whether that's building strength, losing weight, improving endurance, or enhancing overall health. 3. **Stronger Community and Support System**: The sense of community you'd feel from others missing you when you're not there, and the fun interactions with your coach and peers, would provide a robust support system. This social aspect can be incredibly motivating and can make challenging workouts more enjoyable. 4. **Positive Mental Health Effects**: Exercise is known to have numerous mental health benefits, including reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety, boosting mood, and increasing self-esteem. If you're enjoying your workouts and seeing progress, these benefits could be amplified. 5. **Lifestyle Changes**: When you start to genuinely like exercising, it often spills over into other areas of your life. You might adopt healthier eating habits, prioritize sleep, manage stress more effectively, and engage in more physical activities outside the gym. 6. **Increased Accountability**: Knowing that your coach is monitoring your progress and that your absence would be noted can increase your accountability. This might push you to stick with your routine even when you're not feeling 100%. So if ChatGPT thinks you will experience a positive impact then it must be true! Book a free class today and experience what it's like to love your gym!
So now you heard of CrossFit and would like to try it OR maybe you’ve heard plenty of people talking about it so much and you said “Fine, I’ll give it a shot”. Either way, there are a few things to look for when joining an Affiliate, but first some background information. What do we (CrossFit Affiliates) do? We provide a safe, generalized strength and conditioning program for the general population. Some days we train to be strong, more efficient humans and some days we train to be well-conditioned or “cardiovascular-fit” humans. And some days we do both. We achieve this by means of 3 components: Weightlifting: Moving objects from point A to point B Gymnastics: Moving one’s own bodyweight Mono-structural Movements: Running, Biking, Rowing, Swimming, etc. Different combinations create different results but overall it promotes a lean, athletic development of the body. There are over 10,000 CrossFit Affiliates around the world and not a single one is the exact same. Every team of coaches gets to create the culture of their own affiliate. There are great coaches, okay coaches, new coaches, bad coaches and awful coaches but the vast majority are truly caring people who take their craft very seriously. This is your first tidbit in finding an Affiliate. The Coaches. Can you actually tell they care? Are they dedicated to improving every member’s fitness level? Use your gut instinct on this one. Next is the environment and there are a few things to look for. When it’s social time: Are people smiling and laughing? Are they caught up in conversation and enjoying being there? When it’s workout time: Are people focused and working hard? Are people supportive and encouraging? Cleanliness: Is the bathroom presentable? Would you do push ups and sit ups on the gym floor? The final things to look for are more technical that vary box to box and may be of personal preference for some. Workout tracking software; How else can we make sure you are getting fitter if we don’t track your progress. Fitness is measurable. If your data is showing increased levels of fitness then lean body mass and lower body fat will be the highly sought-after side effects. Focus on collecting data not looking at the scale. Space; Sometimes its close-quarters. There are great gyms that have to ball on a budget but they make it work. Sometimes gyms can be to big and it make it seem like you are training alone. A Competitive Atmosphere; Some gyms do and some gyms don’t. Both can be good. If it does have a competitive environment, it should feel healthy, supportive and fuel more progress toward your goal. Going to the gym should be fun and entertaining, not full of drama and non-sense. Make sure you enjoy the coaching, and that it's a fun, clean and supportive environment. The results will come if you have that recipe, don’t get caught in the fixed mindset of “I’m not good enough to do that” or "I need to get in shape before I can do CrossFit". None of that is true. CrossFit is what gets you better so just come ready to learn, put in some work and we will handle the rest :)
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