All workouts are designed and coached by a trainer. No more going to the gym and trying to figure out what to do on your own or paying a personal trainer $60 -$100 an hour to watch you play on a physio-ball. We follow a simple formula – Real Workouts. Real Food. Real Results. We lead you through increasingly difficult movements, guiding people of all fitness levels toward improved health and athletic ability. We use a wide variety of simple equipment to increase every aspect of your fitness. We have Concept 2 rowing machines, pull-up bars, parallettes, dumbbells, Olympic barbells and bumper plates, lifting floors that allow weights to be dropped (for safer lifting), squat racks, kettlebells, gymnastics rings, jump ropes, tractor tires, Glute-Ham Developers, medicine balls and plenty of space to move around. We don’t train muscles for the sake of training muscles. We train movement. It is, after all, the ability to move freely and powerfully that allows us to enjoy whatever it is we do, whether it’s high-level sports, gardening, or cleaning out the garage. Whether it’s lifting, twisting, pushing, jumping or pulling, we train people to move their bodies effectively, powerfully, athletically.
Our workouts are programmed to increase your strength and overall conditioning over time. We aren’t content just to give you a “hard workout”. We all have had plenty of experience with isolated “hard workouts”. Hard workouts, unfortunately, do not necessarily result in increased muscle, decreased fat, accompanied by increases in all ten aspects of fitness including endurance, stamina, power, accuracy, coordination, speed, power, agility, balance and flexibility. We program workouts in such a way that over the course of several weeks or a few months you experience measurable, observable and repeatable improvements in fitness and body composition. Each of our workouts is designed to address specific elements of fitness. You might come in on Monday and do a long row. Tuesday may be seven deadlifts at your maximum ability. If you are used to a mono-workout or a little-bit-of-everything workout, our approach may seem strange. Just remember, our goal isn’t to give you a stand alone, one time great workout. Our goal is to give you weeks and months of great workouts that interact with each other at the level of your metabolism and physiologic adaptation to produce measurable, observable, repeatable improvements in fitness. We hold ourselves responsible for monitoring your improvements. Each workout is timed and measured in some way. We will compare your performance over time. If you aren’t getting faster and stronger either we are doing something wrong or you are sending a stunt double to your workouts.
Our scheduled workouts are designed for small groups. Your coach will lead you in a warm up and frequently some specialized skill or strength work. You will then perform our workout of the day. You will be watched and coached to ensure that you are performing the exercises safely, effectively and to the absolute edge of your ability. Cool down and stretching will follow the workout.
Many people are nervous about joining a group workout if their fitness level is significantly different from others. This is a legitimate fear. Being in a group fitness class where the exercises may require mobility, musculature or movement patterns that you do not yet possess is a recipe for injury. CrossFit Works is one of the oldest CrossFit gyms in southern Arizona. We have had years to observe the effect of CrossFit programming on different types of people. These years of experience have led us to create a series of Programs that are a progressive exposure to strength and conditioning training. Our Programs are based on the hard fact that each physical exercise you could do, even just walking around the block, has a benefit:risk ratio. Walking around the block is very low risk, but also low benefit. Walking up a gentle mountain is perhaps slightly higher risk, but with much greater fitness benefit. A complex barbell movement like an overhead squat is a powerful fitness tool but carries a very high risk of injury if you do not have a solid athletic foundation. Our Programs are designed to use the exercises with the lowest risk of injury that produce the greatest change in your fitness. As your individual movement patterns, musculature and conditioning improve we can introduce exercises that match your fitness characteristics.
Click here: PROGRAMS to read about the specific programs that we offer.
