Anyone do crossfit? 11 December 2016 at 9:34AM in Sports & fitness MoneySaving 2 replies 1.8K views

AshleyBurf

Crossfit is pretty expensive in most places but it is cheaper than a personal trainer and even some gyms! Anyone do it? Recommend it?

Andy1608

normally lots of local places do it now, in York there is plenty. Don't know about else where but in York prices are around £60 for an open gym pass or pay as you go for classes. I would imagine they will do a first taster session free. If you don't like squatting, dead lifting, pull ups or over head pressing you probably wont like crossfit.

kahunababy

I have been going to Crossfit for the past 2 years. Yes it is expensive compared to a standalone gym but I get a progression plan, specific coaching and a fantastic group of friends who encourage me and hold me accountable. What I will say is look around and try different crossfit gyms (boxes) in your area. Some are better than others. When I started out I just joined my local crossfit box. Whilst I enjoyed it I was worried that the coaches were not great. I soon moved to another box and fell in love with the place. I was injury free and making good progression. I then moved house out of the area and had to find a new box. I was lucky in that there are two Crossfit boxes in my town so I joined each for a month. This gave me the chance to get a vibe from the place and see which one I preferred (it's not one box fits all). I picked the box that I felt most at home in and haven't looked back since. I am very lucky in that in my box one of the coaches is a nutritionist and provides advice on food choices etc and is also a competing powerlifter, another coach is a gymnast specialist and keeps us on the straight and narrow with our gymnastics, another is a yoga teacher so keeps us all flexible and we have two dedicated olympic lifting coaches. The box is also affiliated to British Weighlifting and we have regular seminars with a mindset coach also. So as you can see some boxes offer more than others.
Hope that helps, any questions feel free to fire them at me!