How Do I Get Started?
You have to take the first step. To get started call 203.569.2906 or email us info@crossfitstamford.com and set up an appointment for your complimentary private Intro session. These are by appointment only and are required before going forward with any training.
What To Expect In Your Intro Session?
During your Intro session you will learn about the CrossFit program itself, will be led through a dynamic warm up, coached through some basic bodyweight and CrossFit movements and then perform an actual 10 minute CrossFit workout.
What truly matters to us is your desire for results and an attitude to work as hard as you can not your past or current athletic ability.
The Intro Session will allow you to find out if CrossFit is for you RISK FREE. It also allows our Coaches to get to know what it is that YOU are looking for and what YOUR goals. We want to see that you are committed to improving your fitness, will work hard and are open to coaching.
What's Next?
After your Intro Session if you decide CrossFit is for you - you will complete 2 Private Fundamental Sessions.
These private or semi private sessions are to teach you the necessary skills, movements and begin building your conditioning required to jump into the group.
If after completing the Fundamental Course you feel that you are not ready for group training we’ll recommend private training until you are up to speed. Group Training is more intense and considerably less expensive than private training.
Finally we DO NOT believe in high pressure sales tactics because we don't like them either. CrossFit isn’t for everyone and that's OK. Our goal is to introduce you to our program and let you decide if it's for you or not.
Membership Options:
- Group Training Monthly Unlimited
- Group Training Part Time (6X per month)
- Private Training
- First Responders/Active Military and High School/College students ask about our special rates
Before coming in we highly recommend checking out the following videos and articles for a much better understanding on what CrossFit is all about.
Understanding CrossFit
The Sport of Fitness
Broad General and Inclusive Fitness
Perfect Technique vs Intensity
Good reading from CrossFit.com...
We recommend three distinct approaches for beginning CrossFit depending on your fitness experience and available facilities.
1) If you are largely familiar with the stable of CrossFit exercises then starting with the WOD (Workout of the Day) is a perfect place to start. If you've had exposure to Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting, and gymnastics this is the recommended approach to beginning CrossFit. Where our terminology or an exercise is unfamiliar you can immediately acquaint yourself with the movement by finding the video clip for the movement from our exercises section of the main site. This is often the best starting approach for athletes with an extensive experience in athletic strength and conditioning - jump right in.
2) If some or many of the exercises are unfamiliar to you and you are only modestly acquainted with elite athletic training then we recommend that you follow the WOD and substitute other exercises for those where you don't have either the equipment or skill and then devise a plan for acquisition of the necessary skills or equipment needed to participate completely. We are developing a Substitution Chart in the FAQ for replacing exercises for which you've not developed the skills or don't have the equipment.
3) If many or most of the exercises are relatively or completely unknown to you, then we recommend that you begin learning the movements for a month or two until you can either perform our common exercises or have substitutions worked out for those movements under development. This is a great place to begin for anyone with little or no experience with serious weightlifting or gymnastics. We are developing supplementary workouts designed to introduce our stable of basic movements building towards the capacity to productively follow the WOD with substitutions, and will post that material here soon.
We are a "minimalist program" and this is reflected by the functionality and limited number of our exercises and the simplicity of the equipment we use compared to most commercial gyms. An Olympic weight set and a place to do pull-ups and dips is essential to doing CrossFit. Gymnastics rings and parallettes, plyometrics boxes, a Dynamax medicine ball, dumbbells, kettlebells, climbing rope, Concept II Rower, and a glute-ham developer will equip your garage with more than enough to follow the WOD very closely. (See CrossFit Journal, September 2002, "The Garage Gym" for information on building a world-class strength and conditioning facility in your garage.)
In any case it must be understood that the CrossFit workouts are extremely demanding and will tax the capacities of even the world's best athletes. You would be well advised to take on the WOD carefully, cautiously, and work first towards completing the workouts comfortably and consistently before "throwing" yourself at them 100%. The best results have come for those who've "gone through the motions" of the WOD by reducing recommended loads, reps, and sets while not endeavoring towards impressive times for a month before turning up the heat. We counsel you to establish consistency with the WOD before maximizing intensity.
The Message Board is a great place to find technical help, clear up confusions, or receive words of encouragement. One regular commented that hanging out on the message board for a week was more instructive than struggling with the WOD for a year. Don't be shy!