So like are Crossfit monthly rates set in stone or can you lowball them to get a few bucks off? Aside from like military discounts.

Depends on the box. It's not like they're getting rich off of it (unless they have the top 7 contenders from the crossfit games training at their gym) lol

you're a shoe-in for the 250k prize next year at the home depot center.

I've seen his workouts on my facebook, they're going pretty easy on him. just wait.

Fuck... Crossfit isn't easy, haha.

Last place for Kelly today. Still fatigued from the power snatch last night.

Depends on the box. It's not like they're getting rich off of it (unless they have the top 7 contenders from the crossfit games training at their gym) lol

the crossfit gym i looked at wants 225 for the intro course and 200 a month for unlimited visits, while 2 days a week usage runs at 145 a month. on top of that, if you cancel your membership, you have to pay 50% of what membership plan you signed up for (1yr or 2yr memberships. there are no month to month memebrships at that gym)

one thing i noticed on an email that i got from them is that you have to email in and schedule a time for you to come in. there's no walk-in join on a workout policy there.

i was like wtf?!?

And Jayson Mike Burger-nerrr lol is a very popular name in crossfit as his dad and sage burger-neeeer go around and perform o-lift demo's at crossfit gyms, we had sage do a seminar at our gym not so long ago. I haven't gone because a weekend isn't going to snap me out of my football mentality of crank and yank. Just getting critiqued every day helps a lot. I can deadlift my ass off now and never get soreness in my upper back or lower back always hamstrings.

Wow your local crossfit gym is crazy with those rates. Here I have 3 choices of gyms and they are all with in 10 minutes of my house or work.
Here are their prices:
Unlimited $150, 3x a week $100
Unlimited $125, 2x a week $65
Unlimited $175, 10x a month $100

They all don't require you to prepay or charge a penalty. In fact they give you a discount if you prepay and a discount depending how long you keep staying. Also discounts on LEO, military, firefiters, students, teens. Even couples get discounts when they join together.

The gyms I spoke to also don't require me to take the extra intro-course since I know all the olympic lifts already.

I'm doing a week long free trial membership at all 3 gyms so I am basically going to get 3 weeks for free.

another sad thing is that in my building(department of Labor), the rates for contractors to use the gym is either 6 mons - 185 dollars or 1yr - 325. for gov't employees, it's $10 a month

unlimited usage

It's hard to compare though. I came from a gym that was $20 a month and had trouble stomaching the higher costs in the beginning until I really thought about what the differences are. At my old gym the only interaction I got from the staff was saying hi as I swiped my card at the front desk. At crossfit I can call over the coach any time I want to check my form or demonstrate something.

Lol, these crossfit gyms are getting rich off you guys. Isn't the idea that the workouts are based on pretty basic moves and that you don't need a bunch of equipment? What is $150 a month actually getting you? /honestquestion

Lol, these crossfit gyms are getting rich off you guys. Isn't the idea that the workouts are based on pretty basic moves and that you don't need a bunch of equipment? What is $150 a month actually getting you? /honestquestion

Lol, these crossfit gyms are getting rich off you guys. Isn't the idea that the workouts are based on pretty basic moves and that you don't need a bunch of equipment? What is $150 a month actually getting you? /honestquestion

Like I said previously I live 2 blocks away from my gyms owner, while he does have a house he pays mortgage on, he's also paying for a facility that's like 4000 square feet in the heart of oldtown pasadena, his rent is probably like 3200-4000 a month, factor in he has a fuckload of equipment, at least 18 barbells, over 3000 pounds of weight, tires, 6 glute ham developer machines, about 30 abmats, 8c2 rowers, 3 airdyne bycicles, ring setups, a bunch more stuff.

After his overhead and shit he's just barely scraping by he drives a ford fusion, will order us the occasional ufc fight, his wife drives a honda accord and is a school teacher. He's not rolling up to the gym in a maybach and a personalized velour sweat suit.

So don't think everyone is getting rich overnight opening crossfit gyms, the people who think that are opening up their own gyms and those are the ones that quickly dissipate into nothing.

They thrive off of word of mouth business, there is no Julian whatever her name is from biggest loser on tv selling pedometers and year long memberships for 250 on television in between episodes of your favorite tv show. It's small business, and at the end of the day not everyone is as motivated as yourself Chris to run marathons, or have that self sufficiency to bust ass like you do (not that I'm knocking it I admire it.)

But like you said the other day you wanted to work on upper body stuff but you had no idea what you should be doing. Where as the same type of person in a crossfit gym is doing ring pull ups, dips, kipping pull ups, weighted pull ups, muscle ups, handstand push ups.

Not in a million years would I just go into a gym in front of other strangers on their smith machine loading up weight for the other people who are looking at them and not locking out, or properly executing the movements sipping on their redline and ON WHEY Stack protein after their workout and walking around for 10 minutes in between sets to drink that mouth full of water they've been holding in. and attempt a burpee to be criticized.

Everyone is on the same page, there is no negativity in a crossfit gym only encouragement, when you feel like quitting or saying that's enough you have someone else just as tired as you are telling you to make that extra rep. You have coaches checking your diet, you have other people eating the same as you or better giving you tips on what to eat, you build relationships and stuff with these people and it's a better social enactment than pm'ing people on the internet to hang at some random place.

You have something in common, and everyone has a common goal.

anyway, that's what I get out of my membership, that and I think I'm in the best shape I've ever been, and have netted the most overall results since I tried a super strict diet and a personal trainer which cost almost twice as much for just 90 days.