CrossFit Rolleston

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CrossFit Rolleston is a core strength and conditioning program centered upon constantly varied functional movements performed at high intensity.

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CrossFit is advertised, in four words, as “the sport of fitness.”

With constantly varied, high-intensity functional movements, CrossFit is a training philosophy that coaches people of all shapes and sizes to improve their physical well-being and cardiovascular fitness in a hardcore yet accepting and encouraging environment.

CrossFit is a training program that builds strength and conditioning through extremely varied and challenging workouts. Each day the workout will test a different part of your functional strength or conditioning, not specialising in one particular thing, but rather with the goal of building a body that’s capable of practically anything and everything.

Rather than having one workout for older women/men and another for hardcore athletes – there’s ONE workout each day that is completely scalable based on your skill.

Let’s say you’re interested in joining a CrossFit Rolleston class…but you don’t know what you’re getting into!

Practically every gym (or “box”) that uses this method around the world will let you come in and try out a class for free... including CrossFit Rolleston!

If you’re interested in joining the regular CrossFit Rolleston workout, you’ll most likely be required to attend “Beginners Classes” to begin with. The purpose of these is to teach you the nine foundational movements and all about proper form. No matter how experienced you are, these are valuable and worth the time and money. Even if you think you have perfect form on your squats, dead lifts and/or overhead presses, it’s amazing what can be fixed when you have a trained set of eyes watching you do them.

Regular classes: This is what you’re probably used to seeing or hearing about. A regular CrossFit class runs for an hour. Everybody starts at the same time, there is an instructor(s) walking around helping out and keeping track and everybody is supporting each other.

What a CrossFit Rolleston class looks like:
• Dynamic warm up: Not jogging on a treadmill for 5 minutes, but jumps, jumping jacks, jump rope, squats, push ups, lunges, pull ups. Functional movements, stretches, and mobility work that compliment the movements you’ll be doing in the workout that day.
• Skill/Strength work: If it’s a strength day, then you’ll work on a pure strength movement (like squats or deadlifts). If it’s not a strength day, then you’ll work on a skill and try to improve, like one-legged squats or muscle ups.
• WOD: The Workout Of the Day. This is where you’ll be told to do a certain number of reps of particular exercises as quickly as possible, or you’ll have a set time limit to do as many of a certain exercise as possible.
• Cool down and stretching. Either as a group, or you’re allowed to stretch out on your own.

Pros to Joining CrossFit Rolleston:
• GREAT community aspect. Unlike a commercial gym, you actually get to know the people at your “box”. There’s always that feeling of team work and camaraderie.
• Constant coaching and support. In a commercial gym you have no clue if you’re doing an exercise right or not. While it’s not 1:1 training, you have a coach with you during every workout to help out.
• Leveling up. Because you get to keep track of how much you’re lifting, and you know how many reps and sets you’re doing…you get to see constant improvement. You also get to advance at your own pace, slowly working your way up towards doing the workouts as prescribed.
• Humbling yet encouraging. Yeah, you might end your workout lying on your back, but you have a sense of accomplishment when you finish a workout faster than last time.
• Competition. It’s amazing how much further you’ll push yourself when surrounded by other people cheering you on and competing with them.
• It introduces SO MANY people to weight lifting, especially women who would have never ever attempted to get off the treadmill and strength train. It’s like a gateway workout – you learn what you love and can specialise further from there.
• It’s a good outlet for former athletes who like to compete. After playing competitive sports through high school and college, all of a sudden there’s nothing left to compete in…CrossFit gives people that outlet.
• You get to find out what you’re made of. CrossFit can be miserable at times, but it can also teach you how to push through mental barriers, build mental toughness and more.
• It builds good muscular endurance and all round fitness. Your body is prepared for pretty much any athletic situation after only a few months of CrossFit.


Class Memberships:
Single Class: $13
10 Class Pass: $120
Emergency Service 10 Class Pass: $108
2 Class Per Week Membership $25 per week
Unlimited Class Member Ships $33 per week