[mattyboy]

Finally a forum over this side of the water for likeminded nuts as myself! My name's Matt and I'm a personal trainer working out of Newmarket and Cambridge in East Anglia. I found your forum due to trying to find a level 1 crossfit course (which most of you privelidged lot are on this weekend up in Manchester). I've been crossfitting without really knowing it for about 2 years now. My inspirations were the training that Gym Jones did for those '300' actors and also the Bartendaz and Harlem Seals (see on youtube). I have 20 or so of my own kettlebells which I use with my clients and also have 3 TRX bodyweight systems (although about to get a couple of pairs of gymnastic rings). I will hopefully meet a few of you who are based with Andrew Stemlers set up in East London as I'm going to do th i-course in November to get a taster of how crossfit is set up. My intentions are to do Crossfit Level 1 & 2 over here then go to New York maybe end of next year for a few days and start my Level 3. This will also give me the opportunity to meet the Harlem Seals set up and hopefully be privelidged enough to watch them in action. I'm totally hooked on the functional fitness ethos and see it as having very little correlation to your standard gym routines. I've got clients of mine of all ages doing stuff. I'm training a Formula A1 driver and also a pro boxer but I've also got a 82 year old man who has use of only one of his lungs. I treat them (to a degree) exactly the same. The 82 year old guy is doing russian swings and overhead squats as are the boxer and driver. I see the crossfit thing almost like a sport rather than just a way of exercising. I get most of my clients competing against each other in timed circuits or multi disciplined routines and they seem to love it and get hooked. I tell you, I think we could be onto something here. By the way sorry about getting so over excited but I'm a bit of an anorak when it comes to this sort of stuff and can get a bit carried away when I get going (I sometimes wonder how I've kept a girlfriend).

[sam]

hi mate, welcome

[Chet]

Lol....

Hi and welcome mate

[FK Pimp]

welcome dude - not far away from you in mid essex (witham)

[Chi]

Hi, I would be very interest to hear if you go down the CF route as i'm based in Norfolk. Welcome.

[grole]

Welcome to the board Matt

Its good to see the East Anglian contingent of the board growing.

Peter

[Chet]

grole, on Sep 19 2008, 12:07 PM, said:

Welcome to the board Matt

Its good to see the East Anglian contingent of the board growing.

Peter

Get yourselves on the members map if you havent do so already...

http://funckey.blogs...embers-map.html

[grole]

Chet, on Sep 19 2008, 11:28 AM, said:

Get yourselves on the members map if you havent do so already...

I have already. Twice!

I think I am the only person on there in two locations

[Chet]

Quite a feat

[Dustin T]

Hi all. I live in Cambridge and I'm an avid Crossfitter. Looking for a crossfit-friendly gym in the area. I'm also Level-1 certified. Originally from CrossFit San Diego, CA.

[Will]

What about Cambridge core training? Core Cambridge

[jedimonkey]

Will, on Oct 1 2008, 11:37 AM, said:

What about Cambridge core training? Core Cambridge

That looks like a great gym

[Dustin T]

Any idea if they are crossfit friendly. Their gym does look quite good.

[Matt M]

Can't believe I missed this!

I'm just up the A1 / M11 in Peterborough.

[Chet]

Dustin T, on Oct 13 2008, 04:23 PM, said:

Any idea if they are crossfit friendly. Their gym does look quite good.

Certainly looks like it from the pics and the website...

[nickyhusky]

It looks like a great gym. Kind of Crossfitty but without actually being CF. I'd go there. Might pay it a visit sometime.

[Gubernatrix]

They look very good. Whoever wrote the website has a feel for copy!

I like the fact that they are selling intellectual products rather than equipment, facilities, supplements, jacuzzis etc.

I am not quite sure about the concept of applying the same techniques to ordinary trainees as to performance athletes. I don't know what that means in practice.

One example: I train in a gym where a lot of olympic weighlifting juniors train quite seriously. I have seen their training programmes up on the walls and they are not the sort of programmes that the ordinary trainee would want to do or indeed benefit from doing.