Back in February, Marion and I took a business trip out to Phoenix, AZ to attend the Affiliate Excellence seminar led by the legendary Ben Bergeron. The purpose of the seminar was to listen to Ben’s philosophies and beliefs on …
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April 30, 2017
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March 2, 2017
In our final follow up blog post about programming, we will follow up on some changes and enhancements we’ve made based on the survey feedback from last month. We also wanted to answer some of the most common questions we …
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January 25, 2017
In our next blog piece, we will talk about why there has been an increase in the amount of rowing in our workouts. Is it because Coach Matt hates short people? No. There’s more science and reasoning behind it. Please …
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January 5, 2017
Stronger. Faster. These are words that we all want to use when describing our progress. This is another look behind the scenes that will explain how we as a staff will get you there.
This is part 2 of a …
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December 20, 2016
Behind the Scenes: Rest periods in programming
By Ashley Fallin
If you have been paying attention to the recent shift in programming, you may be asking, “Why the rest?” There are actually some specific reasons for the rest periods that …
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November 22, 2016
Gym updates
It’s been a busy past few months and as we head into the end of 2016, I wanted to touch base and talk about some changes and give some updates on the gym overall.
We recently ran a …
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November 7, 2016
When we decided we were going to try to plan a competition, we first asked ourselves: “What is the goal?”
It wasn’t simply to host a throwdown, but we wanted to provide the competitors with things that we noticed have …
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August 26, 2016
Thank you for 5 years
A message during our 5 year anniversary. To the fun, loyal, hilarious and sometimes crazy athletes of CrossFit 858, past and present:
Thank you, for 5 great years and counting.
Thank you, for 1 great year at Mission Gorge and …
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August 15, 2016
Pumping Iron SWOD is here!!
Programming Note:
This week, we are starting new progressions for the Hang Snatch, along with the Overhead Squat. The Hang Snatch will compliment the Clean progression on Wednesdays and we will now have two days …
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May 26, 2016
5 more years……
I realized it’s been a while since I posted in this blog. Time has flown by and that is true on many levels.
I wanted to check in and give you all a small business update as …