Aroundtown Magazine Winter 2022 edition

HEALTH & BEAUTY
Forging fitness
inside the box
Are you bored of the monotony
of your current (if any) exercise
routine? Start to think inside the
box with the help of CrossFit
Rotherham.
Since launching the international fitness
phenomenon in the town seven years ago, the
CrossFit Rotherham team has forged a safe and
welcoming environment that is so much more
than a gym.
For anyone who hasn’t heard of CrossFit, it’s a
fun and functional fitness training experience that
combines weightlifting with aerobic conditioning
and gymnastics to get you fit for life.
Forget ellipticals, cable weights or keep-fit
classes; there’s no turning up, training in silence
and leaving an hour later having not even broken
a sweat. CrossFit is on par with military-style
bootcamps, with workouts designed to build a
body that is capable of anything and everything
– from standing on your hands, to doing burpee
box jumps, or even lifting Olympic standard
weights above your head.
While that may seem unattainable to some,
there is always a starting point. All CrossFit
workouts are completely scalable based on your
individual ability or intensity. You don’t need to
be able to do a pull-up when you join, but with
the right coaching you should be able to reach
those achievable goals in six, nine or even twelve
months’ time.
At the heart of CrossFit is the vow to improve
your strength, power, speed, stamina and mental
wellbeing through a race against the clock to
complete functional movements such as lifting,
jumping, pulling, pushing, squatting, running,
and throwing. In turn, by ensuring you have the
correct form and posture for these fundamental
techniques, CrossFit can aid daily life and
prevent injury outside the gym, even down to
little things like tying your shoes or carrying
the shopping.
But at CrossFit Rotherham, you’re not just
another membership payment. CrossFit was
designed around group training, with total
beginners, fitness fanatics and former athletes
training together in a supportive and encouraging
setting. CrossFit Rotherham members share
the same workout, same struggles, same
aches and pains, and same joy at completing a
new challenge.
Every day is different, with a variety of
hardcore WOD (workout of the day) that have all
been well thought-out. But there is method to the
madness. Easy workouts get boring, meaning
you don’t push yourself, so you don’t get the
results you set out to achieve. Being part of
CrossFit Rotherham encourages you to work on
your weaknesses and take a leap of faith to try
new things.
And who knows, by the end of it you might be
able to do a muscle-up, carry your gym buddy
across the box floor, or perfect a clean-and-jerk.
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