beginners
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Booking the Class is the Hard Part
The hardest thing you'll do all week is the ten seconds on a Sunday evening where you open the app and put your name against a class on
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Is CrossFit Safe Over Fifty? An Answer From an Amersham Coach
I get asked this in the car park about once a week, usually by someone in their fifties, usually with an apology attached to the question. Yes. And I'
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Being the Worst Person in the Room: The Fear We Hear Most
The sentence I hear more than any other isn't on the gym floor. It's on the phone, on a first call, about four minutes in, usually
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Starting CrossFit in Amersham When You Haven't Trained in Years
If you've driven past our unit on Raans Road and wondered what goes on in there, then talked yourself out of finding out, this is for you. People
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Moved to the Chilterns and Looking for a Gym? Read This First
If you've recently moved to Amersham or one of the surrounding Chiltern villages and "gyms near me" is open in a browser tab, here's
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The Amersham Gym for People Who Hate Gyms
If the word "gym" brings up a specific kind of dread — strip lighting, a wall of mirrors, machines you're not sure how to use, a bunch
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Returning to Exercise After Years Off — An Amersham Coach's First-Week Guide
If you've typed "getting back into exercise after years off" into Google more than once and closed the tab without doing anything, this is written for
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Can't Run to the End of Your Road? You're Fit Enough for CrossFit
Can't run to the end of your road? You're fit enough for CrossFit. The beauty of CrossFit is that it produces the fittest on earth — those
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What Actually Happens in Your First Class at a Chiltern CrossFit Gym
The fear of a first class is almost never about the exercise. It's about the unknown elements — where to stand, what the words mean, whether everyone else already
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Starting CrossFit in Amersham When You Haven't Trained in Years
If you've found this by typing "CrossFit Amersham" into your phone late on a Tuesday night, once the kids are down and the house has finally
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4 Must-Know Principles for Beginners in the Gym
Stepping into the gym for the first time can be intimidating. Master these four fundamental principles to build a strong foundation and set yourself up for long-term success.
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5 Myths About CrossFit We Hear All the Time
Debunking the most common misconceptions about CrossFit, from safety and cost to who can actually do it.