Active Ageing
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'll answer it from the register rather than from theory. We've been coaching people over fifty in this
Support Systems
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 with a slight laugh to take the edge off. "I just don't want to be the worst
Support Systems
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 picture the internet version of CrossFit: ripped twenty-five-year-olds throwing barbells around a warehouse. That exists. It isn&
Training
Marion asked me a question last week that I suspect half the gym has been thinking. What difference does heat make to our training? Your blood has two jobs during a session: deliver oxygen to the working muscles, and carry heat out to the skin so you can shed it.
CrossFit
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 something worth knowing before you pick one on price and parking. The gym you choose in a new area isn&
CrossFit
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 of youngsters, half of them filming their next TikTok reel and the other half walking around in a pack carrying
CrossFit
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 you. Most people in Amersham who haven't trained in a decade aren't held back by not
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 athletes you see on social media. But those are the top of the mountain. The amazing thing about CrossFit is
CrossFit
There's a gym in town charging twenty pounds a month, and there's us, here in Amersham, charging a good deal more. If you're weighing the two up, the fair question — the one you might not say out loud — is simple: what am I paying
CrossFit
It's a fair question. Isn't CrossFit the thing where people throw barbells around and hurt their backs? If you're over fifty and weighing up whether to start, you deserve a straight answer from someone who coaches people your age every week. So here it
CrossFit
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 knows something you don't, and whether there'll be a moment where the whole room turns and
CrossFit
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 gone quiet, you're probably not looking for a workout. You're looking for reassurance. You want to