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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 Wednesday, knowing Wednesday-you will be annoyed about it. That is the rep that decides everything. The training itself is
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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
Lifestyle
You've planned this autumn before. Not this one specifically, but you've had the exact thought — in September last year, and the year before, and probably in January. Once things settle down, I'm going to get back into it properly. Then term started, and things
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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&
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Today's our Bring-a-Friend day, so the gym will be full of people who've never been before — nervous, slightly out of their depth, wondering what they've agreed to. By the end of the hour, a fair few of them will have spoken to
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You probably already know who you'd bring. There's a name — a friend, a partner, a colleague who keeps saying "I really need to do something." You've thought about saying it more than once, then didn't. It felt like putting them
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If you look at who's still training two years after they started, a pattern shows up that has very little to do with how fit anyone was at the beginning. The people who came in alongside someone — a partner, a friend, a colleague they roped in — stay at
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There are some days where the session is the first thing you think about cancelling. The week has been long, the inbox isn't empty, and the sofa is making a very reasonable case for itself. You're tired, and tired makes a convincing argument. Most people, training
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The research on loneliness is now sufficiently established that it has moved from a social concern to a clinical one. Chronic loneliness is associated with a twenty-six percent increase in all-cause mortality — a figure that has led researchers to describe it as equivalent in health impact to smoking
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You will always do 10% more work training with others than you ever will alone. Discover the science behind the community at CrossFit Chiltern.
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We talk about the physical gains of CrossFit, but the community is your greatest source of long-term health. Jeremy Reilly breaks down the four profound, hidden health benefits of the box that prove your social life is just as important as your snatch PR.
Lifestyle
A great gym should be more than a building with equipment; it should be a genuine community hub. Jeremy Reilly shares the three signs a gym truly cares about the local Amersham area and why giving back is central to the CrossFit Chiltern mission.