A good cult

I love this shirt.

I’ve been traveling a  bit lately for work, vacations, Level 1 certifications… and whenever I travel, I always visit a local CrossFit affiliate.  I usually just shoot an email off to someone who coaches there, and then I just show up.  Here’s the summation of my experience:

• Every time I go, the coaches and athletes are super nice.
• The movements are exactly the same, the standards vary a little, but it’s remarkably consistent.
• Warm up and cool down are always different, and that’s ok.  This stuff isn’t boilerplate.

And just to back it up, I’ve been to a bunch of affiliates (in no particular order):

• CrossFit Central (Austin, TX) — my home affiliate.
• CrossFit Santa Cruz
• CrossFit Invictus (San Diego, CA)
• CrossFit Whistler (Whistler, BC, Canada)
• CrossFit Las Vegas
• CrossFit Park City
• CrossFit San Francisco

It makes sense that the experience is always good and the workouts are always tough.  I read Seth Godin’s Tribes a while back, and CrossFit is actually mentioned in there as an example of a tribe.  We work out together, and that’s just the beginning.  We eat and drink (too much) together, we travel together; the community is so much more than working out and getting your ass kicked.

It truly is open source fitness.

Signing out from Salt Lake City (where I visited CF Park City three times this week — thanks to Chris and Eric for the awesome classes!)…