Well the studio has been open for 3 weeks now and whilst we have been operating classes, there has still been some work going on.

I am happy to say that the place is now complete, all the equipment is in and we are now and official CrossFit affiliate.

The name is Fitta Bodies CrossFit Kensington and the website will be up very soon.

If you have never experienced what CrossFit is all about, I can tell you that in the past 10 years of being a personal trainer, CrossFit is the best thing I have seen in the way of improving overall fitness, shredding bodyfat, gaining real overall strength, becoming more co-ordinated and skilled and actually enjoying the exercise routines that change daily.

There are many CrossFit affiliates world wide and each one is different in their own little ways.

I am hoping to make CrossFit Kensington one of the great affiliates by putting my own touch on all of our workouts.

I can say that at this point, our main focus will be met-con workouts unless I have specific clients that want to focus on Olympic lifting strength. Weights will generally be scaled by gender, fitness level, age and body weight, so a 95kg fit man won’t be lifting the same as a 70kg fit man, and the 70kg man won’t be penalised for lifting a lighter weight.

I am hoping to build a great base of clients who embrace the CrossFit style of training because I can tell you, it is the way of the future in the fitness industry, so get on board now, with a trainer who has trained this way for nearly 18 months now.

If you anyone would like to trial the classes, I am extending an offer of $50 for a 3 week trial of all the scheduled group CrossFit classes. This offer is not applicable to anyone who is currently training in the studio and may only be used once per person.

Looking forward to seeing you all in the gym very soon!

Well it’s that time of year again. November is just around the corner and with the success everyone had last year, I have had a lot of people asking if we are doing it again this year.

The answer is YES!

Starting on the 1st of November for 1 full month, we will rid our diets of sugar.

This means;

No alcohol

No cakes, chocolates, pastries, ice creams, soft drink

No Fruit juices, boost juices, smoothies, milk shakes

No white potato

No sugar in tea or coffee

No sweetened yogurt

No dried fruit

2 – 3 pieces of fruit per day only

2 slices of wholegrain bread per day maximum

1 cup of cooked pasta per serve a maximum of two times per week

I know you are all going to lose some weight in this month, but my main aim of this 30 days without sugar is to show you how much sugar you normally consume and to hopefully curb your sugar cravings.

By the end of this month, I hope you will have developed habits that will see you;

Drink tea and coffee without sugar

Only drink alcohol once or a maximum of twice per week

Only eat sweets once or a maximum of twice per week

Learn that meals should be made up of large amounts of non root vegetables

Treat pasta or rice as a accompaniment to a meal, not the main part of the meal

Never drink soft drinks

Avoid boost and other blended drinks

Learn that dried fruit is not a health food

Choose lower sugar yogurts

So who’s in?

Please put your name down in the comments section and we can kick the sugar as a team.

Hannah and I will be doing it. We’ll have one last sugar fix on my birthday this weekend and then it’s sugar free time right up to the festive month of December. We all know that December is the time of year when the junk food and alcohol comes out, so what better time to cleanse the system than November. Not only that, this will definitely shred off some of that bodyfat that has suddenly appeared since the swimsuit came out with this warmer weather!!!

If you break your sugar free promise, you must log your indiscretion on the blog and perform 5 burpees. if you happen to break the rules again, you must log your indiscretion and double the burpees. For each indiscretion, you must double the burpees. Just think, 5 times and you will be up to 80 burpees on the 5th occasion!

And be honest! You signed up to this, nobody forced you! You need some sort of guidelines to keep you on track!

I’m excitedly looking forward to all the names appearing below…

Last week I was fortunate enough to discuss CrossFit style training on 2SSR 99.7fm’s health and fitness show Total Vitality.

The day after the interview I trained the presenter Julia Achilleos at my studio in Kensington and needless to say, she felt the benefits of CrossFit style training over traditional gym workouts or going for a jog!

Here’s a link to the radio station’s blog with the entire interview, you just have to scroll down a little bit.

You can also read Julia’s blog post about our training session here.

If you haven’t tried our high intensity cross training classes yet, please check out our studio website here and book yourself in for some classes.

It’s official, we are now open for business at 103 Anzac Pde Kensington.

Thanks to all the help I received from my clients and friends over the long weekend, we have been able to open to trade this week. Only 4 days after signing the lease.

We are running classes at 7:15am and 6pm Monday to Friday in the gym and we still run the Outdoor Cross Traina’s in Centennial Park at 6am.

Memberships are $260 per month which includes access to all of our scheduled group training classes, indoors and outdoors.

There will also be casual visits to the classes for $35 or a ten session card for $300. Outdoor Cross Traina’s members pay only $25 per casual or $200 per 10 session card.

We’ve got all the equipment we need to have some awesome high intensity workouts based on CrossFit methodoly. Barbells with bumper plates, dumbells, kettlebells, wall  balls, pull up bars, olympic rings, TRX suspension slings,  skipping ropes, truck tyres, battling ropes, sandbags, concept 2 ski and row ergs and best of all, your body weight!

Come on in and experience the difference.

To join us or ask a question, simply click here!

Day 2 of setting up the studio went well with the bulk of the equipment arriving and we made a good start on laying the flooring.

Special thanks to Matt and Adam for all the help today, you guys were lifesavers!

Thanks to Finn for the fruit salad and thanks to Damian for laying that one rubber floor tile! Damain’s help will really kick in when we use his borrowed ute to move out of the Randwick studio on Sunday.

What would I do without my fantastic clients!!!

Here’s a few more snapshots!

The pallets have arrived

Kettlebells anyone?

Bumper plates

Some of the box jumps

Wall balls

The first wall ball is thrown

The first wall ball is thrown

Finally unpacked

Thanks for your help guys