Friday marked one year since we opened our doors at Solidarity CrossFit. In that time we’ve seen our community grow from ten people squatting, pressing, and deadlifting in the cramped basement underneath our house and doing workouts amid a swarm of mosquitoes in our back yard, to over a hundred members training out of our current 2,800 square foot Harris St. location. To say we are pleased with this first year would be an understatement.
Our mission has always been to make CrossFit a sustainable practice for individuals of all walks of life. To that end we made our Preparatory Course mandatory and coach and drill until we are exhausted. We will never rush to fill our classes and always default to controlled growth with proper education with a focus on safe, quality movement. We demand athletes strive for virtuosity, and they have wholeheartedly stepped up to the challenge.
Nothing makes us more proud than to have a community where doing things well is every bit as important as doing things quickly. The times on our whiteboard form the tightest groupings I have ever seen at a CrossFit gym. Why is that? Our athletes “get it”, and they check their egos at the door.
The myriad of accomplishments seen at our gym this year are too numerous to discuss here. Suffice it to say, “fitness is happening”, and happening at an astonishing rate. It’s amazing what people can accomplish when they come together and get the heck after it. Our little corner of the world is a hell of a lot faster, stronger, and more capable than one year ago.
Thank you and great work Solidarity athletes!
