So I used to attend an awesome crossfit in Pompano Beach but I moved up to Boynton. I've been a crossfit member for over 2 years but due to my schedule changes recently at work, I haven't been consistent in about 8 months. I figured I'd try the Groupon deal here for their bootcamp classes to check out their facility, instructors and overall vibe before I made the decision to come here for crossfit on a monthly basis.
I'm glad I did.
First, the stigma of some crossfit boxes being elitist must have definitely been born in places like this. I walked into the 11am bootcamp class last week and was not greeted at all by a staff member or any of the regulars there. Someone who was there for the first time and using their Groupon was the only one who spoke to me when I arrived. So, the vibe was "off" from the beginning.
Then the instructor for the class, who looked annoyed at the thought of having to deal with people who were not there for crossfit, instructed us on the warm up which was a 3 minute row. Cool. I'm familiar enough with the rowers to know which settings work best for me. And, thank goodness for that because had I have been a true newbie, I would not have gotten any direction from him. He directed us all to warm up at a moderate pace and then promptly went back to speaking to the crossfit athletes who were there doing what I can only assume was a free-period workout.
From there, the group did some stretching under the direction of the class instructor. Mind you, I can't use the guy's name. Not because I'm being polite, but because he never introduced himself. Not during the warm up. Not during the actual workout and not after. Also, the crossfit athletes who were stretching behind the rowers made no effort to move out of the way for the group to get to the PVP pipe area after our rower warm up was done. They literally were sprawled out behind the rowers stretching and chatting it up, right in the path of us trying to get to the PVP pipe area. At this point, I already knew what time it was. I was definitely not going to join this box, but I was curious how the actual workout would be.
The instructor called us over to another area after the end of the warm up and ran through the exercises for 2 circuits we were to do. It was pretty easy. Again, if someone had been an actual newbie they would have gotten no direction. If someone needed modifications for health/mobility reasons as well, this instructor could have cared less as he didn't model that (or ask if anyone needed that) as well.
I could go on, but I won't. Bottom line is if you are thinking of getting the Groupon to ease into going here full-time, I'd encourage you not to do that. Because the dude didn't care about actually doing his job, I never redeemed the Groupon (neither did the other girl who came in for the first time with her Groupon either) because when the workout was over nothing happened. He didn't come over to say anything as he was, again, talking to a crossfit athlete. So I rolled my Groupon to another fitness place that I've heard great firsthand reviews about. We're limited here in Boynton for crossfit, but I'd say if you drive out just a bit, you'd find better places than this. read more