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Exercise Cures Disease?

CFDR members

Humans were not designed to be sedentary!!!!!  Everyone knows that exercise is essential for good health, but what many don’t realize is exactly how beneficial it is. Exercise is not only useful for helping you lose weight, maintaining a healthy body weight, and making you feel good, but exercise can also help treat many medical conditions – often times more effectively than the medications intended for that specific purpose.  If exercise were a pill, it would be the most prescribed medication in the world.  The truth of the matter is, exercise is not a pill and takes commitment, effort and work.  Most importantly, it takes consistency and a lifestyle change.  However, drug companies don’t make any money promoting natural solutions – like exercise – that work better than the medications they are pushing, without all of the nasty side effects prescriptions bring with them.  There are many health conditions that can be effectively treated with exercise. You should always talk to your doctor before making major changes in physical activity or medication usage, but if he or she tells you exercise wont work for you, get a second opinion. Stop acting like living a healthy lifestyle is a big deal!!!!!  It doesn’t […]

There’s no doubt that CrossFit brings people together.  Many long-term relationships have been started in the box.  For us, many of our members are more like family than those related to us by blood.  Often times, we don’t express to you how important you are to us, or don’t tell you when you’ve impressed us with your actions. Here’s to you, our members, whose actions speak louder than words and it doesn’t go unnoticed.

THANK YOU FOR TAKING CHARGE.  You know who you are, when Coach is busy talking to someone who dropped in to check us out, or had to address a member with a question. You’re the one who keeps the flow of the warm-up or skill-set going for the few minutes coach is distracted.

THANK YOU FOR WELCOMING A DROP-IN OR NEW MEMBER. You’re the first one to introduce yourself to an unfamiliar face who walks in.  You show them around, you help them set up for the WOD, you make them feel they’re at home at CFDR.

THANK YOU FOR CLEANING UP. You never forget to mop up your chalk or wipe down your ab-mat with a Clorox wipe, and you don’t just stop at your own area, you help out the member next to you.

THANK YOU FOR CHEERING ON THE UNDERDOG. You’re one of the first ones to finish the WOD, but you don’t begin cleaning up your equipment, instead you shout out positive affirmations to the remaining athletes and keep the energy high and positive so that they are encouraged to finish.

THANK YOU FOR THE REFERRAL. You talk about CFDR to everyone.  Your family, friends, co-workers are sick of hearing about CrossFit DownRiver, but that doesn’t stop you from inviting them to come in and try it, or from posting your PRs and sweaty pictures all over social media.  You’re proud to be in this community and you want those you love to be a part of it too.

YOU, our members, are what make CFDR great, and WE, your coaches, know this and appreciate all that you do to continue to keep us a step ABOVE other boxes!    THANK YOU!