Success Stories

“The culture at this Box is awesome – sense of community and support that starts with all the coaches who are so encouraging and knowledgeable. Thank you all for helping our family reach our health goals!”

“This place changed my life! I have lost weight, developed muscle and strength that I never thought was possible, learned the importance of healthy steady nutrition, gained confidence, and have made several supportive friends! The coaches are awesome and can help modify and scale every movement, truly for all fitness levels.”

“I have grown up playing sports and lifting in the gym and working for health clubs; I have never seen results like I have with Brigade…Crossfit Brigade is the real deal!v I highly recommend contacting them to try it out and maybe sign up for an intro class if you have never experienced it. Perfect for all levels of fitness.”

CrossFit Brigade has taught me how to train and eat in ways that are sustainable for life. The Brigade offers great support and the owners Eric and Emily have always been available when I had questions. The coaches are always quick to respond with advice when I have needed it outside the box. One of the first things I ever read about CrossFit is how once you find a box they become family and your biggest supporters.  CrossFit Brigade displays that value and many others daily. I am proud to be a part of the Brigade. I feel very fortunate to be a part of an awesome box. I have said before, if every box was like the Brigade, there would be much less negativity around the sport of CrossFit.
[read more=”Read more” less=”Read less”] I love CrossFit and in my opinion CrossFit Brigade is the best box I could be a member of.  CrossFit Brigade is a special place. I know all boxes are not the same.  I have had the privilege of training under most of the Brigade coaches. It is very clear their main goal is give athletes the best, safest, most effective training possible. Period.

I know now that CrossFit is not designed just for the elite athletes and the fittest people. CrossFit makes those people. Brigade coaches are experts in scaling movements to fit the needs of everyone’s fitness level. This is probably one of the things that impresses me about the Brigade the most. Very knowledgeable and accessible coaches who coach everyone to do their best! They all encourage and cheer you on by name. To me, that is pretty powerful motivation. It really pumps you up when you hear YOUR name followed by “ GET IT” or “YOU’RE KILLING IT”. Sounds simple, but it means a lot for the coaches to be engaged and a part of the WOD.

I go to CrossFit Brigade to continue my journey to being well.  The training and the nutrition information I get from the Brigade are a huge part of my journey.  My goal is to be healthy. Not just being a healthy weight according to medical standards. No.  I don’t want be sick. I want to feel good. I want to be well. I want to be strong and fit.   That is my “why”. The training I do 3 days a week carries over in my everyday life outside of the Brigade. I have always been one who can go on a diet and lose 20 or even 40 pounds. I have taken pills, restricted calories, lived on “fat free” foods, pretty much anything to lose weight. But,  I never knew what to do when the weight was off. I never tried anything sustainable for life.
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Through CrossFit, my desire to be a healthier and more fit individual. Hands down the coaches and the community at CrossFit Brigade are my favorite things and they are also the reason I push myself so hard and never think that I can’t do something. They are some of the biggest badasses that I have ever met and are so supportive and influential. I couldn’t have asked for a better community to become a part of for my first CrossFit experience and I consider myself lucky. Left: July 2015 – 200 lbs – 1 month in to CrossFit Middle: February 2016 – 191lbs – a week or two after Whole 30 in January. Right: This morning’s check in – 173 lbs – a little over a year at @crossfitbrigade and 4 months with LunchBox Fitness.
[read more=”Read more” less=”Read less”] Growing up I played soccer, basketball, and baseball but once I hit high school I essentially stopped participating in any athletics. I got pretty lazy and college didn’t really help. My junior year of college I decided to start lifting weights but I had no idea what I was doing and my diet was terrible. I also didn’t see any results besides just getting bigger (and not in the good way). I got to over 200 pounds and quit going to the gym by the beginning of my senior year. Brigade as definitely different than what I was used to. Before then I had only been to the globo gym types with machines all over the place.. I wasn’t sure what I was getting myself into.

Now when I walk into the gym it’s like being surrounded by family. There’s no nerves, no worries over looking like an idiot or having to scale a workout, no thoughts of feeling like I don’t belong and that’s 100% because of the coaches and the people at the box. I’ve had discussions with others who have never tried CrossFit about working out at a CrossFit gym and the biggest thing that I probably brag about is the community that I am a part of. I never got this kind of support from the school gym or the Gold’s Gym that I had been to previously. I never had people yelling at me and pushing me to get that last rep like I do at the box. Yeah you might have met up with a buddy to help spot you while you worked out but it’s not the same.

The biggest changes that I’ve seen in myself physically have come over the last 6 months or so through an improved diet but that would have never happened if it wasn’t for the CrossFit community. I’m thankful for having a box that stresses importance over more than one area of fitness. They want you to be physically fit but they also understand that your diet and other areas of fitness are just as important if not more. I’ve learned things about myself and my health through CrossFit that I never would have learned otherwise. It’s created an obsession with my own fitness that I never thought I would have.

Through CrossFit, my desire to be a healthier and more fit individual. Hands down the coaches and the community at CrossFit Brigade are my favorite things and they are also the reason I push myself so hard and never think that I can’t do something. They are some of the biggest badasses that I have ever met and are so supportive and influential. I couldn’t have asked for a better community to become a part of for my first CrossFit experience and I consider myself lucky.

Don’t let it intimidate you. CrossFit isn’t just for the people you see on TV doing unbelievable things that make your jaw drop. It’s for anyone and everyone. Can’t do the workout as prescribed? Scale. Scaling is just allowing yourself to take a step in the right direction so that one day you can hit the prescribed weight or movement. One of my favorite athletes is Travis Williams because he started CrossFit as an overweight kid just trying to get fit and now he’s going to the Games for the second straight year. Anyone can do CrossFit. [/read]