About Us

At ThreeRivers CrossFit, it is our mission to help our athletes elevate their quality of life by improving fitness and enhancing physical skills, while taking them to the edge of their limits and teaching them to continually push past those limits. In short, our goal is to train hard and have fun!

Today's society is plagued with a myriad of health issues - obesity, chronic joint pain, and heart disease, to only name just a few. The occurrence of these problems is rarely isolated, one problem only compounds another. Pain causes inactivity; inactivity leads to obesity; obesity increases the risk of high blood pressure and heart disease. Meanwhile, the increasing weight results in even more pain, further inactivity and health continues along this deteriorating slope. The most frustrating part about this epidemic is that these health problems can be prevented. With the proper fitness program, quality of life can be improved across the board.

Even with today's increased awareness and focus in the media, these health issues are getting worse, not better. The mainstream fitness industry is doing little to actually address the root of the problem. The root of the problem is that fitness isn't being addressed as a whole. Programs dumb down their focus and leave out crucial components of fitness. In the traditional globo-gym, you will find tall skinny guys on the treadmill, big guys on the bench and women on the elliptical or lifting two-pound pink dumbbells. People are paying exuberant membership fees without really having much of an impact on their fitness level or making any significant changes in their health.

What makes the CrossFit program successful is what we do differently from any other training program -We bring an element of play into the gym and address all components of fitness. Our workouts are all scored, not just to measure progress, but to turn training into a sport itself. If your workout is fun instead of a chore, you will do it more frequently, with greater enthusiasm, and will reap greater results. We train function over form and performance over appearance. The foundation of our programming is "functional movements, done at a high intensity, with constant variation". Through this principle, we address all 10 general physical skills (adopted from Jim Crawley and Bruce Evans of Dynamax,www.medicineballs.com):

  1. Cardiovascular/respiratory endurance - The ability of body systems to gather, process, and deliver oxygen.
  2. Stamina - The ability of body systems to process, deliver, store, and utilize energy.
  3. Strength - The ability of a muscular unit, or combination of muscular units, to apply force.
  4. Flexibility - the ability to maximize the range of motion at a given joint.
  5. Power - The ability of a muscular unit, or combination of muscular units, to apply maximum force in minimum time.
  6. Speed - The ability to minimize the time cycle of a repeated movement.
  7. Coordination - The ability to combine several distinct movement patterns into a singular distinct movement.
  8. Agility - The ability to minimize transition time from one movement pattern to another.
  9. Balance - The ability to control the placement of the body's center of gravity in relation to its support base.
  10. Accuracy - The ability to control movement in a given direction or at a given intensity.

Everyone needs all 10 of these components of fitness - from the Olympic athlete to the nursing home resident. The difference varies in how much of each component is required. We scale our workouts to reflect the athlete's demands; we don't change the program to ignore any component of fitness.

Whether you want to increase your vertical jump or stand from a chair without help, go into the last minute of a martial arts match with gas left in the tank or walk up a flight of stairs without getting winded, play college ball or want to get the most out of playing with your children, this is the answer you are looking for.

At ThreeRivers CrossFit, we do not have clients and members; we have athletes - a title that is not simply purchased, but earned by how much effort you put into achieving your goals.