THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE GYM 9:00PM HOT SHOTS WILL BE PLAYING ON THE PROJECTOR

Bring Zone popcorn and pop - we can all go in an insulin coma together!!!

Brought to you by B$ (Brian LeFavour) and everybody’s favorite hardbody Abi.

Do you dream of learning and doing all things CrossFit? Do you hunger for your FireBreather shirt, your Specnaz? Ever thought it would be a real treat to spend a few days learning anatomy and physiology, discussing nutrition and training programming, and practicing technique? If so, we like you. You’re one of us.

What if I said that you can do just that. Spend two days with other motivated people in a distraction-free environment working on becoming CrossFit. Learn the inner workings of programming the workout of the day, what the "Hopper" means and get in 4 awesome workouts in two packed days of CrossFit.

South Center Mall, at Public Safety Testings CPAT course warehouse 5,000 square feet and another 20,000 of parking lot devoted to just us and the pursuit of fitness. Defined as increased work capacity across broad time and modal domains being brought about using constantly varied functional movements performed at high intensity.

A Jesse (Level 2 Certified), Abi (Level 1) and Lindsay (Level 1) will be on hand to deliver the goods.

Sat/Sun 9am-5pm 23rd and 24th of August. At South Center Mall (we can handle exacts later), bring water, food, extra t-shirts, notepad and pen. We’re pretty much raiding the gym for equipment, this is gonna be awesome!

We’ve got 17 already signed up, we’re limiting attendance to the first 25 people to sign up. Cost is $75 this week ($45 for one day), as of Monday the price will increase to $100 ($65 for one day)!!!

Call the Gym 425.697.7108 to sign up or email jesse@localsgym.com

Clan Chieftan Out.

Get ready for a rant.

Fitness Centers.  The new trend (there are many) is outsourcing. From the business side this makes huge sense.  Take billing for example.  If this is done "in-club" it’s done face to face, people to people, front desk and manager to member.  In this situation personalities can play a large factor in what happens, if someone gets injured, forgets to cancel or put their membership on hold (which most fitness centers simply won’t do) a persuasive person might be able to sway the front desk attendant and the manager into waving some of those fees (and rightfully so).  Hence the beauty of outsourcing the billing process.  The above mentioned person walks in and tries their truthful and legitimate story, get told the same thing everyone else hears "we don’t handle the billing, call "123 FinanceMe" and they’ll help you."  "123 FinanceMe" knows that they will never see this poor member, so they stick it to him/her, the member is pissed off (rightfully so) but at "123 FinanceMe" instead of the fitness center to being lame and outsourcing their billing.

The other new trend is outsourcing your trainers…  Another total winner from a business standpoint.  No more hassle of certifying them, hiring them, firing them, insuring them, motivating them, educating them, paying them - which in the high turnover world of crappy 18 year old trainers is exquisite I’m sure.  Instead of having a training department they can just use "iFitness" and just get paid a healthy amount without having to track sessions used, bought, cancels, no-shows, "my trainer promised me blah blah blah, but he quit and now what do we do?" - all that.  In this new outsourced situation, when you client gets screwed over, they’re mad at iFitness not the Fitness Center who hired iFitness…  Confused?  Me too.

iFitness’s job then becomes only to sell massive amounts of training every month so that the company can pay the Fitness Center Rent and they can make profit for themselves.  Trainers come and go and people will get screwed over and over again but they won’t quit the Fitness Center because it’s not their fault, just that crappy iFitness company and their shady trainers.  Please.

I want you all to understand the sinister thing that’s happening here.  Some of these Fitness Centers own the company they outsource to.  Kinda like how Coke owns like 20% of the free world.  So in effect all they’ve done is created a fool proof way do drastically reduce customer service by giving themselves the capability to pass the buck to this other "no face" company.  Now that’s shady.

I own a Gym.  Yeah a Gym, with chalk and barbells.  Sweat and tears.  Atlas stones and pull-up bars.  A Gym.  A place where people come to train.  Not to workout, but to train.  Training involves learning like when you’re "training" at your job, you’re learning how to do something.  When you train at my gym you’re learning how to be athletic, how to be in shape, how to do real movements, the ones that no one made up but most people forget how to do.  Like Squatting.  As soon as either a) God blessed us with the ability to walk upright or b) we evolved to walk upright or c) God caused the evolution of us walking upright we homo sapiens sapiens instantly knew we had to squat.  NO ONE MADE THIS UP, getting off the ground or up from a seated position requires the squat then just as much as now.  The Muscle-Up, if you’re hanging off something, there is no other way to get on top of said thing than to do a muscle-up or some leg using version of it.  No one made this up.  We deal with real movements.  

We don’t outsource a single stinkin’ darned thing.  I screw up peoples’ billing all the time, for those that I’ve messed up, I apologize.  But you know what’s nice, when it’s screwed up, we fix it.  One email, one phone call, a "hey Jes, you charged me twice last month!" and it’s done.  We don’t outsource our training, if something is wrong we fix it, we don’t have sales or quotas or close-outs to push people into things they don’t want to do or can’t really afford.  

In the words of CrossFit "we’re doing all the right things for all the right people for all the right reasons".  I truly believe that, if you know someone who needs to hear about our Gym, let them know about us, we’re doing the right thing all the time.  If you suck and are a nuisance to the club, we’ll kick you the hell out.  If you’re awesome and have a great indomitable attitude we want more people like you!  Come in here and TRAIN!  For those of the good people who we haven’t seen in a while - GET IN HERE AND TRAIN.

Clan Chieftan Out.

 Two more!!  These two guys are really a couple of beasts!  Give ‘em big ups when you see them in the gym kickin’ ass!

Schmucks.

Good lookin’ freakin gangster mo’ Fuggin’ Broskishkoshes.

Coincidence?   I think not.  Work hard, be strong, overcome limitations, no trepidation, no hesitation, plenty of repetition.

John DeCoursey

Collin Sargent

 Hear ye hear ye!

Two Crazy things happening this weekend!  

Saturday: Highland Games Festival at Greenbank Farm.  We’re throwing heavy stuff around and eating funnel cake at the booths!!!

This is Bret Christensen, owner of Celtic Viking Jewelry in Langley - total stud.

Sunday: At Local’s Gym, the Pacific Grip-Off Challenge.  Come and grab heavy stuff and bend nails with area experts, also phone book tearing clinic.  I kid you not.  Do we do the craziest stuff or what?!!?  Starts at 12:00 noon.  See you here!!

He he he - I like it!

Clan Cheiftan Out.

We’re just damn excited.  Is that so bad???  The meet was fantastic, the guys and girls did awesome and it was just fun!!

AWESOME!!

On a sidenote: I had an excellent one on one goal setting meeting with one of our CrossFitters, it was fruitful for me to hear where she wanted to go and answer all of her questions, and great for her to get re-focused.  

Call me, yell at me, let’s set up a time to talk and get everything figured out, no gray area!!

And why wouldn’t they, they’re stronger!!!

What a day.  Thanks to Kurtis and Laurie, and we hope the fight against Fragile X comes to a victorious end soon!

Where??

Yeah Sumner.

1:  Start out going WEST on 196TH ST SW/WA-524 toward 24TH AVE W.  0.7 mi Map   2:  Merge onto I-5 N.  0.5 mi Map  Avoid   3:  Merge onto I-405 S via EXIT 182 toward BELLEVUE/RENTON.  27.9 mi Map  Avoid   4:  Merge onto WA-167 S via EXIT 2A toward KENT/AUBURN.  19.8 mi Map  Avoid   5:  Merge onto WA-410 E toward SUMNER/YAKIMA.  0.7 mi Map  Avoid   6:  Take the exit toward SUMNER.  0.2 mi Map  Avoid   7:  Turn LEFT onto E MAIN AVE.  0.1 mi Map  Avoid   8:  E MAIN AVE becomes TRAFFIC AVE.  0.4 mi Map  Avoid   9:  Turn LEFT onto PACIFIC AVE.  0.1 mi Map  Avoid   10:  Stay STRAIGHT to go onto VALLEY AVE E.  0.1 mi Map  Avoid   11:  End at 13608 Valley Ave E Sumner, WA 98390-1535   Map

Estimated Time: 56 minutes Estimated Distance: 50.62 miles

13608 Valley Ave E,  Sumner, WA 98390-1535 

I would highly recommend going the I-5 North, 405 South way, the freeways get MESSY down south trying to get to the right one, I’ve been lost a few times, 405 is the easier route!

The beatdown begins at 10:00am Sharp, rules briefing and warm-up start at 9:00am, weigh-ins and registration at 8:00am.

 

Thanks to everyone who’s making the trek down to support us - it’s awesome!!!  Bring your cameras and video cameras!!  We need lots of footage for the website and other nefarious activities, which may include blackmail to enforce training programs…  etc.   ad nauseum…..

 

Yeah she’s nuts.  Almonds mostly.

What was that workout?  OH YEAH 5k Run or Row  We had Zone Cupcakes (Jesse had 6) and went on our merry way 13 times around!!

For those that don’t know, Ann has been coming now for 6 or so months and she’s SO STINKING CLOSE TO DOING A PULL-UP IT’S JUST SICKENING.  You hear that Ann?  It’s time to just go for it!!  Cut all the negative self talk out, no more "can’t" ever again and get that chin over the bar baby!!

We’re pullin’ for ya And happy Birthday

-Tha Crew