About Us
Mission Statement
At CrossFit South Haven, we believe that anyone at any age can get healthy and preserve their health and vitality into later life. We want to help you achieve that goal through fitness.
Our Core Values:
Virtuosity – doing the common uncommonly well.
Service – we care about our members and will do whatever we can to help you succeed.
Integrity – we believe in honesty and strong moral values. We will always treat you with respect.
Community – you will quickly become part of our CrossFit South Haven community as well as part of the entire worldwide community of CrossFit. You will not be judged by others, but in fact, you will be cheered on every day. You will feel a sense of belonging and you will likely make new friends.
What is CrossFit?
Constantly varied, functional fitness performed at high intensity.
Let’s break that down.
Constantly Varied
Every day is a new workout. The “workout of the day” or WOD is programmed using a variety of body weight movements, endurance and weightlifting movements. Other than some benchmark workouts, you may never see the same workout twice.
Functional Fitness
We do exercises that help us in everyday life. Things like squatting (getting up out of chair), deadlifting (picking up a bag of dog or cat food), push-ups, burpees (getting up off the ground if we fall). You will rarely see movements involving one muscle such as bicep curls. The movements in CrossFit involve multiple muscles coordinated together to make you as strong and bullet-proof as possible.
High Intensity
This is the one that scares people. You will work hard in CrossFit, and you will ultimately be glad of it. But the phrase should really be “relatively” high intensity. That is, relative to your physical and even more importantly, psychological capacity. Our trainers are experts in modifying or scaling workouts to each member’s capability. You will be doing the workouts alongside other members in a class setting doing essentially the same workout with modifications as needed. As Greg Glassman, CrossFit’s founder, said, “The needs of Olympic athletes and our grandparents differ in degree, not kind.”