A little rant - local box
So I’m from a town where there’s only one box. It’s huge and extremely well equipped for CF. When I started the sport, 5y ago, there were local competition athletes and extremely strong people, “old school” type who started CrossFit back in 2016. So it is an amazing box! The box made many t-shirts and I proudly wear them around.
However, time has passed and the lead has been given entirely to a couple (family of the owner), who do train CF, they competed in the past. That’s their full time job. You would expect them to be there most of the day, but they only come in sometimes. The gym is almost empty during the day, except from the classes, you can come in and train alone. It’s clear they’re not bothered anymore.
The owner bought a foosball table and he comes in the box only to play foosball for hours along with the members.
They fired all the real and certified coaches and put some amateurs to teach classes, when they don’t feel like it. They pay them by scaling their gym subscriptions (note: the owners own the actual building, and don’t struggle with money).
So programming has been good when I started, but I had been really disappointed lately (almost a year) as they copy paste WODS from CrossFit.com . The other coaches are also disappointed, but can’t say much. Is it that difficult to pay 150€ per month to give your box a good program?
I can say I’ve been consistent with my PRs for some time now. Sure, I could try to train more alone, but honestly it pisses me off that I pay around 1800€ per year to have myself follow an online program and train by myself (I spend the day planning stuff for others, I don’t wanna do that also for myself in my free time).
All the old schoolers left, they fought with the owners. I’m trying to decide whether to leave or to stay. I would stay only for some friends I have there, and the feeling and equipment of the place. Normal gyms are not like CF gyms, you know what I mean. But it seems really a waste to pay so much money for the quality they give back to costumer.
This makes me sad and pissed. I didn’t think it would’ve mattered so much but it’s such an important part of my daily routine it really hits me.
Sorry for the rant.
I’m going to train now (by myself).