We offer a 5,400 sq/ft. fitness coaching facility with bathrooms, showers, and a lounge located in Berlin, Connecticut. Conveniently easy on/easy off Rt 9. Instead of rows of stationary bikes, treadmills, weight machines, and mirrors our facility is filled with pull-up bars, kettlebells, barbells, rowers and wide open space for squatting, running, jumping, climbing, lifting and throwing – moving y
our body the way it is supposed to be moved. All of your workouts are made up of exercises that mimic movements performed in day-to-day life or sport. We focus on improving functional movements that are necessary and common in your daily activities, like picking up your kids or moving that bag of mulch from your trunk to the backyard, always training you for the unknown. Most of the other gyms emphasize training on benches or with weight machines. They also have trainers teaching exercises originating from bodybuilding. They do this because it is “safe”, easy, and requires little thought or effort outside the specific movement for which the machine or exercise was designed. When you step into most gyms, the first thing you usually see is a multitude of weight and cardio machines configured as closely as possible together to fit as many as possible into the space. Moving around without bumping into something is next to impossible. After you’ve found the little space that is available, you must squeeze between people, weight machines, off in the corner, or in the middle of a walkway. And forget about leaving your spot or bench or piece of equipment for more than 30 seconds – it will be taken by someone else. In this environment, athletic training is not only impractical, it is impossible. At CrossFit Berlin, our emphasis is on space – space to move, to jump, to lift to balance, to climb, tumble, or in other words, train as an athlete, unencumbered by equipment, people and/or other “stuff” in the way.
