CrossFit Des Plaines

09/04/2026

CFDP x PREPT MEALS 🥗💪

You put in the work at the gym.
Now let’s make fueling your body the easy part.

We partner with PREPT MEALS to give the CFDP community an easier way to stay on top of nutrition, recovery and everyday life…without spending half your week shopping, prepping, cooking and cleaning.

PREPT meals are:

🥩 Macro-counted
🥦 Nutritionist approved
🔥 Made fresh, never frozen
🚪 Delivered right to your door
🙌 No cooking. No cleanup. No guesswork.

AND CFDP MEMBERS HAVE ANOTHER OPTION 👀

You can choose to have your meals delivered directly to CrossFit Des Plaines and get FREE SHIPPING. Pick them up at the gym and knock one more thing off your weekly to-do list.

Because training is only part of the equation. What you do between workouts, how you fuel, recover and take care of yourself, matters too.

And this isn’t just for competitive athletes. It’s for busy parents, professionals, athletes, beginners and anyone who wants to eat better without making nutrition another full-time job.

💥 Use code CFDP25 at checkout to get $25 OFF your first order.

Train hard.
Fuel properly.
Recover better.
Make the healthy choice the easy choice.

PREPT MEALS 🤝 CFDP

09/01/2026

💥 UPDATED AFTER SCHOOL CLASS TIME 💥

We heard you! To give families a little more time to get here after school, our Friday Youth Fitness & Athletic Performance Class will now begin at 3:40 PM.

This coach-led class helps kids ages 10–14 build strength, improve athleticism, and gain confidence in a fun, supportive environment. Whether your child plays sports or simply wants to move more, this program is built to help them grow!

🏃 Improve speed, agility and coordination
💪 Build strength with proper technique
🤸 Develop balance, body control and confidence
🏋️ Learn movements that carry over to any sport
🔥 Stay active and have fun

📍 CrossFit Des Plaines
🗓️ Fridays
🕞 NEW TIME: 3:40 PM
👥 Ages 10–14

📩 Interested? DM us “YOUTH CLASS” or click the link in comments for more information or to register!

08/31/2026

08/30/2026

Your health deserves a spot on your calendar before your body demands one. 👏

At CFDP, HYROX is about building fitness you can take into the rest of your life. Strength to carry what you need. Endurance to keep doing what you love. Confidence to try something that once felt out of reach.

And that hour you set aside? It’s time to step away from the notifications, move your body, and be around people who are glad you showed up.

Wellness can look like a sweaty shirt, a shared laugh between rounds, and keeping a promise you made to yourself.

You don’t need a race on the calendar to have something worth training for. Your everyday life is plenty. 💙

📍 CrossFit Des Plaines

Come build strength for the life you want to live.

08/25/2026

💥 NEW AFTER SCHOOL TIME SLOT💥

Youth Fitness & Athletic Performance Classes

Strong kids become confident adults.

Our After School Youth Fitness Program is designed to help kids ages 10–14 build strength, improve athleticism, and develop healthy habits they’ll carry for life.

Whether your child plays sports or just wants to move more, this class helps them become stronger, faster, and more confident in a fun, supportive environment.

🏃 Improve speed, agility & coordination
💪 Build strength with proper technique
🤸 Develop balance, body control & confidence
🏋️ Learn functional movements that carry over to any sport
🔥 Have fun while staying active

Every class is coach-led and focused on helping young athletes move well, work hard, and believe in themselves.

📍 CrossFit Des Plaines
🗓️ Fridays
🕞 3:30 PM
👥 Ages 10–14

We’re excited to grow this program and plan to add additional class days and times in the future!

📩 Interested? Message or Comment us “YOUTH CLASS” or click the link in the comments more for information or to register.

08/24/2026

08/23/2026

HYROX does something to you.

Not just to your body.

Your heart gets stronger.
Your lungs become more efficient.
Your legs learn to produce power when they’re already tired.
You build strength that actually has to work under fatigue.
Your body gets better at recovering, adapting and going again.

But the physical part might not even be the best part.

Because while your body is learning how to keep going…

your brain is learning it too.

You learn how to stay calm when you’re uncomfortable.

How to stop negotiating with yourself.

How to break something hard into one more run, one more push, one more rep.

How to trust a body you used to underestimate.

And maybe that’s why HYROX feels different.

You’re training your cardiovascular system.
Your muscular endurance.
Your strength.
Your power.
Your engine.

But somewhere in there, you’re training your courage too.

You walk in wanting to get fitter.

You walk out a little harder to shake.

That’s HYROX.

08/21/2026

🧬 FUN FACT FRIDAY: Your bones are basically construction sites.

Seriously.

Your skeleton is NOT the same skeleton you had years ago.

Bone is living tissue that is constantly being broken down and rebuilt by specialized cells. And when you lift heavy weights, jump, run, carry things and put your body under load, your bones detect that mechanical stress.

Their response?

“Apparently we need to be stronger here.”

So your body starts reinforcing the structure.

This is called bone remodeling, and resistance training can help stimulate the processes that maintain and build bone strength.

Which means while you’re worried about your squat PR…

your skeleton is quietly renovating itself. 💀🔨

You didn’t just come to CFDP to build muscle.
You came here to upgrade the infrastructure.

Happy Fun Fact Friday. 😂💪

08/18/2026

🧠 FUN FACT FRIDAY: YOUR BRAIN CAN TURN DOWN PAIN WHILE YOU TRAIN.

Here’s where it gets wild.

Your brain doesn’t just receive pain signals.

It can actively change how loudly you feel them.

During hard exercise, your nervous system can release chemicals including endorphins and endocannabinoids that help reduce pain perception.

Yep. Endocannabinoids.

Your body has its own cannabinoid system, and intense exercise can activate it. 🤯

It’s one of the reasons something that feels absolutely BRUTAL in the middle of a workout can suddenly feel more manageable once you’re fully moving.

And that post-workout feeling where you’re sweaty, smoked, weirdly calm and thinking…

“That was horrible. I loved it.”

There’s actual biology behind that.

Exercise doesn’t just train your muscles.

It changes the way your brain experiences the stress you’re putting them through.

Your body basically has a built-in pharmacy.

And sometimes the prescription is burpees. 💀