Yorkville Crossfit

09/12/2026

Some people don’t love working out. Some people don’t like eating chicken and broccoli.

Some people do it anyway and that’s discipline.

Keep going.

09/12/2026

Mutual Ground is a wonderful organization that helps victims of domestic and sexual violence. Our coach, Brianna and one of our members, Christine, organized a Hygiene Drive to help provide much needed personal items. Proud of our community!

A huge shoutout to Yorkville CrossFit for organizing an incredible hygiene drive! Let’s come together and make a difference! 🙌💪

09/11/2026

As we head into the weekend, our athletes started today with a tribute to the innocent lives lost in the terror attacks on 9.11.2001 We will never forget.

09/09/2026

Today I’m sharing the story (with permission) of one our newer members, Bonnie. This is her story, in her own words. Now Yorkville CrossFit has only recently played a part in her fitness journey (be sure to swipe!), but I am sharing this how she wrote it because it’s powerful, inspiring and very important to show that anything is possible if you put in the work! So enjoy! And congratulations, Bonnie! 💗
CrossFit

Eight years ago, I finished the first of what would become several Beachbody programs. It was hard. I wasn’t particularly good at it. But I was consistent.

And on the days I absolutely did not want to work out, I put my shoes on anyway and pressed play—even if I promised myself I only had to do five minutes, I just kept going.

Two years later, I had lost about 60 pounds! My happiness attracted happiness. ❤️ I married Joe. We got pregnant, I gained 40 pounds back, and I started again.

Today, I’ve lost 135 pounds. Sometimes I look at old pictures and I don’t recognize the woman in them. Eight years ago, my goal wasn’t to love my body, I just wanted to make sure my kids had a mom.

I’m not mad it took me this long because I had a hell of a lot more to lose than weight. I had no self-worth. I’m learning to separate who I am from what I can provide for someone else has taken far longer than losing 135 pounds. Learning what I bring to the table has been every bit as significant as changing the body I bring with me.

And I can see that growth most clearly on days like today.

Today, consistency means continuing to show up as myself! I spent enough of my life measuring my worth by other people’s reactions.

I’m not making myself smaller because someone else is measuring me.❤️

09/01/2026

How long can you hold it?

Our athlete, Lisa Kirk Cormier has won the local Stein Holding contest twice!

Our fitness helps us when it matters! And YCF is proud to be the training site for such a great event! Kiwanis Yorktoberfest

08/24/2026

Did you remember to meal prep this week?

There’s still time.

Keep it ridiculously simple. We pair this with some rotisserie chicken or deli turkey meat for protein.

Easiest, portable carbs, fat and proteins ever.

08/19/2026

THE UNKNOWN & THE UNKNOWABLE

One of the things I love most about CrossFit is that we train for more than a workout.

We train for life.

CrossFit has always talked about preparing for the unknown and the unknowable. We build broad, general fitness because we don’t know exactly what life is going to ask of us tomorrow.

And that’s the point.

You don’t know when you’ll need to carry something heavy.
You don’t know when you’ll have to climb, run, pull, push, or get yourself up off the ground.
You don’t know when a normal day will suddenly become a very hard one.

And the unknown isn’t always physical.

You don’t know when you’ll lose a job.
When someone you love will get sick.
When a relationship will change.
When plans will fall apart.
When life will hand you something you absolutely did not see coming.

We can’t train for every specific thing that might happen.

But we can train ourselves to be the kind of person who is ready when it does.

That’s what happens inside the gym.

You learn how to stay calm when you’re uncomfortable.
You learn how to keep moving when you’re tired.
You learn how to adjust when Plan A isn’t working.
You learn that sometimes you fail—and you’re still okay.
You learn that hard things don’t have to scare you. You learn that you can plan all you want but sometimes the plan falls apart.

Some days the unknown is a workout written on the whiteboard.

Other days, it’s life.

We train strength, endurance, stamina, flexibility, power, speed, coordination, agility, balance and accuracy because we want capable bodies.

But somewhere along the way, we’re also building resilient people.

People who can adapt.

People who don’t fall apart when things don’t go according to plan.

People who know, I’ve done hard things before. I’ll figure this one out too.

That’s why we train.

Not just to be better at CrossFit.

To be better prepared for whatever comes next.

Yorkville CrossFit
All Grit. No Quit.

08/17/2026

One of my longtime athletes sent me an old video today and said it made her cringe to think back about the movements she once struggled with and the things she couldn’t do.

Back then, she didn’t have the discipline that she does today. She wasn’t doing RX workouts. She wasn’t as strong or as fit as she is today. She was still figuring out who she was, both inside and outside of the gym.

Today, she’s grown into an incredibly capable young woman and athlete. She now completes workouts she never could have imagined doing back then.

But I told her this:

Don’t cringe at that girl in the video.

Be proud of her.

Because SHE is the reason you’re here now.

She showed up when she couldn’t jump on the box.

She showed up when she didn’t feel good about how she looked.

She showed up when she was worried about what other people would think of her.

She kept coming back.

And I think this is something all of us need to remember.

When we look back at old pictures or videos and cringe because we were heavier, slower, weaker, less skilled, or less confident, we’re unintentionally saying there was something embarrassing about being a beginner.

There isn’t.

Or maybe you’re starting over. Maybe you were fitter at one point and life got hectic so you find yourself back at day one and now you feel bad about it.

Don’t feel bad! Feel proud that you are taking steps to get back there!

Because somewhere in the gym right now is someone at exactly the place you used to be.

Someone doing step-ups while you do box jumps.

Someone doing ring rows while you do pull-ups.

Someone using an empty bar while you’re loading plates.

Someone scaling the workout you now RX.

They are every bit as much of an athlete as you are.

At Yorkville CrossFit, you do not have to earn your place here by being fit enough, strong enough, young enough, lean enough, or RX enough.

You already belong.

The person you are today deserves to be here.

And so does every version of you who fought like hell to get you here.

Never cringe at your beginning. ❤️

Honor it.

And when you see someone else standing where you once stood, make damn sure they know they belong there too.

❤️Coach J