Volunteers UG Series is coming up on July 13th, this year at Osler Bluff Ski Club, and they could always use help with volunteers. If you’re interested in helping out, judging, moving weights, etc. We know they would appreciate the help. As many of you know CrossFit Indestri was always very connected to UG Series. UG was originally founded by Scott Thornton who owned CrossFit Indestri at the time and a former member Paul Sproule, and I (Jen) volunteered to help out and take the photos for the first few UG events, and then the guys asked me to join them on the team, and the 3 of us spent 8 year ..read more

The RX Doing a workout RX means that you have done the entire workout as prescribed. Exactly how it’s written from the weights, to the movement standards and rep scheme. You didn’t change anything and hit all the movements standards on every rep. RX is a goal that you can work towards. Goals are a great thing to have, they keep you motivated and moving forward, but doing a workout RX’d does not mean that you got in a better workout than someone who scaled. What do we mean? Intensity is relative to the athlete, and sometimes we have athletes who want to RX the workout because they can lift that ..read more

Keep Track Last week we shared the blog post about keeping track, writing down your workouts, and the importance of measuring your fitness. Today is an iconic benchmark workout, one that we test and retest to measure your fitness. If you take your fitness seriously, you get a book and you write it down. If you don’t take it all that seriously, you still get a book and you write it down, because this is how you track your progress. Like we said last week, this is just old school CrossFit right to the core. Bring a book, or get a book, and write it down. Monday, May 6th, 2024 Focus: 4 Sets 2 Ha ..read more

Spring Colours Spring colour outside are starting to pop up, and we have lots of fun spring colours “inside the box”. Repping CrossFit Indestri has never been so colourful. Friday, May 3rd, 2024 Focus: Split Jerk 2 - 2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 WOD: For Time: 40 Shoulder Press 95/65 Rest 2 mins Death by Cal Row Increase 3 Cal every minute 2 Scores Check back each night at 8pm for the next days WOD . Contact us: Address: 200 Mountain Rd #3, Collingwood, ON L9Y 4V5 Phone: (705) 444-0006 Follow us on Instagram @crossfit_indestri ..read more

Join our Team The culture of CrossFit has always been about more than just the fitness we do together inside our affiliate. It has also been about giving back outside of the affiliate, especially when those ways involve physical activities. For the annual Hike for Hospice, we’d love to increase the number of team members we have this year. Sign up with your entire family, bring your signification other, your kids, etc. JOIN OUR TEAM HERE In true CrossFit Style we will be walking with our weight vests, backpacks, ruck packs, etc. again this year. Last year we even brought a few sandbags to carr ..read more

Write it down Last week we did a 1RM Clean + Jerk, this week a 1RM Front Squat, and we used percentages of those two 1 Rep Max lifts to lift off in our workouts. How many of you wrote those numbers down, in a book? If we asked you, your numbers how many of you would know them?   If we asked you what your Jackie time is? If we do a benchmark like Grace what weight do you use? How you break up a workout like Karen? We're sure some of you are able to rhyme them off without a hesitation, or some can even head over to the bookshelf or your bag to grab their WOD book and look them up.   As ..read more

Guardians Some of you may have seen that last Tuesday, Tyson Oldroyd was told his position at CrossFit HQ was no longer there. After nearly 20 years working for CrossFit HQ, Tyson who was a huge part of CrossFit media and the story telling in CrossFit had his position eliminated. We’ve gotten to know Tyson over the years, he is an incredible man, and as real and as humble as they come. This news hit as hard as when Eric Rosa let Dave Castro go a few years ago. There are a number of people who when you think about CrossFit, certain people come to mind, for many of us who have been around CrossF ..read more

Nichol Sister with Pat Sherwood at the 2013 CrossFit Games OG The North America West Semifinals are happening in May and the venue is one of the most iconic in CrossFit history. They're taking it back to Carson, California and the home of the CrossFit Games from 2010 to 2016. If you had the opportunity to attend the CrossFit Games during the time it was in Carson, you know how incredibly magic this place is, the tennis stadium is like no other. So here’s a fun little video that CrossFit put out during the 2013 CrossFit Games. Throwing it back. Monday, April 29th, 2024 Focus: Snatch 2 - 2 ..read more

Costly We talk about standards a lot. Both in our regular classes and when it comes to the competition side. If you follow the competition side of CrossFit you will have seen on Thursday morning that the leaderboard for quarterfinals has had some big shake ups with some of the top athletes in the world having scores adjusted for the standards on at least workout 1, in the step ups that we know of right now, for their heads not being in line with their entire body. There are some huge shake ups with this lack of standard costing some of these athletes their position to move forward to semi fina ..read more

Fundamentals If you have someone you know who has been thinking about joining CrossFit, we’re running our next fundamental session this week, Friday at 7pm and Saturday at 10am. Have them email indestri@gmail.com as soon as possible to secure their spot. Thursday, April 25th, 2024 Focus: Handstand Walking Progressions WOD: 20 min AMRAP 100m Run 5 Pull Ups 10 Push Ups 15 Air Squats Check back each night at 8pm for the next days WOD . Contact us: Address: 200 Mountain Rd #3, Collingwood, ON L9Y 4V5 Phone: (705) 444-0006 Follow us on Instagram @crossfit_indestri ..read more