I noticed that clubs are increasingly getting full. There may be a lot of discussions about the influx of L1 certified trainers in the market but I also noted more and more gyms are just packed. There are 4 clubs within a 5-mile radius in Virginia that no longer accept members and more and more gyms are rejecting drop-ins as there is simply no more room. When we see boxes with hundreds of members getting sold out, either the days of the small garage gyms are numbered or better yet, more and more boxes are needed. Either way the sport will get better and our open source of fitness will develop some new and more amazing tools.
I renamed my Rest Days to Mobility Days to remind me of the importance of getting the limbs and muscles back in top shape especially after a 6-day string of WODs… This also forces me to standardize my stretch / mobility routine by adopting the best from MobilityWOD and some of te more warm-up centric gyms I’ve seen in my travels: shoulder dislocates, yoga stretches, rubber band shoulder and leg stretches, skin the cats, Burgener warmup, etc. Maybe even my Tony Horton DVDs like Yoga X or Stretch X can have an afterlife on rest days… I like CrossFit Charlottesville Mobility Program and I’m working on a similar routine.
