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Open Gym at Gain Line Ascot

Open Gym is just that. A chance for you to come in and use the gym to follow our program or your own, you decide !

Open Gym is a flexible and unstructured training format offered at many CrossFit boxes, allowing members to design their workout routines and progress at their own pace. During Open Gym hours, you have full access to the facilities, equipment, and resources that your CrossFit box provides. Open Gym sessions are an excellent opportunity to supplement structured CrossFit classes and enhance your fitness journey.

Features of Open Gym

During Open Gym sessions, participants can utilise key features of a CrossFit gym, such as:

Facility Access: Enjoy unrestricted access to the CrossFit box, including essential functional fitness equipment like barbells, kettlebells, medicine balls, pull-up bars, gymnastics rings, and more.

Workout Flexibility: Design and complete workouts that align with your personal fitness goals and address your weaknesses or areas for improvement.

Skill Development: Spend time refining technical skills or mastering movements that may be challenging during standard CrossFit classes.

Customised Strength Training: Focus on specific strength-building exercises that complement or enhance your progress in regular CrossFit classes.

Speciality Training: Delve into niche training areas, such as Olympic weightlifting, callisthenics, or gymnastics, that may only sometimes be prioritised in standard WODs.

Individualised Mobility Work: Address your unique flexibility and mobility needs, which can help improve your overall performance and reduce the risk of injury.

Benefits of Open Gym

Incorporating Open Gym sessions into your fitness routine provides valuable benefits, including:

Personalised Approach: Open Gym allows for a tailored workout experience, ensuring that your training aligns with your individual needs and progress.

Increased Motivation: With the freedom to focus on your preferred exercise type, Open Gym sessions can help you stay motivated and inspired throughout your fitness journey.

Continued Progress: Open Gym sessions provide the opportunity to work on your weaknesses or limitations in a focused manner, leading to overall fitness improvements and progress.

Enhanced Accountability: Open Gym sessions promote self-discipline, encouraging you to take ownership of your workouts and helping to foster a sense of personal responsibility.

Varied Training Routine: Combining Open Gym sessions with regular CrossFit classes keeps your fitness routine exciting and diverse, reducing the risk of boredom or stagnation.

Community Involvement: Open Gym can foster a sense of camaraderie as members work together, share tips, and encourage each other in their fitness quests.

Open Gym is an invaluable supplement to structured CrossFit classes, providing a unique and personalised approach to your fitness journey. With its myriad features and benefits, Open Gym allows you to take control of your workout schedule and create a well-rounded, dynamic fitness routine that caters to your individual needs and goals. Integrating Open Gym sessions into your training alongside regular CrossFit classes allows you to optimise your progress, enhance your skills, and build a solid and supportive fitness community.

CrossFit is built around the belief that the best way to improve fitness is through a well-rounded and comprehensive training regimen. The program focuses on these ten general physical skills: Cardiovascular and respiratory endurance, Stamina, Strength, Flexibility, Power, Speed, Coordination, Agility, Balance and Accuracy

By engaging in varied and intense workouts, CrossFit strives to achieve well-rounded fitness applicable to daily life or sports performance.

One of the key principles behind CrossFit is that workouts can be scaled and adapted to suit each individual’s athletic ability and fitness level. Coaches will modify workouts to make them more or less challenging according to the participant’s needs. This approach allows everyone – from beginners to competitive athletes – to participate in CrossFit and experience its fitness benefits.

— Scaling and Adaptability

CrossFit is not only about intense workouts; it also involves community support and camaraderie. Most CrossFit gyms, also known as “boxes,” pride themselves on fostering supportive and inclusive environments where individuals can work together towards shared fitness goals. This sense of belonging helps members stay committed and accountable to their workouts and overall fitness objectives.

— CrossFit Community