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I Went to a CrossFit Cert and All I Got Was A Lousy Shirt. OK, Maybe I Learned Something Too!

June 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Today’s post comes from Balance Gym trainer and owner Graham King. Graham recently completed a Level 1 CrossFit certification and lived to tell the tale to us! Look for CrossFit classes at CrossFit Balance with Graham soon! My journey to CrossFit Atlanta for the Level 1 CrossFit certification helped me understand why so many people [...]

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Tags: Balance Glover Park · Balance Gym Kalorama · Balance Thomas Circle · Classes · Cool Stuff · CrossFit · CrossFit Balance · DC Gym · DC Trainer · Graham King · Gym News · Personal Training

June Events at CrossFit Balance

June 1st, 2010 · No Comments

Summer is here and so are some exciting events at CrossFit Balance! Come join us in getting stronger at the 1111 14th St. NW studio! Kettlebell Seminar with Mike McNiff June 12 (12p.m. – 2 p.m.)  Work with former Johns Hopkins University strength coach, and Hardstyle Kettlebell Instructor Mike McNiff in a hands-on seminar covering [...]

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Tags: Balance Thomas Circle · Classes · CrossFit · CrossFit Balance · Events · Upcoming Events

CrossFit Balance is coming to Balance Gym Glover Park

April 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

CrossFit Balance to Open in Glover Park Mid May! CrossFit Balance will be starting a foundations course at our new Glover Park (Formerly known as SomaFit) location at 2121Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20007. You know that Ninja Warrior like course we have at Thomas Circle? Well, we will once again be team up with [...]

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Tags: Balance Glover Park · Cool Stuff · CrossFit · CrossFit Balance · Ryan Putz · SomaFit

DC Yoga Instructor Finishes National Marathon with Help from CrossFit Balance

March 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Ever wonder what it’s like to run a marathon? In today’s post, Washington, DC yoga instructor Michael Hall tells us how CrossFit Balance gave him that extra push to finish The National Marathon last weekend. Just like the old guys who sat at the gas stations on the back roads of my youth, my conversation [...]

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Tags: Cool Stuff · CrossFit · CrossFit Balance · DC Trainer · Fitness · Functional Training · Gym News · Interval Training · Marathon · Michael Hall · Tip · Workouts

Balance Gym Well-Represented at DC’s Most Primal Competition

March 3rd, 2010 · 3 Comments

CrossFit and fitness enthusiasts across the East Coast were a buzz on Sunday about DC’s Most Primal Competition held at Primal Fitness. Here at Balance Gym, we were also pretty excited because so many of our members and trainers were there to compete! And compete we did! We’d like to congratulate former Balance trainer Josh [...]

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Tags: Competition · Cool Stuff · CrossFit · Events · Fitness · Gym News · Jim Bathurst · Josh Courage · Member News · Videos · Workouts

Blair Morrison’s Euro-Adventures Published in The CrossFit Journal

November 18th, 2009 · No Comments

We’d like to extend a congratulations to former Balance trainer, Blair Morrison, for his latest achievement: publication in The CrossFit Journal! As many of you know, Blair left Balance earlier this year and headed off to Europe to pursue his academic goals in the Leiden/Paris/Oxford Europaeum Programme. Though he was excited to study history where history [...]

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Tags: Article · Blair Morrison · Cool Stuff · CrossFit · Fitness · Updates · Workouts