CrossFit Glenmore is a certified CrossFit affiliate in the Kelowna community opened on July 2, 2008. Our Mission Statement is to provide Broad, General and Inclusive fitness training with emphasis on coaching in a dynamic, competitive and supportive group atmosphere for people of all ages and fitness backgrounds; from competitive athletes to grandmas and everyone in between.
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What is CrossFit?
CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide. It is also being implemented in nursing homes with the elderly.....if you fit somewhere in between it can probably help you.
Our program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist. The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience.
The CrossFit Code for Fitness comprises three elements;
1) Functional Movements
2) Constantly Varied
3) High Intensity
This "Code" addresses the fitness of the elderly as well as that of an elite athlete i.e. the only difference being load and intensity need to be scaled for the individual. What we have found is that the best results from both groups and everyone in between are produced when training with Functional Movements (that which replicates real life movement), Constantly Varied and at High Intensity. Any exercise program that meets these three criteria can be considered CrossFit, from shoveling dirt, hauling rocks and cutting down trees to weightlifting, pull ups and sprinting.
CrossFit has been called "The Sport of Fitness" because it re-introduces personal athletic achievement and performance to training. The mindset at the start of each workout is to be stronger, move faster, more efficiently, with better form than ever. This is why even after years of training CrossFit style, scores and times in workouts continue to drop and athletes continue to improve. Its hard, fun, exciting, challenging, and will push you to be your absolute best!
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Who runs the place?
Allister Jones (aka Big Al) - Owner/Operator/Head Coach.
Background in Mechanical Engineering (B.Eng McGill University, class of 95) with 13 years of work experience, along with CrossFit Certifications to operate a CrossFit affiliate and an avid CrossFit athlete since 2004 at CrossFit Vancouver. Certifications include CrossFit Level 1 (Jan 08), CrossFit Running and Endurance training and Posetech Running (Aug 08), NCCP Competitive Olympic Weightlifting trained with the Canadian Weightlifting Federation (Jun 09), CrossFit Gymnastics training (Oct 09), CrossFit Level 1 Testing (Aug 10), and CrossFit Kids training (May 11).
Herb Lamprecht (aka Herbie) - Coach
Waste Water Treatment Engineer with the City of Kelowna is Herbs day job and fighting age related prejudices and misconceptions his passion. Herb's our first 60+ member (since Mar09) and the fittest. He's been an active member of pretty much every gym in town since 1980 and now a devoted CrossFit athlete and coach with a CrossFit Level 1 certification.
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