CFC Testimonials

 

All kidding aside if you are visiting the web-site and even have the slightest urge to check this out please come to the Saturday workout, it is the most productive workout in the friendliest environment you will ever experience and its free. I was doing this a year before I met Matt and Pam and I learn something new every week.

Matt P.
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Hey Matt/Pam,

Where do I begin? How do I describe an awakening? After experiencing my first Pain in the Park…I knew I had found what I was looking for. I had been going to (gyms) for decades and never seemed to be able to reach the fitness level I was looking for. I found that I was going to martial arts classes, yoga, aerobics, spinning and every other thing that was going around. Other than the martial arts, things became BORING!!!!

As an avid outdoorsman, ranging in anything from high altitude wilderness trekking to canoeing down rivers and everything possible in between, I have come to expect alot from myself and my body. Getting up in years has its concerns… using CrossFit as my fitness platform, only enhances and extends my ability to continue to enjoy the wonderful world that awaits for those who are ready to seek it out. I know that I could not have this gift without the expert people at Crossfit Champions. Matt and Pam are the most intuitive trainers I have ever had the pleasure to be around. They not only are great at what they do, they are people that are great. Matt and Pam are the type of people that make the world a better place to be.

Since starting CrossFit I no longer measure my progress standing at the scale. Everyone always wants to know what I have been doing to get in shape. That’s measurement enough for me. Thanks Matt and Pam, and especially thanks for all your patience with me.

Gerry
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Hey, Pam and Matt.

I just wanted to tell you guys how glad and thankful I am that I found out about Crossfit. Frankly, at first after hearing Gerry and Mate describe their first “Pain in the Park” experience, I thought Crossfit would be more of a He Man/Guy kind of thing. Thankfully, Gerry persuaded me to come find out for myself what Crossfit is all about.I have exercised for most of my adult life. I have done bodybuilding, running, Pilates, Yoga - all sorts of things. But what I found was that while each of those modalites have their own unique benefit, I never felt like I was “wholly” fit - meaning just because I could lift a certain weight, didn’t mean I was fit in a cardiovascular way. Crossfit is THE training program that has helped me to feel like I am gaining strength in every way.

You guys are great at discerning where an individual needs to begin. And you are also great at knowing just how much to push someone to get that last bit of strength out of them.To anybody that looks at the website and thinks they can’t do it - I want to say You Can!!! I am a recovering Breast Cancer Survivor. If you truly desire to train your body to be functional in life, ( and hey, looking better is cool too….) Matt and Pam are great at taking you at whatever level you are at and scaling the workouts just for you to help you become stronger and more fit than you have ever been!!!!

I started this routine in November of ‘06. The Warm Up was like a workout then!! Now, I am stronger and have more energy than alot of people my age. Every workout is challenging and different. Anyone that wants to train their body to be more functional in their everyday activities, have greater energy and greater variety in training definitely needs to try Crossfit!!!!

Thanks, Pam and Matt!!!!!

Laura
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When I started working out at Crossfit Champions, two months ago, I thought I was in pretty good shape. I had been working out consistently since 2003. I had gone from 220 pounds to 185 and I was stronger than I ever was before.Whoo Hoo!However, my progress had been stagnant for the past year and a half. No matter what I did my body composition and overall fitness wasn’t improving anymore. I figured I had taken my fitness as far as it was going to go. Going to the gym can get very boring when the best you can hope for is to say, “My bench went up 5 pounds from last month.”That’s when I saw Crossfit mentioned in a magazine. I looked up the website and got really interested in the WODs, but knew I would need proper instruction to get full benefit. A few days later I saw a truck with “Crossfit Champions” on the rear window. After looking up Crossfit Champions on-line, I contacted Matt and he set me up with my first introductory session. He and Pam led me through my first three 1 on 1 sessions. They knew exactly how to scale the workouts for the beginner, but still kept them challenging.

When I started the group workouts I weighed 185 lbs., had a 36 in. waist and I could only do about 5 pull-ups before I had to switch to assisted jumping pull-ups. I have now been doing the group workouts consistently for two months. I weigh 175 pounds and have a 34 inch waist. At the same time, my overall strength has gone up. I just completed a workout that included 5 rounds of 10 pull-ups each without any assist.

Thanks to Crossfit Champions, I’m in better shape at 35 than I have been in my entire adult life.

Chris McC
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Matt and Pam,I have been running fairly regularly for the last several years and about 6 weeks ago I was beginning to train for the Houston Half Marathon in January. In the middle of September, just before starting Crossfit with you and Pam I ran 4 miles and felt terrible (legs were tired, pace was slow and my breathing was difenently labored). I ran the 4 miles in about 39 minutes, which is about average for my pace on distance runs over the last several years.A friend of mine called me yesterday and he wants me to run the half marathon in Dallas on December 10. I told him that I would run today and see where my mileage was and how my legs felt and I would get back with him.This morning before the run I was very interested to see how Crossfit carried over to my distance training, including my pace and fatigue level. I planned on running at most 5 miles, as I had not run more than a mile since running the 4 miles and starting Crossfit with you.

Well it is Saturday morning after my run and I ended up running 7 miles in 64 minutes, which included 3 sets of hills in the middle of the run. I finished the last mile in 7:34, which is the quickest mile split, when running any distance over 3 miles, that I have ever run. In summary, I ran harder, faster and finished stronger than any training run I have ever had since I began distance running in 1998. All of this after an intense Crossfit workout Friday afternoon that included running bleachers, which smoked my legs.

I cannot say enough about Crossfit and the effect it has had on my fitness level and this is only after 6 weeks. Thanks again and keep up the good work. See you in a couple of weeks.

Shawn M.
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