Pottstown Athletic Club has opened a new Paddle Erg Room for 2017! This room contains 10 Concept 2 rowers with paddle attachments. The paddle ergs are linked to a computer and 70-inch monitor display with Concept 2 software to provide a competitive experience. The room is available to dragon boat teams to reserve on an hourly basis. Teams can also request strength training protocols along with metabolic conditioning sessions, all geared towards providing a complete training experience focusing on the sport of dragon boating. Training programs can be customized and are scalable to meet the demand of all levels, from the novice to the elite athlete. For more details and pricing information, please contact Rob at 484-302-6188 or via email .
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Note: This is a Pottstown Athletic Club member's testimonial that we received several years ago. We're sharing it now to help inspire others and hope you enjoy it! August 2004, I departed almost 12 years of United States Naval service with an Honorable discharge. Many factors contributed to that discharge and shaped my world as I saw it. In my professional career, I was overweight off and on for those 12 years and that resulted as the primary factor in my discharge. In my personal life, I was a personal computer gamer (PC), and thus spent most of my time indoors. Additionally on top of those two factors, while in the war, my first spouse left me while I was on deployment, taking my children and all that I have ever known. These factors sent me mentally, physically and emotionally into a spiral that I fought for years within myself. For all those years, I overate, smoked cigarettes, and watched lots of TV and not much else. By summer 2007, I would estim...
- Mike Warkentin, managing editor, CrossFit Journal Are you addicted to met-cons to the detriment of overall fitness? Yes, we know you feel like you didn’t accomplish anything on deadlift day. It’s very clear you’re unhappy that you are not out of breath and dripping with sweat. We’re just going to lie here on the rubber with shaking legs while you head over to the corner to bang out 100 burpees for time. We’ll even start the clock if you feel the need to hit a quick Fran. But we’re wrecked from heavy day, so please don’t ask us to join you. Here’s why: You’re part of a CrossFit program. Conditioning is a big part of CrossFit. Many workouts done in CrossFit gyms and programmed on CrossFit.com cause you to sweat heavily, breathe hard and collapse on the floor at the end. These workouts range from relatively short tests such as Fran to longer challenges such as Cindy, and many Hero workouts take athletes into time domains past 2...
My husband and I have 4 kids, 14, 9 & 5 year old twins. I had just retired from Pottstown’s local Women’s Roller Derby team, my husband was looking to shed a few pounds and my kids had outgrown the YMCA one at a time over the last few years. This was the perfect time for our family to look at a new kind of sport that we could all enjoy together. Pottstown CrossFit peaked our interest. Of course we all saw the CrossFit Games and loved it! Every time we drive up Hanover Street there are people of all ages, shapes and sizes doing all kinds of fun looking things on the sidewalk like throwing balls at the walls, jumping up onto high platforms, rowing. We had to try it. My twins and my 9 year old started in the kid fit class. If the kids weren’t into it we couldn’t let the Y membership go and make the switch. The next day the rest of us tried it out. To say it was love at firs...
Peter Driscoll is a CrossFit Level 1 trainer and a physical-education teacher at Hartland Elementary School in Hartland, Vermont. He’s also the founder of HES CrossFit, which operates out of a transformed kindergarten classroom in the school. The affiliate is helping the school’s K-8 students gain strength and confidence through the integration of CrossFit into their daily lives. Driscoll explains that when he brought research to principal Jeff Moreno “that showed him how movement positively impacted cognitive capacity and academic performance,” Moreno decided to support Driscoll’s efforts to build the program. As a result, what began as a small initiative with six male students, some PVC pipes and a few kettlebells has grown into a school-wide movement. Students now take exercise breaks throughout the day and can choose to do CrossFit during recess or elective periods or after school with their teachers and peers. “We believe in getting the kids out of their seats. We believe i...