January 2025 Member of The Month – Ellie Ellie grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia. She played lots of sports growing up but at the age of 9 she quit everything so she could swim competively year-round. Thus, swimming became her life. After high school, Ellie swam at Drexel University in Philadelphia –– where she met her boyfriend and CFC member John. After finishing her undergrad degree and saying a sad goodbye to her time as a swimmer, Ellie knew she needed a new workout routine to keep her grounded as she started law school at Temple University. John had tried to convince Ellie to try CrossFit in the past but she had never seriously considered it. Finally, he convinced her to give CFC a try, so she did. Ellie hasn’t looked back since. Ellie has become a fiercely loyal member of the 5:45 morning crew....Read more

Congratulations Adrian and Julia!! Julia and Adrian grew up in small suburban towns outside of Boston, Massachusetts. They met in high school and started dating their senior year. Like many members at CFC, they grew up playing tons of sports. Julia spent her days playing volleyball and softball and continued to play both all the way into college. Adrian ran track and played basketball, soccer, and tennis through high school. When they said their final goodbyes to sports, they had varying levels of success bouncing around commercial gyms as they adjusted to their post-college lives. In July 2022, Julia and Adrian made the move to Pennsylvania after Adrian was accepted to attend Villanova University’s School of Law. They knew it was a risk to move six hours from home to a place they didn’t know anyone, but they were so excited to start a new life together. They have loved...Read more

October Member of The Month! John grew up in Hatboro, PA. He has always had a passion for exercise and loved building things. John focused on soccer and swimming growing up, and although he believes that soccer is the best sport in the world, he decided to stop soccer and fully commit to swimming junior year of high school, leading him to eventually swim at Drexel. John had a successful five year career at Drexel, making many friends and memories along the way. In high school, John’s swimming coach loved Crossfit and built Crossfit into their practice schedule three times per week. After finishing college swimming, Crossfit was the perfect thing for John to get back into. John can be found attending the 5:45 class. Outside of the gym John works as an application engineer in the world of HVAC. In his free time you can find John trying different...Read more

Malleswari was born in and grew up in India, came to the USA on Dec, 2015. In 2017, she joined a boxing gym, did some serious ring training, loved it and never looked back until 2021 where she was not able to spend 4 hours of training everyday due to workload & quit the sport. She spent 1.5yrs at LA Fitness doing nothing and got into the worst shape of her life, she had lost the motivation to do anything. She was already aware of CrossFit by then and how rewarding and challenging it could be, she joined her local affiliate in Virginia in Nov, 2022 gave it a shot and loved it. She moved to PA in March, of 2023 & joined CFC in April,2023, feeling motivated to do challenging work every week. She has really enjoyed her time as part of the CFC community and continue to learn...Read more

Hey Gang, I hope everyone had a nice weekend.  Tomorrow kicks off our new training phase, and its gonna be a lot of fun.  We’ll be seeing sled work in group classes for the first time ever, as well as a weekly Hero WOD every Tuesday.  Check out this video for more details and a full week preview. https://www.loom.com/share/cfdc556c61094e04a58cb99eaf1a9dd0?sid=c80667bf-2425-42e8-9239-e4db179b3baf Two weekends ago, we had 5 teams crush it at CrossFit Generation’s Summer Slam competition.  We had a huge turnout of athletes and supporters, check out this quick highlight video showing out athletes in action.   Housekeeping Reminder – tomorrow begins our first day where Forge sign-ups are required from 4:30-5:30pm. We will enforce the limit posed for this one hour slot. Full details on this policy are provided in the gym wide email that went out on 8/5. Thank youRead more