You’ve been coming to Thermal every day and putting in work.  You’ve been dialing in your lifts and hitting PRs.  You’ve crushed met-cons, improved your scales and changed your physique.  We’re proud of the work you’ve done, and now we’re going to ask you to do more.  It’s time to tackle the Spring 2016  “CrossFit Thermal Nutrition Challenge”. Often times what separates an average athlete from an advanced one, are elements that our controlled outside the gym setting.   The most important factors for most of us are stress level, sleep and nutrition.  Believe it or not, all three of these items work hand in hand.   Starting this month, we’ll be hosting a challenge open to all Thermal athletes.  Our plan is to make improvements to how we look, feel and perform through a group, goal oriented, coach led nutrition challenge. What is the Challenge? For the next 30 days, we’re...Read more

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For John, “working out” has taken many different forms over the years. He first began hitting the gym while in his teens at a boarding school in CT. He spent 100% of his time in the gym performing dumbbell bench press, bicep curls, tricep extensions, and crunches, though there are numerous shirtless photos of a pastey toothpick that serve to remind him that his time would have been better spent elsewhere. In college, John was told to focus his academic pursuits and choose a major, so, he took this advice to heart and specialized his weightlifting movements as well, dropping the beach body exercises and spending four years honing the art of the dumb bell bench press. Over time, he worked his way through the weight rack and was able to throw up the heaviest dumbbells in the gym (120#). Feeling unfulfilled, John did what any liberal arts college intellectual...Read more

The blackout continues….Read more