If you’ve ever owned a pot plant, you know the signs of being ‘root-bound.’ The plant has grown as much as the container allows; it’s healthy, it’s strong, but it’s stagnant. It’s hit a wall. For 14 years, CrossFit Armidale has been growing deep roots on Mann Street. But the truth is? We’ve officially outgrown the pot again.
So in the coming weeks we will be ‘repotting’ CrossFit Armidale.
The time has come for our deep roots we have grown here at the box to be transplanted to a new, more exciting space, for everyone.
The place we are at right now suited us to move to nine years ago, and prior to that we had repotted from a smaller pot up the front. But the time has come to help us grow as athletes even more.
From time to time when we are training we hit plateaus, and feel a bit ‘ahhhh, am I just going through the motions??’. Part of my job as the Affiliate owner and head coach is to help you overcome those plateaus. And right now, something I can do for the CrossFit Armidale community is to repot it.
We have an incredible community here and something that I always work to do is to improve them and everything we do for it.
So the next chapter will see us in new surroundings. Same plant, new pot!
All the PRs, the failed lifts, the successful ones, the awesome Open workouts, have all been a huge part of CFA here in Mann Street. All the hard yards in the sheds here, the cold winter mornings, the really hot summer days, well, they are about to be rewarded with a more suitable, modern workspace.
If you have ever spent anything around 10 mins talking with me you would discover I am a huge comic book and movie fan.
There is something in the Marvel movies that Odin says to his son Thor, Asgard is a people, not a place. And well, I love the idea that CrossFit Armidale is a people, not a place.That line has stuck with me. CrossFit Armidale isn’t the tin shed on Mann Street, it’s the 6am crew, the lunchtime session lot, the after school team, the 5:15 grinders and the 6:15 family. We are just moving the people to a place that fits our power.
We will have a more open rig, easier to get at bars and plates, a cooler, and warmer spot.
And it will be that temporal landmark for us. We can look at new prs in the new box, new ways to be better at our workouts.
The ‘fresh start effect’ can fully kick in. I know at times I have felt frustrated, and just a bit flat when it comes to training, but I know that these little kick starts here and there can help us improve and get back to loving it all again.
Our little thrown together old industrial, tin shed box that just sort of grew into the place we have has served us so incredibly well.
But sometimes that old and a bit cramped space can subconsciously have us limited in our achievements. I am taking that limit away.
I have worn the gritty badge like a badge of honour here.
CrossFit was this raw, gritty, and just so not like any gym I had ever seen or been to. And it still isn’t, but it doesn’t mean we have to have our roots stuck in one spot and limited by their pot.
So it is time. In three weeks we will close the chapter of Mann Street, and start the next chapter elsewhere.
If you’re a past member, or if you’ve been watching us from a distance for a bit, think of this as your official invitation to join the ‘repotting.’ There’s no better time to come back, or join us, than when everything is a fresh start for everyone.