Connect has grown at a steady pace since opening its doors just over two years ago and we have built up a strong core of dedicated members and friends. We have a wide range of people that now train with us from triathletes to Sunday runners and from previously sedentary coach potatoes to professional level sports men and women. Its a great mix and its been fantastic to train and coach you all to become fitter, faster and stronger.
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| The July Box Throwdown pose-off! |
However, in July this year we had to take the hard decision to cap our membership due to high number of people that wanted to train with us. Classes were becoming overbooked and wait listed and we didn't want to just keep joining people up if it meant members not being able to come to class when they wanted.
At just a shade over 700sq ft we have to be one of the smallest boxes in the UK but with sensible programming and 11.5 hours of classes every weekday also one of the hardest working and successful. We love what we do and this rubs off onto our members who quite often become close friends too.
The team behind Connect have been searching for new premises now for 10 months or so with no luck for one reason or another, be it location, size, cost or a landlord that wasn't agreeable to what we wanted to do. It has been a very frustrating time.
We are happy to announce we have just got the keys for an expansion of Connect. Although not what initially we had in mind when we thought about moving, a 4000sq ft empty, shining unit would have been nice, it is going to provide a great stop gap for now until we do find a 4000sq ft empty, shining unit!
We have taken on another unit three doors down from where we are now at Hove Enterprise Centre. Having pondered the situation for some time we came to the conclusion that our waterside location on Hove seafront is so nice and our complete lack of other options as autumn quickly approaches is so complete that we would have been silly to turn it down.
So with a slight bit of renovation Connect will shortly be twice the size it is now. Plus we get an office which is actually one of the things I'm most excited about strangely enough!
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| Although I dance like this already...so no change there then. |
Our new unit will allow us to run our speciality classes such as Olympic Lifting, Barbell Club and Mobility class along with new Intro courses and Beginners classes. This will free up much needed space on our timetable and allow the old unit a free run of 4 hours of WOD classes every night. The peak time WOD classes will also now be able to hold more people as we can spread the class across both units.
And another thing we are planning on doing is having a rig constructed that will hold more ropes for climbing. Anyone see the CrossFit Games last week? We need to practice those!
So, whilst we will still be continuing the search for a proper big new home next year, for now this will allow us to carry on having fun and games at the location that we all love.
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| Outside the box and in the sunshine at a recent competition at Connect. We are glad to be staying here. |
If you are interested in joining up at Connect and becoming involved in CrossFit then give us a call or drop us a line and we will add you to our waiting list. We will then be in touch shortly as to how you can get booked onto one of our upcoming Intro courses as soon as the new box is refurbed.
A big thanks to all our existing members who have stuck with us whilst we have been trying to find more space. You guys rock!
