Albany Crossfit gets a new look!

The last couple weeks big things have been happening at Albany Crossfit. We recently acquired a 4th room (we’re slowly taking over all of the Court Clubs racquetball courts), and instead of leaving it as a separate room, our beloved leaders, in their infinite wisdom, decided to combine it with our 3rd room to make a new, bigger workout space. So the power tools came out, the wall came down, and amid the cloud of dust and the noise of construction, the transformation began. Over this last weekend Albany Crossfit closed it’s doors to finish construction, and in the place of their usual WODs, our athletes and trainers came in and dedicated their time to building, painting, cleaning and organizing.

I myself was very honored to have the job of painting the ACF logo on the new back wall – which also meant I got to use the awesome automatic lifts we got this time instead of the ladder, woo! In the process of painting the logo and helping out around the gym, I realized just how proud I was to be able to be a part of Albany Crossfit and this important new addition. I joined the ACF ranks almost a year ago when there were only 2 rooms, I helped with the 3rd room when we got it, and here I was, watching ACF grow yet again, and this time with a beautiful new WOD room and a whole new, sharp and professional paint scheme in the hallways.

The best part for me though – realizing that while our space and overall look may change, the people are still the same. The community that makes Albany Crossfit what it is has stayed strong, and new upgrades are only going to enhance it by giving us more resources that will help us become better athletes. There’s going to be more opportunity to push ourselves and in turn, to push and encourage each other. On Thursday we got to hit our first WOD in the new room – a welcome-back-to-crossfit, brutal 25 min AMRAP. It was awesome to be able to have 16 athletes working out in one room at once, and it as just as awesome to have my fellow crossfitter next to me keeping me on track. It’s great to have the new space and see the other two rooms re-arranged to get the best use out of our equipment, and I am definitely looking forward to what other exciting things the future holds for Albany Crossfit. Not to mention, hitting a muscle-up on those cool new rings in our WOD room…. :-)