Sunday Swimming
We’re super excited to announce a specialty class being offered this summer: SWIMMING! This class will meet once a week for four weeks, June 5th-26th, at 4pm, on Sundays. We have reserved pool time at the Rose Pool on CMU’s campus right next to the SAC for our sessions, which will last 1 hour. This […]
What's Ahead
Post Test week and what’s next Last week was the culmination of all the hard work put in over the past 12 weeks that resulted in some pretty impressive increases in overall 1-rep maxes of your lifts. I ran the PR report through Wodify and found that there were 293 reported weightlifting PR’s and there […]
The Journey
How do you measure success? Is it by how much money you make per year? Heaviest one rep max? Being able to perform muscle ups or double unders for days? Those are all real successes, but they are the result of many other “smaller” successes made along the way. Before I move on, I want […]
Open Gym & Competitors/Beast Program
For those of you interested in Open Gym, here is the information you need: Open Gym will be available Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 1:15pm-3:00pm and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:15pm-4:15p. That means there are an extra 12 hours per week or 48 more hours per month that you can get in here and train. […]
What all Worthy Athletes should know
Group Classes: Be on time, generally warmed up, and prepared before the class starts, using the warm up area. Each class will incorporate a specific warm up, strength, and metcon/WOD/workout. Ask questions, pay attention; you will feel ‘lost’ in the beginning, but that is very normal! Scaling movements: No one starts out knowing everything or […]
…but I scaled the workout
Scaling Coach: “You KILLED that workout! Nice job!” *Highest of fives* Athlete: “Yeah, but I scaled it.” I’ve heard this before. I’ve said it to myself for so long. Right off the bat, let’s clear the air about scaling: there is no shame in it. Don’t beat yourself up over scaling a workout, as if […]
Olympic Lifting Shoes
You’ve probably seen many people wearing Olympic lifting shoes. There are clear benefits that come with wearing them while performing the lifts, and there is also controversy surrounding whether or not they should be worn during other lifts, such as the Deadlift. For the next few paragraphs, we’re going to dive in to the […]
Brace Yourself for Squats
Brace Yourself for Squats: Three Common Faults and How to Cure Them. If you’re a regular member of our classes you know this: we love to squat. The squat—air squat, back squat, front squat, and overhead squat are staples in a good squat routine—can develop much more than just raw strength. Heavy squats develop your […]
CFW Etiquette
Here is a general list of simple etiquette for CFW! I am rather confident that every single person likes some sort of weightlifting here. Maybe you have a favorite lift, for most people it’s the Back squat. Whatever your favorite lift is, it is so important to be safe while moving that weight. We are not […]
Membership Policy
Our goal here at Worthy is to help you. We want to help you physically be more fit, be healthy, be strong in all areas, and help you to be all you can and want to be. We’ve seen that by adding a challenging yet positive and rewarding place for you to excel at, it […]
