May 15th – Mobility Seminar with Kelly Starrett

Crossfit X-Factor is excited to announce that we will be hosting a Mobility Seminar with guru Kelly Starrett Sunday May 15th.  Anyone who has had any nagging injuries from Crossfit, or other activities, come learn how to fix these injuries or prevent them from happening in the future.  Please contact Chris at chrism@crossfitxfactor.com for any questions.  The cost is $299.  Click the Crossfit Movement & Mobility widget on the left to register.  Thanks!

Crossfit Kids Coming Soon!!!

Meaghan has completed her Crossfit Kids Certification, and is now excited to start changing the youth’s fitness.  We will be running free trial classes over the next month.  If you are interested please contact meaghan at info@crossfitxfactor.com.

March 19th – Good Luck to Our Athletes!

Good luck to all of our competitors competing in the Sectionals:  Jamal, Dre, Billy, James, Louie, Wade, Andrew, Chris, Tim, Kara, Jessica, Alexis, Beth, Meaghan, Jorie, and Rachel.  Go kick some ass!!!

March 18th – Closed Saturday

We will be closed Saturday March 19th, 2011.  I will be teaching a certification in Bellevue and the rest of our coaches will be competing at Fort Vancouver for the Sectionals.  Sorry for any inconvenience.

3/13/2011

We now have 7 a.m. classes Monday through Thursday. Please contact us at info@crossfitxfactor.com to schedule ( you must register for this class). We also have 7 p.m. class Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Daycare now offered Mondays at 10 a.m. and Wednesdays at 5 p.m.!

3/6/2011

Congratulations to all of the new Groupon Members.  Please contact us at info@crossfitxfactor.com to schedule your first visit.  Thanks!

Price is $25 per sweatshirt.

Want free money?

We are giving away 1-2 months of free training for referring a friend. How have your life improved since you started CrossFit? Don’t you feel like you should share that experience with friends and family? Sign-up 3 people before November 31st and get a month of training on us. That not enough of a challenge? Sign-up 5 people and get TWO months free.

What are we offering new members?

We are proud to be officially opening the doors to CrossFit X-Factor and are offering our Unlimited membership for 100$/mo with a 3mo commitment. That’s a 150-175$ value! Included in that is a week free period where you can come feel things out, meet our trainers and take the next step to feeling better than you ever had before.

When does this end?

November 31st. Come check us out! All the information you’re going to need is here.

For those of you with little ones, we will start offering childcare at the noon classes Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Contact Chris for any additional information at chrism@crossfitxfactor.com or 503-830-9700.

Crossfit X-Factor is proud to say that we are officially open, finally.  I apologize for the wait but we were determined to build a top-notch Crossfit facility, and we believe we have accomplished this.  Our regular class times resume Monday June 21st.  Our class times are 10am, 12pm, 4pm, 5pm, and 6pm Monday through Fridays.  Saturdays at 9am and 11am.  Sundays at 11am.  Our address is 2202 NW Roosevelt St. Portland, OR 97210.  If you have any questions please feel free to email Chris McDonald at chrism@crossfitmlk.com or call at 503-830-9700.  Thanks so much for your patience.

So we’re getting close to the end. The end of countless long nights for Chris, Brady and the other guys slaving away at this project. Tuesday we had a great turnout of manpower and were able to get all of the rubber laid. The paint is dried, floors are laid, and the locker rooms should be finished by the end of the week. Equipment is going to start being brought in today and training will start to pick back up this evening. Come stop by the new place and check things out, get a WOD in and breathe in the smell of new rubber. Ahhhhhhh.

So you’ve probably been wondering what the heck has been going on at the gym the past few weeks. Well the time line and expectations we originally had for when things would be done changed a bit and things are coming along slower than we had originally anticipated. Things are wrapping up here towards the end of this week and we will be as functional as possible this next coming week. The weather should be changing here in the next few days, so plan on getting your butts kicked next week as everyone comes back into the gym. For those of you who kept up on the workouts we’ve been posting the process will probably be less painful. For those of you who find it hard to workout without being able to come into a CrossFit gym, I feel your pain. Either way, get ready to kick off a great summer and future with CrossFit X-Factor next week!

Change of plans, Monday will not be open for classes. Some work will be getting done in the gym that will prevent the classes from running. Tuesday things will be business as usual, and the bathrooms should be functioning. Thanks again for all your patience through these crazy changes!

As many of you are by now aware, we are transitioning to a new location and changing the name of our affiliate. We will no longer be known as CrossFit MLK — we are now CrossFit X-Factor. Construction is currently underway and we plan on opening up next week, with the grand opening celebration next Saturday the 5th. We are still posting workouts on Beyond the Whiteboard, Facebook and Twitter which can be done with minimal to no equipment. We hope you are all excited as we are in this next phase of our development and apologize for any inconvenience this causes our members. Stay tuned for more details!

We apologize for the lack of updates on the website, things have been crazy the last couple of months. We are currently posting the WOD on our website here, at our Beyond the Whiteboard page,Facebook and Twitter. If you have questions about the Beyond the Whiteboard site and how to sign up, talk to Chris and he will grab your email address and invite you to the site. If you have technical questions about how to login, create custom workouts or any other functionality with the site contact Bob at 503-512-0456 or email at bob@crossfitmlk.com

Look what came in the mail yesterday…Power bands from EliteFTS.com. Check out Bill and Jess doing some box squats with power bands. Just about 5 weeks till regionals, time to hone in the training and put the palms to the barbell.

Are you eating as well as you know you could be? Are you trying to shed those last 10-15 lbs and can’t seem to nail doing the nutrition part of it? Contact Chris at 503-830-9700 or chrism@crossfitmlk.com and he can work with you to build a zone-paleo eating plan to get this spring started off on the right foot for only $50!