Sometimes we have to modify the WOD based on equipment available to us, but their “Team Training Room” (Read: Knock-off CrossFit room) provides pretty much everything we need. The glassed in fishbowl room also provides us with a look out into the regular gym area – so we get to people watch.

CrossFit takes a lot of heat for its athletes allegedly using poor form. The people making these allegations clearly don’t open their eyes enough when in a Globo gym. From quarter-squats to behind-the-back shrugs or even curls in the Smith Machine – Gold’s has it all. Combine these folks with the CrossFit room and you get legit lulz – guys trying to do what they see in CrossFit videos – but using the worst form you can imagine – without a coach there to give any advice. So next time anyone says something about CrossFitters using shitty form, I’m gonna shoot a video at Gold’s so you can see, poor form is on display wherever you train - the difference is that in a CrossFit box, there are coaches there to correct it.

I’m not gonna say CrossFit is better than another form of exercising (or at least I'm not gonna say it here) – I’m just gonna say, when we go to Gold’s – the odds of us being the athletes using good form are pretty high. This leads me to our high-level trolling of Gold’s Team Training Challenge for the month of May.

As we were wrapping up our Saturday night workout, I noticed a sign on the wall, encouraging athletes to participate in the monthly challenge. 2500 kettlebell swings, completed over the course of 4 weeks. I jokingly said, “We could probably do that in one night!”

Then we started actually doing the math. If you did 20 a minute for 10 minutes, then 10 a minute every minute after that, you could complete, as a pair, 2500 swings in less than 2 hours. It was decided – I told my coach and a friend we were doing it. Coach said “I love it, awesome.” My so-called friend let us both know we couldn’t do it and that we would either quit or it would take 4 hours to complete it.