My daughter and I joined Crossfit Salisbuy in August of last year. I thought it was about time I featured the two owners of the local affiliate:
Adam Blaney & Cameron Ball
The Crossfit General Rundown
“CrossFit is driving fitness into the future at warp speed.”
In 1995, Greg Glassman established a gym in Santa Cruz, Calif. CrossFit was formally established in 2000. The company’s first affiliate was CrossFit North in Seattle. By 2005, there were 13 affiliates. In 2012, a mere dozen years after the company started, there are 3,400 affiliates worldwide.
The program’s “jack of all trades, master of none” approach defines the strategy it uses to achieve fitness. Glassman’s early athletic experiences directly influenced CrossFit’s goal of achieving “greater work capacity across broad time and modal domains.” In CrossFit’s view, the goal is not to achieve specialized abilities and fitness that applies to one particular set of movements. The goal is general physical preparedness.
The CrossFit ethos holds that adherents train to enhance 10 key physical qualities: cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, coordination, agility, balance and accuracy.
– Adam Blaney –
35 year old happily married father of two.
Teacher, gym owner and CrossFit practitioner.
My intro to Crossfit
Teaching at the time at Beaver Run elementary school. Working at the time with a guy by the name of Jason Cranford who was exposed to CrossFit by a colleague of his at a different school (would find out later this was in fact Cameron). Jason introduced me to it by showing me footage from the 2009 CrossFit games. I was totally intrigued and along with Jason and Cameron started doing CrossFit.com workouts at the local World Gym at 6am each morning. The competitive nature of CrossFit had me hook, line and sinker from day one.
First Location
After Cameron and I coached at CrossFit Ocean City for awhile we saw the opportunity to branch out and open Salisbury’s first affiliate. CrossFit Salisbury officially opened it’s doors in June of 2011.
Advice for Someone Interested in Trying Out CrossFit
Don’t wait another day…don’t listen to those lies saying to “put it off” or here’s my favorite “let me train for awhile to get into better shape SO THAT I CAN start CrossFit”…CrossFit is the means to the end…you don’t have to be in amazing shape to start but in my opinion CrossFit is the very best way to world class health and fitness so don’t wait even one more day!
Personal Fitness Mantras
You have to be disciplined and with that comes a need to stay motivated and inspired. Have goals laid out and ever present in your mind so you have something to train for.
Fitness Tips
Make it fun and also make time for it…no one is gonna do it for you and life is so busy so you have to be intentional to make time for your fitness daily.
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Special Dates for Visitors
Every Wednesday during the Month of March will be Bring a Friend Day and guests who aren’t necessarily friends are welcome on these days as well…any class time offered during these days are available to guests obligation free
Festivus Games
Saturday April 21st. CrossFit Salisbury is an official host site. This is a beginner/novice competition. Register at www.festivusgames.com
– Cameron Ball –
Veteran, father of two and a married man.
Owner, gym teacher, Founder of Salisbury Barbell Club and Crossfit extremist.
My intro to Crossfit
I originally found CrossFit when I was deployed overseas with the Marines. I came home to find a colleague had discovered it and we started trying out workouts at work and at the World Gym in Salisbury. Not long after Adam joined us. The rest is as Adam described.
Interested in Trying it Out?
I would tell someone curious about CrossFit to just try it out. I could talk until I’m blue in the face but until you experience it for yourself there isn’t really a way to describe the feeling you get after and the first experience is different for everyone. I’m definitely the guy in the deep end of the pool saying, “Come on in! The water’s fine!”
Personally I try to emphasize all the positive things that come out of any type of exercise or training. Some people enjoy running or biking, or are into power lifting or body building. I think that if it gets a person up and moving it’s better than being a couch potato. I’m obviously bias to CrossFit as I believe that it is the best way to create a well rounded athlete. What we do as CrossFitters will improve your running, biking, power lifting and/or body building. There’s a reason that CrossFit and other high intensity workouts are trending so highly these days, it’s because they work. But those that want to specialize or even dabble in a certain type of exercise shouldn’t be chastised for it. I’ve seen the benefits of a person committing to CrossFit, they are both physical and emotional; and I don’t think there are many programs out there that can attest to that.
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– Contact –
Cell: 443-365-0160
-Nora Kelley
NK Fitness 