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photos courtesy of CrossFit Long Beach
Best Place to Work Up a Sweat
CrossFit Long Beach
Forget all your negative ideas about working out. Then do 50 jumping squats. Then 50 lunges, 50 30-pound kettle bell swings, row 50 meters and do 50 squat thrusts. Do it all as fast as you can and don’t even think about stopping to rest. This is the type of high-intensity workout defined by the CrossFit exercise program, a combination of varied fitness movements and strength conditioning championed by CrossFit Long Beach—the city’s earliest adopter of the fitness craze. Purchased by current owners Chad Cross and Gina “Mama Gina” Caywood in 2009, CrossFit Long Beach is today one of the tightest-knit CrossFit communities out there, citing cops, nurses, lawyers, chefs, teachers, students, business professionals, engineers and soccer moms among its supportive membership who come to sweat out their daily stress at the Signal Hill gym.
CrossFit Long Beach is located at 2431 Orange Ave., Signal Hill, crossfitlongbeach.com
[Eds. note: The print version of this story incorrectly listed owner Chad Cross’ last name as Caywood.]
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