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I've never done it, but I've talked to several people who have done it at a gym a few times for instruction and then just did it on their own after that. I'm not sure about the gyms, but I see "crossfit" gyms popping up all over town, so they have gyms that are just for that.

I grabbed a torrent of all the PX90 videos a while back. I buttered up some popcorn one night and watched a little of them. Looked hard. I'm chubby.

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Sorry for just now seeing this. There are two main sites that have literally hundreds of workouts posted (5 or 6 per week all the way back to the early 2000's), and you can access all of them for free. On crossfit.com, most of them even have video demonstrations. There is also reebokcrossfitone.com, although I don't think that site is quite as helpful.

The basic premise of crossfit is that it's constantly varied, so there are a lot of workouts that require no equipment, a lot that require some basic equipment, and a lot that require a lot of equipment. So based on which workout you're doing, that dictates where you can perform that day's workout. You may just need 10 square feet of empty space, or just a track, or just a jump rope, or just a swimming pool, or just a pull up bar, or just a dumbell, etc. But since there are so many workouts out there, you can pick and choose which ones you do based on what equipment you have available. For instance, some of them require a rope to climb, and I don't have access to that, so I don't do those workouts.

The way I got into it was one of my good friends was a trainer at a crossfit gym. I'd come in after the gym closed, and he'd have a workout that we would do. I was never a member, though, and only went there because it was convenient for us to meet there. We could have done most of the workouts at any gym. There are crossfit gyms all over the place - there's one in Cedar Rapids, one in Iowa City, etc. So some people are members at a crossfit gym, and they go in regularly and do the workouts there. So you can do that if that's your preference, but by no means do you have to join a crossfit gym in order to do crossfit.

A lot of other people are members at regular gyms, and you can still do the vast majority of crossfit workouts on your own at a regular gym.

Alternatively, you could get by without being a member at any gym, and just focusing on the workouts that require little to no equipment.

You're welcome. If you go to crossfit.com, they post a Workout of the Day (WOD) every day (keep in mind that every fourth day is a rest day). So you can see those workouts with video demonstrations on the front page. Also, on the top left of the front page, click on Exercises and Demos. From there, click on the three links "Miscellaneous WOD's and demos," "The girls/named WOD's" and "WOD demos." You'll see a ton of workouts under all three links. And if you're still looking for more, they have an archives link on the front page that goes back to the early 2000s. Knock yourself out, and keep us posted!

Exactly! Keep us posted.

Sorry for just now seeing this. That's a tough one - I actually did it the other day. It's a little different than most of the workouts though since it's just running, whereas the vast majority combine strength and cardio together.

Gotcha. How'd it go?

And it's obviously up to you, but that could become pretty taxing on your body to do two of these workouts (this one plus another one) per day on a regular basis. Most of them are total body workouts that work your legs significantly, and they're hard enough to finish when you're completely fresh.

That makes sense. Just a word of advice based on what I've observed - some of the workouts won't look that tough when you see them on paper. But I've been doing this for several years, and every single one of them is extremely difficult. Some are a little harder than others, but they're all awful if you push yourself.

Yeah I have had a few friends do them and tell me about how much they "hate them" but how awesome they are

on a side note, it is amazing what kind of workout you can get using things like resistance bands, weighted balls, yoga balls and utilizing your own body weight.

Yeah I have done similar things like that. Makes it more interesting, that's for sure