Your Kids at the Gym

Currently, it is no problem for your children to remain in the carpeted area of the gym or for them to be in the mat room. However, please read this cross post from the CrossFit site regarding the gym area of the academy, and thanks for taking the time to read over it:

We are always in the process of changing a lot of things at the gym (ultimately for the better we hope!). One of the things we are forced to deal with as we grow is the situation with children. I know some of you bring your kids when you train and we are happy that you are able to do that. In the future, we would like to have a full on kids room/day care center but it will be some time until that is possible. In the meantime we need to make some changes in order to keep the children as safe as possible while they are here, for the sake of liability and for the experience of the other clients that train here.

Here is the latest standard - once class starts (that's on the hour) all kids are to be off the black mat. They need to remain off the black mat until the close of class. Children may come on the black mat during off times under the direct supervision of their parents. However, they may no longer use the equipment. This means no hanging upside down on the rings, hanging from the pull-up bars, jumping on bumpers, moving KB's around etc. Parents please respect and enforce these rules with your own children so your trainer doesn't have to. Thank you. I know this is bummer for some of you but did we really want to wait for the first child to get a hand smashed under a heavy KB, or to fall head first upside down from the rings onto the mat? I don't think we did. So let's just address it now.

If you do want your little whippersnapper to do cool CrossFit stuff, you'll be thrilled to know that we are looking at implementing CF kids mid-Mayish. Tentatively we are looking to do this on M,W,F at 5PM (the same time as your class mom and dad!) Ages will range from 5 or 6 on up to 14 or 15. We are working on the pricing as well. We think this will be a great program and the value of having the kids class at the same time as the adults class is not lost on us.

Also, we are looking into hooking parents up with a couple of the older children of gym parents so that you can arrange with them to have your child taken care of here at the gym while you train. We'll keep you posted on this...