Updates and some Random Gorilla thoughts (If you care to read that far)

News and Upcoming Events

As we roll into the holidays and wrap up another year of work inside the House of Gainz, here are a few quick updates you should know.

• 4-Week Billing Cycle Reminder (Starting 2026)
  • If you didn’t see the email, we’re moving to 4-week billing cycles in 2026.
  • No action needed from you — refer to the email sent on 20 November for full details.
• Secret Santa Is Back 🎅🏼🔥
  • Fourth year running. Always fun, creative, and well.. hell, what else are we gonna do?
  • 🎁 Sign up here: https://www.elfster.com/gift-exchanges/e65f5342-f548-4a9e-bd72-aac46840b1b9/?join=zty1
    • Gifts exchanged the week of Christmas
    • If you’re new here — jump in. If you’ve done it before — you already know this thing cooks up some legendary moments.
• CrossFit Mainsite Apparel – Black Friday Fire! CrossFit HQ has set us up with a partnered link for their swag store… and I gotta say, I wasn’t paying attention, but upon further review… “I’m sorry CFHQ, I was unfamiliar with your game!” They’ve dropped some Black Friday deals on official apparel, and there’s some straight-up kickass stuff in there — clean designs, new drops, and heavy discounts. use our store link and there’s 10% off all the time, I dunno if it applies to the sale stuff, roll the 12 sided dice and see what you find.
  • The now and forever CFI CFHQ store page link: https://store.crossfit.com/crossfitimpulse
• Fish Oil: The Why, What, and How
  • Of all the things CrossFit Impulse has done for my health over the last decade, being introduced to fish oil is near the top of the list. Jeff already wrote the definitive article on the subject: https://crossfitimpulse.com/2009/11/20/why-fish-oil/
  • Here’s the important part: All fish oils are not equal. After a decade of reading labels obsessively, this one stands above everything else:
  • Sports Research Omega-3 Fish Oil —
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  • How and where to get it:
  • Grab it from Costco ( if you are lucky you catch it on sale and in stock), OR
  • Buy it straight from the gym fridge for about $5 over cost ($30)
  • IDGAF which option you choose, I stocked us up so we don’t run into supply chain issues in the village, just get it and take it consistently.
  • It might be the single best thing you’ve done for your long-term health besides showing up here at the HOG.

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Random Gorilla Thoughts…

Are you still reading? Good — you have arrived at the good part…

Recently, my mom said to me, “Son, you’re so hard on people.” I’ve mediated on that statement… a lot, and she’s right. I think there’s a reason fam, I can see the future, call me “Gorilladamus”. More specifically, I see the best possible version of people, their future selves, I cannot unsee potential. I see the possiblities, and it fires me up to see how far people I care about can go. I genuinely want the best for you. I see the best in you. I don’t know why I’m like this, what I do know is it’s why I do this, why coaching and now being in the Captains Chair mean so much to me. I… NEED… to see what you can do. Jordan Peterson was quoted once as “you owe it to the universe to become the best version of yourself” and I think that’s exactly what we are doing. Forging our best selves, one rep at a time. As we wrap up the fourth quarter and head into 2026, think about this, really smoke it over a few times… what does that future version of you look like a year from now? Visualize it. Plan for it. Spoiler alert, I already see it — and if you asked me, I could tell you what I see. Use that vision of your future self to set your goals for the next year — in your training, in your personal growth, in the books you want to read, in whatever it takes to get you there. want some accountability? Talk to me, talk to a coach, speak that shit into existence.. I’ll leave one of my goals as a nugget… Steve will do a respectable PVC pass through by this time next year. See what I did there? You see it……

In this season of gratitude and reflection, I am sometimes so full of thanks that it’s very hard for me to articulate it. Training with fantastic people, there’s so much love in our little village, I feel blessed beyond measure.

Thank you. If you’re still reading this, know that I, along with the staff and every other athlete in this gym, truly appreciate you being part of our community. We love having you here, and we’re excited to see you become that future version of yourself. Your family, your village, and everyone here are counting on you, no pressure… 🙂

Just like we do everything, we will do it together. 1 rep, 1 workout, 1 shared moment in time together. If I haven’t hugged your neck lately, I owe you one.

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Programming Notes

Still Reading? Freaking gold stars for you! December will be a month of “touching all the things” like your Thanksgiving plate tomorrow, sumadis, sumadat, all this and a piece of pie. one piece, not a whole pie. ok, maybe two.

— Steve