May Friends and Family Month, CFI Bingo, Best Gym in Huntsville!!
It’s… GONNA BE MAY..
Friends and Family Month Bring your friends and family to train with us throughout May! Zero dollar drop-in fee for the entire month, show them how we roll in Brodin’s Garage! Sign-ups will be as a guest in Wodhopper—we’ll have a QR code ready for you when they arrive.
- CFI Bingo– $25 gets you a bingo card. We’ve made some tweaks to the squares this year so it will be a little different but still a fun time of some extra fitness! Any completed “line “Bingo” earns one free cooler drink per card. Blackout the entire card and you’re eligible for our grand prize drawing. Last year it was a new vest and plates, this years prize will be dependent on the winner, but it’ll be awesome!
- WodHopper logging of workouts goes live May 4th- we were headed that way, well… we in it now! WodHopper will be the system of record for Legacy board, recording scores etc, INCLUDING RSVP FUNCTION. Please RSVP when your coming to class, its simple and intuitive and will help coaches facilitate classes. Please start doing this on May the 4th (this will also be how we count “workouts” for the legacy board, so even if you don’t like logging scores or attending classes often, RSVP means “I was at the gym and did stuff” so do the thing chicken wing!
- Best Gym in Huntsville Google Reviews has rated us the best gym in Huntsville, how about that SH*T?! When I took the Captains chair at the helm of CFI in 2020, we already had eleven years of proven excellence; but I’ll admit—I wasn’t always comfortable claiming it. Over the last six years, that’s changed. I’m unabashedly proud of this place. (look at me, using big words!) I’m Proud of the people training here, the results we deliver, and the genuine friendships and health we’re building into each others lives. Now we’ve just got a piece of paper and a plastic trophy to prove what we already knew.
Notes from the Programmer We’re halfway through the strict pull up cycle with three weeks left. Stick with it—the payoff is coming, and there’s a prize waiting at the finish line. You’ll also be grateful for all that pull up work when Murph rolls around. Speaking of Murph… we’re starting Murph prep on Tuesdays—and a reminder that we are moving Murph to Saturday, March 23rd, so we can run the Cotton Row 10k Monday, March 25th. Good ole fashioned hard work will round out the week.
Caffeine, Ketones, and Random Gorilla Thoughts
The Three 401K’s of Life
Hopefully, if you are reading this… you have a fiscal 401k from your gig—your retirement savings. If you don’t come find me and we will discuss proper planning for your future self. You may not know it, but there are two other 401k’s that are equally important as that sweet, sweet cheddar, those are your Health, and your Relationships.
Money’s important. You need enough to live well. But here’s the thing—no amount of money replaces your health. How many millionaires would trade their wealth to get their health back? And then there’s relationships. Not just family and spousal units, but like-minded people from all walks of life. The friendships you are building now, through shared suffering and memories, those are the ones you will carry with you all the way to the grave. There’s alotta workmates I don’t remember, hell I’ve got family who’s names I don’t know, but I remember all those I’ve trained with. If we sweat and bleed together for a few years… well, you got family whether you knew it or not. Uncle Gorilla (not Grandpa PK, NOT YET LAWD JEHSUS), he’s here for it, as the kids say.
So here’s what I want you to do: show up and make deposits in both those accounts, health and relationships. Every time you walk through that door, you’re funding your making a deposit your future self will thank you for, and you get to do both at the same time! Your future self will thank you.
Go eat a steak.
-Gorilla