Workout # 7 - Crossfit at Beast Athlete / Zero Gravity Crossfit

This is a fairly new gym in Redlands and has kids Beast Athlete classes and adult Zero Gravity Crossfit classes. I got a one week pass so I'm going to try another class this week. I did the 6:30pm class last night and I was the only one in the class so it was basically a private session :) The class before me had about 5 people leaving. 
The owner taught my class. He was in shape and seemed to know what he was doing.

http://zerogravitycrossfit.com/

The instructor didn't ask me any background questions or give any info on the gym which was a little odd... so I asked a lot of questions.
We did a few warm up moves and then started with a power move -  the press. He took a lot of time explaining the proper form for the move and we practiced with a PVC pipe before using actual weight. I did practice sets and then 3 sets of 10 at 35lbs. -- the idea is they log your weight and then everytime you add weight you log that number and try to keep increasing weight.

Next we did a timed workout where you switch back and forth between two exercises completing all the sets as fast as you can:

Jump rope 150 - 120 - 90 - 60 - 30

Sit ups 50 - 40 - 30 - 20 - 10

Done in 12min. Phew... that was a lot of sit ups and we are talking full sit ups not crunches! They had these cool really thin jump ropes - I want one. :) 
We had time at the end to stretch and held the stretches for a long time so that was great... You can never stretch enough! The workout was pretty easy. It definitely didn't kick my butt - but I'm going to try another class this week! (I'll add an update)

The gym was small but super clean and tidy with nice bright colors... they could use a regular sound system instead of a corner boombox... do they still call those a boombox? 


So the nitty gritty:
Nice, clean and attractive
The instructor was in shape, detailed with form and friendly
Medium difficulty level (but it could have been the day)
None of the members coming out said "hi'
They have a low monthly lock in rate right now



Would I recommend this gym?    Yes... they are so new that I think they are still trying to define themselves but they have great potential and I can see this gym really growing.  

** While I was writing this post look what got dropped off at my front door...

a new bobble water bottle we ordered these almost two weeks ago and they finally came! No matter what workout I do I always bring my water bottle and I love these filtered bottles.   If you run out of water at the gym you can fill it up at the drinking fountain or bathroom sink and it filters when you drink - yay! Can you tell I'm just a little excited :)