Strength Outside The Box

This week's guests are brought to you by a listener nomination. We got an email a couple of months ago from a member of CFR837 telling us how amazing his gym and the owners were. We could not be more humbly honored to bring you their story. Derrick and Shaunna Mason are doing CrossFit the way it was intended to be. They believe EVERY person should and can do CrossFit, they encourage and accept anyone to walk through their doors, and are sure to hold a space that is in line with those values. They host a class for athletes with Down syndrome once a week, and while these classes are obviously scaled to meet the needs of these individuals, the expectations and standards to which Shaunna and Derrick hold them are no less than anyone else at their box. And speaking of everyone else at their box, the focus at CFR837 is on intensity rather than an arbitrary Rx versus scaled standard. We discuss all of this in detail, and then since Derrick is a licensed marriage and family therapist we have some fun dissecting with