Primal Fitness - Like "Fight Club" but better. We work hard and have fun and get people fit. There are no shortcuts, there's only hard work and dedication. Please see the CrossFit, Parkour, Judo, and Yoga tabs to explore our offerings. Primal Fitness DC Crossfit and Parkour. Click thumbnail for video!
CrossFit
CrossFit
Primal Fitness is proud to be a Crossfit Affilite. We offer the highest quality of training available whether your goal is to be an elite athlete, superior law enforcement officer, military special forces, firefighter, or a super soccer mom. Click here for more information on our CrossFit offerings. Primal Fitness - THE place for CrossFit in DC.
Parkour
Parkour
Primal Fitness is the world's first Parkour gym! Parkour is the art of moving quickly from one point to another, using the human body to overcome and surmount obstacles in your environment. It's an intense and incredibly fun workout!
And Primal Fitness is one of the only places you can learn it in a safe and controlled environment! Click here to learn more about Parkour!
Judo
Judo
Primal Fitness offers Judo classes taught by nationally ranked instructors.
Yoga
Yoga
Primal Yoga - not just any Yoga. Relaxing or exhilarating - it's up to you!
Primal Fitness has been quietly running Freerunning classes on Friday nights. Freerunning is a derivative of Parkour that incorporates acrobatic and creative movement into the obstacle-interaction of Parkour.
The first batch of pictures from Primal doing "Fran" have been released! Check them out on the Primal Facebook, become a fan, and tag yourself and everyone you recognize!
Wanted to try somehting but weren't sure where to start? This is it! Come see what all the buzz is about, learn about Parkour or CrossFit and see why Primal Fitness is the Best gym in DC!
Nick and 10 of his closest friends recently tore up Primal Fitness for Nick's 8th birthday. The boys had a blast at Nick's Parkour Birthday lead by Travis and Mark. The cupcakes were from scratch - really! Happy Birthday Nick! Check out the rest of the pictures in our photo gallery.
Starting 5-27-09 Primal will be offering our first Brazilian Jiujitsu class. The classes will run for 2 hours, Monday and Thursdays from 5pm-7pm, and Wednesday from 4-6pm. Instructing will be Devin Bartolomeo, a regular fixture in our Judo club. Here are some details:
BJJ:
Brazilian Jiujitsu is an art derived from Meiji-era Jujutsu and Judo, taught to the Gracie brothers in the early 20th century by a Japanese immigrant named Mitsuyo Maeda. The Gracies ended up modifying the arts they were taught to focus more on groundfighting, then spread the art through the use of 'Vale Tudo' matches that were the ancestors of modern day MMA matches. Today Jiujitsu offers an exciting sport and method of self defense that can be used by anyone regardless of size.
Bio:
Devin Bartolomeo has been training martial arts since he was a preteen. For the past six years he studied under Relson Gracie black belt and proffesional MMA fighter Phil Cardella, under whose authorization he teaches, earning the rank of purple belt. He has numerous competitions under his belt including sweeping his division two years in a row at the Battle at Baylor tournament.
The cost will be the same as our Judo club, $80/month with deals offered to those who participate in both Judo and BJJ.
YOU MUST SIGN-UP ONLINE , PLEASE DON'T WAIT! WE NEED AN ACCURATE COUNT BEFORE THE DAY!
Memorial Day Murph, 5-25-09 10am-1pm
Come join us on Memorial Day for our yearly fundraiser workout! All proceeds this year will be donated to the Yellow Ribbon Fund , and what better way to raise money and have fun than to get crushed by such a killer workout (totally scaleable, of course!) and finish off with a cook-out. Minimum donations of $25 will be required to participate, but more will be accepted on the day, along with any covered dish item you'd like to bring for afterwards.
I wanted to invite you all to our free Intro to Judo session this Saturday May 2nd from 10-12:30. On Saturday, we are hosting a demonstration and beginners lesson so that you can see and try Judo.
We will start by demonstrating a number of Judo techniques and then follow with a chance for you to try some of them yourself. The environment will be low stress and fun. Please join us.
If you are intending to come, please show up a few minutes early to fill out the waiver and RSVP to
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so we have an idea of how many people will be attending.
This weekend, Primal's own Randi "The Natural" Watts and Christy "The Terminator" Phillips ventured down to Virginia Beach to compete in the CrossFit Games Mid-Atlantic Qualifier. The two-day event consisted of four grueling workouts, designed to test all ten domains of fitness.
The girls worked their hearts out among a field of 46 tough women. At the conclusion of Saturday, Randi was in 27th place after several strong performances, while Christy sat atop the leaderboard with a 1:39 lead over second place!
The final workout on Sunday consisted of squat snatches and chest-to-bar pull-ups. Unfortunately, Randi could not finish under the fifteen minute cap and was given a DNF - Randi hates C2B pull-ups. In the afternoon, Christy began a staggered heat consisting of the top ten women. She would not give up her lead. After a long and exhausting weekend, Christy took home first place and qualified for the CrossFit Games in July!
These two young ladies trained absurdly hard in preparation for this event, so feel free to give them some congratulations the next time you see them in the gym. Primal is blessed to have two such amazing athletes to inspire us daily with their efforts. Great work, girls!
Kudos and thanks to all of you who've supported the gym in all the many ways you do, because the reason we're the best gym is because we have you, the best community! So a big thank you and shout out to all of you who know and love and support this gym!
We've known it all along, but now the rest of the city knows it, too! Spread the word!
Because we all know that it's really, "Primal Fitness - The Best Gym in The World!"
This seminar is now sold out. Lets hope we get him back for a second round soon!
Here at Primal we're super-excited to get our good friend Jim Bathurst back to the gym, and this time in stead of just showing off and making us all feel weak at gymnastics skills, he's going to be teaching a seminar to bring us up to speed!
Come learn a variety of basic and advanced gymnastic skills - handstands, elbow levers, muscle-ups and more. All ages and abilities welcome, as each and every skill will be scalable to fit your current strength and fitness level. This seminar will be taught by Jim Bathurst, creator of BeastSkills.com , a well-received site offering tutorials for feats of bodyweight strength.
The seminar will be on Sunday March 29th from 9am-12pm, cost will be $60 and spots can be purchased in the Primal Store . In order to provide quality coaching, space is extremely limited. Sign up today before all the spots are gone!
Check out this awesome writeup and video of the gym on Sporting News.com!
Notable highlights: Mark is described as a "twitchy lemur," and the gym itself is described as follows:
"It's like working out in the firehouse from Ghostbusters, actually. All
they need is a pole and a few goblins running around the place, and the
scene would be complete."
The Primal Fitness Parkour Boot Camp in our washington Location is Sold out. Registration is open for the next session which begins in six weeks here .
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Primal Fitness uses the proven fitness methods of CrossFit using only the natural movements of the human body. Classes can include Weightlifting, bodyweight conditioning, rope climbing, medicine balls, and a host of other fun, functional movements to improve total fitness!
Hearsay ...
"Thank you for the best workouts that i have ever had. I bought your Parkour DVD and I plan on practicing at home. It was Awesome!!!"
