Primal Fitness, no frills, no gimmicks, just ordinary people with extraordinary fitness. 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 and Parkour 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!
On Monday we will be running classes starting at 11am as scheduled. Be advised that there are no available parking spaces in front of the gym, and as of Sunday night there are no on-street spots in the surrounding neighborhood, so plan accordingly!
Due to the inclement weather, we will not be running Friday evening 2/5/10, Saturday 2/6/10 or Sunday 2/7/10 classes. All intro seminar attendees will be welcome to attend one of the later Sunday seminars this month.
The DC's Most Primal Competition will bring together DC's best athletes and DC's best gym to find the fittest athlete in the DC area. The competition will test competitors ability to perform optimally at a variety of grueling events, ranging from maximal strength and power, to speed, endurance and agility. At the end of the day the top male and female competitors will be crowned as DC's Most Primal and will receive some great prizes from local businesses.
With the Crossfit Games season upon us I hope we can get a good showing from the Crossfit and Parkour community in the DC metro area. This will be a fun, community-minded event that will give local athletes a chance to try on their competitive chops. As an added incentive we'll be offering a 15% discount to any local athletes who are planning on attending the Crossfit Games Sectionals.
Please contact me directly with any inquiries you may have, we're looking forward to a kick-ass event that will be a ton of fun!
Jesse Woody- Manager/Program Director Primal Fitness
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
540-207-5832
Details: Early Registration $30, Day of Event $35 February 28th 2010 0900-1630 Events to be unveiled the day of the competition!
Primal Fitness- Voted Best Gym in DC 2009, Washington City Paper 219 M St. NW Washington DC 20001
Want to learn Parkour and Freerunning? There's never been a better time to take the leap. Our Parkour and Freerunning classes are constantly in session, with the next intro boot camp starting Monday February 15th in DC, Miami, and Texas.
Current clients get 1/2 off their monthly training when they refer a friend who signs up.
The DC Crossfit boot-camps start February 1st and 2nd!
The Primal Fitness Boot Camp is a 4 week course designed to get anybody in shape and geared up to join our Crossfit group Workouts. Over the course of four weeks you will learn many of the exercises used in Primal Fitness training, as well as gradually increase your fitness until you're ready to tackle the toughest and most effective workouts around. We promise only this: there are no shortcuts, results come from hard work.
Boot camps are on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 7:15AM-8:15AM and Saturdays from 8:00AM-9:00AM. As well as Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7:00PM-8:00PM and Saturdays from 2:00PM-3:00PM.
Our new Lunch hour Boot Camp runs Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons from 12:15-1:00PM.
It is recomended that you make it to at least two sessions per week to advance. Sign up now before all the slots fill up!
As many of you know, the 2010 CrossFit Games are approaching quickly. Several of our dedicated CrossFitters are going to try qualifying for the individual competition. This year, Primal Fitness will make an effort to field its very own affiliate team. The CrossFit Games affiliate competition consists of team workouts, usually four team members at a time. For more information and videos, go here to see what went on last year.
Although little information has been released thus far, each team is likely to have six team members - usually four men and two women, but possibly three men and three women as well. Also, due to the expontential growth of the CrossFit Games over the past three years, each affiliate team must qualify at a Regional Competition before venturing to California. Primal's qualifier would be the weekend of May 8th and 9th in Logan, Ohio.
At this point, if anyone is interested, male or female, please email Quint at
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Please include your name, phone number, and email address. Like craigslist, only serious inquiries please. Preparation for this event will require a lot of hard work, extra training, and dedication. Even so, while it is a very serious competition, it will also be a whole lot of fun. Please also keep in mind, depending on the amount of interest from our loyal CrossFitters, we may even have to have tryouts for our team to ensure we're fielding the best we've got to offer. A little in-house qualifier would also be a lot of a fun!
So again, please email Quint as soon as possible if you're interested in this awesome endeavor.
We've finally got all of our new apparel in the Primal Fitness online store , and to celebrate the update (and the season) we're offering a deal for Primal Apparel purchases during the month of December. Order $50 worth of any Primal Apparel or accessories and recieve a coupon for a free Crossfit or Parkour intro session, a $40 value! If you're a Crossfitter interested in Parkour, or a Traceur interested in Crossfit, or perhaps just somebody looking for a great Christmas gift for your favorite Primate, this would be a great way to go. And yes, Frosti is damn sexy ;)
This month we'll be running a group workout fundraiser on December 19th, from 3PM to around 6PM. The fundraiser will benefit the Toys for Tots foundation in the DC area and the workout will be the Crossfit benchmark "Fran" 21-15-9 95/65# thrusters and pull-ups...short, sweet and painful ;). The price for admission is either a toy for the Toys for Tots drive or a $15 donation which will be given to the DC Toys for Tots foundation. Of course the workout will be followed by a cookout, so bring a covered dish or beverage to throw in the mix. See you all there, and happy holidays!
Tightness in your back? Inflexible shoulders or hips holding back your lifting?
Primal wants to help you become the best athlete you can be, and flexibility is an essential component of fitness. With this in mind we are offering 20-minute Yoga stretching sessions at 6:30 Monday through Thursday. Come before the 7 p.m. Crossfit or Parkour class, or stay after the 5 p.m. Crossfit WOD. The sessions will be led by Aly or Jessica in the upstairs studio, and will be coordinated with the WOD to take advantage of the Crossfit programming and enhance your performance.
The first few sessions (December 2-10) are free, so you can give it a try, and we can gauge interest at the gym.
Starting at the beginning of next week, we will finally be offering a 7-8PM timeslot for Crossfit, and to kick it off right we'll be running an introductory bootcamp for the month of December. Our Crossfit bootcamp is the best way to get up to speed on the movements and methods we utilize in our Crossfit group classes. Though it's late notice (sorry, facility contraints weren't taken care of until today!) you can sign up HERE .
The old fire-house is an excellent building for housing the hard work and dedication to simple, effective fitness that we're all about. That being said, though our clients appreciate an old beat up building for their workouts, they also know that it doesn't have to be a complete mess. Well you talked and we listened (slowly but surely) and we've got some facility improvements that we're proud to announce:
First on the agenda, a piece of equipment that's been missing from our workouts for a while now, the C2 rower. After finally getting in touch with their customer service department, I was floored at their excellent service. Without a bit of trouble they had 2 new front-end assemblies for the 2 broken rowers, and a retro-fit kit to outfit the remaining rower to prevent it from breaking in the same way. Check it out, 4 rowers in Primal is something that we've NEVER seen!
Next, after finally getting the go ahead to move the landlords stuff to the basement, we were able to clean and organize the back lobby area. Now we've got a pretty clean (for an 1800's fire house) lobby with a real point-of-sale area!
And last, but definitely not least, we finally got rid of that old, grubby upstairs carpet and the upstairs bathroom's old crumbly tile and put down all new linoleum and trim to spruce it up and make it much easier to clean!
Obviously this old building is still a work in progress, but we're making strides in the right direction. Come by and check it all out!
Just a quick note, we will be closed this Thursday 11-26-09 for Thanksgiving, but will be holding all other regularly scheduled classes for the week. Thanks, and have a great holiday!
Have you been interested in trying out the fun and effective Crossfit workouts at Primal, but have been waiting for an introductory session to try out your chops? Do you want to experience the best workout in DC in a comfortable and enjoyable beginners environment? Our Crossfit Intro Seminar is just what you've been looking for!
Come and get introduced to the basics behind Primal Fitness' Crossfit group classes in a beginner friendly intro class. Our next session is this next Sunday, 11-22-09 from 10am-12pm. We will cover the basics of our Crossfit group classes, from foundational movements, scaling intensity for all ability levels, general nutrition and effective workout frequency all in a small, beginners only class just for you.
Sign up now ! Spaces are limited to 12 participants and they go fast!
This past weekend's 70's Big Themed Crossfit Total went without a hitch. Hefty loads were hoisted, high fashion was represented, and prodigious amounts of grilled animal parts were consumed, because that's how we roll.
Primal Fitness, no frills, no gimmicks, just ordinary people with extraordinary fitness. 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 and Parkour tabs to explore our offerings. Primal Fitness DC Crossfit and Parkour. Click thumbnail for video!
The DC's Most Primal Competition will bring together DC's best athletes and DC's best gym to find the fittest athlete in the DC area. The competition will test competitors ability to perform optimally at a variety of grueling events, ranging from maximal strength and power, to speed, endurance and agility. At the end of the day the top male and female competitors will be crowned as DC's Most Primal and will receive some great prizes from local businesses. 
