The first thing Jason Harasimowszi thought when he saw Cross Fit on TV a few years ago was, "that's too hard."
He thought, "there's no way I could do that."
But he gave it a try and found, yes, it is hard, but, he said, "I wanted to keep doing it and get good at it."
Three years ago, he took a Cross Fit course in Chicago and became a certified trainer.
"It's nice seeing people succeed," Harasimowszi said to explain why he likes training others in Cross Fit.
Recently, Harasimowszi opened his own Cross Fit gym, Cross Fit Silver Fox, inside the Harvester Center.
Cross Fit is designed to be a complete, functional work out, often using heavy weights and complex, compound exercises that work more than one muscle at a time.
"(Cross Fit) is going to help you outside in life," Harasimowszi. "If you pick up boxes off the ground, it's like you're doing a deadlift. If you put a box on a top shelf, obviously, you're pressing something overhead. Everything is transferable to your outside life."
Silver Fox is equipped with about $20,000 worth of racks, weights, barbells, kettle bells, medicine balls, rowing machines, parallel bars, tires, boxes and other training equipment.
Classes are: Monday through Friday at 5, 6 and 7 a.m., and 4, 5 and 6 p.m.; Saturdays at 7, 8 and 9 a.m.; and Sundays at 11 a.m.
To locate Silver Fox, go into the Harvester Center through the main entrance and then down the hallway straight back from the door. The gym is on the left.
