BOXROX brings you a list of some of the most picturesque CrossFit Boxes around the world that you can train at. Maybe you should plan your next trip (COVID allowing) based on this list?
Have you ever thought you could actually ski as part of your WOD? How about running around the block and jumping in the ocean to complete that workout, or swimming against the Indian Ocean tide? Or finding a giant turtle walking past you during a run?
All of that is possible, you just need to find the proper place. Here are some of the most amazing CrossFit Boxes around the world where you can complete that WOD at. Check it out.
Magma CrossFit – Galápagos Islands
Yes, the photo above shows a man carrying a giant turtle on his back. The man is one of 110 CrossFitters at Magma CrossFit, the only Box in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. The turtle was being transported due to preservation concerns, led by activists on the island.
The Galápagos Islands is situated around 1,000 kilometers off Ecuador’s coast. Although it is such a remote place, coach and founder Ernesto Hurtado tells BOXROX that a handful of CrossFitters in the Box are tourists.
“We started the box with the idea to create a CrossFit community in the Galápagos Islands. We want to make people feel healthy and fit above everything”.
Ernesto himself makes the WODs together with a mentorship community, led by CrossFit seminar staff Carlos Andrade Salazar.
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“Every time we can, we use the outdoors in our WODs. We mostly do swimming, but also some bodyweight training at the beach”.
“The surroundings are beautiful. You are running around and find a giant turtle on your path. Or even a sea lion”, Ernesto told BOXROX.
Speaking of animals, the giant turtle you saw before has a name: Diego. And guess what? Magma CrossFit came up with a WOD in honor of Diego, the 70 kilos animal.
WOD: Diego
For time, with a partner
- 300m lunges each (70/52 kg)
Only one partner works at a time, barbell in the back rack position.
CrossFit Cusco – Peru
If traveling to the Galápagos Islands is too expensive and remote for you, would you change your plans and deviate a bit further south to end up in Cusco, a city in Peru?
Cusco sits in the middle of the Peruvian Andes, a mountain range along the western coast of South America.
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CrossFit Cusco is the highest box in the world at more than 11,000 feet (3,400 meters) above sea level.
Altitude training for a few weeks can be beneficial to athletes, increasing the mass of red blood cells and hemoglobin.
Read more: How Athletes from South America Can Qualify to the 2021 CrossFit Games
CrossFit UVÆR – Norway
If your heart beats faster for the North Pole, how about trying out CrossFit UVÆR, a Box in Tromsdalen, Norway. It is the most northern Box in the world.
The Box was founded in 2017 by Magnus Støback Bjørsvik. He fell in love with the sport after training in Canada while on an exchange student program.
“We do running outside during the summer. During the previous lockdown, we also had skiing in our programming since it was in the middle of winter”, Magnus told BOXROX.
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CrossFit Wild South – New Zealand
On the other side of the globe, you can find CrossFit Wild South, the Box closest to Antarctica. It is situated in Invercargill, south New Zealand, around 4,200 kilometers away from the cold continent.
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CrossFit Wild South, if there ever was a suitable name for a Box, this would be it.
Winnipeg – Canada
Being close to the south pole gives you the thrills? How about training in the third coldest city in the world, Winnipeg, Canada?
It is normal to experience -20⁰C (-5⁰F) during winter in the city. There are 7 Boxes in the Canadian province alone.
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The city is usually under a cold air mass, and since it is in the prairies, it is normal to have fast winds which only intensify the cold sensation.
You are not so depressed anymore about that run around the block in your Box, are you?
Read more: Winter is Coming – 10 workouts to build strength and test toughness.
Bangkok – Thailand
Cold is not your thing? Prefer heat? Then go train in one of the three CrossFit Boxes in Bangkok, Thailand.
The city does not have extreme summer temperatures, but it is the hottest city in the world when it comes to year-round intense heat.
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Routinely, Bangkok can have temperatures rising to 40⁰C (104⁰F) during the day, and above 30⁰C (86⁰F) during the night. Bangkok’s average winter temperature is 25⁰C (77⁰F).
As if any WOD needed help to make athletes sweat.
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Hawaii – United States
The United States has the biggest number of affiliates, but surely there is no Box in Hawaii, is there?
Of course, there is. Not one, not two, but an incredible 36 affiliates.
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An athlete can train in four of its six main islands.
Mauritius
Mauritius is an island located around 2,000 kilometers off the southeast coast of Africa, in the Indian Ocean.
Although it is a small country, with 2,000 square kilometers in area (the 26th smallest country in the world), it has three Boxes an athlete can join in case he/she misses doing WODs.
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