Please join me in welcoming Cassie to the Iron & Grit coaching team. You have seen Cassie here in the evenings doing private training. Cassie is an experienced bodybuilder and has been a personal trainer for the past two years. She has been active all her life, participating in sports like soccer, basketball, tennis, cheerleading,...Read More

To live a long healthy life, strength training must be part of the process. We start to lose muscle mass in our 30s and for the sedentary person this happens in their 20s. There is no way around the loss of muscle as we age but to better understand why we must start and continue weight...Read More

“Exercise…I consider to be by far the most potent domain in terms of its impact on both lifespan and health-span.”  Dr. Peter Attia The CrossFit methodology has evolved over the past 13 years since I first took the Level 1 exam. The experience we offer in the gym I believe has grown to include the...Read More

“To Be American Is to drink. To be American is to worry about drinking.” Elva Ramirez When our Dietician Caitlin and I started talking in 2020 about how to best help people during the pandemic shutdown we decided gut health had to be at the center of the conversation. The goal at the time was...Read More

Beth found CrossFit in 2011 at the encouragement of her brother to keep fit and challenge herself. She was rather bored with her old gym routine and her brother had discovered this somewhat obscure workout regimen he was doing with friends in his garage. Luckily for Beth, CrossFit Craic had opened in her hometown of...Read More

“Lack of sleep is like a broken water pipe in your home. It will leak down into every nook and cranny of your physiology.” —Matthew Walker Our health is determined by our physiology which is tied to our evolution as a human species. We cannot detach this part of our being even in today’s modern society...Read More

SELF CARE is an everyday challenge for most of us. We are busy with work, children, careers and finding time to take care of ourselves is the last thing on our to-do list. Working out and eating healthy doesn’t have to be a rollercoaster ride. WE created a program to help our members have a...Read More

Visceral fat is the fat surrounding our organs. It is not easily visible, however your visceral fat number is a high indicator of your current health. More importantly, it gives us a great snap shot of a persons health as they age. A high number over time will cause major damage to our metabolic systems...Read More