A kettlebell driven core focused heart pounding workout! KettleCore bootcamp will get you into great shape and you’ll have a great time doing it! It’s also a great way to ease yourself into (or back into) our CrossFit classes! This 6 week program will build week to week teaching you the fundamental movements of CrossFit and ramping up your intensity workout by workout!

An exciting class that will build your strength, endurance, flexibility, balance, and coordination with body weight and partner skills and drills. Remember carefree days of cartwheels and somersaults in the park? You could bend, and hang, and jump all day long! Get back to your roots with Alchemy CrossFit’s gymnastics classes. We don’t stop playing because we get old – we get old because we stop playing! Come out and play! No previous experience required.

A whole class dedicated to improving your flexibility – 1 of the most neglected of the 10 physical skills. Come on out and see how much improving your range of motion will reduce injuries and improve your performance.

The Classes:

We currently offer our Dynamic Mobility and Stretching classes four times per week at Alchemy CrossFit’s Hamilton location. Below are descriptions of each class.

Monday at 7:15: Mandy Dryer – RMT/ART, owner of Kinetic Sports Therapy and professional Mountain Bike racer will take you through a series of static and dynamic stretches designed to increase joint mobility and muscle elasticity. Mandy has an amazing understanding of the body and how it works together as a system, her classes will allow you to increase range of motion while healing injuries and increasing performance.

Wednesday at 715: Erin Aquin – DCM, owner of Eight Winds Eastern Medical Arts and Experienced Yoga Teacher will take you through an amazing flow yoga class. She’s an avid CrossFitter and has specifically designed these yoga practices to complement and enhance your CrossFit performance. This isn’t boring yoga – this is badass CrossFit Yoga. Erin will challenge you, and increase your body awareness through progressive yoga poses. Experience Hamilton’s only yoga class specifically designed for the needs of CrossFitters. Coming February 2012 Erin will also be offering Yoga Teacher Training.

Thursday at 1015am: Denise Magnini, our director of operations and CrossFit Gymnastics coach will take you through a stretching series designed to help speed recovery and restore range of motion in stiff tired muscles. She will focus on the areas of the body we have hit the most in the previous week and help you increase range of motion and mobility in traditionally problematic areas and joints.

Friday at 715: Craig Latendresse, our director of team an youth training will take you through a dynamic mobility series designed to increase athleticism and mobility. Mobility is crucial – it is one thing to have a large passive range of motion – quite another to have the body control to move your body with control through a large range of motion.

Alchemy CrossFit’s CrossFit classes are the single best way to get into shape and have a great time doing it in the Hamilton area. Whether these classes are the beginning of your road to improved body composition, health, and elite fitness, or you are just looking for that extra edge, CrossFit will take your fitness to the elite level as we strive for mastery of the 10 Physical Skills. We will incorporate Olympic lifts, Basic Gymnastic movements, and Core multi-joint lifts in ever changing and always challenging workouts.

Our CrossFit classes are the heart and soul of our community and programming at Alchemy CrossFit. CrossFit will develop your overall fitness and athletic ability while preparing you to meet any challenges, physical or mental, that may lay ahead. As the winners of numerous awards from the Hamilton Spectator and being the most experienced CrossFit training team in the Hamilton region our Professional Certified CrossFit Trainers will show you what CrossFit is really about; Intensity, community, and excellence. CrossFit is not a franchise, nor is it a specific way of programing or working out, it is a philosophy of preparedness – of being ready for the unknown and unknowable, no questions asked, anytime, anywhere. Alchemy CrossFit’s members embody that philosophy in everything they do – striving to do more, to achieve greatness, to build their extraordinary. Come see for yourself the difference professional caring coaches, and a supportive yet challenging community make for your fitness and quality of life. We promise you will never be bored at the gym again.

Alchemy CrossFit brings a new level of Endurance Training to Hamilton Ontario. In our CrossFit Endurance classes we’ll teach you to run with the grace of a gazelle, and the speed of a cheetah. Want to cycle like Lance Armstrong? Swim like a fish? Run like the wind? If the answer is yes, then CrossFit Endurance is for you. We will help beginners through to elite athletes increase performance and enjoyment in their endurance sport of choice.

Our professional CrossFit Endurance certified coaches will teach you the POSE method of running, proper rowing technique, and multisport transitions. You will learn the essential drills and skills to become a proficient runner in no time, all while avoiding common running injuries like shin splints, plantar faciaitis, and hip impingement. You will learn to run effortlessly, flowing over the ground rather than pounding your body and joints into the ground.

Come to Alchemy CrossFit to discover the glorious Russian Kettlebell – a staple training tool of eastern block athletes for decades, the kettlebell will add a whole new dimension to your training. With over 20 years of Kettlebell experience, we are Hamilton’s top Kettlebell training facility.

Our certified professional coaches will help you master the Kettlebell. You will learn a variety of swings and swing variations, cleans and snatches, Presses, push presses, and jerks, Deadlifts, and Highpulls as well as several Kettlebell specific exercises such as around the worlds and turkish get ups. We will go over the intricacies of hand placement, hip drive, joint stacking, and core control to ensure you get the most out of your KettleBell workout without risking injury due to poor technique.

The Kettlebell is unique in it’s ability to maximize centrifugal force to provide an amazing core and cardiovascular workout. Kettlebell workouts are a great way to burn fat, tone muscles, increase joint stability, and increase explosiveness and general athleticism in a fun and fast manner.

Alchemy CrossFit’s Hamilton area Olympic Weightlifting and Powerlifting club invites you to train under the expert guidance of our coaches. Blow your expectations away. Find out how strong you really are- physically and mentally. Alchemy CrossFit’s lifting club motto: if it

At Hamilton’s Alchemy CrossFit we offer a variety of Combatives fitness classes to suit the interests and needs of our members, be they professional fighters or regular Joes just looking to blow off some steam. We offer a 3 different combatives programs to accommodate a variety of tastes and interests. Sparring is never required, and the classes are all appropriate for all skill levels from rank beginner to the professional fighters whose conditioning training we supervise.

Boxing

The Hamilton boxing program at Alchemy CrossFit is designed for both novice boxers and for those who are solely interested in boxing for its tremendous fitness benefits. Our boxing classes build cardiovascular fitness, muscular endurance, and quickness. We focus on proper technique, power, speed, and footwork, while constantly challenging your conditioning. We will also teach you the basics of Olympic-Style (Amateur) Boxing. More technical boxing instruction is available for those interested.

KickBoxing – Muay Thai

Alchemy CrossFit’s Muay Thai Kickboxing program was created in response to our members desire for something different than the Cardio-Kickboxing fluff that has be drowning out the sport. We focus on proper technique, with instruction on Kicks, Knee and Elbow strikes, Punches, and Defense all in a safe but challenging environment.

Wrestling

Our Wrestling program is a great way to increase your balance, speed, and agility while building whole body explosive power and a wrestlers world famous conditioning. Led by 3 time National wrestler Ashley Werner we will focus on wrestling drills and skills for conditioning and increased mobility.