Team ECF Newsletter - January 2025
🎆 New Year 🎆
We would like to wish all our members the best of luck in the upcoming year. Hopefully, your Christmas period was what you needed, and you took some much-needed rest.
As we kick off 2025, we’re excited and grateful for our amazing Eccleshall CrossFit community. The start of a new year is a time to reflect, reset, and refocus on our health, our goals, and the power of showing up for ourselves and each other.
So with that let’s get after 2025.
🏆 Member of the year 🏆
Eccleshall CrossFit would like to wish a huge congratulations to Tom Hall, our Member of the Year!
Tom has been consistent all year round and while he will not be winning this award for his time keeping, expect Tom to rock up 1 minute past class time with his infamous coffee cup and knitwear. Tom not only gives his all in all classes, he also has an active interest in what we do inside the gym, often asking why we are doing what we do and the benefits of it.
Tom has seen great progress from not only efforts inside the gym, but by being head strong and his can do attitude, all the time while focusing on what he does outside and his nutrition.
🏆 Spirit of the box 🏆
The spirit of the box award is an award from the members to another member who fully embodies the spirit and values of ECF. They are kind, encouraging and want to help everyone 'Learn, Develop, and Grow'!
We are proud to announce our spirit of the box for 2025 is Buffy Hall. Here are some of the lovely reasons why the community voted for Buffy:
“Consistent, dedicated, has the best instant one liners, a great partner for a WOD, makes everyone welcome - what more can I say!?”
“Buffy is always jolly, encouraging and such a good laugh when in class. Always a joy when coming to 6am/6:30am”
“Always brings her distinctive wit and a great attitude to class. Always supportive of everyone. Self-deprecating but actually smashes every class!”
“For the same reasons as last year- another year on and still as supportive, positive, committed and hilarious! She welcomes new faces like old friends and old friends like family. Classes are better when she is in them 🙂”
We would like to thank the Hall family for sponsoring this years awards 😉.
🏆 2025 CrossFit Open 🏆
2025 CrossFit Open - Saturday Sessions at ECF A new year means one thing… one of the most exciting time of the year for CrossFitters is just around the corner—the 2025 CrossFit Open!
This is your chance to test your fitness, push your limits, and be part of the biggest global fitness community event.
Whether you’ve been with us a while now or you’re brand new to CrossFit, the Open is for everyone, and we can’t wait to hold some Saturday Sessions at ECF to get the team all together to take on the workouts!
See important information about the 2025 CrossFit Open below. Dates for Workouts:
* 25.1: Saturday, 1st March
* 25.2: Saturday, 8th March
* 25.3: Saturday, 15th March
What to Expect:
* The Saturday Sessions events will begin at 9AM:
* Heats for Foundations, Scaled, and Rx participants will start swiftly after a workout brief.
* This is a community event, so bring your energy to support, cheer, judge, and participate!
How to Sign Up:
We will be running the CrossFit Open Saturday Sessions as an in-house battle against 4 teams which we will allocate you to prior to the first workout.
Register for free by following the below steps.
1. Open the BoxMate App.
2. Click the calendar icon (second across the bottom).
3. Click the sign post icon (top left).
4. Select “2025 CrossFit Open” under competitions.
5. Register if you plan to complete all 3 workouts.
Note:
You can still join our Saturday Sessions without registering for the in-house competition if you can’t make all 3 workouts.
Worldwide Leaderboard:
Register on the official CrossFit leaderboard on the CrossFit website starting 15th January, if you want to compete globally. This is optional! If you have any questions, feel free to ask a member of the team for assistance.
Let’s make this year’s Open a memorable one!
New Additions
There is no time like Christmas for new toys and we have some exciting new items in the gym.
Expect a new delivery team of some heavy new toys, these will be some heavy sand bags to replace the old sand bags, ranging from 20kg to 80kg.
We also now have an additional toilet upstairs next to HJOsteo, we hope this will ease congestion in the mornings and at busy times.
CrossFit ECF Winter Comp
We are hoping you are getting excited for our upcoming ECF in house winter comp. With an updated date of 18th of January, this will be a mixed sex pairs.
Come in, compete and cheer on your other gym friends!!!
Better on Wednesdays - Upcoming run
Our next run with Better on Wednesdays will soon come up on our socials so keep your eyes peeled for updates!
1RM’s and Benchmarks
1RM:
08/01 - Back Squat
17/01 - Push Press
Benchmark WODs:
14/01- Grace
20/01 - Annie
