Take a picture of, and then support with words, the best/coolest thing you have and want more of. That should speak to your membership, past current and future just fine.

Great photo; excellent article. Leave it to the Buddhists to distill such a huge, transformational experience into one word.

Thanks for the bump, Lisbeth! :)

Hello All,

So I just did the level I cert in Toronto this past weekend and am pretty excited to start training people. However, I present a difficult situation. I'm a Canadian going to school in Buffalo. I'd like to train people here but with the upcoming winter training people outside is more or less out of the question. I'm looking to start out with individual training but I'm not sure how to do it here. I can't legally work in the USA.

My only idea so far (for the winter) has been to try and meet potential clients at the Golds gym I go to (I know.... brutal, but it's the best gym in my close vicinity). I don't think Golds will be a huge fan of that, but oh well.

Any ideas/advice?

Lisbeth, Hey we're here in St George Utah. We, along with CrossFit St George are the only two affiliates in town. I've now heard from a few people that there is a trainer at a local athletic club that tells people he is chuck carswell, the guy in the cert pictures and that he is a CrossFit trainer. He has started doing a CrossFit boot camp in this club and I want to know if that concerns CFHQ? Maybe you could get back to me on how to go about it. Thanks

Kade, How would any rational person believe that this guy is Chuck? Does he disappear every weekend? And why would a traveling HQ coach from Atlanta be training at some globo gym in Utah? If these people actually looked at the main site they would see pics of Chuck every Monday in every corner of the world. I would bet that when he's not looking at the inside of a CF box he's looking at the inside of an airplane with little time to do much else!

Seriously?-I don't understand. Obviously it is ridiculous but my point is the CrossFit impersonation and him starting a CF Bootcamp in the globo gym. I thought that CrossFit Inc is against this kind of thing and my question is how do you get him to stop? And the whole rational person thing is simple- these people in the globo gyms don't know the difference.

Kade -- In some odd way, the impersonation of Chuck Carswell is a sign of exactly how far CrossFit is spreading. It almost makes me want to call up Chuck and congratulate him on having made such an impression in the fitness community that someone in Utah is impersonating him.

On a serious note, however, it's not cool. As with all reports of trainers or clubs that are NOT affiliates and yet who are using the CrossFit name to promote their services, we encourage you to e-mail affiliatesupport@crossfit.com and provide as much information as you can, e.g. website, flyer, etc. Thanks. Together, we are stronger.

Maybe just maybe Chuck Carswell is running a CF Bootcamp out of a Globo in Utah and the person doing all the training for HQ is the impersonator... How do we know which is which?

Hey, maybe I'm Chuck Carswell?

Touche Steve. Thanks Lisbeth. I guess that's what I'll do. But yeah you're right about the CrossFit spreading thing. I love it

Chuck is super-human... maybe his superhero name is "Duplicate Man"... able to xerox himself all over the globe!

I think there maybe a few CFHQ personalities with secret identities. just cast your mind your mind back and ask yourself who yo've never seen in the same room at the same time hmmm?

Yeah for NJ Affiliates!

Great pic, CrossFit Tribe!

Well, he is the most powerful human on the planet. maybe he CAN be in two places at the same time.

I was actually confused for Chuck once. That was awesome...

LMAO! Jon you must be twins right?