CrossFit Exe | Exeter's only CrossFit gym

About

What is CrossFit?

Our mission at CrossFit Exe is to improve lives through physical activity in a friendly and welcoming environment.

We do this through CrossFit, a fitness programme with the aim of preparing you for all of life’s physical challenges.

We get you fit for anything. We cater for all levels of fitness, from retiree with no training experience to elite professional athlete, and everything in between. Not all gyms are the same. Here at CrossFit Exe we offer a training experience like no other.

Come in and try it for yourself.

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Testimonials

Check out what our members say about CrossFit Exe.

Every day getting better, whilst surrounded with friends, which ultimately leads to happiness.
Nikki, 30 - Doctor

Living and studying abroad is tough. I'm grateful for the help and support of all my CrossFit Exe family.
Omran, 32 - Student

CrossFit Exe feels like a second home. A place I look forward to visiting everyday; When Mum lets me away anyway!
Sophie, 15 - School

After spending eight hours in an office, CrossFit Exe is my reset button.
Jaime, 26 - PhD Research

If it can get me out of bed everyday, voluntarily, before 6am...it has to be something special!
Abi, 21 - Student

There is always a new challenge waiting for me to push my limits.
Mark, 27 - Civil Eng

Great place, great fun, great friends, always challenging, infinately scaleable; I love it.
Barb, 45 - NHS Manager

CrossFit Exe has made me fitter than I have ever been. Wish I had discovered it earlier.
Mark, 51 - Sales Manager

CrossFit Exe is about pushing my limits but most importantly it's an unexpected family who inspire me.
Becca, 30ish - Baker

Where I have achieved things I never thought possible!
Cheryl, 30 - Dental Tech

Inspirational people, a great place with amazing vibes. CrossFit Exe isn't a gym, it's a family.
Ellie, 22 - Financial Assistant

Services

Here’s what’s on offer at CrossFit Exe.

Group Classes

Personal Training

Ladies

Teens

Staff

Meet our coaching team.

Jaime Webb, Owner
Qualifications
CrossFit Level 1 and 2
British Weightlifting Association (BWLA) Level 2 Club Coach
OPEX – Assessment & Programme Design

Sophia Tapper, Manager/Coach
Qualifications
CrossFit Level 1
CrossFit Kids

Ida Kyrilis, Coach
Qualifications
CrossFit Level 1
MSc Sports Science
Certified Strength Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)

Shaun Spring, Coach
Qualifications
CrossFit Level 1 and 2

Louise Evans, Coach
Qualifications
CrossFit Level 1
Swimming Instructor

Rob Clemens, Coach
Qualifications
CrossFit Level 1

Ellie Guest, Assistant Coach
Qualifications
CrossFit Level 1

What is Functional Fitness?

After quite a few years in the fitness world, you start to see that concepts, ideas and methodologies work on a bit of a cycle. Things pop up, become the ‘only’ way to train, then fade away and get surpassed by the latest and greatest. Currently, Functional Fitness is in vogue. It’s not its first rodeo, in the late 90s and early 00s, it was the way to train.

The initial concept of Functional Training is a solid approach to anyone’s training. Base your training on what you are going to be do doing in everyday life. Train for a task, build the functionality to complete the task. It’s a simple concept that’s easy to buy into, hence it’s popularity way back when and now.

Unfortunately, how you go about achieving this is where Functional Fitness has suffered. I remember when trainers had their members balancing on Swiss balls performing barbell squats with a multitude of bands attached to each limb, all in the name of Function! I forget what the rationale of this training was, probably to stand out from competitors, but let’s just say it got a little silly, went far away from the original concept, and, as it didn’t actually work, went out of fashion.

The rise of CrossFit has brought a new focus on Functional Training. Using tried and tested strength, weightlifting, gymnastics and metabolic conditioning methodology to bring real results. The popularity has meant that there are now lots of gyms doing Functional Fitness. That’s amazing as long as the methodology is sound and the proponents understand why and what they are doing. If they don’t, and I’ve already seen some signs of this, then we risk going down the silly route again in the name of ‘Function’.

Largely through the work of CrossFit and it’s splinter experts, the aim of Functional Training has been expanded. For general fitness, it is to be prepared for anything life can throw at you and to be able to complete tasks more quickly and efficiently. To be better at life. An extension of this is competitive exercise, Functional Fitness as a sport, which has allowed more people to explore the limits of their physical capacity.

At this gym, we try not to get caught up on the name, but we do try to achieve the same goal. We do this by taking care of our foundations through nutrition, movement, rest/recovery and mental wellbeing.

When we have strong foundations we can express ourselves more fully. We can pull, push, squat, bend, run, swim, bike, jump, climb, carry etc. as and when we need to. We can carry all our shopping in one trip, climb a mountain, load and unload our luggage ourselves, climb into our attic without a ladder, run the dog, throw the kids about and lots and lots of other stuff. What’s more, we can do it all with a smile on our face. We develop strong and enduring bodies and a mental attitude to match. We do and we are doers.

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