December Member of the month // Will Wilkinson
How did you first get involved at Blitz?
My wife Anna brought me along to a ‘Bring a friend’ workout in November 2022 after trying to get me signed up for 6 months and I really enjoyed the session and the coaches were great! I then signed up.
September Member(s) of the Month // Erica & Glenn Fothergill
How did you first get involved at Blitz?
When we relocated from Northern California to SW London, we wanted to carry on training (from Diablo CrossFit) and found you on the affiliate map. I emailed Debs about a drop in, rates and couples discounts (wink, wink). Dec 2015, we stepped through the doors and found our new happy place. This was back when Blitz was one room and the vibe was grimy. We loved it!
August Member of the Month // Ollie Temple
How did you first get involved at Blitz?
As most people know, my gym couple, ride or die, one true fitness love, my CrossFit rock etc etc (Sorry Coach Becca) is Mr Tom Grogan .. And the reason for this is because he is the one that got me into the idea of Crossfit. Just a random message into one of our Whats App groups where he was looking for someone to go with him to the Blitz foundation class, and I am massively grateful for that!
July Member of the Month // Jess Searle
How did you first get involved at Blitz?
Lockdown. That’s when me and my boyfriend chose to move in together. He was a member at Blitz and suggested I tuned in for some of the lockdown socials and lockdown Open. Kindly Blitz let me join and take part, although at that point I wasn’t a member. I think the first time Tim and Christina ever met me, would have been virtually watching me spend 15min trying to get one wall walk, falling over and over again in my living room 😂. But from then on in, I have never left and have fallen in love with the Blitz community.
June Member of the Month // Matthew Lowcock
Sabrina and I were signed up to the local Gym Group and not using it. I had done an F45 free taster when we were living in Hammersmith and Sabrina went extensively when she lived in Reading. So we googled Functional Fitness near Hounslow and went to a Blitz Crossfit taster session
May Member of the Month // Lizzie Ayles
I had wanted to join a CrossFit gym for a fair few years, and after finally moving to an area with a local box, I managed to convince my “Couple of the Year” counterpart (Ollie Temple) to sign up to the Foundations course with me.
April Member of the Month // Tom Grogan
I had wanted to join a CrossFit gym for a fair few years, and after finally moving to an area with a local box, I managed to convince my “Couple of the Year” counterpart (Ollie Temple) to sign up to the Foundations course with me.
March Member of the Month // Conta Henderson
Had to bribe a friend to join me on one of the taster sessions with the promise I’d buy her breakfast afterwards – difficult to imagine now, but initially the thought of CrossFit and Blitz was quite scary
February Member of the Month // Matthias Schmitt
When we moved from Germany to England in August 2021, I was looking for a new gym. We moved to Twickenham and one of the nearest results in Google Maps was Blitz CrossFit – so I gave it a try. To be honest after 4 weeks of training I wanted to quit.
January Member of the Month // Vicki Anstey
How did you first get involved at Blitz?I used to go to TIO CrossFit, but moved to Twickenham in January 2022 and signed up. I had been a couple of times before and knew some of the coaches and members which was a great start.
December Member of the Month // Marcus McSorley
How did you first get involved with Blitz?I first heard about it through friends who were members and so decided to do a trial class. Prior to Blitz I was a casual gym user but found working out to be pretty monotonous. As a result I often ended up getting distracted with my itunes playlist as well as conversations with other gym users. The structured environment and fun varied workouts that Blitz offered were just what I needed!
November Member of the Month // Carla Trenter
How did you first get involved with Blitz?My flatmate (Duncan T) at the time was helping Tim do some DIY at blitz before it opened, they kept trying to convince me to join but I had googled CrossFit and was scared of the crazy workouts, I then got asked at work if I wanted to try a foundation course at Blitz and so I had a moment of madness and went along, I had my foundation course with Ben and then I was converted.
September Member of the Month // Pavitar Sunner
How did you first get involved with Blitz?
I was at a gym that did WOD classes and really enjoyed them and then I realised that they were really based on CrossFit. I then moved to the area and started looking for a local new gym and found Blitz. I was a little nervous initially but after deliberating the decision for about 3 months (can you believe it!) I made the plunge and signed up for induction with Jono and I never looked back! It’s been awesome.
August Member of the Month // Sam Torrance
How did you first get involved with Blitz?
I moved to Twickenham (and actually London as a whole) in January this year, a large of part of which was driven by a desire to be near to my close friends Rachel and Chris Rowland (also Blitz members)whom I’ve known since university. Part of the welcome ‘package’ included a recommendation/insistence that I join Blitz.
July Member of the Month // Adam Sunman
How did you first get involved with Blitz?I moved back from NYC to England in 2018 and had never lived in London before. One of the members told me to come along, and I remember coming out of that first sweat class and seeing stars. After I took a break from competitive long distance cycling (I’ve done the Transcontinental, circumference of Belgium and East Anglia to name a few!) I realised I was putting on a few pounds and decided to up my membership to twice a week, then three times a week, now I’m there every day!
June Member of the Month // Pat Deere
How did you first get involved with Blitz?Convinced my wife to buy a house in Twickenham so I could join Blitz!
May Member of the Month // Roberta Tothova
How did you first get involved with Blitz?I used to do a lots of hot yoga, and one day there was a girl with a great figure, even a yoga teacher was interested in her story.. so I overheard a conversation about CrossFit, which I had no idea what is it or where the gyms like this are..
April Member of the Month // Phil Studt
How did you first get involved with Blitz?
Sometime during Summer of 2013, I was training at Fitness First in Teddington and doing some thrusters and boxjumps when this nice (but slightly intense!) bloke started chatting to me and told me that he was opening a new gym in Twickenham and that Crossfit would be right down my alley. I had absolutely no idea what Crossfit even was but what Tim said sounded interesting so when it finally went live I signed up for what I believe was the second-ever Foundations Course starting October 14th 2013. I somehow talked my then-girlfriend Fi into joining, too, and the rest is history!
March Member of the Month // Toby Holroyd
How did you first get involved with Blitz?
I used to be an avid rugby player before breaking the same collarbone 4 times in under 2 years (or 3 times in 9 months whichever is more impressive) which put an end to that. After some time searching for a new way of staying active and being unsuccessful, during some post-uni travelling I met an Aussie couple who would not shut up about Crossfit and they made it sound pretty good. So after a combination of some time being lazy and covid I finally decided to find my local Crossfit which was Blitz.