Reason Fitness

It's been 7 years since my last review and I'm still a member at this gym community and I'd love to share how it's grown over these years.

The first notable achievement is that this gym survived the pandemic. That is huge and the way the team and coaches pivoted to support the members during the pandemic was nothing short of incredible passion and hard work for the health and wellbeing of the community.

Since then, they have continued to adapt and cater their services and memberships to best meet the needs of the community at hand and introduced personal training.

After years of struggling to find my consistency, I decided to try personal training this year and I've been very thankful to have Coach Kara guide me for most of this year so far! I've made huge wins and strides in my consistency and also achieved fitness goals I didn't know I needed.

This gym community and the coaches and leadership behind it are what matters. The community is super supportive, diverse in people of all ages and walks of life, and are spurred by coaches who are passionate, caring and intentional.

Reason Fitness recently celebrated its 10 year anniversary and I'm personally grateful to be a part of that journey so far!

I was looking for a crossfit gym near my house, and my friend from another gym recommended Reason Fitness, saying they have really good coaches. I took his word and visited the gym and started to work on my health and fitness journey. Honestly, my friend wasn't kidding. Reason fitness really does have amazing coaches and a lot of knowledge about health, fitness, and nutrition. They helped me with my journey, and I am continuously using what I learned and been coached on to improve and be better as I get older.

REASON!!!
Thus far everything has been exceeding my expectations! I thank you for welcoming myself and Yahaira as we continue progressing towards all our fitness goals!

These past 3 months have been enjoyable experiences while at REASON! No matter the role from the coaching staff to the owner/founder every single person is helpful, approachable, and just want to bring the best version out of you!! We just LOVE that!!!

We truly look forward towards all the progress that's to come our way!! Along with the REASON staff being great as can be what separates this gym from others is simply the community in which you're surrounded by. Let me tell you....this gym you absolutely love all the members as they're welcoming as can be too!

Regardless of your physical capabilities I appreciate that REASON will always give the proper suggestions allowing us to exercise safety and effectively!!

Enrolling at REASON was the best decision we have made and we look forward on continuing this journey!!

Thank you

-Brian

What an amazing community for good health!!! I'm so happy that I found this gym during COVID. I'm hooked!!!!

This has been my favorite gym among several I've worked at or was a member too. The community and staff are always great and pushing me. If a coach or member see I'm going light they'll call me out to go heavier and I absolutely love that! It's how I've been able to increase in strength and endurance. I left this time some years ago and the idea of returning was more nerve-racking than how it turned out. It felt like I never left with new and old members approaching and welcoming me to their morning class.

Love Reason Fitness - I started my fitness journey toward the end of 2020 after realizing that I wanted a healthy outlet for a lot of the stress built up over the pandemic. I legit came in with the intention to just lose some weight and maybe be able to run without dying.

What I found was way more than that. In addition to an incredible community, I found people who regularly challenge themselves and their mindset to be the best versions of themselves. Sure, we all complain when we see movements we don't like, but at the end of the day, we all will do the workouts!

The coaches are knowledgable and are there to help you as much as you'd like from comprehensive nutrition planning to normal class coaching.

I will be completely honest though. If you start CrossFit, you might end up with a slight gear addiction. You start with a pair of shoes, but then you end up with grips, a jump rope, a weightlifting belt, another 17 pairs of shoes; the list really goes on and on. (That's a product of CrossFit, not Reason).

Anyways, great gym, great community, I can run a little bit more now without dying.

I have been a member of Reason Fitness for over 5 years now. A lot has personally happened for me in 5 years; love, loss, really good times, some really low times, and for years during that time, a worldwide pandemic. Throughout it all, one of the most consistent things during those 5 years has been this gym and the community within it.

This isn't a gym where you can come and go and no one notices, so if you want to slip in and slip out, go to 24 hour fitness or LA fitness. If you want to be recognized, heard, and challenged all while building healthy relationships, then come on in, the door is always (metaphorically) open.

If I could give this CrossFit gym more than 5 stars, I would. I reached out to the owner, Eric back in May 2021 for help to get back on my feet when it came down to my physical health and wellness and the experience I've had from joining thus far has been nothing short of amazing.

During the height of the pandemic, I had let go of many healthy habits that kept me consistent in my day to day and found myself in a really difficult place that I desperately wanted to get out of for the sake of my health.

Trust me when I say that it was extremely challenging for me to reach out in the first place, but having the support and accountability from all of the coaches, Miguel, Drew, Luke, Edward, Beth, and Tim helped me become a better person overall, not just in my physical fitness, but in every aspect of my life.

I began working with Drew on my nutrition to help improve my relationship with food and saw great results month to month while living a lifestyle that worked for me. The personalized nutrition plan helped me better understand portion sizes that work for me without compromising foods that I loved. (Coming from an Asian background, this was VERY important to me) This sustainable approach is exactly what I needed because I wanted a long-term approach to health and fitness, not a get fit quick type of fix. Meeting up with Drew every week helped keep me accountable and constantly kept me engaged in my purpose and in moments where I really did struggle with my body image and relationship with food, his empathy and reassurance kept me going. I'm eating more than I ever have and it I couldn't have gotten this far without the help of my coach.

In addition to this program, I also saw improvement day to day in my performance as an athlete. I began moving better, quicker, learned new skills, and have gained so much strength since I've started.

The professionalism of the coaches and their willingness to listen and give constructive feedback is something that I have yet to experience elsewhere and it is really what sets this place apart from other gyms or facilities I've been to.

Thanks Reason Fam!!

This is an update about the personal training at Reason. I desperately needed to get back on the health wagon as I fell off during the pandemic so January 2021 came and I messaged Eric for help. He paired me up with Drew H. who I worked with previously for my on ramp back to CrossFit.

I have had five personal trainers through a decade. Drew is one of best out of the 5 even though we have been only training together for 3 months. My first PT changed my life and was instrumental in getting me to shred 40 lbs through a strict paleo diet for 6 months. Unfortunately, it wasn't a sustainable lifestyle for the long term. I've been jumping on and off the paleo diet since.

Drew draws a personalized road map for sustainable success and provides a lot of needed advice, tough love, encouragement, and empathy. Other trainers went through the motions of exercise and I didn't know what I was looking for in a trainer then. I now know I don't need someone to walk me through an hour of activity. I need someone who provides sound nutritional knowledge and solid support presence. Since January, I've lost 6 lbs which doesn't sound very much (Drew will probably disagree with me) but I fit my old clothes better. I also I feel better these days and more confident in keeping up with the way of eating than before. Drew never shamed me for having ice cream with my child or having a latte as a morning treat once in a while because he maintains a realistic view of life. We can enjoy life every so often but not daily.

I am eating whole helluva better and am at the gym at twice a week! If you are looking to change, go see Drew!

Great gym 10 out of 10 would recommend. Before joining this gym, I did not have any experience with CrossFit, but the coaches here were very knowledgeable, patient, and nice. Before every work out, they would throughly breakdown how to and how not to do every movement. My favorite thing about this gym is the community and how welcoming everyone is. They understand that everyone starts at different level, so they provide different alternatives to movements that fit your fitness capabilities, so that you can still get the stimulus of the work out. If you are hesitant about joining because you think you can't do a pull up or etc, you should give it a try because I couldn't before joining as well. I have been here for about a year and a half, and I have loss about 20 lbs since. CrossFit isn't some magical answer to getting more fit, you will definitely have to show up and put in the work yourself. They will give you all the tools you need to succeed, and it will be up to you how you want to use it. Another thing I like about this gym is, you will always be in a class setting where everyone is pushing themselves as hard as they can, which will motivate you to give it all you got as well.