New Coastline Crossfit gym officially opens at Ocean Plaza Leisure in Southport

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A brand new CrossFit gym officially opens its doors in Southport this weekend!

Coastline CrossFit will welcome people at Ocean Plaza, between Vue Cinema and Nando’s, with something new and very different for the town.

The new venture aims to create a lifestyle community that also includes a healthy cafe run by The Wareing Brothers, sports massage from A Quiet Little Place and an osteopath.

Coastline CrossFit is a new local, independent business owned by Southport residents Tim Brown, 38 and Josh Womersley, 32.

They are inviting people to call in between 10.30am and 12.30pm this Saturday or Sunday (8th-9th July2023) to chat to staff and have a look around the new facilities.

Tim Brown said: “This is something very new for this area, there is nothing else like this in Southport. A tailor built facility designed specifically and exclusively for CrossFit and its unique and exciting training methods and modalities.

“There are lots of CrossFit fans in Southport who have had to travel outside of the town to find what they need.

“We are looking forward to welcoming people to our Official Opening Days this Saturday and Sunday so they can come and see what we offer.

“We also have lots of fitness sessions booked during the afternoon.

“We are going to be open seven days a week with hours that are very accessible for people.

“During the week, morning classes will run from 6.15am until 10.15am and then again from 5.15pm to 8.15pm. During weekends, we will be open until lunchtime.

“The cafe will be open each day from 7.15am until the end of the evening classes.

“With 50 members before we’ve even opened our doors, we’re enjoying lots of interest.

“Based in a prominent and accessible location, offering free parking and amazing amenities at hand.

“We really do have a premier set-up here. We have excellent CrossFit facilities, a superb cafe, a massage room, showers and changing rooms, and an osteopath.

“It is all about creating a CrossFit community.

“As soon as we saw this site, we thought it was perfect for what we wanted to create.

“We are inbetween two commercial giants, Vue Cinema and Nando’s! We thought ‘can we do this’?

“We spoke with the agents, who were really helpful, and it soon became a reality.

“The parking and the location make this very convenient for people. There are more tenants moving into Ocean Plaza Leisure soon as well, there is going to be great footfall in this area. It is a busy park.

“Our aim is to spread the word that CrossFit is the most effective and enjoyable way to keep fit.”

Coastline CrossFit will provide a welcoming, supportive environment allowing people to build their fitness, with support from experienced and dedicated coaches.

It offers community-driven fitness within a supportive and welcoming environment for all ages and abilities.

Through constantly varied, functional movement performed at a relatively high intensity, Coastline CrossFit aims to help you reach levels of fitness you didn’t think possible.
The system develops an athlete’s fitness in every capacity, combining lifting, running, rowing, biking, bodyweight movements, jumping, throwing and much more to create fun and varied workouts daily.

With the help of our coaches and the rest of the Coastline CrossFit’s supportive community you will have the best hour of your day.

Josh Womersley said: “What we are doing here is largely class based, with all the classes taking place downstairs, as well as open gym availability upstairs on our newly built mezzanine floor.

“We are also looking towards using the amazing facilities we have outdoors, such as organising some running sessions on Princes Park, or on Southport Beach.

“We hope to utilise every aspect this amazing location has to offer.

“One of the good things about CrossFit is that it appeals to people of all ages. We will be doing classes for kids, teens and adults of all ages, including our brand new Life Class aimed at providing a gentle version of CrossFit that facilitates health, mobility and longevity for the older generation whose primary goal is to remain active.

“If someone is new to CrossFit, or has never tried anything like it, then we can provide them with a tailored introduction with lots of coaching, so they can figure out how everything works.

“We can assess people’s fitness using our new InBody scanner, which provides accurate, comprehensive and meaningful results.

“Everyone is unique, and this will help to give us a better picture. It gives us a much more informed picture than someone standing on their bathroom scales!

“CrossFit is very much a lifestyle choice. With the cafe, healthy eating is incorporated into what we do.

“We aim to build a community around health and fitness.

“We have had a great reaction from people since they found out we were planning to open.

“They are really pleased to find out that a local, independent business, owned and operated by people from Southport, is opening in somewhere like Ocean Plaza Leisure.”

Coastline CrossFit also provides specialty classes focused on the sport of Olympic Weightlifting. These classes are devoted to spending time working through the major lifts and accessory work. These sessions are broken down to build confidence, strength, speed and technical ability to work towards those personal bests.

Throughout the week the coaches also offer a number of classes focused on building endurance in training. Leaving the weights and barbells out, coaches focus on longer sustained workouts lasting 30-50 minutes. It’s great for endurance specific training, building your engine and even better for just getting a sweat on.

Head Coach Josh Womersley is supported by fellow coaches George Wareing and Monty McPhee.

CrossFit was founded in 2001 and can be used to accomplish any goal, from improved health to better performance.

•     Coastline CrossFit is at: Ocean Plaza Leisure, Marine Drive, Southport, PR8 1SQ. For more details about Coastline CrossFit please visit: www.coastline-crossfit.com or email: info@coastline-crossfit.com
•     You can follow Coastline CrossFit on Facebook and on Instagram. 

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