CrossFit Johns Creek Lands New Locale

A popular Johns Creek fitness outfit that specializes in intense, calisthenics-based group participation exercise programs has landed new digs.    

CrossFit Johns Creek has relocated from its former space at the intersection of Jones Bridge and Kimball Bridge roads a mile south to 11025 Jones Bridge Road.  

The freestanding building, on the east side of Jones Bridge Road, is set about 30 feet off the main road in a dedicated parking lot. The previous tenant was Rosa’s Pizza restaurant.    

“We are very excited to move into the bigger and better space. We have seen such tremendous transformations in our athletes and the best is yet to come,” said Lara Sturm, 44, a Georgia state and nationally ranked champion powerlifter in her respective age and weight classes, and career fitness coach who co-owns and operates CFJC with her husband, Dan.   

Although CrossFit training is as much at home outside the gym than in, the new location will provide more interior space for CFJC's trademark WOD, or workout of the day, barbell lifting platforms, excercise ball areas and pull-up stations that run the length of gym.  

All of these components are at the essence and focus of these short but highly intensive workout sessions that have exploded in popularity nationwide.  

Additionally, Sturm said, CFJC will offer a separate room with traditional fitness equipment that the previous space couldn’t accommodate for space.  

Sturm hopes the new location also attracts members of Chattahoochee High School athletics programs – with its proximity to the school off Taylor Road – who could literally walk to the gym in a matter of minutes.    

CrossFit training method and the company itself was founded in 2000. The less-is-more program employs a varied approach to fitness – workouts of the day typically aren’t known to members until they show up to the gym or are tipped off by trainers the night before.     

This constant cycling of workouts essentially confuses the body’s muscle structure and forces it push past plateaus. Typcially no two WODs are alike.   Combine that with an average 20-minute intense and simultaeous anaerobic and aerobic workout session and that sums up a typical CrossFit program.   

To check CrossFit Johns Creek’s move-in progress and new class schedules, check its website for daily updates at www.crossfit-johnscreek.com and on the gym’s Facebook page.    

To read more about Lara Sturm’s weightlifting accomplishments, read her recent interview by powerlifting sanctioning organization USA Powerlifting Georgia