If you’re boozing, you’re probably NOT losing!⁠ ⁠ ⁠ Don’t shoot the messenger, but if you have a BLOATED BOOZY BELLY, alcohol could the issue.⁠ ⁠ Depending on your drink of choice, you could easily be consuming hundreds of extra calories and grams of sugar in your glass.⁠ ⁠ But that’s not even the REAL […]

Time for spring cleaning!  And not just around the house.  If you’re considering a diet detox or cleanse to rid your body of all your winter indulgences and covid comfort food, there are a few things you might want to consider. First, your body is actually pretty efficient at ‘cleansing’ itself.  It’s called pooping and […]

LOpen Week 3

Mar 27, 2021

Victoria BC Crossfit Gym – Crossfit LoLo. Hello, LoLo fam!!! We are officially headed into the third week of the Crossfit Open/ LOpen. It’s been a BLAST having everyone taking part in this year’s competition! We wanted to thank everyone for showing up and making this such a fun and uplifting atmosphere. This year we […]

Tell us about your fitness journey I was [surprise surprise] kicked out of phys-ed in grade 10 for lack of participation. Honour student otherwise, but I felt incredibly insecure with my body. The gym uniform was tiny terrycloth shorts! Also, I really had no role models for being active and healthy growing up. I took […]

The CrossFit Open 2021 is upon us! We are calling it the “Lopen”! Below are our signups (more have been added for you last minute peeps!) and here is the whole down low: Hello party people! The first Open Workout has been posted!!! STEP 1: Sign up for a LOpen time slot through Zen planner, […]

Tell us about your fitness journey. I grew up in North Dakota where there was not much else to do but to play a bunch of sports! In high school, I played football, basketball, baseball, and track. I played college football and basketball, and that was really when I began lifting. It was during my […]

OPEN GYM!

Nov 24, 2020

[Last Updated: November 30, 2020] A change in the recent PHO has temporarily suspended indoor group physical activities that include any and all strength and conditioning. Unfortunately, until we are given further instruction, we have to cancel our Strength classes.    Luckily, gyms and recreation facilities offering individual workouts and personal training can remain open […]

As you may well know, the latest BC Provincial Health Order has implemented a temporary suspension of all High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) in group fitness classes. While CrossFit is comprised of constantly varied functional movements at all levels of intensity, it does include higher intensity workouts, especially in the Workout of the Day. We […]

You guys! We raised over $7,000 for Mental Health! LoLo was pleased to host a “Burpee-Thon for Mental Health” to see how many burpees we could accomplish as a community in one hour. Participants fundraised between .50 and $1 per burpee! The result was over 8,000 burpees in one hour! The record holder was coach […]

Tell us about your fitness journey. Grade 11 is  where me “being an athlete” started. During gym class one day, we were doing circuits and I loved them. My friend, who rowed, said they did lots of squats and circuits at winter training and I love the water and water sports, so I decided to […]