Kids
Active kids are happy, healthy kids.
Kids with high self esteem and low anxiety.
Kids who think about their body in terms of what it can do instead of just how it looks.
We teach kids how to move well and enjoy moving, setting them up to excel in other sports and minimize injury risk throughout their lives.
Our Kids Classes
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3-5 Year Olds
Fridays 3:15-4pm
Our pre-K/K kids spend time playing games, clambering over obstacle courses, and learning and practicing basic movement patterns like running, jumping, squatting, throwing, and catching. We work letters, numbers, and colors into our games.
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6-8 Year Olds
Wednesdays & Fridays 3:15-4pm
Our elementary aged kids continue to play lots of games, working in more complex power, speed, agility, and coordination skills including gymnastics, jump rope, and lightly weighted olympic weightlifting movements.
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9-13 Year Olds
Wednesdays 4-5pm
Our preteen class begins to more closely resemble the structure of an adult CrossFit class (but with shorter workouts and more games!) We introduce strength movements with weight but bias developing power, speed, and agility.
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Teens
Tuesdays 3:30-4:30pm
Our teen classes resemble our adult Foundations classes, with a warm-up, skill and/or strength work, and a full length workout in each class. We’re still biasing power and speed in these classes but will begin to work up in weight as well.
School Pick-Up & Aftercare
For our 3-5 and 6-8 year old classes, we pick up from P.S. 132 and offer aftercare until 5pm.
After CrossFit class ends at 4pm, the kids head to an upstairs lounge space off the gym floor to play games and do arts and crafts until pick-up time.
Want to participate but need pick-up from a different school? We consider adding pick-up if at least 3 kids are interested in joining the program. Please e-mail contact@crossfitvirtuosity.com if you have a small group!
What happens in a kids class?
In short, fun!
For younger ages we start with freeform play around an obstacle course. We’ll then play a warm-up game, and introduce 1-2 movement concepts for the class (for instance squatting), and use that concept in a circuit of stations that the kids work through. After that we’ll play another game to close things out.
As kids get older we increase the challenge of the games we play, and spend more time working on movement skills in each class. We also start to work in a more structured short “workout” in the style of an adult CrossFit workout.
Teen class looks a lot like an adult class but with a power/speed instead of pure strength bias (and more games!)
Do the kids do strength training?
Our older age cohorts (9+) are introduced to strength training in order to build a basic strength foundation. However, we focus primarily on developing speed and power over brute strength because these attributes of fitness are much harder to acquire in adulthood, and pure strength is relatively easy to acquire as an older teenager / young adult.
Younger ago cohorts are introduced to foundational movement patterns like the squat that are used in strength training but do not train progressively heavier weights.