CrossFit Derive

Frank runs an excellent organization. Every coach is friendly and helpful to each level of athlete. This place has a home feel that that makes you feel welcome. I am newbie to CF and can’t imagine being in better hands.

My husband and I wanted to try this Crossfit gym since we are new to the area. We tried calling several times and no one ever picked up the phone so we decided to drop in there for a quick chat. We met one of the coaches who seemed pretty friendly. We explained to him that we have both done Crossfit in the past and wanted to get back to it. We just moved to the area so we are trying a few gyms to see which one we liked. We asked him if we could try a class for free and he told us that it was no problem at all; all we had to do was go to their website and sign up for a class. He gave us his business card and told us that we could email and tell them what day we wanted to come in. So we did both! We went to the website and signed up for a class and also emailed them to let them know what day and time we wanted to come in. 3 days after we sent the email and signed up for a class, we both got emails stating that we could only do a free community class that was offered on the last Saturday of the month (so we had to wait a whole month just to try out a class?) after responding to the email and letting them know that we both have crossfit experience they still were not pleased with the idea and told us that they do not feel comfortable with us dropping in on a class without knowing what kind of experience we had. (isn’t that why they make you sign waivers)
All I’m saying is if you are looking for a new gym you can only go one time in a month for a free class (other crossfit gyms let you try a class for free any day you want)
if you are dropping in from another gym, it looks like they still want to «verify your crossfit experience» before you can drop in for a regular class.
this is just not worth it to me at all. We decided to go look elsewhere. my advice: DO THE SAME

My first crossfit experience and I’ll keep coming back because of it. The coaches are great, they care about you, your form and your progress. I’ll anyways be a crossfiter because of Frank, Sam, Gaspar, Julie and Will. The community is the best part, everyone pushes you to do your best and wants to make sure you’re improving with every rep. You’ll never feel better or improve more than with Derive.

This is a new box in Midtown. The coaches are great and so is the community. Come drop in if you can!