All RFCFer’s, join us this Friday, 4/5, for our spring BBQ. It will follow the final CF Games Open WOD Friday evening. Spouses and kids are welcome. Food off the grill and beer will be provided. If you’d like to bring a dish to share, please do, but not required, and no…it does not have to be paleo.Read more

Click the video below to watch a 6 minute overview video of our new website software and some of the tools and features that are now available to all the Purgee’s.   Some features include: internal social network free mobile version website and online fitness journal Daily WOD’s built into searchable journal and fitness log Video Tutorials built into Strength’s and MetCon’s Watch below:  Read more

This week marks three months since I began the most intense workout regimen of my entire life, CrossFit. What led to me beginning CrossFit was a realization that, if left to my own devices, I would never push myself hard enough to truly make the changes I needed to in order to get in shape. Occasional jogs and going through the chest-and-biceps motions of a traditional gym simply weren’t going to get it done. I also knew that there was no shot that I’d be able to stick to a diet if it didn’t coincide with something more offensive, like physical training of some sort that demanded I take in more nutrients and less garbage. And so on July 21st, at 258 pounds and sick of seeing my giant moon-face on TV every day, I walked into the CrossFit Lighthouse in Wantagh, Long Island and submitted to a long-overdue comeuppance....Read more

Our next Elements class will begin Monday, March 4th. It will run Mon, Weds, Fri from 6-7 pm for two weeks. This series of classes will prepare you to enter any of our regularly scheduled daily workouts. Go here for more information.Read more

Pre WOD proodwdd Workout of the Day “Hope” Three rounds of:Burpees75-lb. Power snatchBox jump, 24-inch box75-lb. ThrusterChest to bar Pull-ups “Hope” has the same format as Fight Gone Bad. In this workout, you move from each of five stations after a minute. This is a five-minute round from which a one-minute break is allowed before repeating. The clock does not reset or stop between exercises. On call of “rotate,” the athlete/s must move to next station immediately for good score. One point is given for each rep.Read more