Ottawa-Gatineau Gym Questions & Answers

Just like any regular membership. You can sign up any time and get started immediately. We have a great low-cost 6-week intro program that helps people get their feet wet and make the decision about whether or not to commit to a longer membership much easier. If you’re ready now, click here.

Yes, absolutely. It’s a good idea to come in for a trial workout before you join just to make sure it’s a good fit. If you don’t have previous CrossFit experience, you will need to take a series of four fundamentals classes before you can do your trial workout. We have a number of low-cost intro memberships that each start with the four fundamentals classes, and then allow you to take us for a test-drive and evaluate all our programs before you commit to anything long-term. You can set up a trial workout or get one of our low-cost intro memberships by clicking here.

All of our programs are universally scalable. This means, whatever your starting point, we can give you a workout that’s perfectly suited to your current fitness and skill level. Each exercise has technical progressions and regressions that allow us to tailor the movement specifically to you, and if for some reason you simply cannot do a particular exercise, we have hundreds of suitable alternatives so that you can safely train and make progress towards your goals. Everyone moves at his or her own skill and fitness level in our classes.

Yes, very likely. CrossFit is probably your best bang for the buck. Every workout starts with a thorough 15-minute warm-up, followed by a 15- to 20-minute strength or technical practice round, and finishes up with a 5 to 25-minute conditioning WOD (Workout Of the Day). The workout is already prepared when you arrive, you’ll have a coach to guide you safely through the entire workout, and you’ll benefit from our awesome PhysXtreme CrossFit 819 community that’s in the class with you, training with you, and encouraging you to do your best.

That’s the beauty of group training. You’re training with others, many of whom started in the exact same position as you. As you get to know the other people in your group, it will give you strength knowing that they too had similar fears, but they were able to overcome their fears to achieve great things. The truth is that ninety-nine percent of the population will get better results in a group-training environment. There are many factors at play (group energy, motivation, and improved learning). For those who really do need individual attention, we can set you up with one of our personal trainers.

Program design and technical coaching are important in both group and one-on-one settings, but with one-on-one, far too many people over-rely on their trainer for everything. In the end, it can almost be a hand-holding situation in which the client does not participate enough in their own training and progress (i.e. they don’t think much about what they’re doing, and how they’re doing it; rather, they let their trainer just tell them everything). In a group setting, you will learn how to set up your own weights, what weights you should be lifting for the various exercises, and you will become responsible for your own progress as nobody will be holding your hand.

There are four main things that set PhysXtreme apart from other fitness programs: our programs, coaches, facility, and our community. There is simply no other fitness program that delivers a training experience like PhysXtreme. But don’t just take our word for it; take our [6-Week Test Drive] and see for yourself. Experiencing is believing!

Most gym memberships only give you access to the gym. If you actually want to reach your goals, you will likely need to hire a personal trainer, which can cost you between $40-$100 per hour depending on their qualifications and experience. Getting good results usually requires 2-3 sessions a week with your trainer. Add that to the membership price and compare it again to one of our memberships and you’ll soon realize that, for the quality of coaching provided, the atmosphere, and the programming, you simply cannot find a better value anywhere.

No matter what program you follow, it is only as safe as its administration. Our coaches are all certified and/or have extensive personal lifting and coaching experience. All of our programs have suitable exercise and movement regressions to allow for safe execution and subsequent progression.

At PhysXtreme, we understand that life has a way of throwing you off sometimes and so yes, it is possible to hold your membership.

Free membership hold requests are limited to once per calendar year, for 30 (minimum), 60, or 90 (maximum) days. Additional holds will be billed at 50% the monthly membership fee.

For membership holds related to an injury, a doctor’s note will be required to place memberships on hold without a charge. ($5/mo minimum system hold charge still applies)

The doctor’s note must state:

Any membership hold request without a doctor’s note containing the requested information will be denied.

For all membership hold requests please visit the membership hold page.

You can cancel your membership at any point with 30 days written notice. Any regular payments scheduled during the 30 days will process as usual as your cancellation fees. For more information, please visit our Terms & Conditions section.

For members with 2- and 3-times-per-week memberships, any missed classes can be made up within the calendar month. No missed classes may be carried over to the next month.

All regular classes are cancelled on Statutory, National (Federal), and Quebec holidays. However, subject to instructor availability, we will run a 90-minute hybrid CrossFit & Bootcamp class and/or a Kettlebell class. A regular drop-in fee of $20 applies to any non-members. Details will be posted the week before the holiday to our Facebook Group and will be sent to all athletes via email.

2016 Holidays