RAF
2026-04-07T14:20:13.565Z
I was introduced to RAF when I brought a group of third through eighth graders in for training. Watching the experiences of the girls I coach reminded me of the weight room I saw as a D1 athlete. As a collegiate athlete, the way your teammates pumped you up and the energy in the room is very hard to recreate once you are done playing.Coming from this team environment, I had always searched for something that resembled the atmosphere and high intensity I had lost. Watching the girls I coach experience that type of energy I was missing made it an easy decision to join RAF myself.For the first time in ten years, I have myself forming positive and consistent habits by attending both group classes and semi-private training. In one of my first sessions, another member whom I had never met stopped their workout and walked over to me. I was admittedly struggling after my ten year hiatus from the workout world, but this member began to hype me up. I was able to finish the workout, with no surprise partly because of this other member. The rapport among the staff and members of RAF is contagious- the high fives as you walk in, the jokes everyone cracks at one another, the shared groans when one of the killers is on the whiteboard. On social media they often mention āRAF Family.ā Once you actually enter the building, youāll understand why.For anyone that has tried every type of gym and was unable to find something that stuck, give RAF a try. Every type of individual has home here: the person whose never lifted, the person who used to lift but lost touch with it, or the person who has gone to the gym every day for years. There is a place for you at RAF.Update April 2026:Forever grateful to RAF. Although wedding planning pulled me deeply out of my routine, RAF had given me the starting boost I needed to start to be more focused on my health. The first challenge I did gave me statistics of my muscle mass, body fat percentage, etc. While I hadnāt lost an enormous amount of weight by the end of the challenge, I had changed my body composition adding muscle mass. Fast forward two years and Iāve lost 70 pounds through being more conscious of my eating and by looking at my body composition over my weight- all of which started at RAF. Now that wedding season is over, I am all out of excuses for why I cant be back with this group joking about my disappearing act š