The C5 Mission….CrossFit Five Cities provides an environment and staff that is professional and knowledgeable with the full intent and dedication to assist its athletes in achieving their fitness goals.  CrossFit Five Cities will always challenge its athletes to attain their very best and encourage its athletes to motivate others to achieve the same.  We challenge all of our athletes to “PR on Life”  

CrossFit is a proven strength and conditioning program utilized by countless military special operations units, SWAT teams, law enforcement, professional athletes, and champion martial artists.   Now, CrossFit is as diverse as our great US of A.  In addition to the aforementioned groups, moms, doctors, lawyers, high school athletes, college kids, grandparents, and electricians have helped grow the CrossFit community into a worldwide force.   This regimen is now accessible to people of all ages, levels, and abilities on the Central Coast of California.

CrossFit Five Cities (C5) is a fitness program and facility in Arroyo Grande, California that offers group and one-on-one coaching that harnesses the dynamic CrossFit methodology.  In general, CrossFit consists of constantly varied functional movements executed at high intensity.

C5 is vastly different from the multitude of exercise regimens offered in globo gyms throughout the world.  CrossFit is not sport-specific.  It is life-specific.  C5’s fitness regimen aims to improve each athletes physical capacity across each of the 10 fitness domains: accuracy, agility, balance, cardio-respiratory, coordination, flexibility, power, speed, stamina, and strength . 

We do not work with elliptical machines, cable-weight systems, or stationary bikes.   Rather, our tools include barbells, bumper weight plates, gymnastic rings, plyometric boxes, kettlebells, and our bodies.  Even more, you will see that we have approximately 1500 square feet to execute exercises that our bodies were designed to perform.  

No hamstring curls, no tricep pulldowns, no chest fly exercises.  Think about it…..when would you use a hamstring curl movement to sit up from a chair or move from point a to point b?  When would you bicep curl your child when taking him/her out of the crib?  Would you ever chest fly a box onto a 7-foot shelf?  The answer is never.  We use a squatting motion to get up from a chair.  We use a lifting motion to pick our children up.  We shoulder press boxes onto a 7-foot high shelf.  In everyday life, we use functional movements.  We walk.  We run.  We squat.  We press. We pull.  We jump.  We climb.  And, we utilize our core muscles executing daily activities.  Here at C5, we focus on improving functional movements that are used in everyday life, in day-to-day tasks, and work to improve those skills.  

No more redundancy, growing stagnant, or loss of motivation.  At C5, we vow to keep the workouts new, fresh, challenging, and always fun.  Our instructors are specially trained and certified CrossFit instructors that will motivate you, keep you going, and assist you in achieving your fitness goals.   One day, you may be working with gymnastic rings.  The next day, perhaps a mix of cardiovascular work and Olympic weightlifting.  The next day after that, you may arrive with a huge tractor tire waiting outside with one of our instructors (smiling) betting that you have no idea what you are about to do with that huge tire.  Its new, exciting, challenging, and always fun at C5.   

The beautiful thing about the C5 program is that it is scalable to suit any fitness level and a majority of workouts can be completed in approximately 30 minutes… a strong must for today’s living. 

If you want to get in shape now but are unsure how to develop a fitness regimen, want a fitness coaching staff that truly cares about your fitness goals, dislike the impersonal nature of the warehouse sized gym environment, want to get in shape but don’t have “time”, are bored/stagnant in your current regimen…..C5 is for you.

This CrossFit Affiliate is located within Arroyo Grande and near Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), Orcutt, Santa Maria, Nipomo, Pismo Beach, Shell Beach, Avila Beach, Los Osos, and Atascadero.