Here’s what CrossFit Hale is all about
Hi! I’m Jay, founder of CrossFit Hale along
with my wife Tina. Have you ever asked yourself.
- How do I stay motivated?
- What should I eat?
- Am I doing this movement right?
- What workout should I do?
- What’s the best way to get fit for my sport?
- How do I get back to the shape I used to be in?
Or are you a member of a gym you’ve visited twice in the last two months and are ready for a change? If so, you’re in the RIGHT place!
As Albert Einstein says “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. I’m here to change your routine and get you better results!
Here’s the thing:
We believe motivated people who want to lose weight and get strong need to know the right way to exercise and eat, AND have a group of workout partners who will push them to get better every day.
How can you find the time to to sift through the BS and develop a perfect workout, get a perfect diet, and find the right workout partners when you have a full time job…a family…or your studies???
Instead of digging through hundreds of books, blogs, research papers, and how to videos, made by “experts”….
Come check out CrossFit Hale and let us sift and sort through all the best research to give you proven workouts and eating strategies that will help you get results without having to be an exercise scientist.
You’ll only get the best stuff we find…AND, you’ll be part of a group of hundreds of motivated people who are also living better through fitness.
All because we are obsessed with fitness, nutrition, and using psychology to figure out the best way to get permanent, lasting results for our members.
Introducing CrossFit Hale
CrossFit Hale is a thriving and growing group of motivated people who want to lose weight, get strong, and feel amazing.
The three main features of CrossFit Hale are the gym, located in the Albany/El Cerrito/Richmond area of the East Bay, our online community, and our sister gym CrossFit Thames in London, UK.
CrossFit Hale, the gym – Is where you’ll get coaching on exercise and nutrition in 60 min classes, 3-4 times per week. You’ll go to class with a group of workout partners who motivate you to get better every single day, and do things you’ve never tried before.
CrossFit Hale, the online community – Is where you’ll get free workouts, nutrition advice, and access to expert coaching on form (am I doing this right?), and other things you need to know to get in the best shape of your life (motivation, rest, sleep, supplements). You’ll get all your questions answered by people who have been there and done that, and can show you how!
CrossFit Thames, London UK – This is our lab, the place where we test our newest strategies and techniques for getting you results. We have years of experience here with the top athletes in CrossFit and other professional sports. More importantly, we have gotten results for office workers, grandmothers, and even amputees at our gym in London. All of this translates into proven tactics that will work for you.
What’s the best way to get access to these communities? Click on Get Started Below!
About Jay
CrossFit Hale (and CrossFit Thames) were founded by Jason Williams (Jay) and his lovely wife Tina.
As a kid, he was inspired by pictures of Arnold in the fitness mags to ride his bike to the gym every morning before school at 4am to pump iron. Years of training like this didn’t leave him looking like the Terminator, but it did get him in decent shape for basketball, which became his first love through college. He attended UC Berkeley and studied economics, sociology, and psychology, while still pumping iron and playing ball every day. With so many hours of experience and a knack for teaching, he started coaching and personal training on the side. After a devastating knee injury and resulting surgery ended his hoop dreams, he got a job at a bank sitting behind a computer for 12 hours per day. Ignoring diet and hitting up the company happy hours left him fat, weak, and tired at a young age. When he was finally ready to step on the scale and face the truth, he weighed in at 315 lbs and couldn’t do a push up, pull up, and worked up a sweat climbing the stairs to his apartment.
He tried everything to lose weight, from joining
every gym, to “lose weight fast” contests, to personal trainers, to boot camps…He would
start with great motivation, then get bored, or lose the edge, and fall back into bad
habits. He finally found CrossFit in it’s early days, and walking into an empty gym with
some bars, rings, kettlebells, and weights, he knew he was home. Within 3 months, he lost
40 lbs, and figured out how to do pull ups on the same week he ran his first ever 10k. He
kept at it and lost over 100 pounds, changing his life and learning how to make exercise fun
in the process. He got certified in CrossFit back in 2008 so he could show other people how
he did it.
When a job transfer moved him to London, he joined a local bodybuilding gym (there were no CrossFit gyms in the city at the time), and tried to continue his CrossFit training. After getting several warnings from the gym owner to stop dropping weights and monopolizing the treadmills, he got together with a group of friends in 2009 and founded one of the first CrossFit gyms in London (CrossFit Thames). In a small empty room (600 sq ft), it grew from 2 athletes to 85 athletes and quickly developed a reputation as a gym focused on coaching, community, and results. Now, with hundreds of athletes locally, and thousands of athletes worldwide, it has a reputation for being one of the best gyms in all of Europe. It’s trained CrossFit games competitors like Annie Thorisdottir, as well as professional athletes and actors, and has been featured in Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, and was even involved in 3 separate Guinness world records!
Jay moved back home to California in 2013, and founded CrossFit Hale with his wife Tina when he saw an opportunity to provide the same unique coaching, community, and results-based training back home.
Their approach is focused on giving you tools to live a better life through fitness. It’s not just about leaving you in a pile of sweat every day, it’s gets into everything you need to reach your goals: exercise and proper movement, nutrition, mobility (stretching, flexibility), recovery (sleep and supplements), and the psychology behind how to get results.
If you want to learn more about some of the tactics he has used himself and with hundreds of athletes worldwide, all you have to do is click the button below to get started.
