Dear DTSCMIA Family,
Happy Friday, and Happy Memorial Day weekend. I’ll start off by sharing a quote I like by Abraham Lincoln in the spirit of Memorial Day and to remind us why we call this great nation our home.
“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”
The last few months have been a true test of our grit amongst many other aspects of our character. In the fitness and CrossFit world, many tend to throw around the word community. Community means different things to different people, but to me it’s a group of like-minded individuals. At DTSCMIA I have always felt that we embody exactly that. Although we are all so different, we are all like-minded in one way. We are resilient. We are tough.
66
. That is the number of days that our community has been displaced. You have stood by us in so many ways. I have never seen our resilience on display as much as I do today. You have put in hours of training at home and outdoors, you’ve shared yoga with Nikki, attended cooking demos with Jessica, Luis, Dino and Allan. We’ve had some awesome Q&A sessions with Trulieve, Coach Carlos on nutrition, Ruben Sanchez and Live Ultimate. We have done tons of collaboration workouts with other gyms, PAINKLLR, the Air Force, FIBO, other fitness organizations and the list goes on. Our coaches have logged over 130 hours of online coaching and you have attended classes 7 days a week! It’s been 66 days with small victories and silver linings.
But, now what? What’s next for DTSC?
Over these past few months, as we have shared in
previous updates
, we have been lobbying our government and communicating with many other gym owners on how to have our voices heard. This week I sent a letter to over 30 of our local media and politicians. Many of gym owners are doing the same as are their members in an effort to help the greater good of our fitness community, particularly micro gyms. Our committee met earlier this evening with county officials, and we are preparing additional information for a future meeting tomorrow. We are trying our hardest to open our doors legally. It is our commitment to you that we will provide a safe and clean environment at DTSCMIA when we do open with our June 1 target date.
Our friends at
NBC6 featured Downtown Strength and Conditioning
as a gym leading the charge in our community to get our gyms open. I have been working personally to have our position heard as my commitment to you. This exposure highlighted what our Miami CrossFit and micro gym community is going through as the final county to have all our gyms still shuttered. In turn this went viral– CrossFit HQ even
tweeted about it
.
It is our goal to call attention to this social injustice for micro gyms while we watch various other “non-essential” businesses open including barbershops, shopping malls, salons, restaurants all open their doors around us.
As it stands today, we are putting procedures in place for a June 1, 2020 opening.
You can review our housecleaning items listed
here. Athletes must return all equipment during any of the following dates and times. No appointment is necessary.
5/27, Wednesday from 5pm-7pm
5/28, Thursday from 5pm-7pm
5/29, Friday 4pm-6pm
5/30, Saturday 4pm-6pm
5/31, Sunday 2pm-4pm
Please note we will reach out to each of you who borrowed to remind you of this schedule and also post on social media.
If you cannot arrange to return equipment on those dates and do not make special arrangements, you risk being charged replacement costs for equipment.
New schedule effective June 1: Weekday and weekend changes
We are adding more class times! As we begin to look toward a soft opening on June 1
st
there will some changes, one of the most important is the change to our daily schedule. We have added 2 more classes on weekdays and one more on Saturdays! All weekday evening class times will remain the same. Mindbody will reflect all class times and options.
Weekday morning classes will begin at 5:30am and run on the half hour all morning long.
- 5:30am, 6:30am, 7:30am, 8:30am, 9:30am, 11:30am, 12:30pm
- There will be open gym from 10:30am – 12pm and 1pm – 4pm daily. Sign up via Mindbody will be required for all times including open gym.
Weekend Classes:
- We will be adding an additional Saturday class time! 8:45am will be our first CrossFit class, classes will continue on the 45 min: 8:45am, 9:45am, 10:45am, 11:45am.
- Saturday Olympic weightlifting will be held at 8:45am in the back room.
- Sunday open gym remains as is, 11am – 1pm, and sign up will be required.
Sign up, check in, waitlist and more
- All members will need to pre-register for classes. This is mandatory. We will check you in once you arrive. You may cancel a spot with no penalty, but if you do not plan to attend please cancel your reservation so that someone else may take your spot.
- Classes will be capped at 15 per class. There will be a waitlist option for certain timeslots if needed. Booking window will open 24-hours from class time. Weekday Olympic weightlifting classes will be capped at 8 and Saturday Olympic weightlifting classes will be capped at 4 to allow for appropriate distance between athletes.
- If you have questions on downloading the Mindbody app or need to update your email and profile, please email us.
