CrossFit Tunbridge Wells

Got a mate who you know would love CrossFit, if only they'd give it a go? Bring them along for free, no strings attached. And if your intuition is right, you'll not only gain a new workout buddy, but a little thank you gift.

When you refer a friend and they join, they get £50 off their first month, and you get £50 off your next one.

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If you're looking to get back into fitness after time away, CrossFit has you covered. Workouts scaled to the level you're at, a community who cheers you on and notices when you're not there, and coaches who will guide you every rep of the way: these are the building blocks of consistency, commitment and progress.

Let us help you find your 'why' again. You'll be springing out of bed for class in no time!

Member Spotlight.

Five years ago he had never done a CrossFit workout in his life.

A lot can change.

His lovely wife Claire found us first. Tom followed, and their daughters Sophia and Ella were in their first Kids class within weeks. The girls have done their growing up in this gym, and their dad has been setting the example throughout.

He joined in August 2020, on the first Foundations course after lockdown, and signed up straight away. A year later, in November 2021, the coaches made him Member of the Month, unanimously, and at the Christmas party that year he was given the Most Improved Member Award. We wrote then that he had gone from needing a ball behind him to catch him in a squat, to three hundred full-depth squats in a weighted vest. It ended: "We can't wait to see how fit you'll be in another year's time."

We then gave him the Spirit of CrossFit Tunbridge Wells award in 2023, because Tom had not only kept progressing, but had become a valued member of the family, lifting others up, cheering people on and looking after new joiners.

In December 2024 we told the parents CrossFit Kids had to end. We had nobody to take the classes and no options left.

We asked the parents: would anyone get qualified and take it on? Tom put his hand up.

He was not a coach. He was a dad in the 6am with a full-time job in London. He got qualified, and on 26 April 2025 CrossFit Kids ran again. Those children still have their Saturday mornings because someone like Tom stepped up.

He coaches alongside Beth Adams, and this summer they ran a Kids sports day for twenty-two children. Nobody sees the hours behind that: the planning, the workouts tested and retested, around that same job and a 6am he never misses. A hundred and fifty-four classes of his own in twelve months, and he never backs off when it gets hard.

Tom, five years ago, after finishing your beginners' course, you wrote: "It seems you have something very special in this group of people, and it's an honour to be part of it." You have it the wrong way round. Having you here is the honour.

Think you need to get fitter before trying CrossFit?

We hear that almost every week.

The truth is, nobody starts at their fittest. Every workout is coached and adjusted to suit the person in front of us. Whether it's your first session in years or your first ever, you'll do a version that's right for you.

You don't have to "get fit first".

You just have to start.

Here's how we coach, and it's a big part of why it works.

We teach you to move well first. Then we build consistency. Then, once that's there, we add intensity.

Nobody gets handed a heavy barbell on day one. You learn the movements properly and build real strength from the ground up, and because it's done right, it actually lasts.

Drop us a DM if you've got a question, we're always happy to chat!

Member Spotlight!
Katherine Cullen

Some of the most important work that happens around this gym never actually happens inside it.

Katherine is married to Nick, one of our amazing coaches, and nobody hears more about CrossFit than the spouse of a coach.

Nick has taken and passed both his Level One and Level Two Trainer Certificates. Practical coaching assessments and a written exam, and what they give a coach is the skill to take a whole room through a workout safely. Katherine lived every bit of both with him. The studying, the late nights, the nerves going in.

That was only the start. For the two years since, she has built her weeks around his classes. Looking after their two girls, arranging her own diary, so that Nick can be in here coaching you.

None of that shows up on a whiteboard. There is no leaderboard for it, and nobody claps at the end of it.

Well, today they do. Katherine is nothing short of an unsung hero, and through her love and her support she has given CrossFit Tunbridge Wells another incredible coach.

Then she went and did it herself. Katherine signed up for Bring a Friend Week in January last year and joined the month after. Eighteen months on, she is in two or three times a week, often straight off a train back from a long day in London. A Summer Throwdown team last year, another this year. And a back squat that has climbed to her own bodyweight, which was nowhere near the conversation when she started.

She will never once tell you she is competitive. Watch her in the last two minutes of a workout and you will not need telling. There is a cheerleader in there from years back who never quite retired, and once Katherine has decided she is doing something, she does it properly. If you have been in a class with her you will know exactly what we mean.

You will often spot her girls, Dory and Alice, here as well, cheering the pair of them on from the side and doing their own little versions of the workout in the corner. Not really the workout. Just copying whichever parent is on the floor.

Katherine, thank you. For all of it that nobody saw, and for making the Cullen family such a loved part of our community.

Quality fitness starts with quality coaching. We're dedicated to making our classes work for everyone – and our members notice the difference ✨

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Life probably isn't getting any less busy.

Which is exactly why building a routine matters.

Our members don't rely on motivation alone. They simply know their class time, their coach is expecting them, and their friends will be there too.

That consistency is where the real results come from.

Nutrition doesn't have to be complicated.

If you want one simple place to start, it's this: eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, a little starch, and go easy on the sugar.

No apps, no weighing everything, no misery. Just real food, most of the time. Start there and you're already ahead of most people.

Member Spotlight!
Santi Belcredi

Santi is not going to enjoy this post, because he doesn't talk about any of what follows. Which is precisely why we're going to.

If he sees a class with only one person booked into it, a late evening one, say, when it's dark and cold and nobody much fancies it, he'll change his own booking and go to that one instead. So that whoever it is doesn't have to train on their own. He doesn't mention it to anyone. He just turns up, and an hour that would have been a lonely one becomes a good session with a friendly face.

If there's a new person in the room, he's clocked them before the warm-up has finished. He'll be over at the whiteboard introducing himself, asking how they're getting on, making sure they know at least one person's name before the clock starts. Ask anyone who joined recently, if they were in a class with Santi, he probably spoke to them first.

Last Christmas he noticed something wasn't right with one of the bikes. He ordered the part himself, out of his own pocket. Nobody asked him to. He'd spotted a problem and quietly gone and sorted it.

He's funny with it, too. He takes the training seriously and himself not seriously at all, which is rarer than it sounds, and it's the thing that makes a nervous room relax. From pulling faces through the window on his way in to make people jump to getting involved in the CrossFit Open and the Summer Throwdown.

None of this goes unnoticed. It just goes uncelebrated. So today we're celebrating it.

Santi, thank you. For looking after people long before anybody thought to ask you to, and for never once making a thing of it. This is a warmer, friendlier and even more awesome room because you're in it.