Michael Campi explains how to behave as a stranger in a strange land.
The benefits of belonging to an affiliate are clear: quality coaching, a sense of community and working with a group of people who have a common purpose. But what if an affiliate is not available to you for whatever reason?
There are a couple of routes you can follow: you can start to accumulate your own equipment and build a garage gym, you can follow the never-gym-less philosophy popularized by Ross Enamait, or you can head to the neighborhood Globo.
For the economically challenged or those who don’t live near an affiliate, joining a big box gym is usually cheap. Other perks include showers, and most of them have pools and lots of weights, and some of the people there—although misled by the mainstream fitness philosophy—are quite friendly. So if you are a self-starter with built-in motivation, then it is possible to thrive as a CrossFitter in a Globo environment.