CrossFit^® Hawthorn East

Fantastic experience: Such a great box to train at. The community is enthusiastic and the coaches push us well to become stronger. Highly recommend dropping in to CFHE for the trial, you’ll definitely stick around after that!

Fantastic experience: Amazing gym , coaches and community. Wil definitely be training here every time I visit Melbourne.

Fantastic experience: Oli, Nat and the team are fantastic

Fantastic experience: Great approach to training, warm up - lift - wod - cool down and stretch. Choose your own pace for best results

Fantastic experience: This place is amazing. I was very intimidated that I wasn’t fit enough to do CrossFit, but the fantastic coaches allow you to scale for your own ability while also actively encouraging you to push yourself. Everyone is very friendly and welcoming…. In fact if you don’t introduce yourself to a newbie, then you have to do 10 burpees! Lot of fun... give it a go!

Fantastic experience: My first experience of CrossFit was at CFHE and I was immediately hooked. Such a great community, a supportive environment and I always look forward to my next workout. Highly recommended.

Fantastic experience: When I first decided to join CrossFit I was nervous. I wouldn't know anyone I would need to work in a group with people I don't know and my fitness level wasn’t up to scratch. The minuet I walked into CrossFit Hawthorn East all my worries went out the door. I have never felt so welcomed into any sort of group fitness like Hawthorn East CrossFit. They welcomed me with open arms, introduced me with everyone and made me feel comfortable within the first 30 seconds I was there. The people there are fantastic and the trainers are awesome. They know their stuff and help you though every step of the way. I love going there and get pushed to my limit every time. I am encouraged and cheer on as I make personal milestone. Anyone who is looking to join a CrossFit this is the one to join, I promise you won't regret a second of it.

Fantastic experience: Crossfit used to scare me, but then I found Crossfit Hawthorn East. As a beginner they made me feel so welcome and took the time needed to take me through all elements of the WODs. All coaches take the time to learn names and ensure you feel as though you belong and are welcome every time you step into the box.

Fantastic experience: The team at Crossfit Hawthorn East are dedicated, friendly and always willing to help you get the best out of yourself in every training session. Darren, Leasa, Lizzy and the other coaches are always patient, supportive and willing to adjust a work out for you if you have any injuries or issues. They're also not afraid of calling you out if you are slacking off. There's none of the macho rubbish you often get at gyms and you can see a massive difference in your fitness levels within a couple of weeks of starting training.

Fantastic experience: Love training with the awesome coaches here. Has totally changed my idea of real fitness and what I'm capable of. Highly recommended.

Fantastic experience: What a fantastic community of like minded individuals striving for better health and fitness. Super coaches with an eye for detail within a supportive environment. Moving the body the way it's designed to be moved can only makes us better!! Keep up the great work CHFE!!

Fantastic experience: Great approach to training, warm up - lift - wod - cool down and stretch. Choose your own pace for best results

Fantastic experience: I'd give this place 10 stars if I could. Awesome gym with plenty of room to move, great coaches and a friendly culture.

Fantastic experience: Such a brilliant community. Non-intimating and incredibly friendly vibe!

Fantastic experience: Friendly and professional staff to train with, would highly recommend.

Fantastic experience: Great community and coaches to help you achieve your level of fitness which ever level you are. Most of all you end up meeting great people and friends

Fantastic experience: Fantastic atmosphere and friendly people to train with. Highly recommend

Fantastic experience: Best gym ever!

Fantastic experience: I contemplated it for a while and ended up "biting the bullet" and doing the 6 week beginner course. I've loved it and have now rolled into the normal program. The coaching staff are knowledgeable, friendly and helpful. There's a real focus on safety which is important as some of the weight lifting gets pretty technical. I have come from a bootcamp environment and this is bootcamp dialled to 11 with weights. I'm really enjoying it!

Fantastic experience: Visited a few times whilst working nearby on an interstate trip. Very welcoming, great WODs and a well equipped box. Can’t go wrong there

Fantastic experience: I love this place, finish every WOD with a plan to come back and do it all again. It's physical, it's hard, it's constantly varied, great support and great community. I'm achieving milestones I never dreamed possible - it's just fun! Thanks guys.

Fantastic experience: Absolutely love coming to CFHE, life changing.

Fantastic experience: Amazing community, super CrossFit box! Grazie Mille CFHE

Fantastic experience: A real community focussed and results driven CrossFit box. Highly skilled coaches (Head Coach is a national record holder), classes big enough to ensure you stay motivated and chase progression but small enough that the coaches can single you out and spend time helping you develop correct technique. I started 2 years ago in the kickstarter program and in that time I've gained strength, cardio endurance, flexibility and friends. You couldn't ask for more from a workout, a coach or a box. 5 stars.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic place to train and a better bunch of people to train with. I joined CFHE a couple of years ago and have been hooked ever since. After committing to many varied forms of exercise over the years, there is nothing that has challenged me more in the areas of strength, cardio & flexibility. CFHE has experienced, professional and entertaining coaches and I cannot recommend this place any higher, keep up the great work CFHE team.

Fantastic experience: Great people and WODS

Fantastic experience: Great community and coaches to help you achieve your level of fitness which ever level you are. Most of all you end up meeting great people and friends

Fantastic experience: Great Crossfit Box that is welcoming to everyone. No heroes, just a great bunch of people improving their strength and fitness. I've found the instructors to be knowledgeable, realistic and supportive. It's great to see a real focus on scaling to your ability/strength. The WODs are creative and well balanced and the strength component is designed to improve you, not break you! I love the focus on a group stretch post WOD as it makes me do it! I've really enjoyed starting my days at Crossfit Hawthorn East and after 6 weeks i'm really noticing the improvement in fitness and how my clothes are fitting me. Big thanks to the coaching staff at CFHE!

Fantastic experience: I’ve been training at CFHE for over a year now. Since joining the box my health and fitness has improved significantly. The coaches are supportive and well experienced, and the crew are an awesome group of people to train with.

Fantastic experience: Effective coaching, quality equipment, spacious layout and a positive friendly crew. Great box

Fantastic experience: Joined at the start of 2019 and really enjoying it - great environment. Coaches really know their stuff !

Fantastic experience: I’ve been going to CFHE for over 2 years now and I absolutely love it! It’s a great community to be part of and the coaches are extremely welcoming and helpful with all levels of fitness. I can’t imagine working out anywhere else! Also.. super fun social events (Zorb soccer, rock climbing, annual Christmas party, CrossFit open parties, etc.) put on by CFHE! More than just a gym but a great community to be part of!

Fantastic experience: Recently joined after months of thinking about it. CFHE is fantastic, varied stimulating workouts that test you every time. Being a bit older i love getting back to doing things i did as i kid - running, jumping, hanging on bars...im re-learning so many things. Plus the great coaches to point you in the right direction...

Fantastic experience: I spent ages doing my own thing in the gym. I mean ages. But honestly nothing has worked like this has. Take that and add a bunch of cool people, and that's CFHE!

Fantastic experience: Wicked

Fantastic experience: If you want to smile, laugh and shout while you sweat your butt off then CFHE is the best place to be! Every coach is excellent at keeping you pushing for a high level of intensity whilst always maintaining a safety-first ethic throughout. There are heaps of classes every day of the week and you are guaranteed a warm welcome if you're new to the box. Come on down and have a blast. Catch you in the box!

Fantastic experience: Crossfit Hawthorn East is a great place to workout - the coaches are super friendly and continually help you to improve. The CFHE members are really friendly as well.

Fantastic experience: Awesome place to train! Great coaches and crew :)

Fantastic experience: I absolutely love CFHE!! The community and vibe here makes it a pleasure to come in and train hard everyday. The coaches are amazingly supportive, motivating and always on the ball with ensuring you are training saftely, to your ability and with correct form. All the members are friendly, welcoming and always help bring out that fun competitive side. Highly recommend!!!!!!!!!

Fantastic experience: Great coaches, great people. Always a super fun WOD and super fun people

Fantastic experience: I became a member at CFHE 6months after the doors opened. I started as the novice crossfitter, and have transitioned to the regular and more familiar crossfitter (otherwise known as obsessed!!). Through each progression of ability, the coaches have both supported and nurtured me, based on that level of ability. In my opinion, they do that for every member. They have an awesome ability to identify when to push an individual, and when to pull them back, recognizing that technique is your best friend. They are concerned with keeping you safe, and injury free. They are concerned with helping you achieve your own personal goals, and certainly have no interest in comparing you to others. And most importantly, I feel, both the coaches and members celebrate you each day simply for making the choice to turn up!!! Egos are to be left at the door... And if you don't, you'll be reminded to!!! This place has quickly become my sanctuary. It's where I find my yin, and where I have also found some of my best mates!!! We sweat, laugh, fail, achieve, develop, hurt, progress and struggle together. I've loved every day since I joined, and I can't imagine a day without CFHE in my life.

Negative experience: Don't waste your time with CFHE there are two much better options just around the corner. The coaches have minimal qualifications (most have TAFE certifications only) and the programming is average at best. I have actually overheard a senior coach discussing how he will put a certain exercise in the next days programming because he wants to come first in the WOD... I met some good and friendly people at this box, but the culture is such that everyone is encouraged to finish workouts as fast a possible and at a prescribed RX weight (same RX prescribed weight for every male/female). There is very little focus on proper form and strength and much more on "WODing till you drop" every single day. This is probably the main reason why there is a large turnover of members and plenty of injuries at this box. I have been put into situations where I was strongly encouraged to lift "recommended' weight when this was clearly above my ability. I have also seen have other people being pretty much forced to lift heavy with bad form. The fact that the staff including the general manager need to post positive reviews (below) to promote the business should tell you all you need to know how great this business really is.

Fantastic experience: Such an awesome place to train - great coaches and brilliant people make a fun and friendly environment. It makes it easy (well, easier!) to get out of bed early!

Fantastic experience: Inspiring coaches, awesome community love every min of training here

Fantastic experience: Really positive and enthusiastic coaches who are committed to helping you achieve your goals.

Fantastic experience: I highly recommend CrossFit Hawthorn East! It has such a good vibe, the coaches are awesome and everyone is there to support each other. Before CFHE I didn’t know much about CrossFit, but some friends suggested I give it a go. I was on the hunt for a place that would be fun, keep me motivated and help me get results. I was a bit nervous when I went in for the free intro session and workshop but the coach was welcoming, friendly and great at explaining the basics. He made sure we did the movements safely and with the correct technique. Since then I joined as a member and I haven’t looked back! I’ve toned up, I have more energy and I bounce out of bed in the morning to get to the workout. I’ve also made some great friends and love being part of a community. I also love having a coach at every session. They help to explain the workout, how to modify the movements to suit our current level and then correct us during the session. I was getting so bored at my old gym and didn’t want 1-on-1 sessions with a personal trainer. CrossFit gave me the benefit of having a coach and a group of cool people to do workouts with. It’s awesome! My advice is to give it a go!

Fantastic experience: My favourite place to be! Having been a member now for nearly 2 years, nothing gets me out of bed in the morning, like the thought of training with my crossfit friends! The programming fun and consistent, whilst still keeping within the core old school crossfit style. The coaches are all rad and the facilities are authentic and clean. I love CFHE!

Fantastic experience: The best motivation for training is having FUN! This place has such a welcoming community of members who make coming in to train such an enjoyable experience. The coaches and staff are all extremely knowledgable and helpful. I have worked in the fitness industry for many years but never have I experienced amazing results like I experience at CFHE. I just keep getting fitter and stronger and I am having a blast at the same time!

Fantastic experience: I started at CFHE 18 months ago this week and it’s been a great 18 months. When I started I was appallingly out of shape weighed over 140KG and could not do a single push up or run 400m. 18 months later I am stronger fitter healthier over 20kg lighter while I have decreased my body fat and increased my lean muscle mass. Since I left high school over 10 years ago I have been struggling with my weight and have not managed to stick to any exercise for more than a few weeks that was until I found CFHE. I love coming to the box for a number of reasons but the biggest two reasons are the people the culture the box has. You often read horror stories on line that cross fit is a cult and people get hurt all the time or pushed to do unsafe lifts. Nothing could be further from the truth at CFHE. The coaches are all a great bunch who go to pains to demonstrate correct technique even when they know every person in the class has done an exercises dozens of times they will again remind us all of correct technique. While new personal records are always celebrated safety and good technique comes first. You often hear a coach say “I would rather see you stay light and get the movement right then lift heavy.” The people who make up our little community are super everyone is friendly and ready to have a good time while getting great results. There is never any pressure to go bigger or lift heavy just encouragement to be a more awesome you. The box has all ranges of abilities from some super fit people who can lift some seriously heavy metal or do a double back flip off the rings after smashing out ten muscle ups to people who were like me when I first started. But because the people and the culture are so good everyone is made to feel welcome every ones successes are celebrated and the only person you have to compete against is yourself. In short if you are in the area and want to start a fitness journey with some great people CFHE maybe what you are looking for. It was for me.

Fantastic experience: CFHE has great staff and a very friendly community.

Fantastic experience: Great coaches, and friendly environment. Highly recommended if your looking to advance with your fitness.

Fantastic experience: I became a member at CFHE 6months after the doors opened. I started as the novice crossfitter, and have transitioned to the regular and more familiar crossfitter (otherwise known as obsessed!!). Through each progression of ability, the coaches have both supported and nurtured me, based on that level of ability. In my opinion, they do that for every member. They have an awesome ability to identify when to push an individual, and when to pull them back, recognizing that technique is your best friend. They are concerned with keeping you safe, and injury free. They are concerned with helping you achieve your own personal goals, and certainly have no interest in comparing you to others. And most importantly, I feel, both the coaches and members celebrate you each day simply for making the choice to turn up!!! Egos are to be left at the door... And if you don't, you'll be reminded to!!! This place has quickly become my sanctuary. It's where I find my yin, and where I have also found some of my best mates!!! We sweat, laugh, fail, achieve, develop, hurt, progress and struggle together. I've loved every day since I joined, and I can't imagine a day without CFHE in my life.