CrossFit^® Anchored Athletics

Fantastic experience: Huge thank you to Lexi and Krista for letting our coaching staff drop in for an awesome Saturday class! We were welcomed by a great community, amazing coaches, and a really fun workout :)

Fantastic experience: Dropped into a Saturday class and was an awesome atmosphere! Community was super friendly, coaches were super helpful and they programmed a fun yet challenging workout! Thanks CrossFit Anchored for the great visit, will be back again!

Fantastic experience: Spacious, clean gym with friendly and welcoming community! Knowledgeable coaches made for a fun and organized experience.

Fantastic experience: Such a fun class this Saturday! Dropped in while on vacation. Krista was fun and energetic as she led us through a group workout. Lexi was so encouraging! Great gym!!

Fantastic experience: Did a drop in class and coach Lexi and Krista were so awesome. Very welcoming and knowledgeable and the community was so fun.

Fantastic experience: Amazing coaches! They have such an awesome community and accommodated our drop in so well. Such a fun place to train! Great equipment and programming.

Fantastic experience: Anchored is a great gym with an even better atmosphere. The coaches really love what they do and are helpful, encouraging and along with other gym goers foster a welcoming environment. I have attended multiple gyms, yoga studios etc. and have found Anchored creates an environment that makes you want to go back and be accountable to your goals. When I have missed several sessions due to illness, I’ve had coaches reach out to check on me and other members who expressed they noticed I wasn’t in class. They have a nice space, with very reasonable hours for open gym, lots of great class options and coaches who want to help you be better everyday, along with just about all the equipment options you could ever need. They are really a community and I would recommend them to anyone looking for a gym.

Fantastic experience: Best CrossFit gym in the Cowichan Valley!

Fantastic experience: Best gym ever! Great coaches, people, classes, and events! Love it here

Fantastic experience: Love the coaches and the classes. It’s more of a team and supportive environment. I’ve been going for 1 year and the strength and endurance I’ve gained has made everything easier from work to doing daily chores and I enjoy myself!!

Fantastic experience: The best gym and atmosphere that I have ever been a part of! The coaches and members are top notch with a real sense of community and camaraderie. I’ve tried fitness studios and workouts across Canada and around the world... and Anchored Athletics is the most welcoming and down to earth place I have ever been. The coaches will push you to make you better, but respect where you are in your fitness journey and are knowledgeable to support you through injuries and limitations. Thanks to Mitch and Christine for building such a special place. Can’t recommend it enough!

Fantastic experience: A1 service

Fantastic experience: Awesome staff! The best in town

Fantastic experience: This is an outstanding community to be part of, everyone is so welcoming and encouraging. I am enjoying the group classes immensely, the coaching staff are top notch and desire to help you improve to reach your goals. A bonus for me is that I support Veterans and thier businesses, Mitch and Christine have an excellent Crossfit affiliate gym. If you are looking for a fun, vibrant and enthusiastic community to be part of come and take a peek.

Fantastic experience: I was hesitant to join a crossfit gym but Anchored Athletics has proven to be a great place to work out. Well equipped, clean, great coaches, friendly patrons & plenty of class times. They do scaling options for the wheezers like myself. They offer kettlebell classes, open gym times, and I think even some personal training. Many thanks to the crew at Anchored for their patience, knowledge and positive attitude.

Fantastic experience: I absolutely love my experience at Anchored Athletics! From the moment you step in, you're greeted with a clean and organized environment that sets the tone for an amazing workout. With a wide range of classes available, there's something for everyone, regardless of fitness level. The coaches are knowledgeable and supportive, ensuring everyone feels comfortable and motivated. I highly recommend this gym to anyone looking to level up their fitness journey!

Fantastic experience: Great classes, I'm getting so much stronger! I have a lot of fun there.

Fantastic experience: So happy to have found this amazing community. The coaches are fun, motivating and dedicated to helping you reach your goals. I love this gym!

Fantastic experience: Great team and a great space

Fantastic experience: I have been training for 3 months now and am super impressed by the coaches, equipment and fellow athletes. If your ready to level up your life, come join us and you wont regret it. Don’t worry about your current level of fitness as the coaches are able to ramp up or down as needed to help you reach your goals. Thanks again for all the great coaching and great workouts. Mark

Fantastic experience: During our stay on Vancouver island we visited the box three times and really enjoyed all of the classes. The box itself has everything you need: showers, air condition, good equipment, easy online check-in tool, open gym, kids classes, personal training, great coaches etc. All members were really friendly and the classes were well thought through including good warm up and sometimes some stretching in the end. The atmosphere was really welcoming and we had the feeling that this box is for everyone as all fitness levels are represented and there are always good scaling opportunist that everyone can work on their own fitness goals. We can really recommend this crossfit box and would gladly come again!

Fantastic experience: Having recently moved to the valley, I was in search of a great place to workout and if you’re in the same situation, don’t hesitate one bit to speak to Mitch and his team over at Anchored Athletics. It’s a fantastic box with seasoned trainers, great facilities (+ showers, parking, changing rooms) and positive vibes from all the members throughout. They work diligently to put you on the path to meet your fitness goals and check in often-which is the hallmark of a great institution! And then the easy part falls on us-sticking to the plan hah!

Fantastic experience: Fun, friendly, encouraging atmosphere, with skilled coaches to help you achieve your fitness goals and guide you as you push beyond your limits

Fantastic experience: Great facility! Welcoming environment, with knowledgable staff. I was new to CrossFit in December and have felt supported on my journey! I recommend this facility to all levels.

Fantastic experience: Fun supportive atmosphere with friendly knowledgeable staff. Great place to work out. I highly recommend Anchored Athletic to everyone.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic facility, and even better coaching!

Fantastic experience: Great gym and very good coaches. You will lose 15lbs instantly upon signing up for a membership no questions asked lol ;)

Fantastic experience: Love this place, it’s gotten me strong again since having my second baby, and the hands on coaching makes sure my technique and progress is on track. Thank you guys!

Fantastic experience: great place, friendly staff. doesn't matter what level of fitness you are they will modify and help you reach your goals.

Fantastic experience: Great people leading great workouts!

Fantastic experience: Fantastic group of people, the environment is great with plenty of support.

Fantastic experience: Great place and atmosphere. Really enjoyed learning the lifts.

Fantastic experience: Initially i was really nervous to join cross fit and now after two months of being at anchored athletics 4-5 times a week I can't wait to go. Amazing instructors. The best HITT workouts that leave you wanting more

Fantastic experience: I have had nothing but fantastic experiences at anchored athletics. I was terrified going to a gym for the first time in god knows how many years. Mitchell and his team made me feel included and supported. I enjoy every training session I go to and look forward to it every week. If you're looking for a gym that makes you feel like family then this is the place for you ☺️

Fantastic experience: I started coming to Anchored Athletics using their facilities and doing my own strength program. I’ve now progressed to CrossFit classes. I love the environment it’s clean the coaches are helpful and the people are fun. Great energy I’m so happy I started with them! Thanks

Fantastic experience: Great coaches, great facility!!!!

Fantastic experience: Great facility, great coaches, love the hours. Best crossfit box I have been to yet.

Fantastic experience: Amazing!! Coaches are professional, supportive and friendly. Their training and knowledge is incredible~ I can be sure that while each workout is challenging and fun it is also safe and closely monitored. The facility is bright, clean and welcoming. I used to think of CrossFit as intimidating, but this group has changed my view. I would recommend it to anyone!

Fantastic experience: Well I may be the old guy in the bunch, but what does it matter! I recommend this CrossFit Gym to others. I signed up last Christmas and must say this has been an enjoyable experience for me. The workouts are according to ability and fitness level. Coaches are so well prepared and offer up helpful suggestions as they want members to have fun, improve themselves, and succeed. I really enjoy the other members, and the clean, bright, open atmosphere at CrossFit Anchored. The equipment is "top notch". What I really find pleasing is the large overhead door, when it is open the view of Mt. Prevost is most pleasing. Thank-you Jesi-Rae and Mitch for your dedication and hard work and introducing CrossFit Anchored to the Cowichan Valley.

Fantastic experience: The coaches are dedicated to the athletes and this shows by the care of the facility, the staff and the atmosphere. If you are a beginner or have been doing Crossfit for a long time this place can assist all levels. Mitch and Jess Rae make everyone feel welcome and I never feel intimidated to workout here.

Fantastic experience: Amazing, supportive and educational crossfit gym! The staff are well informed, professional, organized and friendly. A non intimidating, beautiful space to train in!

Positive experience: Good training and lots of good equipment

Fantastic experience: Friendly and helpful coaching. Professional and patient atmosphere leads to good progress.

Fantastic experience: The BEST place for CrossFit around!!! The coaches are fantastic and make every workout accessible! And the sense of community is the best.

Fantastic experience: Love, love, love this Gym! Super fun, highly knowledgeable coaches, effective functional coached workouts that are scaled for absolutely everyone’s ability. I looks forward to my sweat sessions!!

Fantastic experience: This facility is amazing. Christine is an incredibly skilled coach with loads of certifications. You are in great hands with her. The gym is clean and organized at all times. They even provide fresh towels and shower items for their members at no extra cost! The programming is fully structured with intent and a proper warmup is always provided. If you’re new to CrossFit, this is a great place to start. They are warm and welcoming to everyone. Drop in for a class, you won’t regret it!

Fantastic experience: Well I’m m bias as a coach here, but I just want to say that it’s our members that create the welcoming atmosphere. Hands down the most inclusive gym I’ve ever worked or trained at:)

Fantastic experience: Love the people here! Great place to get your sweat on!

Fantastic experience: Mitch and his team at Anchored Athletics run the gamut of experience and intensity. There’s something for everyone. Just starting out or a season athlete, they have you covered. As a bonus, the members are awesome, cheering each other on and having a good laugh. So happy I found this gym—it’s a game changer!

Fantastic experience: This is a great place to get in shape and have some fun. Mitch as well as all of the staff provide a safe place to learn techniques and push yourself. I'd absolutely recommend Anchored Athletics for anyone who wants great workouts with results!

Fantastic experience: Mitchell and his team are fantastic teachers as I am new to Crossfit. The main thing for me is that he has developed a positive, caring culture at Anchored Athletics so workouts are seamless and fun.

Fantastic experience: I was worried about joining a CrossFit gym because of several chronic injuries, but I’m actually in less pain than I have been in years. Having constant coaching and thoughtful programming has me moving and training in a way that makes my body work better. When I moved to the area I was scrambling to find professional healers (PT, RMT, AT, Acupuncture) but it turns out what I really needed was this.

Fantastic experience: Great friendly community and Fantastic coaches! CrossFit has been a great investment.

Fantastic experience: Quality coaches who thoroughly train you to reach your goals safely.

Fantastic experience: So nice to train a facility that is clean!!! If you are tired of rolling around in other peoples sweat check them out!

Fantastic experience: I spent a month in Duncan and did a one month membership while I was there. This is an awesome gym and I wish I had one like this in Ottawa! Super clean, organized, and bright with lots of ventilation. There is plenty of space and lots of open gym slots available if you do your own programming. Highly recommend!

Fantastic experience: I was worried about joining a CrossFit gym because of several chronic injuries, but I’m actually in less pain than I have been in years. Having constant coaching and thoughtful programming has me moving and training in a way that makes my body work better. When I moved to the area I was scrambling to find professional healers (PT, RMT, AT, Acupuncture) but it turns out what I really needed was this.

Fantastic experience: Great welcoming staff! Christina’s “chill” class was fantastic! Looking forward to Mondays yoga class! I love the ap.. click on a class, it’s just that easy!

Fantastic experience: Great team that makes you feel welcomed and helps you achieve your goals. Would recommend for anyone looking to improve their strength and fitness.

Fantastic experience: Amazing instructors, great classes! It’s the best place for beginners like me, who knew nothing going in! The level of patience and dedication that all the instructors give to the students and making sure that you know how to adjust the training to your skill level but always pushing you for your best! 100% recommend Anchored Athletics!

Fantastic experience: I love the overall vibe at Anchored Athletics! It is hands down the most inviting fitness facility I have ever belonged to! They are knowledgeable, professional, and committed to inspiring their athletes. As someone who use to be afraid of the gym, I can honestly say Anchored Athletics has supported me in making positive gains toward my health and wellness goals.

Fantastic experience: Competent and effective coaching. Friendly members. Positive, welcoming and supportive atmosphere. Excellent facility with quality equipment.

Negative experience: Crossfit is stupid.

Fantastic experience: Great facility - top quality equipment, super clean and organized, plus owner/Coach Mitch was super engaged. I will certainly visit again next time I am in town.

Fantastic experience: Great equipment, very clean, friendly owner. If I lived on the island I'd train here! Really nice.

Fantastic experience: Fantastic place to get a fun but challenging workout! Great coaching, programming, and members!

Fantastic experience: A Great open Gym space with everything you need to have a fun and functional work out !!

Fantastic experience: Dropped in for a Saturday morning WOD during our summer vacation. Wonderful warm welcome from the Anchored Athletics crew and a great workout. Nice setup, lots of room, super clean and well organized, and showers!. Thanks!

Fantastic experience: I just started a couple of weeks ago for the bootcamp. Trainer Claire very supportive and knowledgeable. Great workouts. Super clean gym. Staff make a point of getting to know you and very encouraging

Fantastic experience: Visited from out of town and they had an awesome open gym space! Everyone there is very friendly and goes out of their way to make your workout enjoyable. I'll definitely go back when I'm in the area.

Fantastic experience: Wonderful coaches who make a total beginner like me feel welcome, supported and encouraged. I always look forward to my work outs!

Fantastic experience: I worked out at Anchored for two months this summer while I was visiting family in Duncan. I can’t say enough good things about it. The programming and facility is awesome, and owner Mitch and the coaches are so knowledgeable. I loved the variety in the workouts and the members I worked out with were so welcoming. Can’t wait for next summer!

Fantastic experience: Great facility

Fantastic experience: Mitch and his team at Anchored have created a great atmosphere to train in. A very chilled environment given the variety of member levels.

Fantastic experience: Dropped in for an awesome (and terrible) wod with Coach Curtis! First class box, well equipped, great coaching, really good programming. Specifically liked that for a pretty technical and tough workout, they programmed a great warmup and an on-ramp to the wod. Would definitely recommend to anyone wanting to get into crossfit or an experienced athlete looking for a gym in the area!

Fantastic experience: Great

Fantastic experience: Cross Fit Anchored Athletics is an awesome Box to be a part of. The community is so encouraging and inspiring it's contagious. The owners are amazing and all of the coaches do a fantastic job. It is now my new addiction and I wouldn't want it anywhere else but at Anchored Athletics.

Fantastic experience: I started at CrossFit Anchored Athletics a few months ago and love it! All of the coaches are fantastic working with anyone at any level. Very encouraging environment for beginners. Many friendships happen here!

Fantastic experience: Great community

Fantastic experience: Stopped by Crossfit Anchored Athletics from out of town, for a few drop in classes - great gym and people!

Fantastic experience: Wonderful place to begin, whatever level you're starting at they will make you a success.

Fantastic experience: Great atmosphere, great support, great people

Fantastic experience: I have finally found a Crossfit box to train in where I am able to perform without feeling like I am competing with anyone else, other than myself. The group of people who are attracted to this these Olympic weight lifting techniques, I believe, that like me, are looking for the endorphin release, which is something that I have not found anywhere else. I am also pleased to say that without this in my regular routine, I don’t know how I would make it through school. When you sign up for a WOD, you will go through an hour of warming up, weight lifting a specific movement, engage in the WOD, and cool down. Everyone shows their support of each other, and challenges their fellow members to the best of their ability. The membership is worth the investment, and the Nutrition Coaching is equally as important, that is if you want to derive the most out of the training. There are initial meetings, as well as personal training to begin with. It's all worth it. I mention this because from the other Crossfit gyms previously attended, bypassing these initial building blocks opened myself to frequent injuries. And in retrospect, once you step back into a fitness club where you can perform your own routine, which costs next to nothing, it really reveals that “you get what you pay for.” Compared to the regular gym, there is a definite comparison to the cleanliness, the assistance you get for proper technique (as there are no mirrors there), and the comradery is always present. As mentioned before, the Nutrition Coaching is equally as significant as the exercise. Based on your body composition, and fitness goals, there are specific foods to concentrate on while you are training. I have personally been on a protein enriched diet for the past three months, along with attending the gym over 100 times in the past six months. My strength and endurance have improved, so I will continue working on this. My upper body is more balance with the strength of my lower body now, and my overall mental health is resting at a comfortable, and relaxed state, with a good level of energy throughout the day. Measurements would be taken every three weeks, as well as pinching targeted zones to calculate the fat percentage that was lost. Every day was like a building block. We did not incorporate the use of a scale, as it has been irrelevant to the muscle growth and progress of this relationship between weight lifting, and protein consumption. This past year has been a motivating experience, and inevitably another great way to tightly knit a strong community of folks together. I've never seen two goal oriented individuals before, Mitch and Jesi Rae, consistently work so diligently at this business. They have my permission to coach me any day of the week! To be that energetic, and thorough with each individual member, could only mean one thing. Those wiener dogs are their source of joy. However in all seriousness, I hope they receive this year's young entrepreneurs of the area award. Congratulations in all that you contribute to our general well being, and thank you.

Fantastic experience: Wonderful place to begin, whatever level you're starting at they will make you a success.