CrossFit Potrero Hill

Absolutely the best Gym Box in the area. This very spacious warehouse is truly wonderful to workout in and feel like you have enough space to breathe and be comfortable. It is massive! What is truly amazing are the coaches and the CFPH athletes who come to workout together. There are no jerky meatheads or any ounce of silly pretentiousness that come to this Box. What you will find here are people who challenge you and support your never ending goals to health, happiness, and awesomeness! If you choose to do CrossFit CFPH is the place to be a warrior!!!
For the last 3 years I’ve called CFPH my little playpen in the early morning hours with all my fellow WODletes. Not only have I improved my endurance, strength, and stamina since I began here, but I have also witnessed co-​athletes reach epic heights and peaks along the way. I’ve appreciated the amount of guidance and support from the coaches to members, and this is the reason I will continue to remain a loyal CFPH member till I just can’t WOD any more!

Thank you again for another great workout!!!
If you are looking for a welcoming, non-​judgmental community of crossfitters, this is the place to be! The workouts are always amazing; additionally the community is extremely inclusive.
The coaching staff is fabulous, and it is apparent that they actually care about each member’s progress. I would recommend CrossFit Potrero Hill to both beginners and experienced CF athletes. It is undoubtedly a great place to workout with the added benefits of an awesome group of athletes and a great sense of community.

Been going to CrossFit Potrero Hill for over two years now and still loving it. It was the third crossfit box I had tried out and I knew I had found a keeper. I love that everyone is so friendly and supportive and the weekend WODs are fantastic. I have lost 25 pounds in the last two years while developing muscles I never knew I had and have had a life changing experience. And did I mention that they have the best space I have seen in my visits to 20+ other boxes. So great in fact that Reebok chose CrossFit Potrero Hill as the location to shoot their latest commercial.

Love these people. Had surgery on my shoulder (crossfit) and was out for an entire year. Showed up here and met Jason and Alexis and felt like I was at home. All of there coaches from Victor, to his crazy brother, David, Alexis, and the entire crew do an amazing job teaching movement and safety first. Amazing owners and coaches who actually care about the people they work with. They are ready to teach and always give you positive feedback and constructive criticism. My son «kilo» loves this place. The team here is amazing and I only wish them continued success. I hate Unilocal, but felt this review was long over due!!!

I watched CFPH go from a small gym within World’s Gym to a major San Francisco CrossFit gym. The old location had a good community. People had a good time but it wasn’t a very competitive environment. The majority of people, myself included, considered fitness a secondary part of life. Moving to the new location brought many high skill athletes who might have looked elsewhere. This could have transformed the gym into a «bros club», competitive against others, leaving the weaker behind. But CFPH didn’t let that happen. CFPH is the perfect blend of community and being competitive. Being too far on either side either makes people not take classes seriously or pushes people apart. People are there to improve themselves and improve others. I believe it is because the athleticism of the members has gone up. If you look at the time it takes new members to get a ring muscle up. It used to be around 9 mo~1 year. Now based on anecdotal data, I would say people get it around 6 months. This isn’t due to a difference in new members, it’s due to people wanting to improve. It’s exposing people to a competitors class, even if they never take it. Having a mobility class, exposing and discussing people’s weaknesses (it’s usually mobility for most people) and saying «that’s ok», we’ll work on it. Mobility can be a vulnerable experience. It’s having a barbell club, saying we want you to be strong, here are the tools, let’s be stronger together. Seeing others and thinking «I could be like that». The ones who can do it, help everybody else. That’s what I love about CFPH.
CFPH does an exceptional job of bringing a community together, wanting to improve the lives of the community as a whole, and the lives of each member individually. A better community can help individuals better, and mindful members best support the community.
As for my personal experience, I first started at world gym when my job moved to 17^th and rhode island. I joined CFPH, looking to improve my olympic lifts, in August 2012. I didn’t expect it to become one of my primary communities. I quit that job in August 2013. I continued to come afterwards, even though there were closer gyms to my new location. Looking forward to Wodding at CFPH gets me up in the morning. After the gym, I feel that I have already done something good for myself, had a good time doing it, and hung out with my friends.
You’re changing people’s lives in and out of the gym. Thank you.

I signed up for my very first free class at the cross fit PH. I enjoyed it very much and everybody was very supportive and helped me so much. I had a wonderful time and a great sweaty workout. I hope to do as much more cross fit as I can in my near future.

This is a review from a drop-​in. I had been traveling in San Francisco and wanted to go to one of the boxes before I left town. Luckily, I was able to drop into their 7:00AM WOD and loved it.
First of all, CFPH is big, which is nice if you’re used to boxes that are barely bigger than a three-​bedroom apartment.
Second of all, based on what I saw, CFPH makes it a point to have intentional, well-​coached programming. One of the coaches gave me a great tip on my deadlifts that I’ve kept with me at my own box in DC! From my experience, I think they do focus on proper form over being a tough guy.
Finally, I found the members to be incredibly friendly and welcoming. I had some free time before my flight out of SFO and talked with several of the members there. It seems like CFPH has a really good community, which is what you always want to see at a good box.
Overall, I’d definitely recommend CFPH to people interested in Crossfit or Crossfitters looking to drop into a box while they’re in town.

Giving Crossfit Potrero 5 stars… having been a member here for 3 years consistently says it all.
Through skilled coaching and encouragement, I am more fit (and confident) than I have ever been.
Thank you CFPH for changing my life — and reducing my 35-​year-​old body fat to 11.5%!!

I guess I should finally write a review for CFPH. I’ve been going here for about almost a year (off and on) and absolutely love the coaches, community, and facility. I learned crossfit fundamentals at CFPH and received a ton of support and resources to perfect my technique and prevent injury. Also, they recently upgraded from a hampster cage to a cool space on De Haro and have all the equipment you need to get ripped.
If I had to give any constructive feedback, it would be that I wish that every single coach had zero tolerance for bad form. Perhaps because the size of the classes, intensity, or fast-​paced environment, I don’t always see this happening. Also, I occasionally notice equipment isn’t always clean and can have residue like blood or sweat. As a «germaphobe», I wish CFPH was a little more strict about that stuff.
Overall, CFPH is great community you won’t regret diving into if crossfit is your choice of fitness.

Started coming here 2 months ago. This place and the staff are the bomb. Getting me into shape. Love it. Sending all my friends here.

I’ve been at CF for over 2 years and did a bunch of visits when I moved to SF. The space, the coaches, and the community here are all top notch. I’ve hit gyms all over the world and this is one of the better facilities I’ve encountered.

I have been doing CrossFit at CFPH for 2 years now, and since that time I’ve seen the community nearly double.
Beyond the fact that CrossFit is an addictive and effective lifestyle, there’s a reason why people who begin working out at CrossFit Potrero Hill stick with it: CFPH is not a place that takes its members for granted.
When the membership outgrew the old space inside World Gym, CFPH responded by:
–Relocating quickly and seamlessly to a massive (4x bigger) new space right across the street
–Investing in a ton of new equipment
–Increasing the number of coaches
–Expanding the class schedule *and* adding new class options, such as Mobility/​Stretching, an Advanced Competitor class, and Open Gym on Sundays.
CrossFit can look intimidating from the outside, but inside CFPH there’s a supportive coaching staff that is concerned with technique, safety and results. In fact, I recently dropped by a «regular» gym for a quick workout, and the things I saw horrified me. People doing terribly unsafe and ineffective things with weights. It made me realize how much I appreciate that my workouts are performed under the guidance of CrossFit coaches who are constantly correcting my form and helping me improve.
The upshot is that when I go to exercise at CFPH, I also get to socialize, compete and have fun. And, in my daily physical life outside of CrossFit, I’ve gained strength and stamina, and attained a new level of focus on safe an efficient movement.

I’ve been coming to CrossFit PH for a couple of months now, and have been super pleased with my experience and progress, and I think CrossFit is a great value for money.
The CFPH facilities were fine – just fine – before. But last week, CFPH moved into an awesome new facility a block north of its old location, at 15^th and De Haro. The new space is huge, and the new equipment is awesome. But members still get access to World Gym, a big plus in my book.
In response to the last comment, along with the move came a bunch of new classes. There are four classes in the mornings, a noon, three in the evening, and classes on Saturday and Sunday mornings now. Plus a new open gym time — excited to work on stuff there.
But what you’re really paying for in CrossFit is the coaching, and this has been the best part of CFPH. The coaching has been great, especially coaches Eric, Victor, Chris, and Alexis. These are the noon/​evening coaches — I can’t comment on the morning coaching. But the coaches have got a great balance of «wow, you’re new and not very good at this, so I’m going to encourage you» and «don’t be a lazy slacker — work harder!» It’s motivational. When I started CrossFit, I wasn’t terribly out of shape. I just ran a half marathon, and lift fairly regularly. But I was new to the CrossFit style of high intensity interval training, and so I pretty much fall to the back of the pack in most classes. But I’ve seen improvement very quickly, especially with leg exercises (my traditional weakness).
The community has also been nice. Other athletes are friendly, and are quick to encourage each other. I had a particularly rough WOD last week, and another athlete went out of his way to tell me he’d noticed improvement in my WODs. Given the intensity of the workout, I don’t think I could tolerate too much macho gunnerish attitude from my fellow athletes. We all like to win, but the CFPH cheer for the last to finish a workout for time as much as the first. It’s a great place — come check it out.

Please add some classes between 7:30 and noon. I work nights and run a business during the day. I signed up for unlimited classes (which I’m now in a 3 month contract) and I’ve only been to a few because the morning classes are just too early for my schedule. 8 or 9 am classes PLEASE

My boyfriend and I were spending a long weekend in San Francisco. We have been at Crossfit for about 6 months, and looked up nearby Crossfit gyms in the San Fran area. I e-​mailed the owner beforehand, and was pleased to hear the 50% discount offered to fellow Crossfitters to drop in.
We arrived a little early to the 10:30am class. I was surprised to see Crossfit at the back of a full sized gym and establishment. (I thought Crossfit should have gotten some more space – but it was definitely utilized well.)
The hour workout consisted of three partner workouts. The trainer, Marvin, was friendly and fantastic. I had the pleasure of being partnered with Alexis, who was encouraging and extremely nice. We did 2, 5min AMRAPs of alternating deadlifts for WOD 1, and then alternating hanging power cleans (WOD 2) with your partner. The number of rounds were counted.
WOD 3 (for time) was 150 plate sit ups (15/​10#), except one partner could only do sit ups while the other was in a hand stand position.
Very nice people and nice environment. If we ever come back, we would love to come to Crossfit Potrero!

This is a review for their old location. Cool group classes and supportive environment. Great coaches!

I have been meaning to write this review for quite some time…
CrossFit in Potrero Hill was a terrible experience for both myself and my best friend. We did much research beforehand, and were excited to join this program. It’s incredibly expensive, but we had both decided to really commit ourselves financially.
We enrolled in a four session «CrossFit Training», which is supposed to prepare us for the class. I should say, I am very out of shape (hefty, in fact), and my best friend was a bit out of shape as well. However, we emailed both the CrossFit owner and Alexis, our Trainer, beforehand to let her know we were novices at best, and they said it was totally fine, that we could handle it, and that CrossFit was for everyone.
I just have to say flatly– our trainer, Alexis (who is very young, I think still in college), was unprofessional, distracted, and frankly, a bit rude. On the first day, as my friend and I were struggling with the EIGHTY+ squats she gave us to do, she was visibly annoyed. Like making faces, and whining annoyed. We told her that 80 squats (for people that don’t work out) was a bit much, and the next day we were in more pain than in our entire lives. This was after she and the owner told us that all exercises would be modified for our skill level…
As the sessions dragged on she became more and more annoyed with us… you probably shouldn’t know that your Trainer, who you’re paying a ton of money to, and are willing to pay more money to, is annoyed.
In the end we, of course, didn’t continue. I’m doing Crossfit somewhere else now, and it’s fantastic. Really, loving every minute of it. Community minded, fun atmosphere, meet you where you are, work you out like crazy… so it’s not CrossFit that didn’t work for us… it’s just CrossFit Potrero Hill.

Really look forward to attending the classes whenever I can. I would sign up for more than twice a week if my schedule would allow me. I took my intro with Eric, had my Elements Training one-​on-​one with Alexis, and have been taking classes consistantly with David, Leticia, Joe and my favorite Tyler. Although the workouts for the day are consistant between each class every instructor gives a little bit of their own experience and motivational techniques that I really appreciate. I teach fitness classes so I inherently critique, but I have nothing but positive things to say about this group of instructors.
Dave has sort of a hands off, learn at your own pace type attitude and a good appreciation for house music that I would like to delve further into. Very creative and loves to push you hard
Leticia is great at completely warming you up and progressing you through your technique.
Joe I can tell was built for the long haul in a good way, since I met him first during a workout as he too was a participant rather than instructor. I have only been able to go to one of his classes but I think he would ensure I would be sore the following day just in his demeanour and nickname
Tyler– great sense of humor and you can tell he is there to help you. He takes the time to make the connection between «client and trainer» which is essentially the most important part of client retention within the fitness world as long as you can also market a great and consistant product. I like the fact that he is very good with technique, is freakishly strong, and actually helps you feel accomplished rather than defeated since the workouts can be brutal.
Alexis– what a baller. Showed me some great ways to stretch out my shoulder and doesn’t push my body into unsafe territory or into a move that may just be a little advanced for me at the moment. Truthfully she got me into this whole mess and she is the one I have to thank for it :)
The participants are also pretty awesome and friendly. I can see how people feel it’s a cult (Cross Fit that is) and I am sure like anything it can be taken to the extreme. But remember it’s just fitness, and if you like to be pushed and see your body actually change (hint hint to women too afraid to pick up the weights) this is a great program.
Great job guys, I signed up for the first three months and can’t wait to return after my trip for 3 more months of pure fitness. Feel free to hand my a** to me everytime I show up
Done– jeeze this was long

Eric and his team of coaches are truly excellent. They are dedicated to every CrossFit member who walks into their cage and really push you to be a better athlete, and go beyond where your mind thinks your body can go.
I started CrossFit last summer thinking I’d try it out to get in shape before my wedding and have been hooked ever since. I have been a competitive athlete all my life and since I stopped playing competitive soccer in college, have not had a workout that challenges me in a way that’s engaging and fun. CrossFit PH is what I was missing all these years!
I’m so glad that I’ve discovered CrossFit, and highly recommend the Potrero Hill team for people who are looking for a tough workout that is different every day, encourages teamwork, and feeds a competitive spirit.
My only regret is that I don’t get there enough… if I skip more than five days, I’m guaranteed to be sore after a quick CrossFit workout!

I have been an athlete my entire life. I competed internationally in swimming and triathlons all through my youth and 20’s. Over the past few years I have struggled to find something that motivates me and keeps me in shape. Well, I found it.
CrossFit is amazing. I did a lot of research about what CrossFit was about prior to signing up. I also researched many of the CrossFit places in San Francisco. I found that CrossFit Potrero Hill (CFPH) was the one that suited me the best. They have an amazing space, the cage, that is clean and bright. Also, the instructors are very knowledgeable. They spend a great deal of time on mechanics. This is truly what I love. Some of the movements are not easy for everyone. They take the time to go over ways to prevent injury and keep you going strong. It’s like having a personal trainer.
I am sure all CrossFit gyms are great, however I am truly happy with CFPH. Eric (not me… the guy who started CFPH) and his team are just amazing. I feel like all the people there are a team and want me to succeed. I love the encouragement all the time. I must say that if you are interested in trying something unique and fun, stop by CFPH for one of their free classes. That is what I did, and I am hooked. I even got my partner on the bandwagon. We are going to look amazing by Christmas!