The Windy City’s Best Boxes – The Top CrossFit in Chicago

If your looking for a box in Chicago the good news that you have several great options! CrossFit in Chicago means community and you will find that all of the boxes reviewed below have this in common, so without further ado here are your the best options for CrossFit in Chicago!

Goose Island CrossFit

At Goose Island CrossFit they are working to build something that will last with programming that is designed with longevity in mind. Fitness is essential to fully enjoying and experiencing life and they want to support you and give you opportunities to pursue excellence and thriving for the rest of your life. They believe in programming workouts that mimic everyday life both physically and mentally.

Location: 1750 N Kingsbury St, Chicago, IL 60614, USA

Phone: 312-436-2085

CrossFit Defined

CrossFit Defined programming is meant to be scaled and suitable for all ages and physical conditions. Anybody that has a body can be an athlete at CrossFit Defined, understanding that the philosophy behind CrossFit training is an all inclusive lifestyle change.

CrossFit Defined offers a training method and philosophy that have been adopted by numerous major universities and professional athletic training facilities.

At CrossFit Defined they work exclusively with compound movements and shorter high intensity cardiovascular sessions. Their approach is consistent with what is practiced in elite training programs associated with major university athletic teams and professional sports.

Location: 3834 N Broadway St, Chicago, IL 60613, USA

Phone: 773-680-2331

CrossFit CE

At CrossFit CE (Competitive Edge), they love helping people become better by living healthier lives through developing better habits.

CrossFit CE recognizes that in sport, fitness and in life, preparation for the unknown provides greater adaptability and opportunity for successful outcome and experience. CrossFit CE trains in a specialized modality featuring three distinctive methodologies.

They focus on the metabolic pathways for cardiorespiratory fitness and health, to which we divide into aerobic and anaerobic endeavors. They add gymnastics to increase coordination, agility, flexibility, core and trunk strength, neurological completeness and balance.

They also feature weightlifting for power, speed and strength. By combining the aforementioned in performance training or athletic skill development they are able to increase maximum preparation mentally and physically and mold well rounded athletes capable of greatness.

Location: 1718 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622, USA

Phone: 773-791-7139

Hardware CrossFit

Hardware CrossFit wants everyone to achieve serious results without taking themselves too seriously. They believe that it takes a certain level of humility to identify and overcome weaknesses and become great.

Everyone, young and old, from the competitive athlete to the sedentary desk jockey, possesses varying degrees of ability. Their structured program combined with active coaching will enable you to maximize your results in the shortest time possible.

Their multi-disciplinary approach to fitness incorporates elements of power lifting, Olympic lifting, gymnastics, and several endurance sports to enable you to become a more balanced athlete.

Location: 1834 W Balmoral Ave, Chicago, IL 60640, USA

Phone: 773-275-7777

Movement Republic CrossFit

At Movement Republic they emphasize intention of movement over volume of movement. This helps you focus on the day’s specific task(s) and primes your body for optimum performance and injury-free longevity.

They alternate strength days and metabolic-conditioning days which allows for; coach-lead warm up and intensive skill work, time for mobility and movement preparation, more time to incrementally build to heavy weights on strength days, never rushing you through reps and sets.

Location: 4526 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60640, United States

Phone: 419-388-8440

CrossFit Chisel

CorssFit Chisel aims to cultivate a community of like-minded individuals who will support each other, push each other, hold each other accountable and share in the team’s victories.

They believe that being a good athlete does not necessarily translate into being a good coach. This is why they endeavor to constantly expand their knowledge and improve their coaching skills by reading books, attending specialty seminars, and being coached by other amazing coaches.

Location: 4862-64 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60641, USA

Phone: 773-930-3178

Bridgeport Athletics: Home of CrossFit Bridgeport

CrossFit Bridgeport has a large gym space that is more than 10,000 square foot overlooking the Chicago River.

As a fully functional CrossFit gym you can expect large open areas of rubber flooring, a double wide turf lane for sleds and running drills, a 24′  & also a new 14′ pullup rig complete with squat rack stations, high ring stations for muscle ups, climbing rope areas,  wallball zones, handstand pushup areas, rowers/airdynes, selection of kettlebells, barbells and bumper plates.

Location: 1200 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609, USA

Phone: 312-889-8779

CrossFit SoNo

The CrossFit Sono program delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive. The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience.

Location: 1528 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60642, USA

Phone: 312-646-0626

Bucktown CrossFit

Bucktown Crossfit began as a community of like minded men and women with an interest at pursuing a high level of fitness.

They are a veteran owned strength and conditioning facility located in the Bucktown Neighborhood of Chicago. They offer programs for Crossfit, Endurance, Olympic Weightlifting, and Power Lifting.  

Location: 2338 N Seeley Ave, Chicago, IL 60647, USA

Phone: 872-215-2371

Tim Rollins, Editor

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