LaLanne Fitness is a SCHOOL OF ELITE FITNESS. We coach basic to advanced level classes in functional exercise, athletic conditioning, plyometrics, kettlebell training, Olympic weightlifting, medicine ball and dumbbell training, power-lifting, gymnastics, rowing, running and jumping rope.

Our students are extremely diverse in their experience, conditioning, and lives; and include students, business executives, stay-at-home moms, athletes, writers, producers, and martial artists. We utilize CrossFit as our primary training method, and focus our students on optimizing physical competence in each of 10 recognized fitness domains (Cardio-respiratory endurance, Stamina, Strength, Flexibility, Power, Speed, Coordination, Agility, Balance, and Accuracy.) The stimulus provided is always varied and the results are dramatic. The atmosphere is one of support and camaraderie to anyone willing to put in the work.

The primary difference between us and most other gyms and trainers is in our comprehensive approach to health, fitness, longevity, vitality and life. Have you ever noticed when you go to the gym that most people rely on their trainers to walk with them, leading them around from one exercise machine to another? Can you imagine this in real life? You go to the grocery store and are met at the door by your personal shopper who walks you around from item to item and tells you what to buy and how much? Then meets you again two days later to tell you almost exactly the same thing? To some that may sound nice, but for most, it’s not real life.



At LaLanne Fitness, we require you to think, to use your brain as well as your muscles, to learn, to challenge yourself, to try new things you never thought you could, to practice new skills that require you to be focused and present. We teach you how to move your body with proper mechanics, stability, balance, and agility. We do this so that when you’re NOT with us, you can truly have fun, suck life dry, Live Your Best!

At LaLanne Fitness we have one mission: The relentless pursuit of Elite Fitness.

CrossFit is a program designed to elicit as broad an adaptational response as possible. It is not a specialized fitness program, but a deliberate attempt to optimize physical competence in each of ten recognized fitness domains:

Endurance - The ability of body systems to gather, process, and deliver oxygen (cardiovascular/respiratory endurance).
Stamina - The ability of body systems to process, deliver, store, and utilize energy. (capacity to maintain repetitive muscular movements)
Strength - The ability of a muscular unit, or combination of muscular units, to apply force.
Flexibility - the ability to maximize the range of motion at a given joint.
Power - The ability of a muscular unit, or combination of muscular units, to apply maximum force in minimum time.
Speed - The ability to minimize the time cycle of a repeated movement.
Coordination - The ability to combine several distinct movement patterns into a single distinct movement.
Agility - The ability to minimize transition time from one movement pattern to another.
Balance - The ability to control the placement of the body’s center of gravity in relation to its support base.
Accuracy - The ability to control movement in a given direction or at a given intensity.

The CrossFit program was developed to enhance an individual’s competency at all physical tasks. CrossFit participants are trained to perform successfully at multiple, diverse, and randomized physical challenges.



By centering our training within these domains we provide the opportunity and atmosphere for every athlete to excel and surpass their fitness goals while reducing their potential for injury. Remember this, ANY IDIOT CAN MAKE YOU TIRED, WE MAKE YOU BETTER. By committing to our program you will outlast and outclass your competition.


The Coaches at LaLanne Fitness consider every participant in our program an Athlete…whether you believe you are one or not. We treat you like an athlete, we train you like an athlete and we will work you like an athlete. Athletes of course regularly participate and compete in sport and at LaLanne Fitness, you will too – The “Sport of Fitness” known as CrossFit.

Emphatically and positively YES!

We have participants ranging in age (so far…) from 9 years old up to 59 and everything in between. Fitness levels are all over the map but each participant shares two things in common:
1. They want RESULTS!
2. They are willing to work their butt off for them.

LaLanne Fitness classes are designed for scalability and apply equally well to all individuals no matter their age or fitness level – as long as they are willing to put forth the effort.




By varying the load and intensity, we start you at a level appropriate to your fitness and experience. This means everyone does the “same” workout varied only by their ability to perform it.

LaLanne Fitness is NOT a “Health” (and I use that term loosely) Club. We are a World Class Elite Strength and Conditioning Facility.



At LaLanne Fitness we don’t have any machines or cardio equipment because they are NOT NECESSARY! People would get more benefits from picking the machines up and moving them around the room for 10 minutes than from slugging away on them at ridiculously slow paces. There is NOTHING right about a machine. If you use them YOU ARE NOT WORKING HARD ENOUGH. If you can workout and read or watch TV at the same time, YOU ARE NOT WORKING HARD ENOUGH. If you are not working out at LaLanne Fitness, YOU ARE NOT WORKING HARD ENOUGH.

At LaLanne Fitness, we work exclusively with complex, ground based, free weighted, explosive movements and shorter high intensity cardiovascular sessions. Why? Because functional movements and high intensity metabolic conditioning is more effective at eliciting nearly any desired fitness result. Startlingly, this is not a matter of opinion but solid irrefutable scientific fact and yet the marginally effective old ways persist and are nearly universal.

We make no excuses or apologies for our views and we don’t sugar coat anything. What we do is not easy, the workouts are devastating, but simply put, IT WORKS. You will feel better than you have ever felt, you will feel younger, you will feel fitter, and you will have more energy and less aches and pains. You will accomplish physical feats you never thought possible and you will be stronger than you have ever been.

If you are looking for a constant stream of challenges, and are bored with your current gym or routine, you need to train with us. You will not find this level of performance and achievement anywhere else! You will never challenge and reward your body more than with CrossFit workouts…it will change your life!



CrossFit is a fitness and conditioning system developed by Coach Greg Glassman through many years of watching, working with, and coaching all types of people – from those considered “normal and average”, to top athletes. Coach Glassman's idea – take what worked best from the sports and movements that create the most versitile athletes (gymnastics and weightlifting), and throw the rest out. Actually, the system really created itself - if a workout or an exercise proved functional and got great results (ie- challenged you to the bone), it stayed in the system. If not, well, you got the picture. CrossFit is what remains - bar none, the most effective fitness and conditioning system in the world!

The CrossFit method is a strength and conditioning system built on constantly varied, functional movements executed at high intensity. CrossFit delivers a fitness program which is broad, general and inclusive. Our specialty is not specializing. The rewards of this program are evidenced in those people participating in combat, survival, sports and all facets of life. This fitness program punishes the specialist!

The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any individual committed to excellence in fitness regardless of experience. The same routines are used for elderly individuals who may have heart disease as well as cage fighters one month out from televised bouts. The load and intensity of the program is scaled for the individual, but the workout remains the same for all.

It is the principle strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide. CrossFit is now available to the public! This training style is not only the most beneficial for the elite groups listed above, but is the overall best way to maintain health, vitality and fitness for the general population.

One of the things that makes CrossFit unique is that it addresses the fact that the fitness needs of an "Average Joe" are identical to that of a top athlete – the only difference being intensity (speed & weight) and volume. In all cases, the best results come when training included functional movement (that which replicates real life movement), at high intensity and with constant variety. Any exercise program that meets these three criteria can be considered “CrossFit,” from shoveling dirt, hauling rocks and cutting down trees to weightlifting, pull ups and sprinting.

CrossFit has been called "The Sport of Fitness" because it re-introduces personal athletic achievement and performance to training. The mindset at the start of each workout is to be stronger, move faster, more efficiently, with better form than ever. This is why even after years of training CrossFit style, scores and times in workouts continue to drop and athletes continue to improve. Its hard, fun, exciting, challenging, and will push you to be your absolute best!



Why Crossfit? Results. Period. To gain a greater understanding of CrossFit, download this free trial issue of the CrossFit Journal. Once you’ve read this, you’ll understand that most other training programs either take way too much time to get the results or are incomplete, leaving a well rounded athlete with a chink in his/her armor.

LALANNE FITNESS is a private gym, located at 590 Howard Street in Downtown San Francisco. It may appear to be a giant indoor playground and in essence, it is. We run, jump, climb and balance and we definitely have fun and work up a sweat. Our gym is a no nonsense, no gimmick, no bull Elite Fitness and conditioning facility.
Gym # (415) 512 . 7645

LaLanne Fitness is not your typical “gym”. There are no machines, no TVs, no rows of “cardio” equipment and no annoying sales people trying to get you to sign up. The setting is less intimidating and more personal.

Every time you walk through our door you will be guided by one of our coaches, who will lead you through our “Workout of the Day”. Unlike most gyms we provide direction, supervision and motivation enabling you to work safely at your full potential - all you need to do is show up. If you can do this we will GUARANTEE RESULTS.

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