CrossFit Tolero Mentorship

CrossFit Tolero is located in Gillette, Wyoming and the doors opened on January 2nd, 2012.  Tolero is Latin and means to bear, endure, support, sustain, and suffer.  The owners believed this would be a good fit to an affiliated CrossFit box.  A box is what CrossFit calls their affiliations, or what others outside of the CrossFit world would call a gym.  CrossFit has expanded its image and brand all across the world.  Reebok is the main sponsor of CrossFit as now there are commercials on ESPN promoting that the "New Sport of Fitness Has Arrived."  These commercials are based around the Reebok Zig Technology shoes that Reebok produces.


CrossFit is not a specialized fitness program but a deliberate attempt to optimize physical competence in each of ten recognized fitness domains.

• Cardiovascular Endurance
• Respiratory Endurance
• Stamina
• Strength
• Flexibility
• Power
• Speed
• Coordination
• Agility
• Balance

CrossFit is a core strength and conditioning program that combines a wide variety of functional movements into a timed or scored workout.  The CrossFit Program was developed to enhance an individual's competency at all physical tasks.  Our athlete are trained to perform successfully at multiple, diverse, and randomized physical challenges.  This fitness is demanded of military and police personnel, firefighters, and many sports requiring total or complete physical prowess.  CrossFit has proven effective in these areas.

Aside from the breadth or totality of fitness, the CrossFit program is distinctive, if not unique.  It focuses on maximizing neuroendocrine response, developing power, cross-training with multiple training modalities by using constantly varied functional movements and developing successful nutritional strategies mainly based around the Zone or Paleo diets.

Our athletes are trained to bike, run, swim, and row at short, middle, and long distances guaranteeing exposure and competency in each of the three main metabolic pathways.  We train our athletes in gymnastics from rudimentary to advanced movements garnering great capacity at controlling the body both dynamically and statically while maximizing strength to weight ratio and flexibility.  We also place a heavy emphasis on Olympic Weightlifting having seen this sport's unique ability to develop an athletes' explosive pwer, control of external objects, and mastery of critical motor recruitment patterns.  Overall we encourage and assist our athletes to explore a variety of sports as a vehicle to express and apply their fitness (Adapted from "Foundations"-CrossFit Journal, Glassman).