Inside CrossFit Albuquerque: the gym floor, the rig, and rowers under the flag

First CrossFit box in Albuquerque

18 years under the barbell.

Eighteen years coaching the same neighbors through their first squat and their thousandth. No experience needed. Just show up.

Drop in Free week(locals only)Visiting? Drop in. Local? Your first week is free.

Takes no talent →View today’s workout

18Years in business

1stBox in Albuquerque

4.9★ Google rating

11Coaches on the floor

Never done CrossFit? Perfect.

What to expect

Most people who walk through that door have never touched a barbell. Nobody's watching you. Everybody in the room was new once, and your coach scales every movement to wherever you actually are today. Here's how it goes.

Claim your free week

Tell us you're coming and someone will reach out to find a class time that fits your week. No sales call, no pressure.

Meet a coach, learn the basics

Your first sessions cover the basic movements at your own pace. A coach stays with you the whole time, and nothing gets loaded heavy until you're ready for it.

Find your people

By the end of the week you'll know a handful of names and where the chalk is. That's usually when people decide. We won't bring up membership until you do.

Key card entryKid-friendly loungeFree coffeeClean, always

The TNT wall

Takes no talent.

There’s a wall in the gym with these eight things painted on it. Not one of them is a skill you have to be born with, and not one of them has anything to do with how fit you are the day you walk in.

01
Show up.
02
Work hard.
03
Give max effort.
04
Focus.
05
Stay disciplined.
06
Improve daily.
07
Be accountable.
08
Be consistent.

Bring those eight and the coaching is our problem. Start with a free week.

Inside the gym

This is a Tuesday

No highlight reel, no actors. Ropes, rings, a coach talking through the workout, and people who look like people. That wall in the background is the one we just told you about.

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Programs

Something here fits your life

Group class is the heart of this place. There are a few other ways in, depending on who you are and what you need.

The main thing

CrossFit group classes

One hour, one coach, one clock, and a room full of people quietly pulling for you. Everything scales, so the person beside you might be lifting twice your weight or half of it. Nobody notices. Nobody cares.

See the weekly schedule →

Ages 6 to 13 · Mon + Wed 4 to 5pm

Youth Fitness

Coach Abby runs it, and she genuinely likes coaching kids, which you can tell inside of five minutes.

See the program →Meet Coach Abby →

60+ · Mon + Wed 10:30am

Legends

Strength and balance work for the decades you still want to be moving well in. Most people here started at zero.

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One on one

Personal training

Private sessions built around your schedule, your injury history, or whatever you’re actually training for.

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Jump ropes and bands on the wall of the gym

From the people on the floor

The people who stayed

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The floor

Coaches who know your name

Aaron Bubbico, Coach Bubz to everybody here, has owned the place since 2019. He's a certified strength coach with a master's in exercise science. Eleven of us in all, and not one will let you get hurt.

Aaron BubbicoOwner · CSCS, CF-L2

Jamie MoyleCoach

Kyra WisniewskiLead Programmer · CF-L1

Tarmis Fahey-GaudielleCoach

Nathan JurgensenCF-L1 Coach

Abby UnruhCF-L1 · Youth Fitness lead

Meredith StackonisCF-L1 Coach

Guillermo HernandezCoach

John BubbicoCoach

Melissa MartinezCoach

Klaudia HernandezCoach

The story

Eighteen years of people who kept showing up

This gym opened before most of Albuquerque had heard the word CrossFit, and it's outlasted every fitness trend since. The reason is boring: people stay. Aaron Bubbico has run it since 2019, on the stubborn belief that anybody who walks through the door can get strong here.

Some gyms you visit when motivation strikes. People make this one their home, the every day instead of the once in a while. The floor's clean, the coffee's on, and the coaches know your name by Thursday. All we ask you to bring is the willingness to walk in.

On the whiteboard

Today’s workout

Monday, September 14. This is the same workout every class runs today, scaled by your coach to exactly where you are.

Straight from Wodify, the same board our members log their scores on.

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CrossFit - Mon, Sep 14

Weightlifting

E3MOM for 18 Minutes:

5 Back Squats

Use the first 3 sets to build to your working weight.

Then, use 55%, 65%, and 75% of your 1RM for sets 4, 5, and 6.

On set 6, perform 5 or more reps but do not go to failure.

Back Squat (6 x 5 Back Squat (Set 6 is an "AMRAP" @75% of your 1RM))

Back Squat

Record the weight you used for set 6 and the number of reps you did.

Metcon (AMRAP - Rounds & Reps)

9 Minute AMRAP:

3 Wall Walks

30 Double Unders

6 Shoulder-to-Overhead (155/105)

RX+ - 185/125

RX - As Written

Scaled L1 - 1-2 Wall Walks, 15 Double Unders, 115/75

Scaled L2 - 1-2 Scaled Wall Walks, 30 Single Unders, 75/55

Scaled L3 - Coach Directed

Upside Down Challenge

Handstand holds are the foundation for handstand walking and a great way to improve shoulder stability and strength. Over the next 4 weeks, the goal is to accumulate some time upside down. For every minute you spend upside down, you get a raffle ticket. You can earn as many as 3 raffle tickets a week but you can spend more time upside down if you want! At the end of the 4 weeks, we’ll pick 2 winners to get a free t-shirt!

Upside down looks different for everyone.

Some handstand hold variations to choose from:

Pike Position

Pike Position with Both Feet On a Box

Pike Position with One Leg On a Box and One Leg in the Air

Partial Wall Walk

Handstand Against the Wall (Wall Walk Up; Facing the Wall)

Handstand Against the Wall (Kick Up; Facing Away from the Wall)

Handstand Against the Wall One Foot on the Wall (Kick Up; Facing Away from the Wall or Towards the Wall; Try to Use the Wall as Little as Possible)

Freestanding (Try to move your hands as little as possible)

A great strategy for this challenge is to accumulate 1-minute upside down, 3 times each week.

Here are some different ways to accumulate a minute upside down:

EMOM for 6 Minutes:

:10 hold in your handstand variation

E2MOM for 6 Minutes:

:20 hold in your handstand variation

Accumulate 1 minute upside down in as few sets as possible.

Time Cap: 6 Minutes

Do these 3 workouts each week, or come up with your own way to accumulate 3-minutes!

From the floor

See a normal day here

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Fits your day

The weekly schedule

Monday5am · 6am · 9am · 12pm · 4pm · 5pm · 6pm · 7pm

Open gym 7am-9am · 1pm-4pmFit for Life 10:30am · Youth Fit 4pm

Tuesday5am · 6am · 9am · 12pm · 4pm · 5pm · 6pm · 7pm

Open gym 7am-9am · 10am-12pm · 1pm-4pmCrossfit Teen 3:15pm

Wednesday5am · 6am · 9am · 12pm · 4pm · 5pm · 6pm · 7pm

Open gym 7am-9am · 1pm-4pmFit for Life 10:30am · Youth Fit 4pm

Thursday5am · 6am · 9am · 12pm · 4pm · 5pm · 6pm

Open gym 7am-9am · 10am-12pm · 1pm-4pm

Friday5am · 6am · 9am · 12pm · 4pm · 5pm · 6pm

Open gym 7am-9am · 10am-12pm · 1pm-4pm

Saturday9am

Open gym 10am-11am

SundayRest day

Class times are coached CrossFit classes. Open gym is member access with a coach on the floor.

Visiting? Reserve a drop-in ($20) →

No surprises

Simple pricing

Free

Your first week · no card needed

Unlimited, month to month$185/mo Unlimited, 6 month$165/mo Unlimited, annual$150/mo

Student, military, first responder$135/mo

Youth (ages 6 to 13)$85/mo

Start with the free week

Drop-ins $20, ten-class punch card $160, personal training from $70 a session. Payment and sign-up run through Wodify.

The space

Check out our gym

Ten thousand square feet of floor, iron, and room to move. Come see it in person, the door opens at 5am. Swipe through.

The main floor, rig and bikes down the right wall

Community

The businesses in our corner

Local businesses that back this gym and the people in it. Their support is what keeps our community events running.

PowerFlex Gym French Funerals & Cremations Perfection Honda

Become a community partnerBanner in the gym, shout-outs to our members, a community that shows up.

We mean it

How can we pray for you?

We care about what's going on outside the hour you spend here. If something heavy is happening, we'd be honored to pray for you.

Requests go straight to Aaron. They're never posted or shared with anyone.

Before you ask

The honest answers

I am really out of shape. Is that a problem?+

Honestly, that's how most people start. Every movement scales, you pick the weight, and the coach's whole job is to meet you where you are that day. Eighteen years in, we've started thousands of people from zero.

Do I need experience with weightlifting?+

None. Your first sessions teach the movements before you ever load a bar heavy. You get a real on-ramp, and nobody hands you a heavy bar on day one.

What is actually free about the free week?+

A full week of classes, no cost and no card on file, for local residents. Most boxes around town hand you one or two intro sessions. We'd rather you get a real week, see the 5am crowd and the evening crowd, and decide for yourself. If it isn't for you, no hard feelings.

Where are you and when are you open?+

5643 Jefferson Street NE. Classes run from 5am through the evening on weekdays, plus Saturday mornings. The weekly grid on this page pulls straight from our booking system, so it's always current. Call or text us at 505-264-7341.

Local residents

Your first week is on us

One form, about a minute. We’ll text you back to set your first class. That’s the whole ask.