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Cornwall’s Air Gliders New CrossFit Gym

Flying High in 18th Season Opens in Cornwall

By Jen Halsall says Juneau. “One year I had three By Jennifer Halsall old high school teacher with different
athletes from Ottawa who wanted to weights, and get the same results.”
train with me. You never know.” tarting this September, Cornwall’s Labelle has been involved in
ornwall’s Air Gliders Trampoline Sathletes and fi tness enthusiasts CrossFit for four years, and says the
CClub will begin its 18th year One of those travelling athletes is will have a new workout option: workouts’ effectiveness struck him
this September, marking nearly two Schuyler Schellenberg, a national CrossFit. Together, Kyle Labelle and
competitor who began jumping at Air Matthew Mondoux will be opening almost immediately. A more recent
decades of airborne excellence in convert, Mondoux has been doing

the community. Since its opening Gliders when he was six years old. Cornwall’s first fully dedicated gym
Juneau says many athletes start in on September 8th. CrossFit for just over a year. “It’s
in 1997, the club has produced a a blast,” he says. “I’ve never had
multitude of recreational, provincial, the recreational trampoline programs CrossFit is a full-body workout this much fun training, so if you’re
and national athletes. before progressing to more advanced based on functional movements
techniques. “The recreational aspect looking to get into shape, this is the
“We’re growing, and I think we is very important to the club,” he and actions that can be scaled to an best way to do it.”
could grow more,” says Jean Juneau, says. “I had quite a few kids who athlete’s ability. It’s garnered a lot of But Labelle says CrossFit’s greatest
the club’s founder. “The challenge were interested in moving up to the attention for its seemingly demanding asset can’t be found in weights and

is always to find available coaches.” intermediate level, so it’s building regime, but according to Labelle, the reps. “The community is what makes
Air Gliders registers 50 to 75 jumpers up.” Juneau says this year’s athletes program’s set-up makes it nearly it,” he says. “Without the community,
each year, several of whom come from will be training hard to qualify for the universal. “Whether you’re picking it’s just another workout program. It
outside Cornwall. “We have quite a provincial championships in April. something up or you’re getting off really brings people together, and it
few travelling a fair distance for the Until then, they can look forward to a the couch, all the movements you builds very strong friendships. We
training, and that’s very interesting,” first meet this December. do in CrossFit are things you do in want to help people get fit, build a

your real life,” he says. “Anybody
strong community, and help them
can really do it. All you change are
the reps and the weight. I could be achieve goals they didn’t think they
could.”
doing the same workout as a 45 year-

New Owners Kyle Labelle (L) and Mathew Mondoux (R)
Submitted Photo
“People Pulling Together for you”

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