Iridium CrossFit & Iridium Barbell Club, Ames IA

Prior to Iridium CrossFit I was going through the motions of the same workout routine I have done for the past 4 years. All I did was power lift and I struggled outside of the gym doing things I love like mountain biking. Iridium has sparked my love for working out again with amazing coaches, gym and workout program. I can feel myself gaining functional strength, flexibility and endurance.

Best gym ever! Coaches are amazing, they’re motivating, personable, and knowledgeable. I love it here!

I couldn’t ask for a better gym, coaches, owners, and community. This place is my second home and no matter what I always leave in the best mood. This gym is really one of a kind! You’ll never regret coming here!

Iridium CrossFit is a very welcoming place. From the day I started, everyone knows me by name and have welcomed me into their gym. I would recommend trying them out!

Could not recommend Iridium CrossFit enough! Love the atmosphere and community! All the coaches are very knowledgeable and have every athletes best interest in mind. I’ve gone through a few health crisis and have come back to the gym where everyone has open arms and is always cheering each other on!

Iridium is my family’s home away from home. Being a recent mom, the coaches helped me through my whole pregnancy and post-partum journey, modifying and encouraging me through the entire process. I came for the workout, but stayed for the people!

If you are looking to make your health and fitness a priority again, have fun, and be apart of an amazing community and gym family. Then you need to get down to Iridium Crossfit located in Ames IA.
The owners/Coaches Bret, Cara, Heath, and Lindsey are amazing. Their Gym is a cut above the rest.
You can't ask for a better staff and facility to help you accomplish any of your physical goals.

Great gym all around coaches are friendly and helpful, equipment is well up to date and there's plenty to go around.

Great gym with amazing coaches, great community, and an overall great environment to be at. You will be able to achieve so much!

Great space, great people, great coaches, extremely clean and personable. I feel comfortable and achieve goals! Definitely the best CrossFit gym because coaches care about you and want you to have the best experience!

I love Iridium CrossFit! It’s home to me. The coaches are great. The workouts are easily scaled or modified to fit your needs and abilities. You will not find a better group of people anywhere else.

From a beginner’s perspective.

Coming from an ultra running background I had zero knowledge of lifting, but wanted to get into CrossFit and so I joined Iridium. This is a great gym to learn all of the basics, they provide everything and you can pretty much just step into the gym and start the prescribed workout. I found the workouts to be scalable for different fitness levels and challenging enough to keep me humbled. I found the 5: 30AM workouts to be a lot more challenging and faster paced, the 6: 30AM workouts tend to be a bit more casual, smaller sized and more time was focused on getting form correct (as opposed to finishing as many activities as possible), this was great for me as a beginner.

If anyone decides to get into lifting in a safe way, I think Iridium CrossFit is an amazing place to start. Did I also mention that they host competitions? Really great community, they also host side events like painting and food drives. Highly recommend Iridium for both beginners and also people who have years of experience. I want to give a huge shout out to coaches Adam and Billy for their contagious passion for CrossFit and their keen eye on form and the countless times that they were able to improve my technique significantly.

Maybe my only complaint is that I feel like the workouts aren’t long enough. I wish there were more 45 min+ blocks of continuous exercise. Instead, there is like 45 min of stretching, accessory lifts, strength and warm ups before the actual workout which was usually only 10-15 minutes long (albeit, very intense).