Northville Business Spotlight on CrossFit Northville

There are many interesting businesses that call Northville home, from clothing retailers to restaurants to salons and even businesses you might not have known existed in your own backyard.

Each Thursday, we'll feature a new Northville business to learn more about its roots and more.

This week, we feature CrossFit Northville. It is owned by Jason Howes, a new partner to Uptown Body Fitness. CrossFit is teaming up with in downtown Northville. He tells us more about the business below.

Q: When were you founded?
CrossFit Northville was founded in March 2012 and opened its doors in May 2012 by Jason Howes after coaching CrossFit to clients since 2010. 

Q: How did your business come to be? 

Fitness and Health are a passion and the business was formed to make a difference in people’s lives through coaching, motivation, proper movement patterns, and focus on exercise and nutrition. After years of education, trial and error, and testing on himself and clients, Jason found CrossFit and Paleo to be the most successful combination of Exercise and Diet to produce the most efficient results. His client’s (typically busy professionals like himself) started getting fantastic results working out (aka PLAY) only 2-3 hours per week and their body composition literally changing weekly.  With the encouragement of his family and friends he decided to take the CrossFit method and his coaching to a wider audience and help others optimize their health and wellness and achieve their individual goals.

Q: Why did you choose Northville? 

Jason moved to Northville in 1995 after college and Community is a large part of his core values. His grandfather taught him to give back to the community and buy local back in the early 80s and that philosophy has held true since.  Northville is home to him and his wife Marci and two children, Zachary and Julia.  Northville is such a unique and wonderful placed made possibly by all the family, friends, neighbors, classmates, and character of the City and Township.
What kinds of services do you offer?  CrossFit Northville offers CrossFit Classes, CrossFit Endurance program, kids and youth programs, Weightlifting Classes, Yoga and Mobility classes, Personal Training, small group training, corporate wellness, nutritional guidance, body composition assessment, running form analysis, and more tools to help their client’s achieve their goals.

Q: What's a fact about your business that most customers probably don't know? 

We donate a portion of our profits to the charities of choice of our members based upon goals and progress over time. 

Q: What do you want your business to be best known for?

We make busy people athletes!  We want to be known as the most efficient and effective place to achieve your goals of health and fitness both individually and also as a family/community.

Q: What's your most popular product or service?

Right now with the CrossFit Games just completing the CrossFit group classes are the most popular and greatest value to our members and their family.

Interested in being featured in our Northville Business Spotlight? Email nancy.kelsey@patch.com for more details.