Caution CrossFit

Caution CrossFit occupies a warehouse-style training facility on NW 60th Avenue in the light-industrial pocket of Miami Lakes west of the Palmetto Expressway, an area of the town that trades the manicured Main Street storefronts for open-bay gyms, contractors, and service businesses. The gym is registered with the State of Florida as Caution Fitness Inc, an active corporation, and Yellow Pages lists it as having roughly fourteen years in business, which lines up with a founding in the early 2010s under the same ownership group that later opened a second Caution Fitness location in Miramar and Pembroke Pines.

The programming is built around CrossFit’s mixed-modal approach: constantly varied functional movements performed at high intensity, blending Olympic weightlifting, gymnastics-style bodyweight work, and conditioning. Caution’s own site lists a full slate beyond the standard CrossFit hour, including Strongman training for members who want to work with sandbags, sleds, and heavier implements, Olympic lifting sessions focused specifically on the snatch and clean and jerk, and a class called All Glutes & Glory aimed at lower-body strength and conditioning work. CrossFit Kids extends the program to younger members, a structure common among CrossFit-affiliated gyms that want to build a training culture across age groups rather than just adults.

What distinguishes Caution from a big-box gym is the affiliate model itself. Like every CrossFit gym, it is independently owned and operated by local coaches who pay to use the CrossFit name and methodology rather than reporting to a corporate parent that owns the real estate or dictates the class schedule. That structure means the culture, coaching staff, and community events are locally driven. Caution leans into this with Caution Grounds, an annual in-house athletic competition that gives members a chance to test fitness against friends and training partners rather than travel to an outside event, and with Caution Goals, an indoor soccer offering that broadens the gym’s footprint beyond barbell sports.

New members can try the facility through a five-day free trial before committing, a fairly standard on-ramp for CrossFit boxes that lets people sample the coaching style and community feel before signing up. The gym maintains an active presence on Facebook and Instagram under the handle caution.fitness.facility, where it posts workout content and community updates.

For Miami Lakes residents who want strength and conditioning training built around group classes and coached technique rather than a row of machines, Caution CrossFit is one of the few dedicated CrossFit facilities with a physical address inside town limits, sitting apart from the national gym chains clustered closer to the Palmetto Expressway interchange.