Who We Are

BSCF is a CrossFit box and performance training center focusing on quality coaching and improving physical fitness. We are seeking to become the premier training facility for weightlifters, CrossFit, & GRID athletes in the Chicago area. Strength Agenda Performance / BSCF was founded by a group of three coaches who specialize in a single discipline: Brendan Ziegler, CrossFit; Tom Sroka, weightlifting; and Beth Sroka, yoga. Together, they pool their skills, experience, knowledge and coaching to create the one thing that matters: results.

When you walk in the doors at BSCF, it is our mission to learn what your goals are, and help you achieve them. Whether you want to be more fit for a special event, to be around to watch your kids & grandkids grow up, to make an Olympic team, or to find a way of exercising that doesn’t involve a treadmill, we’re going to help you. At our core, we’re a group of passionate coaches who want to help people get better, physically, mentally, emotionally. Every day, a little better.

We’re a different breed of fitness. Our programming is thoughtfully and intelligently designed to get you stronger and faster: we’re not just copying and pasting from a website. Our classes are challenging, effective and addicting: you’re going to want to keep coming back. Our coaches are carefully selected and further trained to uphold our high standards: safety first, mastery second. Our facility has been meticulously planned to offer you a place you can get better in: we invest in quality equipment, but our focus remains on you as the most important machine.

But at the end of the day, it’s not about how new or fancy our equipment is. It’s not about how many medals or trophies our coaches have won, or even about how many diplomas and certificates they have. This place is about becoming better than you were yesterday. It’s about leaving here tired, sore, sweaty and accomplished. It’s about belonging to a group of people who, day in and day out, show up because they want to be better. It’s about putting the work in and seeing the results you dream about.

BSCF isn’t for everybody, and that’s okay. It’s for people who want to be better.