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what's going on everybody
welcome to wednesday night
crossfit talk with carolyn
prevo and myself how you
doing carolyn not too bad
just had dinner had a
little um sorbet for
dessert it's delicious uh
did you buy it or did you
make it I bought it at
costco it like comes like
in a fruit and you just
like grab a spoon and just
scoop it it's awesome
there's recipes with my
Ninja creamy that you can
make sorbets with,
like with fresh fruit and everything.
I just haven't,
I actually haven't even
fired it up in probably a month.
I bought a Ninja creamy
maybe a year ago or a year
and a half ago.
And it's still in a box.
I haven't even opened it.
Lex wanted me to buy it.
And I, I just haven't,
I haven't even opened it.
It's ready for,
it's ready for her when she comes.
It is, uh,
It would be needed here in
Dallas right now.
It's pretty warm.
But yeah.
Aaron Fraser asks what my shirt says.
It says WKRP in Cincinnati.
And if you're old enough to
know what this show,
it was a TV show back in the day.
But I like the way it looks
like an old rock T-shirt.
So, and it was one of my favorite shows.
So we're here, Fort Worth, Texas,
getting ready for the CrossFit Games.
They start tomorrow morning, 7 a.m.
local time.
So that would be 5 a.m.
for Carolyn.
You'll be up for like three
hours by that point.
Yeah,
I'm already going to be up at that point.
So, yeah,
I put all the times for like I've
already converted
everything for the whole day.
So I'm ready to go tomorrow
between the Olympics and the games.
My day is full because it's my rest day.
So it'll be good.
Lots of sport watching.
Speaking of the Olympics,
my plane right now,
American has where you can
watch free TV on your
iPhone or your phone.
But my headphones were
attached to my laptop,
which was in my bag in the overhead.
And I couldn't get them to detach.
So I couldn't listen to
whatever I was watching.
So I had to watch the
Olympics on closed caption and read
all the stuff that was going
on this afternoon.
It was pretty funny.
I've had to do that many times.
If I forgot like my
headphones or something and
I didn't want to put it out,
like the volume up super high.
I just read the captions.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Don't forget to like, and subscribe.
That's why Lex is there.
Like subscribe, hit that notifier.
We're going to be going live a couple.
I set up all the shows so
you can go look and see
when we're going live all weekend.
We're going to do a wrap-up
once a day and then our
normal show on Sunday night.
So we know the entire lineup for tomorrow.
We've known event one is the Run-Swim.
Let's talk favorites for
these events for tomorrow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Go ahead.
On the men's side,
I'm looking at Brent Fikowski,
James Sprague.
Lazar normally does well in
running and swimming.
So I'd say those three.
Someone like Ricky could
probably have a good lead.
However,
I don't think he is the strongest
swimmer as an Aussie.
I think he's a good swimmer,
but it just depends how
much of a lead he can have offensively.
with his running capacity.
And if you're playing the Heat One app,
it's a lot harder now.
You can't just pick the winner.
You have to pick from five
different regions, I think it is,
or four different regions.
Did I pause or did you?
Did I lose the internet or you?
Yeah,
the internet here has been off and on
a lot all day.
What was the last thing you heard from me?
I heard everything.
So I'm hearing everything from you.
I just,
I think you're not hearing me fast
enough.
Okay.
Yeah.
So those,
those would be my pick on the
men's side would, would be those three.
I,
I still think Jeff and Ricky can do well
just because of, and I mean, yellow,
I don't know his swimming capacity.
Um, if he's a good swimmer,
he could be in the mix as
well in the top 10.
Um,
Yeah,
I think the run's going to play a big
factor,
but you obviously need to be a
good swimmer.
On the female side, I mean,
Tia is going to do great.
Haley Adams should do well.
Emily Rolfe is a strong
swimmer and runner.
Look for people like Grace
Walton to possibly be up there.
I'd say those are some solid picks.
So I agree with everything you're saying.
I think that as a dark horse pick,
I think Jeff Adler is going
to have a really good event one.
I think people are going the
Fikowski-James Sprague route,
and I think that Jeff's
going to have a great one.
People are counting him out,
and he won last year,
and he's got something to prove.
The other person that I think,
I think Hattie Kenya is
going to have a great event one.
I know that when she was in Bali,
swimming was part of her
training a couple days a week.
And she can run really well.
Yeah,
that'd be great for her to start the
weekend off with a good event.
Yeah,
not saying she's going to beat Tia or
Emily,
but she's going to have a really good,
really good day.
I just think that three and
a half miles of running is
definitely substantial,
and the good runners are
going to get a good lead
going into the water.
Yeah.
Yeah,
if you look at Hattie in the berm run
that took out the berm,
she did really well in that
at semifinals.
And then I know that she swims a lot.
So that's why I'm picking
her as a dark horse.
Yeah.
Pringle's a great runner too.
I don't know her swimming capacity.
And she's got great endurance.
So she could be another one
to like a dark horse to,
to watch in that event.
Yeah, that's a great pick.
So let's move on to event two.
Event two was just announced today.
I'm not even sure I
understand the total lot, the,
the order of it.
So it's four rounds and they
have the sledgehammer or
like the hammer sledgehammer.
And I mean, they don't even go like,
it's a horrible technique
that they're using.
That's just straight up and
down and then switching.
And then they grab a light sandbag.
That's like soft and like
half full and they toss it
over the tire and they can
walk over the tire.
to the other side.
Actually, before they have to do that,
they have to touch the ground.
So you throw this sandbag,
touch the ground,
then you have to go over.
The amount of people that
are going to forget to
touch the ground and go
over the tire is going to be a lot.
There's going to be a lot of
no reps there or misjudge reps there.
But that was something that was in
the video that they had.
And then there's so 14 reps
of that and then five tire
flips and then yeah, four rounds.
So 50 hammers,
which just looks embarrassing.
It looks like we don't know
how to do a sledgehammer
because it's not even good technique.
And you don't get rewarded for any power.
Like I've done a lot of
training with that with hockey.
We used to do that all the
time on the tires at Wisconsin.
And I also did in CrossFit a little bit,
but never like never a speed thing.
It was more accessory.
It's more for power building, precision,
stuff like that.
But like you're not getting
rewarded for any good technique,
any any power generated.
You're just hitting the tire.
It's going to bounce back
and you just have to be
quick to bring it above your head.
It looks ridiculous.
It looks embarrassing.
Just look at the posture of
the athletes demoing it.
It looks dumb.
Colton had a good flow going,
but it still looks so... It
looks so dumb.
That's not even how you use it.
So...
When I heard hammer,
I had just gotten off a
plane and I thought that
they were going to swing it
like you showed like over the,
and that I would have been
fine with this.
This would have, this thing is not that.
And my comment to you was
ain't nobody winning the
stuffed teddy bear at the
fair with the way they're
swinging the hammer.
No, they don't have to hit hard.
They can just let it fall
and then just re-grip.
I mean,
it's going to be hard because
they're racing.
And it's going to be grippy because,
I mean, all three movements are grippy.
The tire is very, very light.
Like, when you flip tires, it's normally,
like, 400 to 600 pounds.
Like, maybe even more than that.
This is 242 pounds.
It's so light.
Like, it just...
you could, you could toss that, that tire,
not like barely, like they weren't even,
they weren't even using their knee.
Normally when you do a tire flip,
like you drive your knee and then you,
you push it again.
It's like the,
the demo of it just looked
like we didn't know how to flip a tire,
which some people will be
very good at the tire.
I love the tire.
Like, I think that's great.
They should,
they could have done like
burpee jump in the tire,
come back the other way and
then had another implement.
But,
Like the sandbag toss just looks sloppy.
The bag is sloppy, but it's okay.
I just think people are
going to miss that touch on
the ground a lot.
I don't hate any of the
elements by themselves,
but I hate the standards.
I think that's a part I don't like.
And Vi asks the question,
why do you think they went
with this standard over the
swing behind the body?
And she then follows it up with safety,
maybe?
I don't think it has to do with safety,
but I think that's going to
be the fastest way to do it.
The power means nothing.
Yeah.
In the times that they've
used a hammer or some sort of like sledge,
they had to hit an object,
whether it was a stake in the ground,
which that's not even fair
across all lanes,
like what you're slamming into.
or they had the assault
banger where you're,
you're hitting that thing
either between your legs or to the side,
but you're hitting an
object and you're moving in
a certain distance.
Like there's no thing,
like there's nothing that's
being moved distance wise.
You're just hitting,
like there's not even a
target that you have to hit
the circle every time.
So it measures precision.
It's literally just above your head.
Like,
can you be hunched over the whole time?
And just, I don't know the standard,
I guess.
Like if you have to stand up,
then becomes a range of motion.
And the smaller athletes
could do maybe better over
50 reps like that.
Yeah, I just think it was,
it's very interesting.
Like I said, the sandbag toss over,
it's okay.
I'm not like,
I don't think it's like the coolest thing,
but I mean, it's fine.
You still, you have to have, like,
I like sandbag tosses and
stuff like that.
Like,
I think that's athleticism stuff like
we used to do.
like med balls and throw
them over our shoulder and
like for distance and stuff like that.
So don't have to toss it and
be precise landing it on
the other side of the tire,
but just very interesting workout.
Yeah.
Sorry.
I'm my,
my grocery shopper is texting me
that they're out of
something I wanted trying
to get groceries to the hotel room.
Aaron Frazier says,
it's the equivalent of running in place.
It's a great training exercise.
It's grippy.
It gets tiring.
I just don't think it has a
place in competition.
That's my thing.
I don't think it's good in a
sport for speed.
If you're not moving a certain distance,
something,
if you're just like hitting
something on the spot,
the standard is very hard.
Yeah.
It might be a factor.
Thinking about it.
If you went behind the back,
how do you judge that standard?
Like, how do you, like,
there's no way like,
and so why not just show
them the fastest way to do it?
Cause everybody's going to do that anyway.
Yeah.
I mean,
you would be dumb to do the correct way.
because it would be slow and
you'd be dumb to use all
the power to go into the,
into the tire because
you're not getting any more points or any,
any lead by hitting the tire any harder.
And you're just going to be like,
wasting your energy that way
like at the end of the day
it's still going to be
exciting because all of us
are fans of the sport and
we're going to be excited
to see the the races go
down and you know position
wise who's going to get the
points but if you're
showcasing our sport I just
don't think that's it looks
good like I'm I was
embarrassed watching it
yeah I lex asks if it's on
espn I don't think it is
I think Amanda's what's on ESPN,
which Vi says as well.
I think Amanda's a good one
to have on ESPN.
Amanda's a great workout on ESPN.
The mixture of a gymnastics,
like high-skill movement,
like a ring muscle-up,
and then the precision of a snatch.
That's always been a great –
Amanda's a great workout.
This one,
if they're going to be showing
highlights of it on ESPN –
Yeah.
Yeah.
Lex says,
imagine that's someone's first
workout they see of CrossFit.
Everybody thinks all we do
is swing sledgehammers into
tires and flip them anyway.
But if they think that's all
the better we can do it,
then that's not good.
like it's a good workout.
Like it would be a good workout to do on a,
like, you know,
on a weekend at your
affiliate with people and you're just,
you know, that's,
you have a tire and you
come up with a workout and
it's just something you do.
Great.
At, for the test of the fittest on earth,
like as that,
like that's a test that was
needed in our 12 or however
many that they,
that they're going to come up with.
Like that's the test that we
decide just determines the
fittest on earth.
Like,
Yeah.
I don't know.
Yep.
I agree.
So then we finished up with Amanda,
which we both agree is a great workout.
It's Amanda 45.
So it actually starts at 13
instead of nine.
The original Amanda was nine, five, three,
nine, seven, five, nine, seven, five.
This one is 13, 11, nine, seven, five.
So yeah,
That's a lot.
I've heard elite athletes
say that when you say, Amanda,
it sounds like not a lot on paper,
the original version, and when you do it,
you're gassed at the end.
Now you're adding two more
rounds at the higher end.
Does it change the pacing?
That slows it down because
the real original Amanda,
it's unbroken on the barbell.
Here with 13, 11...
nine seven five you're not
going unbroken on the
barbell um you could do
fast singles and then like
the men are unbroken on the
ring muscles um there could
be a few women that could
go unbroken on on the ring
muscles I don't think many
of them can but you can
definitely see um some of
them go on unbroken on all
rounds um it'll it's a good
workout yeah I like this one a lot
I did it this year in
February because I knew
Amanda with some version of
Amanda was coming this year.
So I've been playing around
with different versions of it.
Yeah, it's a good one.
I like it.
Yeah,
this is the one I'm most excited of
for tomorrow.
To see this in the new venue
in the big with all the
lights and all the and this
to be the ESPN one.
I think this is going to be fun to watch.
Yeah, the venue looks great.
I think they did a great job
just with all the rigs and stuff.
It looks really good.
Yeah.
So people asked about the media access.
I still don't have my credentials yet.
I have to go get them
because when my plane came
in and they changed some of
the scheduling at the venue,
I wasn't able to get there
in time to pick up my credentials today.
And then they were closing
down the venue anyway for team briefings.
and demos tonight.
So we weren't even allowed
in the building anyway.
And they released all of the
team workouts for tomorrow as well.
Anything there of note?
Because I haven't had time
to look at that.
So on the first event,
it was posted earlier on
their CrossFit Games page.
So the team runs three and a half miles
And then they'll paddle
together 0.75 miles to the finish line.
So a little bit longer on
the water than the
individuals who are half a
mile in the water, which is 800 meters.
So that's the first event, which, I mean,
I think a lot of the teams
have been practicing some
version of running into a
paddle after some of the
clues have come up.
come out and then also
seeing the individual workout,
you figured that it was
going to be something similar.
And sure enough, it is.
Um, event number two is a deadlift ladder.
Um, it's like a female, female pair,
and then a male, male, um, paired.
It's like a four minute
AMRAP and the ladder goes higher.
So it's like 20 reps.
Let me just pull it up in my phone.
Yeah, it's like 20 deadlifts at weight one,
20 deadlifts at weight two,
and then max deadlifts at weight three.
And you're just going back
and forth with your partner
until the four minute time caps,
which I mean, I love, of course.
So the last weight for the
barbell on the deadlift for
the men is 425.
And for the females, it's 305.
So in the video that
CrossFit Games posted,
Colton was just ripping them out.
Scott had a little bit more
difficulty with the deadlifts,
but Colton was just going after it.
And then they'll rest two minutes.
And then event number three
is a relay style.
So essentially the reps are all 30 total.
But it's it's divided up
differently between a ring
muscle up and a clean and jerk.
So the first athlete would
go six ring muscle ups and
or I'm assuming it's ring
and 24 clean and jerk for time.
And then the next athlete
would go and their version
would be 12 ring muscle ups
and 18 clean and jerks at 135,
95 as well.
The weight stays the same.
Athlete three would be 18
ring muscle ups and 12 clean and jerks.
And then the last one would
be 24 clean or ring muscle
ups and six clean and jerks.
So most of the teams,
I would assume their male
athlete will be doing the
24 ring muscle ups and the
18 and seeing whether that
athlete has that unbroken.
And that weight on the
barbell is light that it's a sprint.
Like you're essentially
going on broken on both
movements and then you're tagging up.
Like I expect almost all the,
like all the top teams to
be unbroken on this.
So it could be a range of motion as well,
but your grip is going to
be a factor depending on
the deadlift from the one before,
if someone had to hold on
and they have to go a little bit earlier,
but I think it will be fine.
My question to you is going to be,
does that mean the females
would go first and the
males would finish up?
And you answered that already.
Unless you have someone,
like a female athlete,
that would have 18 ring
muscle-ups unbroken.
But I just... I think the
round of 24 muscle-ups,
you might see a break.
But I think if you look at a
team with Noah Olsen or...
uh, Chandler, you know, Tola and them,
like those athletes can do the 24,
I'm assuming unbroken or in two sets.
And then they only have six
clean and jerks after at one 35,
which is normal.
Like it's only pretty,
pretty much a touch and go.
Um, so I think that's, I like that.
That's an exciting,
they're not doing the hammer tire stuff.
So nice job.
uh lex asks is the run roped
I haven't seen if it was
roped or not but I mean
what benefit does it do to
separate from your team if
you gotta wait at the
paddle anyways for all four
members to get there um I
would like for it to be
roped and they're running
together I like I like when
they do that yeah
I think it always looks
better roped because then
it's not – your score is
just your worst runner.
And I know that there's a finisher to this,
but it just has that look.
And so I like it when it's roped.
And that's going to – and
it's been happening like
this for many years,
but a lot of times your
worst runner is a big
factor at one of the events.
Like I was talking to –
what's his name?
Um, Scuds is a boyfriend today and we were,
and he was, yeah.
Um,
and he was saying that you can't hide a
good runner or a bad runner anymore.
Like you're always, you know,
penalized for a bad runner,
but if you have a bad lifter,
a lot of times you can
still make up for it with
the other lifters,
but you can't make up for the bad runner.
And I was like, that's a good point that,
you know, you, you're as fast as you're,
As that runner.
And then we talked about
this earlier with the
paddle and the
synchronization that's
going to happen and making
sure that they're going straight.
But I don't think the
distance on the water is significant.
I think a lot of it will get
determined on the run.
However, the beginning of the water,
if there's a lot of paddles there,
can get physical-ish, I'll say.
Yeah,
my guess is the teams that are
together a lot, like the top teams,
like Peak360 and the Mayhem teams,
and they're not going to
have a problem with the synchronization.
But I'm thinking that first heat,
you might see some train wrecks.
Just if you haven't paddled a lot,
there is a technique to it.
And there is like,
you want to reach the same
depth in the water.
You want to have the same
angle on the paddle.
or whatever your paddling turn,
and go not straight.
So I think it's more likely
in the earlier heats,
but just because those top
teams have spent the whole year together.
Will it just be one heat, though?
It could just be one large heat.
Or maybe, you know,
difference of 10 minutes
just so that when they get
to the water it's not as
scrambled um yeah but it
looks like they have to
stay on their like on their
knees and they're not able
to stand up on the paddle
board from what the demo
team demonstrated on dave's
story a few days ago yeah
the last thing I wanted to
talk about um and I just
want to take the last
couple minutes to do that is
If you didn't see the press
conference that had today,
I've said a lot of things
that I didn't like that
CrossFit has been doing.
I thought the press
conference they handled
today was excellent.
And what they did in it was excellent.
They had all the home state
athletes talk about what it
means for the games to come
to their home state.
Don Fall spoke.
There were executives there.
And then they had a level
one seminar staff member.
show a class to the press,
like what it looks like to
do a CrossFit class.
And I thought that was brilliant.
I missed it.
And that sounds awesome.
That, that that's,
and I did see like a
picture of Don fall and the
Texas native three athletes that I saw.
It was Ariel and,
Domet and Bethany.
And I was like, oh,
that's great that they
included the hometown or home state,
I should say, athletes.
But yeah, that's great.
Yeah.
They took 30 minutes to hold
a simulated class to show
the press what a CrossFit
class looks like.
And
that is the best thing I've
seen in a press conference
since I became part of the
media five years ago.
So, um, I want to give them kudos to that,
uh, huge shout out.
Cause I think that was an
excellent idea and they
should be applauded for that.
Absolutely.
Um,
Lex jumps in again with who do we think
will be the men's and
women's leader after day one?
I think on the men's side,
you're going to see Ricky
in the lead after day one.
I think he's going to have a
great first event.
His second event,
I have no idea what's going to happen,
but he is not super tall,
and he's very athletic.
He's one of the more
athletic ones in the field.
He should do well in number two,
and he's going to crush Amanda.
And then on the female side,
I don't think you can go
with anyone but Tia.
Dang.
I want to say somebody other than Tia.
I think that event one,
she's going to win or come
in second at worst.
So that gives her an advantage.
If you want to pick someone else,
I would go with Emma Lawson.
I'm going to go Alexis Raptus.
I think two and three are
going to be good for her.
I know she's been swinging a
sandbag a lot this year.
And so that little fluffy
one that they have to do an event to,
she's going to toss around.
I think two and three are
going to be really, really good for her.
If she can have a solid
finish in event one.
I think she should be good in it.
She's a great runner.
Her swimming should be good.
I don't know if she'll finish top five.
I think that there's
stronger swimmers in the
field than Alexis.
That's why if I were to go outside of Tia,
I would go with Emma Lawson,
who's a great swimmer and runner.
I think she can do well on the sledge one.
I think that she moves well
Like we saw in the box jump
overs last year at the games,
how much she dominated just
the box jump overs there.
And then she almost always
wins ring muscle-up
workouts traditionally.
She's done it at Rogue.
She's done it at semifinals a lot.
So I think Emma could have a
great day one.
If you want to go with
someone other than Tia,
she'll be up there.
So I'm going to take a flyer on –
I think your, your picks are solid.
I, because I don't,
Ricky is so good at almost
all of this other than the swim.
Um,
I'm going to take a flyer and go with
Pat Valder.
I know he can't swim.
It's not a long part of that workout.
Can he get a big,
just enough lead to make it solid?
He is awesome at muscle ups.
He'll kill Amanda's too.
Um,
And that mid that second one
is nothing for him.
I think he's going to do great.
And number two,
he grew up with a lacrosse
stick in his hand.
If someone is very agile
with both sides of like a
stick and something like in
his hand in that position,
it's literally Pat Donner
as a lacrosse player.
So I do think with his,
with his athleticism,
he adapts very well to
workouts at the games that
are new to people.
Um, he will do very well in two and three.
He's a good runner.
I think he is better on the
swim than what people give
him credit for.
I think he'll do, um,
middle of the pack there
and then great event two
and three that he's going
to be all the way up.
I don't know if he'll be in first,
but he'll be, you know,
well within the top 10 after,
after the first day.
Alexis Lazar and Justin will
have a good day.
One, two, Justin will kill day one.
So he'll probably be right
there behind Ricky.
It'll probably be Ricky, Justin, Pat.
We'll go with that.
I like that.
Like right now,
all of these workouts that are out,
like Roman, I don't see him as high as
jeff ricky and pat for what
we've known so far on these
events um on multiple days
I could be wrong but I it
just seems to be good
workouts right now for more
more other people than him
correct me if I'm wrong we
haven't seen a machine
announced not yet uh
Yes, skiered in the rope with GHD.
Like that has Justin
Medeiros written all over it,
Pat Vellner.
Roman can do well as well too,
but normally I would think
Justin Pat would do well on
that rope climb workout.
Andrew Stent says,
I want to see if Justin and
Lazar still have any beef from last year.
I saw Lazar say that he has no beef,
that they squashed it
pretty soon after the games.
Yeah,
I think it's in the heat of the moment.
They're competitive.
It's well in the rearview mirror now.
They're not thinking about that.
So my last question for you is,
is the Family Watch and Family Feud
One hundred percent.
I'm trying to mute in between,
but I know you can probably hear it.
Yeah, I know my game shows.
I grew up with them,
my family that we watch
them all the time.
So, yeah, love a good family feud.
Well,
this is our preview for event for day
one.
I'll be over at the venue tomorrow.
We'll we'll be doing our show.
I think I'm.
I think we scheduled that
I'm going to be live at the
venue right as everything ends, I think.
Yeah,
so tomorrow we're going to be live at
6 p.m.
Pacific time, 8 p.m.
Central time, 9 p.m.
Eastern time.
That's correct.
So make sure you check in for that.
If anything crazy happens,
maybe we'll jump on an IG
Live tomorrow afternoon.
So watch for that as well.
Those will be our quick
hitters if we need them for
the full wrap-up shows.
We'll be doing them here on
YouTube with that, guys.
Thank you so much for joining us tonight.
Have fun on Games Week.
We're starting tomorrow morning, 7 a.m.
local time.
Get your picks in.
Yeah, he won't try to beat us.
I need to get my losing
lineup in against Lex.
With that, bye, guys.
We'll see everybody next time.