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I was born to kill it.
I was meant to win.
I am down and willing,
so I will find a way.
It took a minute,
now it didn't happen right away.
When it get hot in the kitchen,
you decide to stay.
That's how a winner's made.
Stick a fork
What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to the Clydesdale
Media Semi-Finalist Series.
Our first one of the year.
We're kicking it off with
one of the most popular guys in the sport,
Scott Tetlow.
Scott, what's going on, man?
Not a whole lot.
How you doing?
I'm good.
We didn't even coordinate this,
but we both came in with
the Uplift shirts.
Right.
Sporting man, Mark Moss and his, uh,
his organization, uh,
to prevent suicide and to
create suicide awareness.
Yeah.
And so I wanted to go right off the top.
Mark has started this organization.
You, this, I'm going to share my screen.
You this month in their challenge, uh,
did the workout.
So I'm going to pull that up.
Yeah.
There we go.
Yeah, he just posted it today.
So this is the Mays Uplift Challenge.
So I'm going to blow up the workout.
You want to explain it to people?
Yeah, it's a 10-minute AMRAP.
The movement's pretty simple.
Triplet, 12 alternating snatches,
50 for the men, 35 for the female,
eight lateral burpees over the dumbbell,
and then four handstand push-ups.
Handstand push-ups are strict, kipping,
whatever way you got to do
to keep moving throughout it.
It's a good one.
It's a lot more – I breathe a lot heavier.
It was a lot heavier
breathing than I thought it would be,
but I got, just so you know the score,
I got 10 plus one rep,
so I was able to keep one minute around.
Wow.
So a top male and female
will receive a $100 gift
card from Vindicate and one
month of next level programming.
Yep.
Pretty awesome.
So one minute around.
Did you go into it with that
thought process and treat
it like an AMRAP?
Yeah, I did.
I was like, I'm looking at him like, OK,
well, I should.
The goal is to be able to
hold for me and everything.
I was like,
I think I can hold one minute around.
So I tried it and then I I
did it with one of my my
buddies that I trained with
and he got just under 10 rounds.
So, you know,
that was that was the intent
whenever I broke like 10
minutes or whatever for me.
So so you could hold one minute around.
So the other thing that
uplift is doing for you is
they're hyping you up, man.
And it is right.
Yeah.
I'm grateful for it.
They're hyping you up and
they're supporting you.
Yeah.
Put this out.
They're selling shirts to help you out,
to get you a trip to, to Carson.
Yes.
And majority of that's going
to be going to like, I'm,
trying to raise enough money
for not just myself but for
my entire team to uh to go
up there because you know
my team doesn't have to go
up with me they I've asked
them to go up there and
they said yes they will so
I'm trying to raise enough
money to also they've
supported me throughout the
year so I'm trying to
support them and so they
don't have to come out of
pocket to help me so
everything is going to be
split between all of us and uh
Yeah, it's, you know,
Mark does an incredible job
with it and the whole
uplift suicide awareness, I think,
needs to be brought to
light a lot more often
because every single day
something you never know.
What somebody is going
through because people hide
emotions so well and so you
never know what people are
going through and it
doesn't hurt to just ask me
being active duty in the
military and stuff.
I personally have seen it
and it hits home so I
definitely want to help out
with whatever I can to
support the the like the
uplift community.
Yeah, we've had Mark on the show before.
He shared a story.
It's so impactful.
My family was impacted by this.
It's becoming more and more
prevalent and people need
to be more aware of it.
My daughter had a friend,
probably two friends, I think now,
who committed suicide while
she was in school.
And it devastated her.
And it took us a long time
to get her over that.
And so, you know,
I'm a huge supporter of Uplift.
I believe in their cause and
we'll do anything we can to
help them out.
Yeah, I'm the same way.
You know, especially, you know,
Mark is just an awesome dude.
He definitely cares.
He does.
He's a great dude, too.
He's always checking in on me, too,
which is awesome.
So let's talk about the season so far.
So you get through the Open.
It becomes quarterfinal time.
And you do your quarterfinal workouts,
and then all hell breaks loose.
So you as an athlete,
after you submit your stuff,
what's going through your
head at that moment?
Are you talking about like
the penalties or are you
talking about like, okay.
So, you know, to me,
like it is what it is.
I was like, well, I think I met the, like,
so I got a phone call from
a good buddy of mine who
got hit with a severe penalty.
And he was like, hey, or no, I'm sorry.
He knew somebody that got
hit with a severe penalty.
He called me.
He goes, have you seen what's going on?
And as I was on the phone with him,
he got he received his email
from crossfit saying a
major penalty and so then
at that point I was like
holy smokes like this is
two people that I know move
very well and like they're
amazing athletes got hit
with this and I'm like
sitting there reviewing my
video and like I sent it to
my coach I'm like hey do
you think that do you see
anything wrong with this and
It was a little stressful at that point,
and then I kept checking my email,
and then once I – that was
the only workout that I was
worried about.
I already had two validated
before I had one validated,
so that was kind of like a stressful day,
and then I received at like noon the –
the next day I like uh I
think I've received it on
uh I don't know I can't
remember but I checked in I
had a six rep penalty so
that was like I was like
all right I'll take that
because from what people
are getting docked on I was
like I couldn't believe it
so as someone who moves
well isn't this what we
wanted to make sure that
everybody had a level
playing field going into semifinals
Yes.
Yeah.
I mean, the standard is there.
But, yeah.
You're free to—I mean,
do you think it was too harsh?
No, I just—I don't—it is what it is.
That's what I say.
It is what it is.
I think that there's better
ways to go on about as far as, like, hey,
forward thinking.
What could happen on this movement?
What do we see major issues being?
Um, and I think that, and you know,
whatever CrossFit holds it
against me and stuff at
semifinals or speak in my mind,
then it is whatever.
But I think that they need
to plan ahead and be like, okay,
Think of it not just from a
judging aspect or not just like, hey,
I'm going to program.
What's the best sport, like,
test of fitness?
Yes, there's ways to test the fitness,
but from an athlete's perspective,
all right,
what is the athlete going to be doing?
Like, in the judge's course,
it states the athletes and
the judge are responsible for, you know,
the movement,
reading the instructions and
the movement standard.
But, like, I just –
think that there's a better
way to program.
Okay.
How is there,
can you test fitness without
maybe doing box step ups?
Can you do box step overs in that way?
You know,
now you're not leaving it up to video, uh,
video review really, because it's like,
Hey, two feet over,
make it as simple as you
can during the video process.
Because like you pay for a judge, you pay,
you pay $10 to take the judging course,
but then does that judge really even
mean anything if they're
just going to sit there and
review the process.
Like,
you have the AFC or whatever that
judging course is, that judging community,
go to all these well-known, like,
mayhem and training think tank and stuff.
And it's like,
but those are the judges out
there on the field.
I know that in a competition,
live competition at semifinals,
if you get a no rep or if
you get a no rep, then –
It is what it is.
They're going to take the judge's word.
They're not going to go back
and review it.
So it's like,
why are you not taking the
judge's course?
Why are you not taking the
judge's word for it that
that was a good rep?
But you take the judge's
word for it on the competition floor.
That's just my whole thing about it.
To me, it's like,
what's the point of having
a judge there during an
online competition?
if they're just going to video review it,
are they,
are they snap screening it to like slow,
slow it down to see like,
cause if you're doing that,
then the judge in person can't really,
the athletes are moving so
fast that it's like, Hey,
it's hard to see every single rep,
especially, you know,
for like people getting docked,
like 40 something reps for us.
It's like, okay.
Judge very well could have
missed like 20 of those
reps because of how fast
the athlete was moving.
So I don't know.
That's just my that's just
my opinion on it.
So what zombie digging the mustache?
Thank you.
It's new.
It's new.
I had to shave to go back to
work and I always leave the
mustache for the last to
see what I look like with it.
And the wife actually approved of it.
So I'm letting it go for a little bit.
Maybe it's the intimidation
factor I needed for it.
Yeah.
There you go.
It's like a playoff mustache, right?
Like in hockey,
they grow out the beards for playoffs.
Yeah.
So let's get past all the
noise that happened around quarterfinals.
You are going into
semifinals this year in 13th position,
essentially going in.
Mm-hmm.
Last year,
you were right outside that
qualifying spot,
and you were inside the
qualifying spot during the competition.
Yes.
What have you done this year
to get over that hump?
Honestly,
I haven't really been training as much.
To be honest, I'm hoping, like,
I tell everyone, like,
because I've decreased the
amount of my training volume,
and I actually feel better body-wise.
Like, I don't have as many injuries.
I think this is the first
time that knock on wood or something,
I think, as long as nothing happens,
that this is the first time
going to semis that I don't really have,
like, an ache or a pain going on.
So, yeah.
Hopefully,
and then I've just become – I've
been talking to a mental coach.
I've been kind of like
pushing that off for a little bit,
so I've kind of reached out,
talked to a sports psychologist,
and she's been helping me, Katie Bosco.
She's been helping me out
with kind of like keeping focused.
So I've done some of the –
not necessarily like the training pieces,
but I've done more of like
the mental side and like how to –
and allow my body and kind of like,
it's just how, if you feel good,
then you perform good.
So like having the body ready and then,
and then also like the mind
side of the focus,
then I'm hoping that I'll
be able to put it together this year.
So you mentioned going this year to semis,
you want to take a team.
I've been at semis and talked to you,
and you were there woofing it sometimes.
That's the way I roll, yeah.
So why the change?
Well, it's not really like a change.
I got my buddy, my buddy slash coach, John,
who knows me,
who brings me down to
reality and what I'm capable of.
And then I have another girl,
Annalise Moore,
that I work – that goes to
the same gym as me,
and she qualified for semis this year.
So she's going to be going.
And, you know, I'm a good friend.
You know, we pretty much work out.
We don't do the same
training program that often.
Sometimes I'll jump into a
workout with her,
but we are typically there
at the gym at the same time,
which definitely helps.
And then we have another girl who's also –
So good good friends with us
in the and so she's going
to be going up there.
I think I got my wife's
going to be coming up there
with me and then so and
then I got another guy who
might come up so.
I don't know.
It's always good to hear
your name being screamed at in the crowd,
even if it's right there.
It's not as big as some people's,
but it's nice.
So I know you had
grandparents watching the
kids at some of the events.
Who's got the kids this year?
Well, my oldest, who's eight,
about to be nine,
is going to be going over
to a friend's house,
and I'm still currently
working the one-year-old
who's going to watch him.
But that's TBD.
There you go.
The other thing that's
different this year is when
I talked to you last year,
you had just acquired a
building to open a tattoo
shop with your wife.
Yes.
That seems to be going much
further into that this year.
How has that changed your schedules?
It doesn't really change anything.
Well, for my wife's schedule, well,
she went from being a police officer
To work in 12 hour shifts.
And when she was working nighttime,
she was sleeping during the day.
So even when she was home,
she wasn't really home.
And so it actually like
opened up our schedule a little bit more.
Just making that switch and
the tattoo shops going awesome.
Like I said,
we're the first tattoo shop
inside city limits in the
city that I'm at, which is Slidell,
Louisiana.
And we officially opened in October.
Once we opened,
like I was in there working
my butt off trying to cut expenses.
And because we did a whole
renovation thing.
So I was in there doing what I could do.
And I was working,
putting a lot of work there.
But once we opened in October,
like my wife has just been
crushing it and running it throughout.
So I just run the finances.
So it's pretty easy to do that.
So for her to take off a
weekend to go to Carson,
because she owns a business now,
it's a lot easier?
I'm sorry, say that again.
You kind of went off.
So now that she owns her own business,
if she needs a weekend to go to Carson,
is that a lot easier for you guys now?
Or is it harder because she
owns a business?
It's actually easier because
since she owns it,
she can pretty much make
her own work schedule.
So, you know, we got,
we got employees or we got
contractors that work with us that are,
you know, understanding and it's all,
we're like, we're the,
it's a private tattoo studio.
So it's not like it's by appointment only.
So as long as she didn't
have any appointments, then it's not,
then it's fine.
But so she took off for that
whole week and then we have
the employees that just run the shop.
So, so it's easy here.
So Mark says,
don't you have a fundraiser through who,
through her shop too?
Yes.
Thank you, Mark, for reminding me.
Yeah.
So my wife's giving away a
$500 value tattoo, um, doing a raffle.
So I posted on my Instagram,
I'm going to keep posting it that, uh,
you know, $10 entry is, uh,
every $10 is one entry into
a free $500 value tattoo that my wife,
so fine line work.
And, uh, she's what's that?
What,
what is that for uplift or another
organization?
So it's just another
fundraiser thing that we're doing,
trying to raise money to
get the team there.
So it's separate from Uplift,
but the goal is still the same,
just to help raise money
for us to go to semis.
Gotcha, gotcha.
So you've never been to the
games when it was in person.
The year you went to the games was online.
You're getting to go to
Carson to this historic tennis stadium.
Any feels about that,
that you get to go to this iconic arena?
I think it's cool.
I don't really focus on
where it's at or anything.
I mean, it's going to be outside,
so I have to take
environmental into consideration,
like how am I going to be
performing outside?
So there's stuff to consider
whenever you're training
for that kind of event
because I believe it's at
the tennis stadium.
And so we're going to be
outside sun beating on us.
The difference between where
I'm at now is humidity.
So I work out outside.
I'm like sweating,
even just warming up and or
I'm drenching sweat, just warming up.
And then that temperature up
there is like dry heat.
But yeah,
so like I'm more considering like, hey,
the the environmental
factors of what it's like
going to be competing there.
Gotcha.
It seems like the crowd's
going to be really close
compared to like Knoxville
or Pasadena even.
Are you excited to have the
crowd that close?
Yeah, it's going to be different.
I think it's definitely
going to I think it's going
to be being at Carson.
I'm expecting a lot more spectators there.
Because it's like, oh, cool.
Like the first event since
the CrossFit game,
people are going to want to
go to that to go see that
semifinal just because it's
where kind of like the
games originated in a way.
So I think there's going to
be a lot more spectators there.
And I've never I don't I've
never been there before.
So I don't know how how like
how big it is or how close
those fans are.
But it's definitely a tennis court,
I'm assuming,
is is a lot smaller than an arena.
So it's going to make it
feel like it's a lot more
crowded with all those people.
So last year at Pasadena,
you were flying the Mayhem flag.
You talked about your coach, John.
Are you now with a private coach?
No.
I've been doing my own
programming for about nine months.
I got my schedule.
I get 90 minutes to two
hours a day to work out,
two hours if I'm lucky.
So I got tired of seeing.
You followed the Mayhem track.
Nothing to say against Mayhem.
It's a great program, great people there.
Um, but I got tired of seeing like, Hey,
if you want to compete,
this is all you have to do.
So I was stressing,
like I would only get one
session in a day.
So I was stressing about not
getting in that second piece.
And that was like,
that was all that was on my mind is like,
am I going to get it in?
Am I going to get it in?
So I kind of took that.
I wanted to take that away this year.
And so I've just been
writing my own programming,
knowing what I have time
for and opportunity and time opens up.
and I have a 30-minute window,
then I'll just go and
program something myself
and go in there and hit it.
That way the thought's not there.
It's like, oh,
people are getting better than me.
And I stopped looking.
Some people do this, but, like,
look at the leaderboard,
see how you stack up.
I did that every now and then.
It was just like, oh, well, you know,
he got me on this.
And I've just been doing my own thing,
and it's just creating a
lot less stress on me.
You did that before Mayhem too, right?
You programmed for yourself.
I did that leading up to
Rogue and then my buddy, John.
So my coach, John,
is just a really good friend of mine.
He knows me as an athlete and knows me.
who I'm capable of,
and he's a great support
whenever for an in-person competition.
We always joke around that
his first event was the Rogue event.
I said, hey,
this is your tryout to see how
good you do and everything.
And he was the man.
He was over there talking to Shane Orr.
He was one of the coaches and everything.
He was awesome, did everything.
And I said, all right, you're hired, bro,
because he was just –
he was good to, to be around.
And plus he,
he knew me as an athlete and
definitely brought me down.
Like, no,
you're not going to go out there
and go unbroken on that.
I don't care what you think you are.
So I was like, okay.
And yeah,
He's the one last year at Semis to do.
I think I was one of the
only ones to do the single
pirouettes or whatever you
call those 360 handstand walks,
and every single one of
them I did as a single.
It was his call to do that
because he was like, hey,
you're not going to lose
that much time if you just
do singles and you'll make
every one versus if you try to go for it,
then you could fail,
and then you're going to be
resting for 30 seconds,
45 seconds trying to do,
so just do singles.
And I did it and it paid off.
So he's definitely,
he's somebody that I trust
in my corner that I listen
to and try to take his advice.
So I talked to Ariel Lowen
quite a bit and she
programs for herself as well.
And one question I always ask her is like,
Are you good enough at
self-evaluation to know
what you need to work on?
Or do you have somebody help you say,
come on, Scott, you need to work on X, Y,
and Z?
Um, so I program,
I do the outline essentially for myself,
like, Hey,
here's what I'm thinking for me.
And then I send it to him, John, and he,
he adds something or I asked him, I asked,
I asked him actually last week, Hey,
give me a list of movements
that you think I need to
work on the most.
And he sent me like seven or
eight movements.
And I prioritize those
movements throughout.
I sent him the outline and
And then I said, hey,
here's what I got going.
And he was like,
I think you should do this versus this.
That's kind of how that
coach-athlete relationship works.
So he really is like in your
corner analyzing you and
helping you kind of fine-tune everything.
Yes.
Like he's in the gym.
He's not really –
He's working out, but in between his sets,
like I was doing bike
intervals the other day
because that's one of the
things I need to work on.
He was literally coming up
behind me over my shoulder
and was just like, you need to hold it,
hold it, hold it, hold it,
all the way through that minute,
minute and a half I was
doing the intervals for.
So he's in my corner there
watching me do everything
instead of just like programming for me.
And you've never really had
that in the gym before, right?
Because the mayhem stuff is just online.
Nobody's actually in the gym
with you physically.
So this is actually more than a coach,
but support as well.
Yes, 100%.
Does he look at your movement and say, hey,
you need to get your knees
a little wider or anything like that?
Or is that still up to you?
No, he doesn't do that.
He'll critique me on my lifts.
Like he'll say, hey, like, you know,
you need to be over the bar
a little bit more because
that was like you're kind
of catching it forward.
So whatever, he'll give me cues like that,
and I'll be like, okay.
And then as far as like movement,
he'll tell me like, hey, you know,
that's really close.
Like your hip line versus your knee,
that's really close.
You need to be practicing
getting down farther.
So therefore, like that full,
leave no question behind.
So he'll like point stuff
out like that to me.
Okay, so now you have him,
and you've been with this
Southland group now for a couple years,
kind of this Louisiana camp
that's been growing and
growing and growing.
Either that,
or I'm just getting to know
more and more of the people that go there,
because it seems like I run
into somebody all the time.
Yeah, the Southland group is a...
is incredible.
You would be surprised how
many fit individuals we
have within a 50 mile radius of me.
It is incredible.
Um, and so, and it's a great, like,
I'm super like,
I love going up there every
time there's a camp out there.
I'll go, hell yeah.
Count me in.
I'm in just because it's,
it's a great time and go out there.
And plus, um,
You get to work out with
individuals that are very similar to you.
There's some studs that go to that camp.
There's some females that are amazing.
It really helps you push.
Yeah,
there's – and plus I have made – like
it's a reunion seeing all
those people like every six months.
Because they do – I think
they do a camp every six months.
But seeing some of the guys
like Will Bennett and everything,
like he's an awesome guy.
And it's fun.
It's fun.
It's expanded outside of Louisiana.
My neighbor, just three miles away,
Rudy Berger,
and his wife show up there every year.
It's coming down from the Carolinas.
It's actually blowing up.
Then you have someone like Brandon Luckett,
who everybody thought was
retired and blows up
quarterfinals and is in a
third position going into semis.
What does that do for a camp?
Do you root for those other guys?
Um,
we just hope that they don't do better
than us.
I wouldn't say we don't root for them.
We just hope we beat them in some.
So, like,
I was messaging Brandon during
quarterfinals.
I was like, hey, man, like,
let me get half of these workouts, okay?
And then you take the other two,
and that way we call it
even or something.
I was like,
or I was kind of like talking
to him about my score.
I said, hey, I was just like, hey,
I hope you do good.
Just don't do better than me.
That's the words I use.
So we all support each other,
and we wish the best for them.
But ultimately, when we go to semifinals,
the goal is to qualify for
each individual,
no matter what the cost is.
So, yeah.
But in addition to that, you go to semis,
and there's people that you
know and trust and like to hang out with.
It's got to take some of the
stress of the weekend off.
It definitely does.
Especially when you go back
to the warmup area and you
kind of have like individuals, you know,
you know,
personally and talk to often it
helps lower the stress environment,
but what it can also do is
it can also kind of
sidetrack you not keep you
focused because they'll be
having conversations.
So it's like that switch
that you got to turn off back there,
turn on and off.
So,
So let me ask you this.
This is going to be kind of
a weird question.
Say Brandon falls out of
contention for the games
and you're in contention.
Is your relationship close
enough where he would give
you feedback on what he
experienced in the workout
before you take the floor?
If there's no shot in
Brandon Luckett qualifying for the games,
I think he would, yeah.
I mean, that's just Brandon's personality.
So I've seen it in the
masters where like Roy and
Rudy will be at the same
event and Roy will give Rudy tips.
Well, is that a, yeah.
I think that's a different
relationship because I mean,
Rudy's undefeated, right?
I don't know.
But they, you know, Rudy and Roy,
I know Roy personally and Roy is,
He's about friendship and
loyalty and stuff.
And ultimately, those guys,
there's a small group of
guys that get together and
compete with one another.
I don't think that the...
Especially at the games,
you're at the games.
I don't think that the
competitiveness is still there.
But at the bottom line, it's like, hey,
there's 10 of us here.
We are all studs.
We all made it.
For individuals, it's kind of...
a little bit different for
we got 40 guys and now we
got it for semifinals.
And we got only like,
I don't even know how many
qualify from the West.
Having looked like I haven't
even seen anything yet from it,
but say there's nine of us.
You're like, Hey, we're,
we're all battling for nine spots.
So it's, it's, you know, we're,
we're battling for blood.
Corey says Roy is one bad-ass human being,
not just an athlete, but in general.
That guy,
he actually helped me and my wife
open up the tattoo business.
I would call him.
He was like, hey, come up to the gym.
And he gave me a two-hour
crash course on everything,
got us set up and stuff.
That dude is an amazing individual,
not just an athlete.
Wad Zombie comes in.
Tetlo versus Luckett would be cool to see.
Come to Southland, you'll see it.
We may need to bring back
Fit Wars and broadcast it.
I would love to bring back Fit Wars.
Aren't they doing something like that?
Isn't, like,
James Sprague doing something
similar to that?
There's a couple, like, offshoots of it.
There's, yeah, there's a couple of them.
You know,
Sivan's got some stuff going on
with Taylor Self.
I'm going to challenge
Taylor Self here soon.
I'm waiting for that money to go up.
It's $1,000 this Saturday.
I know.
Like I said,
I'm trying to raise some money.
If my son's baseball game
lines up with the time, I might go do it.
There you go.
That would be super cool.
We talked about the tattoo shop.
You're giving away a $500 tattoo.
That might be worth the
drive down to Louisiana.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They're like 500 bucks.
Like if you're within,
I'd probably say within a six hour radius,
it's definitely worth the
drive to save some money.
And, uh,
how much stress has that taken off
now that your wife is not a
police officer anymore?
Oh, it's night and day stress.
Like if my schedule doesn't
allow me to get the kids or anything,
it was cause like
ultimately when she was a police officer,
she was so new and for
anybody that kind of, you know,
is, has experienced this.
It's like, you have to like earn,
I guess it's in any workspace, really.
You have to earn like your,
your time there.
So I was trying to really
allow her to focus on that.
But now that she went off,
now she kind of sets her own schedule.
It's, you know, she's,
she's home and she helps
help out with the kids.
Like I take Easton to
baseball practice in the game.
She stays home with the
little one because it's easier on me.
It's just, it's just night and day better.
Like it's, it's,
it's a rough schedule for a
police officer.
So for someone to go back and kind of,
be able to make her own schedule.
It's a lot less stressed on me.
So your son is named Easton.
Yes.
And you were a former baseball player.
Yes.
Yeah.
There's there, there's a, uh,
there's a reason why he's called Easton.
Okay.
All right.
He's destined to, for the major leagues.
Uh, hopefully, I don't know.
He just, so next month,
actually this month,
he's going to be playing on two base,
two travel baseball teams, uh,
So it's going to get a little crazy.
So he just got accepted to
play travel baseball, which, one,
I'm super proud of him.
I just went out on Amazon.
I bought him, like,
a batting cage for the
house and a bunch of stuff because he's,
like, all about it.
So I was like, all right, well,
we can practice here and do some stuff.
So he's going to be doing
that come May through July.
It's funny,
a friend of our family named
their son Easton,
who played baseball growing up,
but then became like a
really good basketball
player and got a Division I
scholarship in basketball.
Well,
I have no doubt my son will not be
getting a scholarship in
basketball because he's my
son and I'm only 5'3".
So I'm hoping baseball or soccer.
He's actually really good at soccer too.
He had the best save.
He saved a PK, a penalty kick,
like a diving save.
And he got the game ball.
So that game.
But he's good at soccer as well.
What fires you up more?
Watching Easton make a
killer save or you winning
an event at semifinals.
I think it's different.
It's definitely like seeing
my son succeed fires me up
more than anything.
Like he had a home run in baseball.
Like I was jumping up and down like that.
It's just a different type
of emotion than than me
going out there and winning an event.
It's still both of them are
very powerful memories and
everything is just different.
Like it fires me up, fires me up.
one because I like I love
the progress that he's put
in and he's gained and then
for me to go out there and
win the event it's it's uh
you know it's hey like the
time that I've spent like
working towards this stuff
paying off now I got to
keep it going it's it's
different um it's just
different I feel like
emotions yeah I think with my daughter
the stuff that that she did
is more lasting in my
memory um and I relive it
more often than my own no I
i agree I think that's
definitely something like I
can I think he's gonna have
more success like more like
especially as a kid he's gonna have
Plus, like, I compete once, twice,
or something in person.
He goes and plays, does all this stuff,
plays multiple sports.
He has way more memories
than I have winning events, doing, like,
excelling in sports.
So it's a lot more to recall.
Yeah.
And it's crazy, like, because I do this.
I watched you win that event
at the semifinals.
And, like,
I got fired up because I had
just interviewed you.
Mm-hmm.
So that was really cool.
And I got to interview right after that.
So that's a memory in my mind.
You're still active military.
Yep.
How long have you been in the Navy now?
I've been in 13 and a half years.
So I'm on my way to 20.
And Apple gave you a thumbs up for that.
Nice.
Yeah.
So you're on your way to 20.
That's the goal is to get to
full retirement?
Yep, that's the goal.
I've already invested this much, so.
Is it hard training?
Is it the family stuff that
prevents you from training
longer than 90 minutes,
or is it the work stuff?
It's a little bit of both.
I try to get, like,
I'm fortunate enough to where I have,
like,
Seven to nine is my scheduled PT time,
so I try to get as much as
I can before I come home.
It's actually easier for me to get away,
break away.
During my lunchtime,
I will go and hit a
30-minute piece if I have time.
When I'm at home,
there's so much going on.
I got the one-year-old running around.
I can't just go out to the
garage and just do a
20-minute workout because
My one-year-old will be in
the garage with me if my wife's not home.
Then my one-year-old will be in the garage,
and I'm, like,
chasing him down because
he's going all over the place.
So I would say probably more
or less the family life.
So, you know,
the military supported me
last time I went to semifinals.
And so, yeah, they support me.
So my next line of
questioning is you got to
go train with Bill Leahy at his home.
Yeah.
He looks like 20 minutes from me.
So do you just, is from video,
it looks like it's Rocky in the woods,
right?
Like kind of separated from civilization.
And it's just about fitness
when you get out to that property.
Um, it's not really isolated.
It's got, he's like his,
he lives on a dirt road,
but on that dirt road has, has,
There's another house right
directly across from his dirt road.
But then it's – he's got
houses all over him just –
and where he's at,
houses are just more spread out.
So he's got an awesome,
awesome shed that has – we
can get a lot of people in there.
So he's – that's just the rope climb.
That's just where he has –
He's able to do 20-foot rope climbs there.
It was nice outside.
Like I said,
taking into account the
environment that we're
going to be outside, we were like, hey,
let's just do the rope
climbs outside in the barbell.
Yeah.
But if you notice,
all the video footage from his place,
all you see are trees and fitness stuff.
Yeah.
Imagine a U-shape from the
back of his house going all
the way around his garage
in the backyard.
It's just a U-shape of trees.
So I could see houses, though,
from in between those trees,
from where we're at.
Okay, okay.
He's not out in the middle of nowhere.
So how often do you get out
there to train with him?
I try to get out there like
once every two weeks, whenever my,
whenever my schedule lines up,
he's always a good person to,
to link up with.
And plus it's like,
he does his own programming too.
So I usually line up my, I do all my week.
I do all my programming a week in advance.
And so if I know that I'm going out there,
I said, Hey,
this is what I have on Friday say,
and he'll plan his schedule
based off of what I got.
And we'll kind of just like,
We'll throw in a mixture of
what he wants to do versus
what I want to do.
And I love working out with
him because he's just like, hey,
get there, warm up, let's go.
All right, on to the next piece.
So we are – it's the way I like to train.
Like some people will – some
people like take 45 minutes
to warm up and –
Like, hey, they'll take 20 minutes,
30 minutes in between pieces.
It's like, nope,
our cleanup time is our
rest time for the next piece.
And we try to plan it
smartly to where it's not,
like we're not going from
one tough piece to another tough piece.
So we're like completely,
the intensity is not there.
But yeah, like he's just,
we're here to work out, let's work out.
And just like Brandon,
you want him to do well at semis,
but at least one spot
behind you on every event.
Right, exactly.
So that's why I tell him that, you know,
he's definitely he's
probably the fastest
growing like CrossFit
athlete that I've at least heard of.
No, personally,
because two years ago he hit me up.
I think it was twenty twenty one.
Yeah, 2021, he hit me up.
He was like, hey,
he found out I lived in Slidell,
and he looked, like I said,
20 minutes away.
He's like, can I come train with you?
And I was like, yeah.
And now two years later,
he's definitely crushing it.
Well, he's got Hiller in his corner too,
which is one of the fastest
growing YouTube channels in this space.
So that's pretty cool too.
Yeah.
And you two are very different athletes.
So that's why that's another thing.
Like, like I hit him up and I was like,
Hey, like this is like this,
this piece is what I'm thinking for,
for me.
But I, what the other day I said, Hey,
I want to do machine work,
program something machine.
Cause that's what I need to work on.
He goes, all right,
as long as we can throw
some burpees in there, I said,
throw some burpees in there.
I'll just prioritize the machine work,
try to max output on that.
And then you prioritize,
cause he's great at machines.
And I was like,
you just maximize the burpees.
Okay.
Well,
that's super cool that you have those
relationships.
And it is funny,
like Louisiana has become
this hotbed of CrossFit athletes,
as Mark has put in the chat.
Leahy, Luckett, Scott, Max Krieg, Brian.
Yep.
Yeah.
Corey Leonard.
Qualified for semifinals, right?
In the Masters Division.
Yeah,
you got Roy that'll throw down with us.
So, yeah, it's a bunch.
So we had a burpee challenge
with Jake Berman and Colton Mertens,
and I had to get your take.
As someone that can fly through burpees,
do you think you have some
contention in the fastest
burpees in the world?
I just wish that... So,
Hiller was over at Will's
house when I was over there,
and he asked me the question.
Off the record.
But I said,
I just wish he would have
challenged somebody who
would have given him a run for his money.
Wow.
And you might be that someone?
I believe I could, yeah.
So, I mean...
Not like – whenever the workout came out,
I was like, oh, well, whatever.
And my buddy, John,
my coach was just like talking about it.
I was like, yeah,
like we tied in a 10,000
competition for – I can't
remember what the time
domain was for burpees,
but we literally tied –
And then the burpee box jump
workout from regionals last year,
you know, we tied, really,
even though the reason I
won is because I didn't
even know that was the thing.
The reason I won is because
I got one more rep than him
on the first round.
That was the tiebreaker.
And so we tied.
I feel like him and I are
very similar to burpees
because we're the same height.
So, yeah,
I think I would have definitely
given him a run for his money,
if not probably beat him.
There it is.
Heard it here first.
And I got that on the record.
Power of the staff now.
Mark says, here we go.
Well, this has been fun.
I'm going to look at my
notes one more time,
make sure I hit everything.
And the kids are doing well.
Yeah, kids are doing good.
The littlest one, Bradley,
is growing up super fast.
He's going to be two in July.
And Easton's going to be nine in July.
Their birthdays are two weeks apart.
The other one is doing a field trip.
He's doing a field trip
today to his new middle school next year.
So he's going to be – they
do middle school four
through eight down here,
which is weird to me.
So he's going to a new school next year.
He's nervous about it.
But, yeah, no,
the kids have been doing good.
Yeah,
middle school was our toughest time
as a parent,
and I can't believe they're extending it.
We only had seven through nine.
Okay.
Yeah, I had six through eight.
So elementary was one through five,
and middle school was six through eight,
high school nine through 12.
That might have been it.
It actually might have been
six through eight.
But that stretch was as hard
as it ever was being a parent.
Why is that?
It's just, it's the new school.
It's kids that weren't with
you in elementary school
are being mixed into the
hopper and trying to find
your identity as a kid.
It with all that going on,
hopefully like his sports
help him through that.
Right.
Well, no, that's good info.
This is stuff I got to look
forward to and kind of project.
So yeah,
Yeah, any insight,
please feel free to share.
In our school district,
we have 18 elementary
schools and three middle schools.
So all that gets, like,
funneled down into three.
So you're adding batches of
kids that don't know each
other into one hopper.
Yeah, I can see that.
I mean, that's kind of how it was for me,
too, now that I think about it.
Yeah.
and my daughter went to
school young so looking
back I probably wouldn't
have done that again and so
my son is actually he's
young for his grade so all
like right now he's sports
like all of his friends
that he goes to class with
he they're all in he's
still in coach pitch so
they're all everyone else
that he's in school with
that's good friends of them
they're in kids pitch so and
Like that's the, that's another thing.
Like as far as, yeah,
sports will definitely help,
but it's going to come to
that time to where, you know,
he's not going to be
playing with all his
friends that are here that
are in his grade.
Just like to kind of like now,
but you know,
they're in a smaller school.
So that definitely could
have some effects.
Yeah.
My daughter was into music.
So it was,
what helped her was finding band
like to get in with that group of people.
And then you have your people.
And that's what it is with
middle school and high
school is you got to find your group.
No, for sure.
Yeah, I can see that.
So.
Well, this has been fun, man.
I can't wait to see you out in Carson.
Yeah, looking forward to it.
It's going to be.
Yeah, I'm going to do my best.
So I'm excited for it.
And it's always a good time
whenever you get to compete in person.
Yeah, well, thanks a bunch.
We'll see you then.
Thanks to everybody in the
chat for being here.
You guys have been awesome.
And we'll catch everybody
next time on Clydesdale
Media Semi-Finalist Series.
Bye, guys.