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We cover the sport of CrossFit from all angles. We talk with athletes, coaches and celebrities that compete and surround in the sport of CrossFit at all levels. We also bring you Breaking News, Human Interest Stories and report on the Methodology of CrossFit. We also use the methodology to make ourselves the fittest we can be.
What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to the Clydesdale Media Roundtable,
where we are coming to you
half an hour early so Amy
can watch women's gymnastics.
It's kind of a big deal.
Yeah.
What slays me is I stream everything,
so the concept of a start
time doesn't matter to me anymore.
Yeah.
I just go back and
yes yeah I just I here's
what my worry is I don't
want to like be scrolling
and miss like like I want
to watch it live happening
you know yeah but in okay
yeah but in this case we're
not going to be like two
hours later right right
yeah right so so we're
talking like 15 minutes
which you probably wouldn't
get a spoiler in that 15 minutes.
I don't know.
I,
I tend to scroll and watch TV at the
same time.
It's not healthy.
I don't agree with this habit,
but it is something that's, you know,
I stopped doing that.
Like I need to be like two years ago.
Yeah.
And I'm really enjoying what
I watch now much more.
Yeah.
It makes most sense.
And I think it actually
ruins people's attention spans overall,
but I think my attention span is ruined,
which is why I do it.
So, so chicken and egg.
Yeah.
But can we review this?
I'm out here walking around.
Looks like I'm seeing in four, you know,
like 4D.
I'm seeing high def.
High def.
It's amazing.
So last week you were all dilated,
you and Snoop.
Yep.
All dilated up.
And then two days later they
threw you into surgery.
I had surgery and then I
came home like it was like
my eyes were super irritable,
like right afterwards.
And you're supposed to nap.
And I just.
Wow, that's that's tough for Amy.
Right.
But I did have a hard time
probably because I was just amped up,
you know, about it.
Basically, I wake up Friday morning.
I can see.
No glasses, no contacts.
I went to my follow-up
appointment yesterday.
20-20 vision.
Just like that.
Went from thick,
thick glasses to no glasses.
Yep.
It's amazing.
My eyes still look a little
bit funny because I'm still
recovering and I can't wear
eye makeup yet until this week, so
You know,
not that that's ever different
for me on this podcast.
I mean, you, you have dress up days,
but they're not like every day.
No.
Yeah.
I save them.
And because also I don't
want to spend a lot of time, um,
making myself get ready like, like that,
because, um,
I feel like there's so much
that there are things I can
do my day versus doing all that.
So yeah,
like scroll and watch TV at the
same time.
I mean, that is part of it.
Yeah.
So I know we were going to show something,
but before we get to that.
Yeah.
So, you know,
they brought suits to Netflix
and like the popularity
just went like through the roof.
Yes.
Like it ran for nine seasons.
Nobody cared about it on the
USA network comes to
Netflix and becomes like
this highly rated show.
Yep.
Well,
I had avoided it for a very long time.
It's good.
Julie and I watched the
first two episodes last night.
It's so good.
I am so hooked.
Yeah.
I didn't know it was about like,
like I would have never guessed.
It's about this kid that
just is like a super genius.
Yeah.
Who was a drug dealer and is
given an opportunity like
that totally changed my
mind in the first five minutes.
Totally.
Yeah.
That's good.
And Megan Markle does awesome in it.
Yeah.
She's kind of like the
ribbon that holds the whole
show together.
The whole show together.
The whole show.
Meghan Markle and the whole show.
Don't clip that.
But the dynamic between Harvey and Lewis,
I think are their names.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That dynamic is crazy.
It is.
It's crazy.
And it ebbs and flows in so
many different ways.
as the seasons progress.
We really,
really enjoyed it and now we're hooked.
So good for something to get
us till the fall season.
And I think that's going to be it.
Yes.
I just,
I'm writing something down to bring up.
Sorry.
And I knew, I knew that you had done that,
watched it and binged it
when it first came to Netflix.
So yeah.
Yeah.
I'm so glad.
Hey, before you get to Corey's thing,
how was your weekend?
I mean, let's go to back to your Corey,
but yeah,
Uh,
so went to Pennsylvania to celebrate my
daughter's 23rd birthday.
Yeah.
Um, and it was nice.
We just, we played board games.
That's what my family does.
Um, and I smoked ribs for her and, uh,
and my mom made a,
it's like a German cucumber potato dish,
uh, and, and all that.
And we, we had a really good time.
Awesome.
really good time.
And then, uh, drove back Sunday.
I've been on the road every
weekend for three weeks.
I am ready to do nothing
this weekend before that.
I head to Fort worth.
Yeah.
So I'm not like, gosh,
I know I shouldn't say this
on a CrossFit podcast,
but like there's part of me
that is super excited to
see the new venue and all
the stuff that's going on there.
And another part, like, man,
I probably could just cover
this from home.
Yeah.
But you're gone.
And part of that is,
and I think what Corey's referencing is,
I am really jazzed about
the Masters CrossFit Games.
Like, that's what I'm so into.
And I've been trying to
schedule as many of those
athletes to highlight them
before that happens.
Interviews is like the
hardest thing to do with what we do.
Yeah.
Because it takes...
probably a minimum of five
back and forth to get the time,
get the time zone,
all that kind of stuff.
Right.
And then to fit it into my work schedule,
podcast schedule,
and all the other interviews I've set up,
it just takes a lot of time.
But that's why I sent out a
mass notice and said, hey,
if you're interested,
let's get you booked now.
And so we have about 20
shows between now and
before I leave for the games.
Yeah,
it sounds real relaxing to get prepped.
I don't doing the interviews
is a piece of cake.
Yeah.
That is fun for me.
Yeah.
Scheduling is the hard part.
Sure.
And I think what Corey is
asking about Brandon and
without a last name,
there are a lot of
Brandon's in the CrossFit
world is one that I have
scheduled for next week or this week.
And he had some questions
about some stuff.
So got it.
Yeah.
But before we dive into it,
and please check those out.
There's a lot of cool stories.
If you haven't seen the first two,
Ryan Retke, 45 to 49-year-old division,
one fear factor in 2003,
rebuilt diesel engines to
run on vegetable oil just
as something to do and see
if he could do it.
And, like,
just really fascinating stories.
And Allison Stahl competed
at the semifinals last year
pregnant and is now going to the games.
She's eight months
postpartum right now and is
going to the games.
So as we set the Masters
aside for a tad bit,
this was posted recently by Fluffy Duck.
And I just am going to play
this for your enjoyment and
we'll react to that.
So.
If you've not seen this,
Fluffy Duck just posted this.
Turn on the volume.
This guy.
Bert Kreischer.
Get in there.
So there's like five dudes
that are the goats of CrossFit.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's Rich Froning.
Yeah.
Matt Groening or something.
Matt Schaefer.
Matt something.
Yeah.
And Josh Bridges.
And Josh Bridges.
Okay.
Top five CrossFit Games athletes.
Whoops.
Nothing like great publicity
for your athletes.
Matt Groening,
isn't he the guy who made The Simpsons?
Oh, that sounds right.
Yeah.
Matt something could be anybody.
Yeah.
Matt Schaefer.
There probably is a lot of
Matt Schaefer's out there.
Isn't that the brother of Paul Schaefer,
the band leader for David Letterman?
No, maybe.
I don't know.
I was just joking.
Okay.
I don't know.
I was like, I don't know.
That's crazy.
And then Josh Bridges,
which if you've not seen
Bert Kreischer work out in
Josh Bridges garage, pretty hilarious.
Yeah.
I do follow their show there.
I think their show is pretty fun.
I love Tom Segura.
I've seen him live and,
Um, would love to see Bert live sometime,
but that's pretty funny
because they used to be
these and they talk about, they're like,
we used to be these fat
slobs and then they've,
they've found fitness.
And so now they joke and they're like, if,
if you've never heard our podcast before,
you'd think we're a fitness
podcast now because that's
all they talk about is their workouts.
Have you watched the, uh,
Josh Bridges video of Kreischer?
Yes.
Yeah.
Let's say, yeah,
they may be doing some fitness.
Okay.
Uh,
Not at a level that we're
used to watching.
No, but they talk about it like they do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I can't say anything about Tom Segura,
but the only athletic thing
I ever saw him do was tear
like both ACLs trying to
dunk a basketball.
Yes.
Yes.
Which I think the video is
out on social media
somewhere and it's gross.
It's very gross.
I don't.
Yep.
Yep.
But fun thing,
I'm pretty sure Tom Segura's
dad used to be an Olympic weightlifter,
not like necessarily in the Olympics,
but just as a hobby or
strength and conditioning.
Corey Leonard, I've seen Segura live too.
Dude is hilarious.
He really is.
Um,
here's something pop culture and
related to CrossFit.
Did you see here?
Sound effect, by the way, we're upping,
we're upping our, uh,
you don't even have to do
that on the computer.
I'll just do it here.
Um,
did you see your boy Tyson from the
bears talking about what workout he did?
CrossFit that he was
grinding his face off in the off season.
Yes.
That's the direct quote.
It was grinding my face off
this off season.
And he did a mile of burpee broad jumps.
And then he's told everybody the time.
One hour and seven minutes.
I think one hour, four minutes.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, you know,
those reporters have no
concept of even what that is.
But like, do the math on that.
And like, how many burpees is that?
Is that like a thousand burpees?
Yeah.
I mean,
let's say you can... It all depends
on your broad jump, right?
Huh?
It all depends on your broad jump.
Right, but I'm thinking, say,
average five feet.
Yeah.
I mean, that's four times around a track.
Five feet would be, what, 1.6 meters.
A mile is... 1,600 meters.
1,600 meters.
So yeah, it'd be about a thousand.
Okay.
So then here, follow-up question.
Would you rather do a
thousand burpees or one
mile burpee broad jump?
Uh, Ooh.
I get the difference, right?
Like at least you're
breaking up the burpees
with the broad jump.
Right.
But a thousand burpees straight,
they both would suck.
There's no good option here.
No.
But at least like for me,
the burpee broad jumps
would be breaking up the burpees,
which I would need.
I would agree.
I would probably pick the
burpee broad jumps just for something.
Even if it took longer, I don't care.
Yeah.
And even if I did a few more burpees,
just because at least it broke it up.
Yeah.
And I think what I like
about if you did it on a track,
I think that would suck
because of heat and all that.
But at least you could have
a visual of your progress.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Versus, okay,
you could maybe have some poker.
Or a picture of your lack of progress.
Right.
Exactly.
Lynn says that you couldn't
pay me enough to do one
mile of burpee broad jumps.
Corey is going 1,000 burpees, no question.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know.
1,000 box step-up seems way
easier than 1,000 burpees.
Did you see the video of
Trista Smith demoing Chad?
No.
I didn't.
Let me.
Did you have any,
did you talk about it on Sunday,
what you think the weights
are for the clean ladder?
We did not.
Oh, do you have any thoughts?
I think they did.
They did.
I just,
I was looking for something at the time.
Okay.
Because when they get into that detail,
I don't really get the concept of it all.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We just want to watch the fitness,
talk about it.
Speaking of watching fitness
while you're pulling this thing up,
I think I've been watching
a lot of the Olympics and
just like everybody else,
when you watch it, you're like,
I could totally do that.
Oh yeah.
Okay.
There she goes.
so what we did talk about on
sunday night is it appears
that there is a mark on top
of the box that you must
touch both feet on each
side of a line yeah it
looks like a chalk mark up
there that you have to be
and she is the twist of
chad is that you have to
twist on the top of the box
and come down backwards
Well,
that's how you're going to get those
calves blown up for sure.
So,
but the fact that it's an over and you
have to tap takes out the
judging of the hip extension.
Oh, yeah.
Good call, Lynn.
That box looks higher.
Trista is not super tall, Lynn.
Yeah, but that looks at least a 24.
They've said it's 20 inches.
Oh, okay.
When they made the announcement.
You're right.
But I just, and maybe it's this angle too.
It looks like it's.
Yeah.
Dave said on one of his
things that he on purposely
did not show the box.
So there has to be markings.
I'm guessing at the top of the box.
Yeah.
But Trista is not tall.
Yeah.
So back to the Olympics.
I know you even have gone to the trials.
CrossFit.
I know, I know.
But pretty soon CrossFit's going to,
you know, no, just kidding.
Parts of it are already there.
So back to that.
I know you've gone, you know,
like qualified for the
swimming for the Olympic trials.
But like, do you not watch it and be like,
oh, like,
I just I feel like I have the
urge to go try that or to go do.
I feel like I could do that
on the parallel bars.
There is no freaking way.
But I just I remember as a kid, too,
I'd be like,
I'm going to get some pillows
out and start just flipping
around like these gymnasts.
So, one,
thank you very much for elevating
me to an Olympic trial qualifier.
Oh, sorry.
That never happened.
Okay.
I did qualify for nationals one year.
National.
Okay, sorry.
But it was not an Olympic trial.
Okay.
But I will say, when I was a kid, sure,
I tried everything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we had like bow and
arrows to try archery and
different stuff like that.
And we would go do all that.
But what this year has done
for me after talking to
Caitlin last Friday and
watching the Olympics is
I've actually researched
I'm going to join a gym with a pool.
I'm going to change my
training up a little bit
going into the fall to see
if I can keep my body healthier.
I'm going to swim two days a week,
CrossFit three days a week.
I think that's great.
To see if I can keep the
body a little more healthy
going in and see how that
works out for a couple months.
So, so yeah.
I love that.
We'll see.
I found like an affordable
gym on Players Parkway.
Yeah.
With a lap pool.
Yeah.
Perfect.
What's their hours?
Like any time?
Like 5 a.m.
to 10 p.m.
Perfect.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
I think that'll be good for me.
And I've got the itch
because of just talking swimming so much.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The key is not to overdo it
the first couple of times
because there's going to be
a lot of muscles that have
not been used in a very long time.
You and Charlie both.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What's Charlie doing?
Just day one of something?
Yeah.
Well, you know,
he went out of town for his birthday.
Well, it wasn't for his birthday.
It was over his birthday.
And he had a wedding to go to.
And he's like, when I get back.
serious and guess what he
did he come to my 615 class
today that I coached no
something to do with his
dog I don't know how that
affects his fitness well I
was sick I have a sick wife
this week oh you do yeah we
got back from Pennsylvania
and she started throwing up she started
And I guess there's a thing
going around like this, very flu-like.
But I'm the only one that didn't catch it.
Okay, that's good.
Corey says,
serious for Charlie or actually serious?
I only know one kind of
serious for Charlie,
and it's serious for Charlie.
Yeah, I don't know actual serious.
Yeah,
I wish he was creeping on the notes
here so he was seeing me
talk all about this because
I'm not afraid to.
Yeah.
I also saw in that Trista Smith video,
did you see Pukie hanging
from the ceiling?
I was totally noticing Pukie
in the background.
So Dave said that he needs
to take that down because
he's afraid at some point
that's going to fall.
Oh, okay.
And hurt somebody.
For sure.
We don't want that to happen.
But I'm glad you brought
that up because it reminded
me of something we were
texting about that has been
bothering me all weekend.
Okay.
Remember I said I rewatched.
Oh, so sorry, Wad Zombie.
I rewatched the Every Second Counts.
Yeah.
And I have some beef,
a lot of beef about it.
15 years later, she's coming in hot.
Well, I had seen it, but then, you know,
kind of like,
I don't know what I was doing.
I think it was just being
excited that Nate took his
level one and like,
just kind of talking about
like old school CrossFit stuff.
And so I was telling him about it.
So I put it on and then we
start watching it and I'm like, uh,
literally none of the
females are featured.
None.
I got a bone to pick with that.
I want to know WTF, Siobhan.
Well,
be fair savan was not the
only person doing that one
that was two people okay
well I still have a problem
with it um but yes it's a
hot take yep hot take on a
15 year old movie um can
you tell me who won the
2009 crossfit games
2008 CrossFit Games.
Yes, it was Jason Kalipa,
which they never featured
on until the very end.
Oh, yes, Katie.
Okay.
That's why I wanted to watch it.
To be like, hey, look,
it's the owner of Rogue
just out there winning the
CrossFit Games.
Is this a riff?
Kind of, Jeff.
It is.
Yeah.
Amy's got a riff.
We did talk about this Sunday a little bit,
and it goes with what you're saying.
Miller did his top 10 based
on social media following.
He does it every year,
and that is his picks for the games.
Okay.
On social media following.
So whoever has the highest followers,
that's his winners of the games.
Correct.
Okay.
So when he was done with it,
he just kind of like an off comment said,
women the women's followers
are way more than the men's
followers should women get
paid more because they
bring more to the table
than the men do which has
been the argument in the
reverse in like the nba um
other sports like soccer
yes because women's yeah
doesn't bring in money yeah
well wasn't but now still
very little compared to
right so but it all came
down to you'd have to see
the viewers of like the
streams um the attendance
at different events but of
the what 18 crossfit games we've had
i think it was 12 of the 12
times the men finished the
crossfit games for the
women finished and two they
finished together so like
at atlanta at the 2020
games like they they both
did it at the same time
yeah but I would be curious it
I, I would think, I don't know,
cause I haven't,
I don't have the data on it.
Maybe Holly could pull up
some data for us on.
Um,
I wonder if more women are on social
media, uh, followers,
like if more women follow
on social media than men do.
Well, I don't,
I don't know if we would get
that breakdown.
We would,
I'm just throwing that out there to,
to say maybe there are more
women athletes followed
because there are more.
My guests are not followed by women.
I think both.
Well,
I think there's both but I bet you
they have their fair share
of male followers as well.
Speaking of the funniest
thing ever is you know how
like if you are have a
mutual friend with somebody
and then there's a post it
will show you so and so liked this post.
So let's say,
let's say I go and look at
Emily Rolf and she posted something on,
on Instagram and you liked it.
I can see because I'm
friends with you will say
Clydesdale media liked this.
Okay.
So this is what cracks me up.
Every time Danny Spiegel
posts something and then I
go to coach the class the
next day at the gym, I can say, oh,
I saw all of you guys liked that,
that post that Danny
Spiegel had the other day.
Um,
What I will tell you,
just from our perspective,
when I interview a female athlete,
it gets more views than if
I interview a male athlete.
So, Corey's saying,
check out the new story from Spin.
Let me close.
Dave down.
You're talking about the event guide?
Oh, backfill spots for the masters.
That is not in the stories.
Oh, there we go.
Let's see it.
It's actually a post, not a story.
Controversy amidst backfill
process in 35-39 division
of the Masters CrossFit Games.
Jasmine Sheehan originally
declined her invite to
compete at the Masters
CrossFit Games to focus on
going to the CrossFit Games on a team.
But after her team was
disqualified following
Tyler Lee's failed drug test,
she asked CrossFit if a
spot was still available.
That's where things get interesting.
Head to thebarbellspin.com
for the full story and come
back to share how you would
handle this situation if
you were CrossFit.
So interesting.
Very.
I wonder what went down there.
So let's go to the spin.
And you can't see it.
I got to stop and reshare.
Here we go.
Two women declined their invite,
Chyna Cho and Jasmine Sheehan.
Okay.
No more than three athletes
outside of the qualifying
position in any division
will be eligible for a
backfill position due to
athletes declining.
Thus, Allison Stahl tied for 40th.
Haley Murillo, 42nd,
received a backfill in
which both accepted.
But here's where it gets interesting.
Yeah.
But they're in the 40 to
44-year-old division, so not this one.
On June 30th,
Chantel Bouchard received an
email from Becky Harsh,
CrossFit Athlete Communications Banner,
stating that Chantel would
be the next athlete to get
a backfill spot should
another athlete out of the competition.
Harsh then added that the
goal is to have a full
roster and will backfill
any open spots up to two
weeks prior to the competition.
Then yesterday,
Jamie Hygie had declined
her invite due to an injury,
so you would expect
Bouchard to receive the
backfill invite per the
email she received from
CrossFit a month earlier.
However, you would be wrong.
Instead, the backfill went to Sheehan,
despite her already declining her invite.
Yeah, I think that's BS.
Yep.
I think that's big-time BS.
That really sucks for the other person.
I agree.
I can't believe they did that.
And yet then they wouldn't
bring back Kelly Baker last year.
Like after, I mean,
I know they brought her
back for that one event,
but they didn't bring her
back for the other event.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't, Denise Moore says,
I don't think that's ever happened.
Um, yeah, that's pretty crappy.
jeff jay birch I'm sorry but
if she turned down the
invite to go with the team
and then the team was
disqualified too bad so sad
and why was the team
disqualified I'd be curious
they were disqualified
because one of their
athletes tested positive
for popping those gains yeah
Which I had a very
interesting discussion with
Chloe Gavin-David,
who has been a perennial team athlete,
made it individually this year.
But if you didn't see Sasha
Nieves' reaction to her
teammate popping positive,
that she blew her up on social media,
saying that she fought
through injury to get to this point,
and then to have it ripped
away by someone being so
uh insensitive and taking
substances like as it how
do you trust the other
three like your whole
season is based on their
their actions as well as
yours yeah and not just
them but like other others
around them the circle they
keep you know their coaches
and all that yeah that's a
lot to rely on it's basically like
One,
every team she's been on has had to
sit down at the beginning
of the year like,
we are not doing any of this stuff.
And if you're not clean now,
you better be clean.
Whatever.
But she's like,
I would not go on a team
with somebody I did not know very,
very well.
Yes.
Ugh.
Yeah.
If you have not, it's in Spanish.
So you have to hit the
translate button on Instagram.
What's the last name?
Sasha Nieves.
Okay.
An individual athlete in the past.
Yeah.
I just couldn't, it went out for a second.
But you have to hit the
translate button and she
does not mince words about how bad.
Good.
Her and a teammate had to fight through.
There was a point where
Sasha was in a sling during
the season and fought
through to make it to the
games and put her body at
risk to get the team there
and then to have it ripped
away because of a drug suspension.
Shady.
Shady aftermath.
So, yeah.
It's an interesting read for sure.
Yeah.
So I know that the women's gym,
Simone Biles is taking the
floor probably as we speak.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Have you paused your, your, no,
I didn't cause I'm going to
go run to my iPad right after this.
Yeah.
Do you stream or do you have cable stream?
Oh,
can't you just rewind it on the stream?
Yeah.
I mean, maybe, I don't know.
Yeah.
Okay.
Cucumbers.
Corey eats a lot of cucumbers, people.
Must be the secret to his success.
There's not much nutritional value to him.
Do you have cable still?
Not me.
I stream.
Let's finish with this.
I saw a social media post
where a guy was saying,
Whoever thought streaming was a good idea.
I have to Google everything
to find out what channel it's on.
Then I get there and I have
to pay an extra three 99 to
rent it off a prime.
Yeah.
Blah, blah, blah.
And then my buddy said, well,
why don't they just get one
streaming service and put
them all together?
And he goes, we had,
it was called capable.
I totally agree.
Corey,
you need to get some more dark green
veggies in there.
I'm talking broccoli.
I'm talking spinach, kale,
Brussels sprouts, green beans, asparagus.
You need some more dark green veggies.
I have a full-on addiction
to tomatoes right now.
Well, homegrown tomatoes is a real thing.
Also, not a vegetable.
It's a fruit.
Come on.
It's a fruit.
There are seeds inside.
Jay Burch is in a hotel in
Austin watching on cable
and watching us find folks on his phone.
That's so nice.
Yeah.
I'm probably better on the small screen,
Jay Burch.
My eye probably looks better
and not as scary.
Yeah.
It looks like you actually
sit back and not like get
right up to the camera.
Look at that.
You see it?
I can see.
It looks like there's a line
from the surgery.
Yeah, there is.
It'll go away.
But it's there.
It's amazing how technology has changed.
I know.
So with that,
we're going to let you guys go.
Watch the female gymnast hit the floor.
With that, thanks for being here,
everybody.
We'll be back right before the games,
and we'll get Amy's picks
for her podium next week.
With that,
we'll see everybody next time on
the Clydesdale Media Roundtable.
Bye, guys.