I'm in the zone now.
You are.
That's what the song said.
I know you're about to be in the zone.
I am shocked back into the zone.
Let's do it.
Let's shock, shock, shock.
Yeah.
Zappity zap.
Yeah.
So are you having any nerves
about it and feeling worried or just,
I was, and then,
then I just kind of had
this resolve last night that like,
this is one of the most
common things that are done
medically and,
and that you know it should
be bing bang done and I'll
feel 100 better so so what
how does this go like they
put you under so I go in
they're gonna put me under
they're gonna do a scope
like an ultrasound through
my esophagus to see the
back of the heart okay I'll
be out cold yeah right right um
once they once they
determine there are no
blood clots in the back of
my heart and that's clear
then while I'm under they
will get out the paddles
and they will shock me on
top of your chest yeah yeah
I don't want to see that
and then once they shock me
hopefully it goes back into
rhythm and then everything like picks up
And from what I've been told
by the family doctor,
like this AFib could have
been going on for a while.
And I just didn't know it.
And then that is,
it could be the cause of
like my coughing.
Because if your blood is,
if your heart is not pumping in rhythm,
there's a backup of blood.
And then the heart is
connected directly to the lungs.
And then there could be
fluid in the lungs from the
backup in the heart.
Okay.
And then once everything
starts pumping correctly,
that backup goes away.
So will they have to monitor
you frequently?
I mean, once it gets back into rhythm,
like what if it gets back out?
So that's something I will
have to monitor.
And how?
So I haven't been given
medical advice on that.
I've been given advice from listeners.
Like a lot of people have
reached out to me
Have you seen the commercial
for the cardia where you
put two fingers on and it
goes to your phone and it
can detect AFib immediately
within 30 seconds?
Not immediately, 30 seconds.
Okay.
And it also detects a couple
other heart issues.
But one listener said that is what they...
That is what they use all
the time because it'll tell
them immediately if they're
back in AFib or not.
Okay.
And it's like 79 bucks on Amazon.
Worth it.
Yeah.
You know what else is worth
it for you to get?
I don't know what.
A blood pressure cuff.
My blood pressure cuff.
Yeah.
I've yet to,
my blood pressure has never
been an issue.
And like Friday, it was 115 over 70.
So like everything,
everything around my heart
is structurally sound and
it's just not beating in
the right rhythm.
Okay.
But can you still feel the
rhythm if you want to dance
or have you lost all rhythm?
That's what I'm more concerned about.
Well, it does not play.
My dancing does not play a
factor in my workouts as
much as yours does.
Right.
I'm just saying.
Okay.
Well, that's unfortunate.
But what I was thinking is
if that would be one form of movement,
you know, like to help you back on your,
you know,
weight loss journey is that you
could do dancing.
I could, you know, I could.
Do you know what the first
thing I'm going to do when I feel better?
Get a haircut.
Oh, yes, for all of us.
Yeah, my hair is so long right now.
You're going to get ball cap, Scott,
until I can get to my girl.
So does that also affect
your ability to shave?
I'm just curious how those
two things correlate.
So you've known me for what?
10 years now?
I know.
Yeah.
Like if I grunt, I'd grow a beard.
Yeah, I know.
Like it's just, it is just ridiculous.
So I just get bored
sometimes and I don't want to shave.
So I just let it go and I
haven't felt good.
So I've had an excuse.
Yes.
So, yeah.
Um,
Yeah,
I'm excited to find out when you can
get back to working out.
I am too.
I'm excited to hear when I'll be cleared.
I know that, again, not medically,
but listeners who have had
this say that CrossFit is
pretty hard on AFib,
and you have to really kind
of leak yourself back in.
Sure.
Or do other forms of
exercise while getting there.
Yeah, you can monitor your intensity.
Right.
While still doing CrossFit movements,
you know.
The people's champ is in the building.
People's champ.
So Corey says the cornrow
Scott is my favorite Scott
because earlier in the chat,
someone said I should take
my long hair and do my cornrows.
I am not Dave Castro.
And I am not doing the cornrow thing.
Unless they have a little shed.
You have not.
There may have been a day,
but it has not been recently.
Yeah.
You know, my Scott used to,
he never wore it in a bun,
but my Scott used to have long hair.
You know.
He just got a little haircut.
Hmm.
I think you're off a con.
I think we haven't heard
about him a long time.
Nope.
He's still there.
But speaking of,
I wore a dress this past
weekend and I wore my hair down.
You did.
Didn't recognize you.
Let's talk about how exhausted you were.
I was socially exhausted.
Because I had to,
basically I was invited to
make my husband look good.
And because this was an
event for his customers.
And so I had to be talky talky.
And usually when I go to big events,
I don't like to talky talky.
I like to dance or just do my thing.
And I talky talky.
But have I ever told you guys,
listen to this.
Okay.
So this was a charity event.
So they had, hold up, hold up.
I've been around drunk.
Amy drunk.
Amy likes talkie talkie.
Okay.
With friends.
Yeah.
Not strangers, not strangers.
And yeah, it takes me,
I got to ease into that.
So this was a charity event,
which meant that we were
given $25,000 and
everybody to gamble and
whatever your winnings were, by the way,
just went into raffle tickets, of course.
So lame, but it's for the children, right?
So we, you know,
did some gambling and then
we got raffle tickets.
There were three choices to
put your tickets in.
I told Scott, Hey, I'm pretty lucky.
So I'm just telling you, I'm lucky.
There's hundreds of people there.
technically I didn't win the
prize but I was holding the
winning ticket for one of
the prizes that doesn't
make sense I know I'm going
to tell you why though this
this older couple comes up
to me right when they're
about to announce them
they're like hey we forgot
our readers and we can't
read this the tickets can
you read our tickets for us
if they call it and I was
like here you go you just
won you're like sure hold on let me
I know.
I should have given them my
tickets and been like, oh, here.
You didn't win.
Sorry.
Like Beetlejuice.
Oh, that's my number.
But I'm just saying,
that's still pretty lucky
that I had a hold of the winning ticket,
but I didn't win it.
It's because you got to dress only,
trust me.
Yeah, you're right.
Always doing the right thing.
I know.
It is.
It's who I am, guys.
It's who I am.
I'd have taken that 25 grand
and been out the door.
I'll be helping children, all right.
I'll be helping your children.
These dinosaur nuggets ain't
cheap out here.
No.
You got to go to Costco for
the dino nuggets, though.
Oh, Costco sees a lot of my money.
Yeah, they do.
You know what didn't see a
lot of you was the CrossFit gym today.
It's true.
I got a double dip this weekend,
a little run.
Oh, pump and run.
A little open.
Oh, yeah.
You have the open and the pump and run.
That's right.
So the key is just don't
train all week and then
dive all the way in.
It's worked out well for me in the past.
Scott knows.
Yeah.
How has it worked well?
In what way?
Well, I didn't die.
So there's that.
I'm already a leg up.
Usually it ends with your
wife yelling at you.
And then you either in the
hot ER or laying on the
floor rolling around.
Yep.
All wins.
This year,
I got Corey I got to take care of, so.
Yeah.
Okay.
He's not ready.
So we got the open this week,
and we put out some reels
this weekend with
everybody's kind of first open.
So I wanted to ask, you know,
as we're going into this open,
what is your favorite open memory?
And I can go while you think.
Okay, yeah.
So it's funny because you
and Kat really got me fired
up because my favorite open
memory was 2014.
I remember exactly what it was.
Yep.
It was 14.3,
the deadlift box jump workout.
I lifted weight that I had
never lifted before,
like 12 times in that workout.
And I went toe to toe with
Bob Harper from The Biggest Loser.
Not actually in person.
Right.
But on the leaderboard.
Yeah.
And we were one rep apart.
And I can't even remember if I won or lost,
but I was one rep away from
Bob Harper on that workout.
And that was the highlight
of all of my opens.
I remember my favorite is
probably it wasn't me.
doing it but it was my son
when he he was 16 and he
got the 185 pound clean and
that just like the picture
of it is amazing like just
because he failed it a
couple times and then he
made the lift and so I
would say that's it now he
works out with that yeah
now he's a large larger
individual I think it was
because of his judge I think so
Yeah, hold on.
Let me, I'm gonna,
I gotta check on something real quick.
Sorry.
One of my favorites is
seeing people who are
consistently on the top of
the leaderboard throughout the year,
every single week of the year.
And then all of a sudden
they just disappear.
It's good times.
Our, our opens were full of those people.
Yeah.
All of a sudden something, there's a,
maybe it's a shoulder, maybe it's a knee.
Maybe.
What,
did you ever find out what year you
started Charlie?
No.
I'm going to go look for it
right now while we're talking.
And apparently Charlie has
no documented proof that he
ever existed in the open.
Did you already look?
Because we have no pictures, no videos.
Oh, yeah.
To be able to do a reel on Charlie.
Well,
I think I can find it if we... I just
need to know what year he started.
I believe it was 16.
Okay.
Well, we're going to confirm.
So with this year's open...
I've already announced that
I'm not going to be able to
do it this year.
I did 11 in a row.
This would have been my 12th year.
I am not able to do it.
What are your plans for the weekend?
Wait a minute.
Why are we not doing this?
Work minimum?
You're going to just ruin your streak?
So you're saying I should pay $20, roll in,
do one rep, and then call it a day?
Yeah.
You're going to start over at zero again?
Come on.
Charlie,
I don't know if you ever
officially signed up for the workouts.
When?
Ever.
I had to.
Back then we did.
Okay.
I'm going to try again.
Hold on.
I'll go look at some point.
Okay, fine.
Here we go.
I found you.
So what's your guys' plan for the weekend?
2016 is correct.
All right.
I will look for your, I will look for.
Since I have the race on Sunday morning,
I won't be doing it Sunday.
So I'm either going to have
to go Saturday.
Friday.
You could do it Friday morning.
Oh yeah.
Then it gives me a chance to do it again.
Cause why not get one more rep.
And why at this stage?
Like in these age divisions?
Well,
I also need to figure out when
Corey's going so that I can
get one more rep on that as well.
Okay.
Well,
then it is worth going again if
you're beating Corey.
I forgot about that aspect.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Now he's going to put up a
statement number,
and then I'm going to
question this judge.
I'm going to just put that out there now.
Yes, Scott.
When are you planning on going?
Because usually you go under
the cover of darkness.
I know.
And sneak into the gym when
nobody's watching.
I know.
Here's the deal, though.
I actually have definitely
feeling differently about
the Open this year.
In the past, I have been... Judy.
It's been really important.
My goal is to make quarterfinals.
Um, that is not my goal this year.
I,
my goal is to do the open this year and
that's what it is.
So I actually,
I'm feeling less nervous about it,
more excited.
Like I'm just here to do the open.
I have other goals outside
of the gym right now,
which I'm hoping in a
I'm training, and I'm showing up.
We're fighting again.
We're fighting again?
You're fine.
Nope.
I don't know them, so we're fighting.
You do know what they are.
You're just not thinking about it,
and we're not talking about
it on the podcast.
Okay, fine.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
So... Are we on the... So, just...
Sorry.
So just to let everybody know, um,
in years past,
we would try to do a show
during the open
announcement and kind of react to it.
Um, we're not doing that this year.
There's a lot of people doing that.
We're going to lay back just
to our normal Thursday
night show and kind of go
over it at that point.
Um, and then what I would like to do is,
um,
get some look-ins at
people's open workouts from
our crew where we get some
video and show that over the weekend.
So if so inclined, Amy and Charlie,
the train wreck, we will, we can do that.
Um, hopefully throughout,
throughout the weekends of the open,
it doesn't have to be all beef week one,
but just periodically just
to kind of do that and talk
about what the open is and
what it does for us.
So it's a cool way to kind
of look at average Joe's
out there hustling.
Well,
I'm definitely going to talk to my
paparazzi and see if they
can go ahead and, you know,
do some filming or
something like that so that we can, yeah,
I'll talk to that, to that guy.
Maybe I could even scoot
over and shoot you with a camera.
Then you can just get your
one rep in and call it a open.
I'm not letting you break this streak,
buddy.
Let's see what the workout
is and then we'll decide.
What does it matter?
Yeah.
I've got like 95% of my friends saying,
you need to take care of you.
You need to get your health in order.
Charlie's like, screw all that.
Sacrifice it all for the Open.
Yeah.
I mean, what if it is one burpee?
You could climb down onto
the ground and get back up.
That I could do.
Right.
But if it's like deadlift 225 pounds,
probably not.
Okay.
So let's see what it is,
and then let's talk.
He's not from Chicago.
No.
I'm not.
He just thinks he is.
So the Arnold we have going
on this weekend in Columbus.
Yeah.
We have a prospective
sponsor who is giving us a
podcast center in their
apparel booth at the Arnold
for us to interview people.
We are going to try to.
If I feel okay,
go down and do some interviews.
Charlie has agreed to do some.
Jamie is going down on
Saturday to do some.
Oh, she is?
Yeah.
Okay.
And if Amy wants to go, we have tickets.
And Andrew Sten is lifting,
so that could be someone we
interview during the Olympic lifting.
We know Kat and her son are coming.
Correct.
With all that,
we're hoping to get a
handful of interviews.
They built us.
And what's cool is they've
got a shirts already.
They're going to get us some
more apparel kit for us.
And then they're looking to
maybe sell some merch for us,
which would be cool.
Yeah.
And I have someone working on a new design,
like an alternate design.
based on WAD Zombies AI
version of our logo, but less nipple.
When has that ever been better?
I got to go.
I'm comfortable.
And then Charlie's doing the
pump and run on Sunday.
And that is,
if you don't know what a pump and run is,
it is you bench,
get as many reps as you can.
Is it at body weight or at 225?
At your body weight.
And then depending on how
many reps you get, that is,
they take that off of your
time for the 5K?
Yep.
So.
I have two questions.
Is it one unbroken set?
Yes.
Generally.
So last year at Polaris, during that time,
we did a pump and row.
So the same thing, you bench,
and then you rode 2,000 meters,
and you got 10 seconds
taken off for every rep of bench you got.
My follow-up question to that is, Charlie,
how much running have you done?
So in a
The year I've run twice.
So we really want to see if
this CrossFit thing really
adapts to the rest of the world.
But you do have a bionic hip.
I do.
I'll turn that on a simmer.
So I've known you now, what, eight,
nine years, Charlie?
Yep.
Are we going to go with the slow –
And back and forth with the shuffle feet?
No.
For most of that 5K?
No.
We're going to a hot,
full sprint first hundred.
Don't tear your shit.
So you get that picture in
the crowd and you see, oh,
who's this guy in the front?
And then you get the finish
line video of another full sprint.
Like, oh, this dude is coming in hot.
And what about the in-betweens?
Don't worry about those.
I am most worried about those.
I might be in a cab.
I don't really know yet.
Well,
I just checked the weather and it's
65 and sunny for Sunday.
And that's a good thing.
Or if it was snowing,
you would not have seen me out there.
Why isn't Charlie doing the pumping room?
Well, it snowed today.
it's below 60 so so speaking
of that scott the other day
charlie and I were texting
and we were asking about
his running and he said
it's snowing outside I'm
not that's that's how
people hurt themselves as
is out to hurt themselves
okay my rebuttal was
actually doing a race and
not training is how people
hurt themselves
Listen,
if I can't run three miles after
doing CrossFit,
then we have larger issues.
You can run it.
So I would agree with you if
the word consistency
consistently was in front of CrossFit.
You always got to bring
technicalities onto this podcast.
I'm about tired of it.
I'm about tired of being called out here.
Yeah.
I mean,
you'll definitely be able to do it.
I'll do it.
Yeah.
Listen,
we're going to get a home run on
the bench,
just to be completely blown up
for doing 30 reps.
And then... But then you
don't have to go right away.
Is that correct?
I believe that to be correct.
Okay.
But I think I'd rather just go.
So where are you sitting weight-wise?
Oh, about 205.
Ooh.
I was saying if you were sub two, man,
you could crank out some bench.
No, I'm not really 205.
I'm like 175.
I was going to say.
Okay.
I just can't.
Well, 175, man, you should like, like,
I do have to give you,
you are one of the best
bench press people I've been around.
Like you should rep out that.
At a pretty good clip at 175.
Well, for sure.
Part of that reason is,
is because his shoulders
are permanently internally rotated.
And I've been this long.
Part of my daily routine,
but you know what?
There's a lot of things we
should be doing.
No, Charlie is going to crush it.
We're just talking smack because it's fun.
But he's going to crush it.
Yeah.
And where are they holding that?
Are they holding that at the
convention center or in the park?
I couldn't tell you.
Just minor detail.
I'm just going to walk
around and hope I see
people running and then just fill in.
Hop on a bench.
Excuse me.
Yeah, you guys.
You guys done here?
I need this.
Oh, good Lord.
All right.
Well, just as out there,
Dave Castro put out a
picture of a mushroom.
A mushroom hand?
That's weird.
So he did say on his week in
review that that mushroom
was real and it was
actually on the ranch.
And he went to pick it to use it as a demo,
like a
prop for the open
announcement this week and
it was gone so he doesn't
have the prop so he's just
going to have to do the
open announcement without
it but does the mushroom
tell you anything because
people be talking and what
I want to know has any of
the clues ever made sense
have we ever gone back and
looked and said oh this
made sense to what it was
They make something around about Ray.
Like, oh, okay.
Yeah.
I guess I could see that.
Cause I heard a couple of
things where one person was like, well,
if you eat shrooms, you're tripping.
So it's double unders.
And then, um, you know,
Mario jumps on top of a box
and to box to grow bigger
with the mushroom.
So it's gotta be box jumps, you know?
So, I mean,
Yeah, I think, like I said last week,
I think it's 14.3,
my favorite workout again,
because of increasing weight,
decreasing reps.
I did like that one.
I'd be cool with that.
That'd be great.
It's like an arrow point up?
I'm not even saying that.
What was 14.3?
It was box jumps and
deadlifts but couldn't you
could could you box could
you do step ups you could
okay that's what I
remembered yeah tall yeah
it was very like um it was
very open like anybody
could do it right because
you could step up and and
the the weight started it
for men at like 135 um and
then it went up pretty
rapidly to where like I
think like I ended up at 315 or something
In that workout?
Carolyn, I hope it's not.
Somebody said seven minutes of burpees.
I would rather seven minutes
of burpee than ten minutes
of max burpee box jump overs.
You're going to hurt your mushroom head.
You will hurt that.
Carolyn's choice is not
popular in the crowd.
No, it was.
Here's what it was.
It was in eight minutes,
10 deadlifts at 135 and 95, 15 box jumps,
15 deadlifts, 185, 135, 15 box jumps,
20 deadlifts, 225, 185, 15 box jumps,
25 deadlifts at 275, 185.
15 box jumps, then 30 at 315 and 205.
That's where you were talking about.
15 box jumps and then 365 and 225.
For the box jumps,
athletes may jump or step
up as long as both feet
start on the ground and
both feet end on the box in control.
And that's when everybody
started stepping up on the corner.
Yeah.
Which they've since outlawed, correct?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
But I still think it's a
good method to do step ups.
Yeah.
So I do have a change of
subject real quick.
I just finished behind the scenes,
but I wanted to ask you, Amy,
did you get a chance to
watch the Haley video?
I've been watching it.
I'm not done, but I really like it.
It is so good.
It is very good.
I'm I think I'm a little
more than halfway through
but I'm going to finish it
today it's it's very um I
think it's very well done
um and yeah it's it's an
interesting insight into
into her um and her growing
up and and training and
There's a piece right before
the end where like,
where like he brings it all
around and kind of does a
synopsis with her and she
starts tearing up and it is.
Oh, good.
That's what we're just talking about,
Andrew.
I think it is the best piece
of content that's come out
from CrossFit in 10 years.
Yeah.
Okay.
Good.
Well,
let's give Bill some good props for
that because this is on his YouTube.
Yeah.
So if you have not seen it,
please go check it out.
It is really good.
Highly endorse that.
I also finished Behind the Scenes.
I know that the free
versions are catching up pretty quickly.
Yeah, they are.
And, but what I will say is, man, I forgot,
like,
like I made a wild statement on
Thursday night, not one, I believe.
And I've been making this
call that Emma Lawson will
win the games this year.
And I think she will shock the world,
beat Tia and Laura.
Okay.
Then I watched the behind
the scenes and I forgot she
had the leaders Jersey
until the last event.
Alexis Raptors had it too early on.
Yeah.
Early on like day one.
but emma had it for the
whole middle of the
competition and laura
didn't get it back until
the last event or didn't
get it until the last event
and if you think laura has
a shot then you got to
think emma has a shot
because people have said
that I'm crazy for the pick
a few people have given me
kudos but um but yeah that
was pretty crazy to me I
just forgot that that she
was in the lead that far
into the games yeah how
does anyone say she doesn't have a shot
So it started with Will
Branstetter made the
comment for the barbell
spin pole that if you put Emma first,
you should be kicked out of the pole.
If you didn't put Tia first,
you should be kicked out of the pole.
Oh.
Well,
it's been two years since Tia set
foot on the floor.
So much can happen.
And just like that,
all of a sudden we get
clips of her in a wrist
brace going into the first
week of the Open.
Oh.
Wow.
She'll get through the open.
Yeah, but what's wrong with her wrist?
Is it going to affect her at some point?
And I'm not saying that it is.
I'm just saying nobody knows
when that stuff's going to happen.
So to make a blanket
statement that a person is
definitely going to win, it's sports.
Stuff happens.
Yeah.
Roman.
Right.
Well,
Which poll are we talking about?
Yeah.
Okay.
Apparently this,
the poll where they're
talking about Alexis Raptus' mom,
that poll is the only one
that Amy Kringle has a shot on.
Wait a minute.
I haven't seen the mom yet.
because I know you're a fan
of the daughter a huge fan
yeah great athlete so um
the last thing I wanted to
bring up and that is just
because they're a partner
of ours um the teams have
made an announcement that
they have a venue for the
games um and it is pretty
sick so I'm going to share
my screen super quick
This is their new home.
So of the three days of the
teen CrossFit games, or four days,
I can't remember,
most of them will be at
this arena in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
It's a minor league hockey arena.
So the teens get a jumbotron.
They get an arena to hang out in.
And then one day we'll be at
the pit where it's an old –
uh, gravel quarry, um,
that they've been holding the pit at,
or the,
the pit throw down at for the last
four years.
So one day like outdoor events at the pit,
the rest of it here in this arena.
Um, so super stoked for them, uh,
that they'll get to have that as a,
as a teen athlete.
And I heard rumor.
I don't know if it's true
that they got go rock as
their apparel sponsor.
So the teams are going to
get outfitted pretty good.
Um,
Um, but yeah,
so super stoked for the teens.
Um, and that,
that's a big move for them to have that.
It's not a massive arena.
It's just a little one,
which is what they need for
what they're doing.
Right.
They don't need 10,000 seats.
They need a couple thousand
and to make the kids feel special.
So super stoked for them and
shout out to Stephanie and
Brock for pulling that off.
Looks awesome.
Yeah.
So other than that, good luck this week.
Thanks.
We'll be talking to you.
Good luck to me.
We'll,
we'll revisit on Thursday what the
workout is.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah, that is right.
Corey masters with the
obscure clothing line from
like the Netherlands or something.
All right.
I'm going to, I'm going to.
All right.
With that,
we'll catch everybody next time
on the Clydesdale media round table.
Bye guys.
Tune in this week for Arnold coverage.
And I'm trying to find the video.
There we go.