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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.
In the kitchen
what is going on everybody
welcome to the coffee
edition of gladsdale media
podcast where we're
featuring the athletes of
the 2024 crossfit game
semifinals and I'm so
pumped to have my dear
friend lisa goffy on the
show fee how you doing good
morning just like you said
coffee talk we're ready
we're ready the thing
that's gonna kick it off
right except mine says uh
this is one of my favorite
mugs it says tequila
hope you're not adding that
to the coffee before
training no definitely not
but I probably I will
probably be having some
hopefully hopefully some
celebratory tequila after
semi-finals is is uh done
very well and dusted but
we're here enjoying coffee
first so you like your
tequila straight up or
mixed with something I love honestly
If it's very good tequila,
I'll just enjoy it like
straight and actually enjoy,
like truly like sip on it.
You don't just kind of like,
like very good quality tequila.
My abuelo always had tequila
time around four o'clock
and he would just sit on
his chair and just like slowly sip,
like truly enjoying.
So yeah, so I could do that with good,
very good tequila, but then
Other ones where you're just
kind of like hoping it goes down smooth,
the salt, the lime,
or just like mixed in the
drinks is always nice.
But either way.
So Jake Chapman said, this is coffee talk.
That's clever.
Why haven't I thought of that?
Yes.
Yes, Jake.
I love that.
Corey Leonard says, tequila for breakfast.
I've been going about my
training all wrong.
There it is.
That's okay.
Do you know?
Tequila's a probiotic.
It's very good for you.
Very good for your gut.
Paper Street should do a limited edition.
Yes.
Like a Paloma coffee.
I love the way she says tequila.
Gracias.
Thank you very much.
It's the proper way to say it.
Everyone should say it like that.
Even like gringos.
Tequila.
Tequila.
you go but I gotta say I i
do have it with my what
like I'll sip on my coffee
not thinking sip my coffee
and then I have my water my
relay my salt water so I'm
like dehydrating hydrating
dehydrating there's a
method here way to do it
this way to do it yeah
especially when you're a
week out from semis yeah I
uh so I train at noon so I
the my morning is coffee
and water coffee and water
because I can't go train at noon and
be all dehydrated.
Oh yeah.
I've done that many,
like way too many times where, you know,
during breakfast, I'm drinking my coffee.
I'm taking the morning the way that I,
that I need to,
to get ready for training.
And then I'll get to the gym
and sometimes I'll be like, oh, my God,
I haven't had a sip of
water yet because I'm just
like enjoying my coffee so much.
And and then I get to the
gym and right now I'm in Jacksonville.
So it's like eighty seven degrees,
90 degrees every day.
And you're just like, I did.
I totally forgot what I
actually should be doing in the morning,
which is drinking water
first and then going into the day.
But it's OK.
So you've made the move
across the state of Florida
from Naples to Jacksonville
and way north.
Yeah, way north.
One day and then completely
opposite direction.
So I used to live in Tallahassee.
So in the armpit.
Yeah.
And then my cousin,
who is like a brother to me,
he was stationed in Navy in Jacksonville.
So I made that like I drive all the time.
I didn't realize how big Jacksonville was.
First of all,
just like the size of Jacksonville.
And no one knows how to drive.
Oh, no one.
No one.
Oh my gosh.
Everyone's so mean.
Everyone's so awful.
I've seen many accidents,
like just like driving by
and you could tell it was
like just a dumb accident and very silly.
But everyone drives in a way
that's like almost an accident.
Like you're driving and you're like,
oh my God,
that could have been something insane.
And I've driven by many awful accidents.
There was one that I, the gym,
from my apartment to the gym,
it should take 10,
no more than 12 minutes to get there.
It's just like one smooth
exit off the highway.
And it took me 40 minutes to,
Because by the time I merged
onto this exit,
I'm only one exit off to get to the gym,
it was just backed up traffic.
And it was a car that was driving,
wasn't looking where they were driving.
They probably slammed on their brakes.
And there was a truck in front of them.
This car just slammed just
underneath this pickup truck.
This pickup truck flew up.
And it was almost at this 45-degree angle.
And I had just gotten to this accident.
Ambulance hadn't even gotten there.
Crazy.
Every time I was there,
there was some kind of accident,
some kind of backup.
Our favorite thing to do was to go to St.
Augustine.
I haven't gone yet.
That's one of my bucket lists.
It's on the to-do places
here in Jacksonville or around.
We're going to do that after.
For someone with Latin background,
I cannot believe you've not been to St.
Augustine.
No, I know.
It was a Spanish settlement and
I didn't know that.
No,
there's so much history that I need to
learn from there.
I've just heard how beautiful it is.
And how it's so close, like 40.
It's a 40 minute drive from here.
And I just haven't made it.
It's one of those things where when I go,
I want to spend the entire day there.
And where training has been since I mean,
we moved here in January.
And by the time we moved,
everyone immediately is like, you know,
with all you got to go here,
you got to go to St.
Augustine,
you got to try these restaurants,
you got to do this and that.
And you're just like, I just got here.
And all I need to focus on
is just training.
Because by that time, it was like,
Wadapalooza.
And then a month later, it's the open.
And then a month later,
it's quarterfinals.
And you're just like,
I don't even have an entire,
the days that we do get to ourselves,
you just kind of want to chill and
so after semifinals I'm
hoping to just like take a
week off and explore and do
all the fun stuff so are
you are you living in
jacksonville full-time or
just there for training
yeah I'm here full-time I
since I went full-time in
the sport with training and
just you know living here
in florida since last year
so I moved to naples last
was it last november last
november yes last november no
Two Novembers ago.
Gosh, I can't even keep track.
But yeah,
and then was there with my coach
and the whole training camp.
That's when Matt Torres had
five of us go to the games that year.
That was that year that I
decided to move and made it happen.
And then literally a year later,
we didn't see this coming, right?
Like this was something that, you know,
was in the works like maybe
well over half of that year
and then all of a sudden an
opportunity came up and
matt was like hey this is
my vision this is my plan
for the camp and the
business and you know what
do you guys think um and we
pretty much were just like
okay wherever you go we go
and sure enough the
decision from to
jacksonville happened and
we're just like okay we're doing it
Yeah, and Jacksonville is a little,
it was like an old OG
hotbed for CrossFit.
Like there's a lot of
athletes in Jacksonville.
Who are the OGs out of this area?
So she goes by Jen Smash on Instagram.
Jen Dieter.
Jen Dieter.
Okay.
You had to put me on the spot, didn't you?
I know.
I was waiting for you to just be like, one,
two.
I'm sure there's plenty more.
There actually really are a ton.
There are a lot of CrossFit
affiliates in Jacksonville, though.
I feel like within a couple mile radius,
there's another one.
I mean, there's two.
I think there's one downtown
in Jack's Beach or around Jack's Beach.
called Total Control that we've been to,
great community there.
And that affiliate has another location,
like two separate locations
within literally the same city,
the same zip code, I feel like.
And then where we're at,
we're at CrossFit Tailwinds.
But maybe, you know, two, three,
four miles down the road,
there's another affiliate.
So they're pretty like,
they're right next to each other.
I think Sean Woodland
actually came from there as well.
He was a sportscaster on the
local TV station, got into CrossFit,
and that's how he... Wow.
Well, not surprising with like...
sports being so big here, you know,
it's a beautiful, I mean,
it's an area where a ton of people come,
um, just in general, I think to vacation,
to watch the Jags, you know,
they got the NFL team here.
And I mean, it's a few, I heard,
I think there's a running
joke that someone told me
that it takes him.
I think it was about
Jacksonville that you could
like drive an hour and
still be in Jacksonville, the whole,
the whole city.
I can see that.
Yeah.
We can move on from Jackson.
We haven't even touched
anything I had planned,
which is the way I deal with you, Fi.
Yes.
It's okay.
It's a good problem.
But there are some comments.
I'm almost afraid to put
this in because it's in Spanish,
and I got a D in high school Spanish,
so here we go.
I think that's... I think wasabi...
Uh, Google translated, see,
is that a question mark?
Maybe is that a question?
Tequila para desayuno.
He goes, uh,
is fee drunk and tequila for breakfast.
But that was a good, that was a good, uh,
maybe that was a good statement.
That's a good try on the grammar.
Yeah.
no we are not drunk effort
effort was there so it's
been been a long time since
you've been on the show if
we're truly friends like
we've let it go too long
honestly I can't I really
can't our last interview
was last for last semis I
think right it was right
before the games it was
right before the games okay
yeah still either way way
too long that was almost a
year ago then I know
Unacceptable.
Because we didn't get to talk about this.
Oh, gosh.
A lot of things.
Yes.
A ton of things happened.
Not just like the games,
like after the games.
Yeah.
You got married.
You're not two anymore.
We got married.
You know what?
I've been meaning to change my last name.
Fee Sagafi legally still is my name.
And I'm just like, I need to change.
I want to change my last name.
I'm going to.
I'm a Ferrara.
I'm a Ferrara.
And I have yet to get to it
because then it's just a lot of, you know,
I just didn't get to it.
And now I'm just a week out from semis.
And I'm like,
can I change my last name before semis?
So when they call my name,
it's Fee Ferrara.
And today I will make it a
point to start the documentation.
So hopefully by next week, at least,
could legally say in some
way I'm a ferrara because I
am that's my husband alex
ferrer I'll tell you this
you may be able to do it
legally in the united
states to do that but
crossfit it's like an act
of god to change your name
in their documentation is
it is it so does it annoy them
Well, I mean,
a lot of people have gotten
married and tried to change their names.
And it's always taken longer
than they thought.
I know, like,
Bethany Flores wanted that changed.
And, like, at semis,
she was still Shadburn.
Yeah.
Because that's what it's...
When you acknowledge someone or, you know,
say someone, an athlete's name,
you know them by, like, their full name,
right?
And first and last name.
But I feel like for me,
maybe that's an exception.
I don't know.
I hope it's an exception
because there's no other Fi.
So maybe it's just Fi.
Or Fi Ferreira.
I don't know.
Although Fi Ferreira sounds
freaking awesome.
It sounds fast.
Like it sounds like I should be like, well,
it works because I'm in the
sport of being fast, right?
Fi Ferreira.
It feels like I'm just like zooming.
Ferrari.
Fi Ferrari.
Yeah.
More like it because you are so fast.
Yes.
My husband, in college,
he played football for Mount Union.
I don't know if anyone else
is out there that knows Mount Union,
but Mount Union is a very
recognized Division III football program.
Oh, my God.
Yes.
Wait, have you told me that before?
Well, I mean, I live here in Ohio.
Yeah, but, like, not everyone knows.
I don't know.
They didn't lose for, like,
five years in a row.
That's true.
Well, I don't want to assume,
but that's awesome that you know that.
Then, yes.
So, anyways, so they called him Rari,
like his nickname within his teammates,
Rari for Ferrari.
But, yeah, I like it.
Just don't do the dash last name, please.
No.
Too much.
That's too much.
Yeah,
I feel like people would get way too
confused.
And also, that's a lot of name.
You know, like Sagafi, Ferrara.
There's like so much.
I mean, it's beautiful.
I think it's beautiful to
keep my culture in there, my last name.
But I'm deciding for just
personal reasons to change my last name.
Just think of the logistics
on the jersey when you get to the games.
Gosh.
Like sitting it all on there.
Yeah.
That's got,
I'm actually thinking of
everyone that does that job.
So I'm just trying to be my phone number.
See, if you just go one name, Fee.
I know.
Done.
That's it.
Honestly,
it's probably nice for
commentators and MCs to
just have to say Fee.
I remember at my first regionals in 2018.
20 Yeah, 2018.
Someone can't I can't even
remember someone came up to me.
Um, and someone's like,
How do you want us to
pronounce your name?
Do you have a nickname?
I'm like, Yes, just say fee, say fee.
And then like, ever since then,
they were like, Oh, thank God.
That's easy.
They scratched out like the rest,
like the rest of my name are OZH.
I just like I physically saw
them like be like, perfect.
Circle Fe.
Does your family still call
you by your full name?
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
If you do say is like,
I've never heard my family
call me fee other than like text.
They'll shoot me a quick text, um,
you know, fee.
But other than that,
when they're addressing me in person,
it's fee to say every time.
And I love my name, if you will say.
When I was younger,
I did it just because I always got,
I didn't get made fun of,
but teachers would butcher
it and it would just sound so ugly.
Like when you mispronounce a beautiful,
like a name, you're mispronouncing it,
your mispronunciation is
probably so bad that you're just like,
just don't say it.
Yeah, yeah, it's,
thank goodness Scott is very easy,
but my last name,
he's never gotten it right.
You pronounce it.
It's Switzer.
Switzer.
What do people typically say?
Switzer.
Switzer.
Yeah, Switzer.
Is it with just an I or E-I or I?
Just an I. Oh, yeah.
When my ancestors came to the country,
it was S-C-H-W-E-I.
Mm, S-C-H-W-E-I.
Yeah.
Yeah, so very German.
Well, you it's funny.
It's Fidu says a Persian, you know,
Iranian name, 100 percent.
But most actually the
typical spelling or a very
common spelling is F.I.R.U.
Z.E.H.
F.I.R.U.
Z.E.H.
And the older that I got,
the more I realized I think
my parents gave me a phonetic spelling.
Like truly like the phonetic
spelling of Fiduze.
It's F-E-E-F-I-R-U-Z-E.
And it's like the phonetic spelling.
Because when people break it down,
it's like, oh, that makes sense.
Yeah.
When I see the names that kids have today,
I would kill to have a
phonetic spelling of anything.
Yes.
You got letters in them that
don't make sense, but...
So was the wedding
everything you dreamed to be?
It was the most magical, beautiful,
everything,
like everything that I wanted
to happen happened.
when it came to the weather
when it came to you know
how it all came together
from the ceremony to the
party to the you know our
friends coming in a couple
days prior to being able to
enjoy even days after the
wedding like it truly felt
not just like a wedding day
it felt like it was it was
a wedding week it was just
pure celebration of
love and friends and friends
that we haven't seen in such a long time.
And, you know,
families coming together for
the first time.
Oh, it was beautiful.
It was everything I could
have ever asked for after the games.
And the games definitely
didn't finish the way that
I was hoping to finish.
But it was nice to have that
the week afterwards.
Like I have something that's
way more valuable to me in my life,
which is obviously my wedding day.
Is it important to find that
prioritization in life?
Like as an athlete,
it's really easy to get
wrapped up into your
identity as an athlete,
but you're so much more than that.
And now you,
you have a husband and you had
this amazing wedding and
you have this life you get
to build together.
Did it help you kind of
reset those priorities?
Oh yeah.
I think that year was, it was,
the start of that season, you know,
was the start of, for me,
it was having taking the risk,
going from Cleveland to moving all my,
you know, my life to Naples.
And it
My world just revolved
around the sport and making
it back and doing
everything I could and
sacrificing home and
bringing my husband along this ride.
He took a risk on moving
from Cleveland to Naples
because he works for a firm in Cleveland.
And taking that risk and for
them to keep him within the firm,
like that was like everything.
So everything revolved
around CrossFit during that time.
And then, you know,
the year started to unravel
and I continued hard in the sport.
But then you have your
family and now you're
my family is him right my
family is what we're you
know our new chapter and so
it it started to not just
become about me and the
sport it started to become
about us and being a team
and working together for
each other and pulling each
other along and so you you
have you start to live that
chapter and everything
starts to be filled with
much more purpose and much more intention
And so when things do get hard,
you don't just have yourself to rely on,
right?
Or just the one thing that
you love in the moment,
which is your sport,
which is the thing that
puts food on the table for me.
But now I have, you know,
that fire under me because
my purpose revolves around being
a better wife, being, you know,
a better family member, a sister,
you know, now that I'm away from home,
I still need to make it a
point to keep building on
those relationships.
And those are the relationships that,
you know,
continue to support me whether I
do CrossFit or not.
But I definitely have way
more feeling of purpose and drive.
And that purpose doesn't come from sport,
it comes from the
relationships in my life,
which is the most meaningful.
That is so well said.
So then you're in your sport,
and like from 2019,
it was this drive to get
back to the games, right?
And last year, that happened, right?
Get back to the games.
Now the goals shift, probably,
I'm assuming,
to more games-related goals.
Yep.
But you've got all this
amazing stuff happening
around you in life.
what are the conversations
with Matt now about what are,
what are the CrossFit goals
and how does it fit into
everything you have going on in life?
Yeah.
So the goal of, you know,
it's not just getting back to the games.
It's, you know, going into semifinals,
like our semifinals and a
lot of these semifinals, right.
You,
The field has been cut.
The quality of competition
is even harder than last year.
Every year it's hard, right?
But also every year it gets harder.
So it's not that just
because you've made it back
or you've been more
consistent throughout the
season or your fitness
obviously continues to
progress and your holes
continue to close doesn't
mean that it's going to be
that much easier to make it
back to the game.
So number one goal is to execute and
That's something that we've
been working on a lot this past,
like the entire year is
truly closing in on my holes,
which mainly is like strength and power.
But also when it comes to game time,
really honing in on working
on our strategy and taking
and practicing moments
where we have good
execution or poor execution, right,
in practice.
But coming full circle to that question is
know the things that we've
been working on matt and I
is um not just getting to
the games but once we get
to the games like truly
executing our strengths and
managing you know the
things that we continue to
work on and I mean my
biggest goal is get to the
games and get there for the
whole weekend like I work
so everyone works so hard
that you're just fighting
to be there for throughout
the weekend and the la my last you know
Games, two games appearances,
I've always been cut early.
So my next goal, you know,
something that's manageable, tangible,
and I believe my fitness is there.
I just need to execute.
And I think my execution at the games,
I had poor moments of execution.
They weren't moments of my
fitness couldn't earn me that weekend.
It was just couldn't execute.
So that I think is what's
been holding me back and
what held me back last games.
So I have to share some of these comments.
Rebecca Wood.
Oh, my gosh.
Hi, Fi.
Opened up YouTube and saw you were live.
Oh, Rebecca.
What a great.
She's such a great friend of mine.
She's back in Naples.
Love you, Rebecca.
Wad Zombie.
Fi is the most genuinely
nice person I've ever seen.
Thank you, Wad Zombie.
And echoed by Corey.
You can feel the positivity
coming off of her.
And I've told this story on
the show before.
Thank you.
You are such a positive person.
I told you, like,
you were on the demo team one year.
I had imposter syndrome
underneath the Coliseum.
Do I really belong here?
And you came over and gave me a hug,
and it was like, oh, my gosh.
I do.
Like,
you just completely set me at ease
because you're just a
wonderful person and so genuine.
And it's always good to see you.
Oh, I love seeing you.
Oh, my gosh.
I didn't realize you had
imposter syndrome.
Well,
you should never have imposter
syndrome anywhere you go
because you're great at
what you do and you bring
light out of people.
So it's always enjoyable to see you.
And it was great.
It was one of those years where,
you know what, I'm just like, okay,
I'm not in it over there,
but I could still be in it
from this side.
And you kind of enjoy the
ride that you're on.
You got to.
Yeah, yeah.
So my next question to you,
And thank you for those compliments.
I do appreciate them very
much is you've been working
on strength so long.
Does it ever feel tedious?
Like, because on the other hand,
you do have home runs, right?
If you can,
if you can just get to them in
the weekend, like at the games,
some of your best events
were just around the corner.
Yep.
I know.
You just need the key to
unlock the door to get to
that next piece.
Yeah.
And I mean,
that's it's part of the game now.
It's everyone, everyone,
every single athlete in our
sport has like their own home runs.
And that's, you know, I'm no different.
It's just earning that, right?
You've got to earn your way.
And for some people,
it's earning it through the
conditioning and the aerobic work that,
I mean, this entire sport is aerobic.
For me,
I'm a very aerobic athlete because
I started CrossFit, like, doing, like,
true, true CrossFit for a very,
very long time.
And my biggest holes are the strength.
So for me to get to the fun
part of the weekend,
which is now clearly –
after the second or like the
second after the second day.
Right.
It's on Saturday.
If you've done the work or, you know,
you get to have your fun now.
Right.
That's when the crossfit
starts to come out.
And yeah, that's it.
Strength has been taking me
so like so long to develop
because that's just part of, you know,
developing strength.
It definitely doesn't
develop as quick as
conditioning or maybe
developing like more of the, you know,
skills even.
For me,
strength is something that takes
years and years to build.
And that's one thing that
when I first talked to Matt
before even having him as my coach,
he was pretty much like,
this will take a very long
time and we'll get to the
end of the year of training
and you still won't be
where you want to be.
Just know that the progress is happening.
Even on the days that you're
not hitting what in your
head you should be hitting
or want to be hitting,
that doesn't mean you're regressing.
It's just part of the process.
I just know that when my
execution is there and when
all the pieces come together,
people could see that the
strength has been progressing.
And a good example of that
was last year at Semis.
I PR'd my snatch after a
couple events already in the weekend,
and I hit my 185,
something I've never done before.
But that was like my ticket to the game.
So when things truly come
together in my active and
it wasn't like it was never there before.
It just came together in that moment.
And it could have not come
together in that moment either.
So does that mean that I'm
not getting stronger?
Absolutely not.
So I definitely
I've had many moments during
competition weekends where
when the execution is there,
the results aren't there.
But when my execution is there,
I've proven that things
continue to progress.
And it's just a long, long process.
But I wouldn't be in it this
far as long as I have if I
didn't love that process.
So I talked to Saxon now,
it seems like forever ago,
probably a week ago.
And he described the weekend
after the workouts came out
as fitness first three days
or first three events.
Final day is all execution.
Yep.
Very well said.
Yeah.
Is that how you see the
weekend playing out?
Yeah, that's exactly it.
I mean, you get the big day one.
It's just, where's your conditioning?
Where's like,
have you been working on your
conditioning and your, you know,
battery work on that barbell, you know,
10 clean and jerks for
every round and to get back
to that run and just be consistent.
um have you been working on
those elements in your own
training and you know then
the next couple days you
got uh what's the you got
the um what's the second
event the front squat front
squat toes to bar just kind
of your volume work um your
endurance the squat
endurance that's something
that wasn't tested at all
in quarterfinals right we
saw very specific tests in
quarterfinals and the
things that you don't see
you could have assumed that
they were coming and that
was like squat endurance and
you know, rowing endurance,
handstand walking under a long, you know,
sort of long aerobic work.
And you get all those.
And then on the very last day,
You get, you know,
the events that are all
about execution because
those events can't have
anything to do with anything else.
Your best execution will
show your best fitness.
Whether if someone else is
holding on to all, you know,
15 ring muscle ups doesn't at the,
you know,
the last event does not mean
that that's going to be
your best execution.
strategy to showcase your
best finish towards the end
of the weekend.
So yeah, I really love that.
And it kind of shows the
people that come out at the top at the,
you know, at the end of semis,
who's been truly not just working on,
you know, all those elements,
but who's also been honing
in on strategy and
execution work throughout their training,
because all of that stuff takes practice.
You can't just practice that on game day.
So
We'll see how things go.
But I mean, it's been so cool to watch,
you know,
Europe go and now West is about
to go and Torian is about to go.
So we're learning.
I'm learning a lot.
I continue to learn a lot by
watching everyone go.
Do you watch full workouts of the others?
Yep.
I've been watching all of them.
Actually,
I didn't get a chance to watch
them all live, but I've been going back.
I mean, I have my notebook right on.
my coffee table right now.
My husband and I the other day, we're like,
okay,
we're going to rewatch everything
and we're going to watch, you know,
the best, the best heaps do it.
But it was really cool to
also have moments of like,
let's watch some of the
individuals that just
didn't get it right.
And learn a little bit from that.
Learn obviously from the
people that came up on top and I'm,
I'm over there.
I'm taking notes.
We're going event by event.
The other night I could not
fall asleep because I think
we watched events way too late.
And I was just,
I dream about these events now.
But I watch them all,
and I learn from the best.
And I have incredible
friends in the sport that
have already done these
events at the last semis,
and they're giving me notes.
They're giving me takeaways.
So I'm taking it all in.
So the other thing about the
execution being on Sunday
is that's when the pressure is there.
So not only is it execution,
it's execution under pressure.
Mm-hmm.
which being a veteran of the
sport should give you an
advantage in that stage.
It's so funny how different
people react to it.
I talked to Sam Quant.
He does not watch full workouts.
He said all it does is make
him more nervous.
He'll watch elements to see
how people handle things
and then he'll shut it off.
Oh, yeah.
That's different.
Is it
Is it a disadvantage or an
advantage going last?
It's a little bit of,
it's kind of like a little bit of both.
Like it's an advantage when it comes to,
um, just gives you more time to prepare.
Right.
But also everyone,
everyone gets more time.
Everyone that you're
competing against gets more time.
So it could be an advantage
to someone that needs that time.
Right.
It could be a disadvantage
to some that you kind of
just get burnt out and it
could be a huge
disadvantage to go last
because you have a
you're just grinding through
so many different
variations that maybe it's
almost too long of a period
where you're overthinking,
you're burnt out doing the events.
So by the time you get to your semis,
maybe you've hit all your
turbo buttons in training.
And as much as you want to
have them on game day,
if you hit them all way too early,
you're just not going to have them.
And that's kind of the
reality of the sport.
And that's why, I mean,
just comes to show that's
why a lot of athletes burnt out, you know,
throughout the year in the offseason,
they burn out,
they make that decision to step away.
Or by the game's time,
you see incredible athletes
that have a history of
incredible performances.
And you don't even see them, you know,
where they're projected to
be not because they can't,
it's because they've burnt
themselves out way too early,
too many times.
So
kind of a game that you kind
of play a little bit of
both um and you the only
way to really know what's
appropriate and what's not
is just to be mindful and
to talk to your coach and
to like when you start to
feel um those sensations of
almost like not having fun
with them that's when you
need to start to reel it
back and maybe just turn
the dv off not watch too
many events or just do
something completely
different other than the events
So we're already 35 minutes in.
I have not even looked at my notes.
And that's what happens
every time I talk to you.
Oh, my God.
I wish workouts went that fast, Scott.
Dang.
I want that one to just go this fast.
Just blink of an eye.
So I wasn't sure I was going
to make it to Knoxville.
I'm still like, ugh.
I have a hotel reservation, though,
so I'm hoping to get there.
And hopefully we'll see you there.
Gosh, I hope I see you there.
I feel like there's going to
be some good stories coming
out of that weekend.
I do, too,
and I want to be there to capture it.
If not,
I will definitely see you at the games.
Yes.
Well,
thank you so much for taking time out, Fi,
as always.
And we're not going to let
it take a year before you're back on.
Yes.
No, that's on you.
You just invite me.
Just shoot me a message.
I always get to you.
We can still fill an hour
without even talking about CrossFit.
We really can.
And you know what?
I love that because I love
talking about other things
that aren't involved around CrossFit.
I didn't even get to you
doing quarterfinals live on
a YouTube stream.
Oh, yeah.
You've got to save that for another day.
If it's still relevant.
That is the coolest thing ever.
And did it work for you?
on the like the savant like
having savan offer that
opportunity and crossfit
crash you know jr howell
out there like bringing us
in that was already chaos
like quarterfinals is
already chaos to begin with
right him taking care of
his members and the members
there that are also kind of
trying to punch their
ticket to semis um they
were just incredible just
truly taking us on just
like we're family of their
own the opportunity was
amazing and I loved it because
I want to believe that I'm
more of a game time athlete.
Like when I'm put in game time situations,
I just, I turn my brain off and I,
I shine more there than in
training where I'm just
overthinking or if I'm by
myself doing these events.
And when I get to be in an
environment where I just
kind of turn it on and just
go and put myself in that position,
I always, I always do what I need to do.
And I loved it.
So it was a good kind of
like game time practice experience.
after, you know,
not being on the floor for a while.
My hope is that you were the
catalyst to move that forward.
Cause there's so,
so many of us out there and
have the ability to broadcast that.
And, um,
but I've talked to a lot of female
athletes who like to keep
everything so tight to the
vest on those weekends, um,
where the guys just,
they want to talk smack and,
and they don't care.
Right.
Yeah.
And I think it's more like
of a confidence thing.
I think
not confidence, not in a cocky way,
but my confidence came from like,
I had full confidence that
the way that I executed quarterfinals,
like, there,
there actually weren't a lot
of moments that I would
have completely changed.
I'm like, you know what,
that was my best fitness,
I would not have done anything.
So come and get it and beat it.
And if you beat it, gosh,
you're really fit too.
And if you know, and if it's,
if my best fitness doesn't
earn me to semis, then
At that point,
there's not much that I could do, right?
So it's that confidence of like,
I know what I've been doing in training.
I'm confident in my execution.
Come and get it.
And I think that was just
like a cool moment to have
because I've never done that before.
It worked out.
I truly think it's the way
to grow the sport.
Yes, absolutely.
Because it gives a much more
intimate look to the
athlete and what they go
through during those
weekends and how hard it is
and blind leaderboards and
all of those things that we
as fans don't always get a peek at.
Yeah,
and everyone loves the behind the scenes.
Everyone loves the inside
look because most people...
only see the open, I mean,
you only see the open announcement,
you don't even see the
craziness that goes on
behind an open announcement,
which I would love to see,
because I've never been on
the open announcements.
But then that and then you just see semis,
the amazing performances live.
And then you see the amazing
games performances live,
you don't see the
background and the chaos.
And everyone loves that,
because that creates, you know,
emotion and story.
And CrossFit keeps removing
aspects of even the
semifinals that are getting broadcast.
And so it's going to be up
to us third-party media
people to add and
supplement that with other
aspects of the season to
make it watchable and to grow the sport.
Yeah.
I really hope that next year,
if I have the opportunity
to do quarterfinals live again,
It's an easy, it's a great yes.
Easy yes for me.
Great opportunity, I think.
Yeah,
I'm going to try to put them together
and we'll see what happens.
But I know someone will do
it again as well.
Like it was a success for them.
It was great.
Yeah.
Well, Fi, again, awesome having you on.
Thank you, Scott.
After you punch your ticket to the games,
we'll have some conversations.
And then thank you to
everybody in the chat for being here.
You guys always make this awesome.
With that,
we'll see everybody next time on
the Clydesdale Media Podcast.
Bye, guys.
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