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corey good to see you in
the chat so good to be with
you guys today um I will
tell you this I did
yesterday and I am sore
holy smokes uh I woke up
In the middle of the night
last night to go pee,
and it was a chore hobbling
to the bathroom.
My glutes and my hamstrings
are legit fried from that
workout yesterday.
It's a workout that made me
very proud of the effort I
put in on that.
I did way better than I
thought I was going to do.
But man, I am paying for it today.
What's up, Andrew?
What's up, Denise?
CrossFat, good to see you guys.
Man.
Man, last night's show was so good, too.
We went over everything last night.
We bounced around the different topics.
We went long last night.
It was our biggest show ever.
And I thank you guys for that.
If you missed it last night,
great discussion about the Open.
uh and everything that's
going on in space we didn't
even get through half of
our what we I put down a
rundown every week we it's
just notes that if we like
need to remember something
it's there um but ideally
we just start talking and
you guys start talking back
to us and that just becomes
the show not really the
rundown but it's just a
template to kind of get
going we didn't even
we didn't even hit fifty
percent of the rundown last
night um so crazy but so
good so good what's up
james um uh denise I was
just watching last night's
show didn't get through the
whole show yet because this
show started hey come live
we yeah I love the
interaction of this show
and we just get to hang out
at lunch together and talk
about what's going on um
Yeah,
just like hanging out with you guys
every day.
So I talked about it a
little bit last night on the show.
I didn't get into super specifics,
but I did twenty five point three.
I was able to do it.
We talked a little bit about
how when you turn fifty five, the scaling,
the weights comes down.
That helped me tremendously.
The deadlift is one eighty five.
The clean was ninety five.
The snatch was seven.
Sixty five.
It was it was insane.
It was not.
it was not easy.
And really like my biggest
fear was that the weights
were so light that I would
go way too fast and I would,
I would die out engine wise
really early in that workout.
Um,
my goal was to make it to the snatches.
I ended up almost making it
back to the row.
Um,
got through all the snatches
got two wall walks needed
three more to get to the
row and I was telling um
carolyn and jamie after we
went off the air last night
like like I wanted to get
on that rower so bad but I
the way I was feeling in
that moment like I I knew
that rower was gonna hurt
hurt tremendously when I
got on there because my
my um my glutes and
hamstrings and lower back
were fried from picking
that barbell up off the
floor so many times if you
guys have been following us
you know like I've been
doing a lot um I've been
doing a lot more body
weight stuff while my wife
was recovering um
Thankfully,
I've been doing a lot of
push-up progressions,
trying to get my push-ups stronger,
which really helped with the wall walks.
But I haven't been lifting a
lot of barbells off the floor.
And that was where I got fried.
I talked to Lana Marcin on
Saturday night and I told
her my fear of like going too fast.
And she's like,
sets a five on the deadlift,
step back to take a breath.
And that's what I did.
And then I went singles for
everything in the barbell
and just tried to follow
the bar down and just go
like in a steady pace.
But I find that not having
to return the bar to the
floor saves my back.
And I really needed that.
On this, I mean,
I've had twelve procedures on my back,
surgically repaired.
I need to do everything I can to save that,
and it held up.
It held up,
but today I am walking wounded for sure.
So I think I'm going to get
on the assault bike here
this afternoon and just
kind of flush some stuff out,
take a little bit of a rest day,
and then get back after it tomorrow.
Denise said the scaled wall
walks were a bit silly, but
that's fine with this taller person.
Yeah.
Um, what's crazy to me, Denise is like,
I was, I thought for sure to do this RX,
I was going to have to do a
full wall walk.
I was, I knew,
I figured they were coming in the open.
I was doing a lot of pushups,
a lot of pushup progressions,
getting back to like
getting into fully inverted
and doing some wall walks.
Um,
and then when I found out it was scaled
for fifty five plus an RX, I was like,
dang, but the last time I did them,
they were so hard because
the sixty inch line is out
in front of my face.
And like, so I'm pressing out in front.
And when you're a little bit
bigger athlete,
that that's a little bit tough.
Lana's like, hey,
I just looked at the standards.
You only have to go to the
fifty five inch line.
And I was like,
that made such a big
difference for me and probably is why I,
I did around better than I
thought I was going to do.
Um,
because those being back a little bit
more, um, it just made it easier to,
to hold the press,
get my feet on the wall and then bang,
bang, bang, bang.
Um, that was pretty good.
Denise's husband has L three
through L five fused quite
the surgery and back scar.
Yeah.
I, I didn't have anything that invasive.
I had stuff where they went
in laparoscopically and,
and fix some things that way.
I haven't had to have a fusion yet.
Thank goodness.
So yeah, I, I lucked out there.
andrew it's weird the only
time the fifty five inch
line is mentioned for
masters fifty five plus and
scaled is in the photos
it's not mentioned in the
written standards um yeah
it's in the I think I I
think I found it on the
scorecard uh I think it was
on the scorecard um I saw
it somewhere after denise
mentioned it um so uh
Jodi Lynn,
I had a disectomy and I was good
to go and good ever since.
Yeah,
this last thing that they did for me.
So I had a bulging disc.
It was on my sciatic nerve.
And they actually ablated
the nerve and then trimmed the disc.
And I haven't had any problems since.
That was...
Maybe.
So I've been at it for like
maybe twenty one.
So four or five years I've
had it repaired and I've
and it's been pretty good.
I'm hoping that it stays
good because when it was bad,
it was really bad.
I struggled from two
thousand sixteen to seventeen,
really tried to push that
sixteen sixteen to twenty or twenty one.
And I tried to push through
it a couple of times and I
think I just made it worse.
So, yeah.
So glad that I am where I am today.
Um, so looking at the leaderboard, um,
I'm going to show that real quick.
There's some really funky scores out here.
Hopefully CrossFit gets
those fixed pretty good.
Um, but like at number one,
we have co Kosa young, uh,
who is eleven thousand five
hundred and tenth in the world.
I don't think she all of a
sudden got super fit and is
now first at a nine eleven.
Um,
And then we have VAR, Thurman, Moe,
Amanda jobs, Grace Walton.
Feast of coffee.
Now we're getting into some of the names.
Amy Kringle, Hannah Hardy,
Sarah Sigmundsdottir, Brooke Wells,
Daniel Brandon, Emily DeRoy,
Alexis Raptus, Christine Best,
Caitlin Bernadine, Emily Rolfe,
Samantha Pugh.
So the scores are coming in.
These are your top fifty.
Sung Young Choi,
Charlie's favorite CrossFitter.
bethany flores sahir kaya
gabrielle spence one of our
favorites here um so yeah
So top fifty looks like twelve,
eighteen or better to get
there or some of your times.
And of course,
that first score just can't
be legit to go from where
she was to that score just
is not feasible.
So hopefully they will get
that fixed shortly.
Corey, as someone with Trex arms,
I can confirm the start
line for wall walks is pretty far.
What's going on, Craig?
Lynn, good to see you.
Jody,
I haven't had one second to look over
the leaderboard.
Glad you're going over it.
course it's not complete uh
everybody has until eight
o'clock eastern time
tonight five p.m pacific to
get their scores in uh so
we're awaiting that uh but
we're getting a little bit
fuller today on the men's
side we have again some
really hokey scores in the
top three positions um
people who are ranked three
thousand two hundred twenty
six thousand and seventeen
thousand are in the top
three spots for this workout
There is no way that someone did an eight,
fifteen on that workout.
If you saw Dallin or Colton, eight,
fifteen is impossible.
Flat out.
Just saying.
But we have James Sprague,
or not James Sprague.
We have Dallin Pepper still in first.
If you take out those three, James Sprague,
Jason Hopper.
If anybody watched Kill Taylor,
you know that Colton beat James and Jason,
so he's going to fall at
least into second place.
Kael Lehman, Aldis Upenix, Jay Crouch,
Ty Jenkins, Ricky Garrard.
Travis Mayer, Jack Rosema, Bill Leahy IV,
Sam Cornway.
Man,
Sam Cornway has been at the top of
this leaderboard in the top
fifty at least every week.
Taylor Self.
Roman Krennikoff, Chris Ibarra, Enola Kai,
Enrico Zanoni.
Here's another one that probably is not,
you don't jump from thirty
thousandth in the world to
one of the top fifty on this workout.
Guillaume Briand, Tanner Balazs,
Alex Vigneault, Con Porter.
Con Porter making an appearance.
George Sterner.
And that is your, uh, top four,
fifty on the men's side.
A lot of people haven't seen Corey says,
I haven't looked at the
leaderboard since I went to
bed Saturday night.
Uh,
it's changing a lot each hour as more
updates come in.
And, uh, Nika has had an awesome open.
Um, Lynn, is that an,
is that a male or a female Nika Nika?
Oh, there we go.
Nika, he's probably in sixteenth place.
That's pretty nice.
Yeah, that's a great open.
Yeah, really good.
So it'll be interesting to
see how it all kind of
shakes out after all the
scores are in tonight.
Tomorrow we'll have an idea
as to who the leaders are
after everybody puts their
scores in and see who's
kind of winning the Open.
If Colton has beat James and Jason,
that looks like Colton will
wrap up probably the Open victory.
With Dallin maybe coming in second,
it would be my prediction.
But we'll have to wait and
kind of see how it plays out for sure.
Craig, Fee has been very impressive also.
Yes.
Yeah.
I think what's hard, like,
And I don't want to get off
on a rant on this, but like,
I hate the leaks.
I hate the leaks fees.
Part of that brute camp.
If the brute athletes knew
what that workout was ahead of time,
which the circumstantial
evidence is piling up that they did.
The fact that they know that
and can work on this stuff
and strategize ahead of
time is just not fair.
And I love fee, love Dallin, love James.
I like Jason.
I just don't know him as well, but my gosh,
like having this stuff
ahead of time is a definite advantage.
And you can see that on the leaderboard,
but what happens like down
the road when they don't know, right?
Like, I don't know.
It's crazy.
Corey says,
I'm staying off until this evening.
Ain't shit I can do about my
placement at this point,
and I don't like seeing it bounce around.
So, Corey,
are you close to the one percent
line or the two hundred line?
Is it two hundred for Masters, right?
So.
Yeah.
See,
I've never had to worry about my
getting to the next level.
So that's never been a thing for me.
I said it last night that
since I've had the back surgery,
the best I've finished in
the open is in the twelfth percentile,
which was still level one.
That was kind of disappointing.
This year, going into the final workout,
I was in the sixteenth percentile.
And I was excited about that.
And the last workout went
better for me than I anticipated.
And I'm hoping I'm hoping
that I actually improve on that sixteen.
And it would be if I got a level two,
I would be so excited to
get a level two because
I've been a level one since
they brought out the levels.
I would really,
really be stoked if I hit level two.
And so that's the only thing
that I'm kind of waiting on
is everybody get their scores in.
So I know what percentile I
am at the end of this and hopefully,
hopefully make a level two.
I know it's a little thing,
and a lot of people are
better athletes than me at
this point in my life.
I just love seeing that improvement,
and it's a goal that I have,
and then I can move forward
with that into the Community Cup.
So Larry will probably be in
that level with me.
Hey, good company to be with.
I get to hang out with Larry Young.
Just hope they don't bring
in a heavy barbell.
He'll crush me.
Uh, Denise,
I'm holding my breath on redos
and ten athletes that haven't posted yet.
So why are you saying that Denise?
Are you sitting in a very
good position on the, on the leaderboard?
Let's see where Denise is on
the leaderboard.
Denise is sitting in first place.
First place with a fifteen
fifty eight in the sixty
five to sixty nine.
Let's show that off.
Since she is one of.
One of our very own.
There sits Denise Moore,
twenty five point three first place.
She has had a heck of an
open with opening up with a
thirteenth and then a fourth,
and now sitting with a
fifth with a little bit of time to go.
So hopefully she pulls that off.
Larry says, don't worry,
they won't have a heavy barbell.
D. Reed says,
I don't even know what the levels are.
Most of us don't.
This is the first time they
have made a little bit of
sense since we're now
moving into the Community
Cup where the levels will
compete against each other.
Levels one and two will be a group.
Levels three and four, five and six,
seven and eight, and nine and ten.
And so it's basically
grouping the whole Open together.
after your open scores,
moving you forward into the community cup,
where you will then compete
against people of the same
level grouping.
And then each workout will
be modified for each level.
So it'll be fun.
Can't wait.
uh denise said I almost
redid the workout because I
watched my video and I was
walking from station to
station no urgency at all
isn't it funny when you
look at a video and you
think you were doing it one
way and um and it wasn't at
all what you pictured in
your head uh jody says
crossfit celebrity in the
chat wow congrats lady
Yeah.
Denise is Denise is a bad-ass.
She was a big star of the
behind the scenes at the
masters CrossFit games that we did.
She's been on the show a couple of times.
She has an awesome story,
an awesome story of
something she overcame that
we have an episode with her post legends,
three.
Yeah.
It came out,
the episode came out in
January of twenty four.
Just a fascinating lady
overcame so much total badass.
And I think she's podiumed
at the games a handful of
times herself there.
So.
Corey,
he's waiting on that two percent
minimum two hundred to move on to semis.
He's so much fitter than he was last year.
Corey's going to do it.
Corey was thirty seventh or
thirty ninth late Saturday night.
I won't look.
I'll let I'll let it stay a
secret till tonight, dude.
Denise just podiumed once.
Still one more time than me.
So, yeah.
So, twenty-two, twenty-five.
I keep doing it.
Why am I saying twenty-two?
Twenty-five point three.
Almost in the books.
We'll recap it all tomorrow
when everything is final.
What else did I have?
Oh, behind the scenes, man.
Behind the scenes came out yesterday.
On Sunday, I was...
it was crazy because I do a
lot of show prep before
sunday night because that's
our biggest show of the
week and I was going
through a bunch of the wfp
stuff and then bam I get
the notifier that behind
the scenes is out and with
the way they've been doing
it this year you only have
like a couple minutes or
not a couple hours
sometimes to watch it and
then it gets pulled um
And so I went and watched it
and just wanted to give my thoughts.
They've done an amazing job
with that series this year
with everything they were facing.
This fourth episode, though,
is the first time we kind
of see some of the athletes
not happy about being there.
Some of the athletes still
happy to be there and glad
that they're kind of giving
back to the community.
And some...
voicing concerns and glad
that like family members
didn't come or that they're there.
They would rather be somewhere else.
And most of it happens
around the Chad workout.
I think all of it happens
around the Chad workout.
You also see some of the
things that the athletes go through.
I think it's Ruan Potguider
who has blood under his
nails on his feet.
And they actually show Dr. Sean Rockett
putting a hole in the nail
to release the pressure to
see if he can compete in
Chad or move on through the
competition because the
pressure was so bad on his toes.
But it really does kind of
show a contrast that there
seems to be this group of
athletes who felt the need
to heal with the community.
And there's like a group of
athletes that just didn't
want to be there anymore.
And it was, I think,
kind of fascinating to see how that went.
And I think that...
And it's probably not
completely one hundred percent this way,
but it's something we've
kind of been talking about.
Those that are attached to a
CrossFit community.
Seem to want to move forward
with the community.
Those that aren't
necessarily attached all
the time with a community
seem to want to leave and
be with family and stuff like that.
And it doesn't mean that I'm
saying one is good and one is bad,
but you want to be around
people that you trust and
you're around with all the time.
And if you're not connected
to a community generally,
your community is...
your family and you want to
be with your family.
And,
and so it just was an interesting
cross section of the way
that the athletes kind of
were splitting on that
Saturday of the games.
Lynn says, wait, I missed that.
What episode was this you watched?
This was a behind the scenes,
sevens behind the scenes of
the CrossFit Games.
It released yesterday.
They've only been putting
them up for a couple hours.
I think because of some of
the controversy around the
games this year.
And so they only live up on
YouTube for a few hours and
then they get pooled.
Sorry,
I turned for just like two minutes
and missed it.
It's okay, Lynn.
It's all right.
Dee Reed says,
Ricky proved himself to be very likable.
It was an interesting
contrast to some who shall not be named.
Yeah, I mean,
I think Ricky has always been likable.
I've just had a problem this
season because I'm close
with Justin Kotler.
He left Kotler to go to Proven.
And I'm probably having more
issue with it than Justin is,
him leaving.
But I'm having a problem
with Ricky in that respect.
But every interaction I've
had with Ricky since he's come back,
he has been very likable.
um craig says bts episode
four was great um and craig
says ricky mack is very
likable asusi and ricka
ricky were great you are
spot on with the community
connection yeah it it did
seem to kind of hold true
um it did seem to hold true
that way D read.
Cause, um,
and it's just something I noticed.
Yes.
Um, so Sousa and then his roommate, uh,
there's a lot of them kind
of like cooling down on an exercise,
but on a echo bike, um,
It was interesting to kind
of see their relationship.
They coach at the same gym,
they train together,
but they can't really train
together because one, one is coaching,
one is training and then vice versa.
But it was interesting to
kind of hear that dynamic through that.
Jody said,
are the comments turned off on BTS?
So you can still comment on the video,
like at the bottom of the screen,
but there's no live chat
because it's a video.
So there's nobody to see your live chat.
But,
but you can go down below and comment
and people have,
I've commented on a few of them.
Yeah.
It's open to do that.
If that's what you mean.
you mean live comments
because it's not a live
broadcast those are not
turned on but um really
interesting and again um
something that we you know
it take it took a little
bit of the speculation out
of it because savan has
done a good job in these
first four episodes kind of showing um
just kind of showing what
was going on behind the
scenes during this tragedy
during everything that's
going on and I was there in
the arena and some of that
stuff I wasn't even aware
of so it was good to see uh
what was happening there
and it's really kind of
closed some some loopholes
for me um and I'm really
appreciative that he was
able to put these out
Craig says,
Colton just uploaded a YouTube video.
It is a take two on the
twenty five point three workout.
Wow.
He had done it twice.
Kill Taylor was the second
time he'd done it.
So if he did a third time, insane.
Insane.
So it is the kill Taylor for
twenty five three.
Yeah, that would I mean,
that was good enough to be
second in the world.
So I can't imagine him
unless he and I don't know
where he would make up the
time to beat Dallin.
He was still off by twenty seconds, maybe.
Um, so anyway, yeah,
I'll have to check it out.
I did watch his day in the
life that frog grips put out.
Um,
I don't think it was anything earth
shattering there.
Um, if you've been following Colton,
you knew a lot of it.
Uh, but it was kind of cool to see, um,
how, where he keeps his dogs,
how he keeps the pups, um,
stuff like that.
Uh,
Kenneth says he did this last week to
uploaded one,
then uploaded right before submission, uh,
right before the submission deadline.
Uh, D Reed,
didn't he say he did it faster
the first time?
I don't know that he did.
And cause he,
he started videotaping the
weights and everything afterwards.
So I don't know why he would
do that if the other one was good.
Um,
know we'll see um I was I
was trying to listen to see
if he said I don't think he
ever answered the question
I think he avoided it cory
said a day in the life of
colton merton surprised
he's a farmer yeah it's
kind of that uh all the
sponsor short videos on
colton lee me wanting more yeah
Yeah,
I think us CrossFit nerds want the
more in-depth pieces that
someone like Hiller's been doing,
like the four, eight,
forty eight hours with
where you kind of get more
intimate with the athlete
or the camp or whatever.
And you learn way more than
you do in these short
little vignettes that a sponsor does.
Most of us nerds have
already know the surface stuff.
So.
Yeah, we'll see.
I haven't checked out the tier videos yet.
I need to look at those.
It's just been a busy couple weeks for me.
So, yeah.
With that,
the last thing I was going to
bring up is it's March Madness.
I'm thinking about doing a
March Madness bracket for this group,
making a Clydesdale league
where we can all fill out a bracket,
both men and women,
since both of them are doing pretty,
both are very popular this year.
And then whoever wins
putting together like a
little prize pack that I'll
send out to the winner of
the bracket with some of
the stuff we have around here.
Who knows,
maybe I'll get something
autographed or something
like that sent out to
everybody from some athletes.
But with that,
I thought it'd be something
fun to do as a group.
So what I'll probably do is
go out onto ESPN sometime tonight,
create a league under both brackets,
and then I'll give you the
details tomorrow on lunch
with the Clydesdale and a link to that,
to that league.
And then a password to get
in and then you sign up and
we'll see who wins.
And I'll put together a
prize pack at the end of
this for whoever wins the bracket.
Yeah, Ken, no old shorts or socks.
Just a couple jock straps.
And I think I have a cup
from my Little League days
that I have in a shadow box somewhere.
No, I will come up with something.
Like I have, gosh,
I have some of the WAD
Zombie trading cards.
Maybe I'll get those sent
off and get them autographed.
Maybe put some of those in there.
I'll come up with something cool.
Uh, I have enough connections.
We'll, we'll get some,
we'll get some stuff signed and, uh,
sent that out from some athletes.
Um, but yeah, who knows?
Maybe I'll have some stuff
printed up by then and
we'll get some Clydesdale
swag in there as well.
Um, but yeah, I,
if you guys like that idea,
let me know if, if not, we'll again,
we'll,
we'll have the details tomorrow and
we'll see who wins and just
do it for fun.
Uh, Ken is missing the Mertens card.
Yeah, that's the, I only have one.
I only, I only have one of those.
That seems to be the rare,
the rare bird in the set.
Um,
I have a lot of doubles of some athletes,
but the Mertens is one of a kind.
And the first Vellner card,
I think I only have one of those.
Ken is right.
There was one on eBay a while back.
It went for over a hundred dollars.
That's insane.
Insane.
but you can see,
I have them right behind me.
There's a, there's a bunch of them.
That's the whole, that's the whole set.
That's not legends.
And then the legends are in
this little box right there.
And I do have the complete set.
They're, they're the coolest, the coolest,
like keepsake in the CrossFit space.
Truly.
I missed my guy, wide zombie.
Um,
Got to hang out with him at
a couple events.
He's the coolest.
Well, with that, guys,
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