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Don't tell anyone,
but I think I figured out Dave's clue.
It's lunch time.
Yay!
What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to Lunch with the Clydesdale.
We've got Jody with us.
We've got Meredith.
We've got Amanda.
We've got Mark.
Looks like full crew.
There's Shay.
Love when Shay jumps in.
Yeah,
I get to hang out with everybody today.
Spent the morning a half hour north with
my family doctor talking about stuff.
And now I'm here and back and better
than ever and ready to get going on
this.
And today is twenty six point two
announcement day.
Look who's in the chat.
Miss Florida herself.
Miss Florida herself and my weightlifting
coach, Mr. Dan Church.
Mr. Dan Church.
One of the original Clydesdales.
Got Helson.
We got Leslie.
Afrita.
Man, the full crew on board.
Before I came down to do this,
just came across Twitter.
The Bears are trading DJ Moore.
The guy who caught the winning touchdown
against the Packers.
The guy who played every single game this
year.
He's going to go play with Josh Allen.
That seems harsh.
Buffalo.
And, well,
the Bears have kind of like a wealth
of riches at the wide receiver position.
And they need help other places.
And DJ was the most expensive receiver
they had.
So now they freed up a ton of
cap space.
Got rid of them.
They can start working on some other
stuff.
It just sucks because, like,
he came through the lean years with the
team.
And now they, like,
go almost to the NFC Championship game.
And now they're like, see you.
But that's sports these days.
It is.
It is.
Yeah.
It is.
Trying to do the best for the future
at that point.
So I won't bore everybody with Bears news
today because it is their offseason.
And it's going to ramp up next week
because the new league year starts next
week and free agency is going to blow
up and everybody's going to be signing
everywhere.
And I'll probably talk a little bit about
that next week.
But this week,
we're talking about twenty six point two.
And I think I think I figured it
out, man.
Hear me out.
I'm listening.
Here it is.
All right.
So we have wheat in the front.
It's kind of dangling around all
willy-nilly.
Sure.
In the back, we have mountains.
strong, epic, firm.
This is going to be a ladder from
a lightweight to a heavyweight,
moving from the foreground to the
background, from easy to heavy,
light to heavy.
Is that it?
That's your whole... Yeah, yeah, yeah.
let's go let's make it it'll be a
clean ladder up I do like the like
swing in the winds like rings or so
I do think it's also going to be
progressive gymnastics from like chest to
bar to bar muscle ups to ring muscle
ups and then we'll throw some double
unders in there because it's whipping
around okay
I'm not mad at that.
Here's the thing that popped into mind
that has been rattling around in my brain
since last night at some point.
This is how my brain works.
What if that's not wheat?
What if that's hops?
We're doing the beer mile?
Hopper.
The old original.
The original.
Shipped it to...
And it's never going to happen because it
has to be programmed well in advance.
But hops, the hopper,
we're just going to crank it out and
just pull three different things out or
six different things out,
whatever the case may be for numbers,
you know, rep scheme, blah, blah,
whatever, and just call it good.
But because it needs to be somewhat
organized or whatever,
like there's only a pre-selected things in
the hopper,
It is the twentieth year of the CrossFit
Games.
The first ever workout at the CrossFit
Games was a hopper workout.
They could just pull back that one.
Yeah.
So just to build on your theory,
I still think it's from weak to strong.
Right.
This is my way.
It's a very flawed theory.
Just so you understand.
But I don't even know.
I think maybe I was fixing to get
into bed and it just kind of hit
me because everybody's been saying, oh,
it's wheat.
I'm like, wheat, hops, hops, hopper.
Holy shit.
Probably not right.
I'm sure it's probably not because I just
don't see that.
Just the logistics of that seemed like a
horrible idea,
especially being in Portugal.
And, like,
I'm just going to ship this thing across
the ocean and we'll bring it back next
week.
But that's where my head was at.
Mark Phillips says Dallin Pepper's guess
is good.
And I don't know if you guys can
see that.
So I'll blow it up.
Dallin Pepper said it's going to blow.
And he's probably right.
Now, how that helps you,
knowing what exactly you're going to do,
probably not much,
but he's probably correct in that it's
going to blow.
Yeah.
I mean, he's not wrong.
Sten thinks barbell snatches double under
rowing.
Increasing snatch weight and progressive
gymnastics ending with ring muscle-ups.
I went clean, she went snatch,
but similar there.
I'd be down with that, Amanda.
Mountain is a pyramid,
so repeat of the one to ten to
one deads burpees.
Barf.
Well, here's the problem with that, Dan,
is that we just did a pyramid chipper.
Literally did one last week,
so I don't see us doing not the
same workout,
but the same workout skiing two weeks in
a row.
Like, that's not going to happen.
Shea says, definitely double unders.
Can't tell you, too,
how nice it is to Clydesdale and chill.
One hundred percent, Corey.
We're glad we're here for you.
Ortega says it's barley burpees over the
barley.
OK, that's.
Ortega with the dad jokes.
I like it.
Yeah.
And he might be right.
He could be.
That's entirely possible.
I could be a young plant,
but hops look very different.
Wayne.
I've never seen a hop before in my
life.
That's just my very flawed theory.
You know what I'm saying?
We're never going to do searchers.
No, it throws that in there every day.
I think he just, he,
his Z key just needed to be worked.
A hundred percent.
It just hasn't been used in every day
to work it,
to make sure it'll always work.
Um,
Weed has nothing to do with it.
I say it's about blowing windmill-type
exercises since last week was legs.
My fifteen-year-old brain cannot handle.
I'd say it's about blowing.
It just can't.
I like Tristan's right here.
Ascending difficulty gymnastics,
eighteen to twenty minutes,
maybe a row in there too.
Vicky says, sorry I'm late.
Well, doggone it.
Yeah, don't let it happen again.
Amanda says,
I like the interval work because the plant
leaves the screen and comes back.
It's only been like one time that we've
done like interval work, I think.
Oh, I don't even.
And like late teens,
we did some interval work maybe.
So I think what would qualify.
I think that leads things for affiliates.
little bit and like your everyday gym
goers to understand like when when to jump
in when to rest with the last time
they did i remember like as a judge
just like people like not understanding
you have to stop and rest now like
they just don't
I had my, I just got my,
my first bar muscle up right before that,
the, uh,
it was something three minutes of rest and
then it's like snatches and bar face and
burpees and then bar face and burpees and
bar muscle ups.
And there was a three minute rest in
between.
Uh, Dan Church says, oh no.
What about the burpee ascending snatch
weight open workout of.
Uh, gosh,
that was my first ever open workout.
The video still lives on the internet.
Did you know that?
Internet's forever, baby.
Let me see if I can find it.
That was a hilarious time of neon,
big tall socks.
It's the best.
And two friends talking me into doing this
thing that they call the open.
Yeah.
There it is.
If his burpees and snatches, dog, I'm in.
Sign me up.
Let's go.
So if we fast forward.
Oh, I remember this video.
Of course,
it's going to go slower than hell.
Look at those tall socks.
So much neon.
Burpees to target, baby.
Yep.
Working out on my nice and free.
Love it.
Look, we got neon green, neon green,
neon green,
and some neon orange on the shoes.
Yep.
Scott is a man of,
obviously a man of taste and culture.
Tell those women to cheer some people on.
Let's go!
Let's go!
That was an awful workout.
The thing that's crazy about this workout
is I never snatched one-thirty-five
before, which was the second barbell.
And the night before,
my buddies and I kept trying and trying
and trying.
And none of us got it the night
before.
Night before don't matter, brother, man.
Only matters after three-two-one-go.
The Richard Simmons headband, nice touch.
Actually, Ken,
that is a Rich Froning Rogue headband that
has slid up my forehead because of my
inability to do that.
Do burpees fast.
Anyway, there it is.
A little trip down memory lane.
Bring back the neon.
Bring back the neon.
Now I can't get the maniac song out
of my head.
Yeah.
Yeah,
they sprayed me down with water bottles
after.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Water just hit you on the face.
Yeah, it was a beautiful sight.
Beautiful sight.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
So that's Dave's clue.
There's some predictions in there.
I think Vicky just threw another one in
there.
Ascending gymnastics, clean and jerk,
and probably dubs.
That sounds vaguely familiar,
but if you were on time, Vicky,
you would have heard me say that off
the top.
I said it all without the jerk.
That's what happens whenever you're late,
Vicky.
This is what comes of you being late.
I'm just saying.
maniac maniac on the floor she's dancing
like she's never danced before yeah
welcome to karaoke thursday i have a whole
i have an entire eighties playlist that
like i'll just put on sometimes and just
vibe out to all the music i grew
up with it's fantastic lol dang i'll spank
myself for being like you better yeah if
you haven't already
um all right so we have a matchup
today of miriam von rohr first place after
point one yep we have um lucy campbell
in second place after twenty six point one
and we have amy kringle top ten of
the games last year uh if you're about
to ask me who's gonna win
I ain't got no idea.
I think we, the viewer, win.
Yeah, I would agree to that.
I would agree to that.
I think these women are so close in
abilities,
especially at this stage of the season,
that it is program dependent.
And without knowing what it is...
I would like to go...
just queen slayer just like right off
right off the the jump but again it's
really going to depend on what comes out
like it's not it's not like last week
when i can just go i don't care
what it is the muscle hamster is winning
like iron hog whatever you want to call
him like you can pick colton on on
week one and pretty much guarantee he's
going to win whoever he's going up against
right yeah this one's too close to call
in my opinion
So if I'm right and it's cleans and
it gets progressively heavier,
I think that all goes into mere Von
roar.
Right.
One Lucy and the,
the Franken monster catch is gonna,
is gonna limit her at some point.
Um, let me use my strong hand,
but we also have seen Miriam's legs.
Like that woman can squat clean a ton.
And I'm going to go with Miriam.
I like the way she approached week one,
that she called herself out on a no
rep and that she did it publicly and
said, yep, I messed up.
Do what you're going to do.
I made that choice mid-workout and I'm
sticking with it.
We were talking about it yesterday at the
gym about her video in particular and the
fact that she was running from the wall
to jump on the box.
Like she didn't take three steps.
She took three like sprint steps,
hopped on the box and just boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
And when you can go that fast and
with a mandated step down,
cause like you can't, you can't rebound.
It did the same thing Colton did like
from the forty all the way to the
other set of forty.
We just didn't let the ball go.
Ball didn't touch the ground.
That is wildly impressive.
Wildly impressive.
So you pick Queen Slayer, I pick Miriam,
and it'll probably be Amy Kringle.
And it'll probably be Amy Cremo.
Yeah, I have no, I got,
but here's the thing.
I got, like you said earlier,
I have no problem with whoever wins
because I don't have a dog in this
fight.
Like I got one person I'm rooting to
make the games.
She is not high profile enough to,
weren't making a,
doing an open announcement yet.
So we'll see if she actually makes the
games and see what happens next year.
But that's my female I'm rooting for this
year.
But as far as this is concerned,
Like out of the three,
let's go with second place from last year.
Miss Campbell there.
Eddie, I asked,
will the winner of this be podium
contender for the games?
I think everybody here is a podium
contender.
Absolutely.
And I don't think one open workout tells
you is enough of a data point to
tell you how they're going to perform at
the games.
No.
And the women's field, again,
is wide open.
Yeah.
No, Laura.
Yeah.
So pick a name out of a hat.
If you were in the top ten shit,
maybe the top fifteen from last year,
you got a pretty decent shot.
If you've been training and you've been
healthy and you've been standing up and
doing all the things you're supposed to
do, you have a pretty good shot.
But we're adding to the mix Alex Kazan,
Emma Lawson,
who were not in the top fifteen,
Gabby Magawa.
Like it's going to be a wild,
it is going to be as wild on
the female side as it is on the
men's side.
I think the games will be better for
it.
That's it.
Yes.
It's great to have the dominance,
but we've had that.
Yeah.
We just need a change of pace.
Yeah.
look at how exciting the men's uh side
has been since matt retired right justin
wins two years in a row then he
gets knocked down then that guy gets
knocked down then that guy gets knocked
down last year who knew like oh okay
could be anybody uh dan's just looking to
beat corey this time well if it's heavy
snatches dan you got me smoked so i
got to worry about that or or heavy
cleaning jerks for that for that matter
I can move a barbell pretty damn well,
but I ain't beating Dan Church in a
barbell workout.
That's just not going to happen.
You know what's the most impressive about
Dan Church is the man can move some
weight, and then he can go upside down,
and he's really, really good.
Yeah, I synced it.
Really good.
I synced it.
Yeah, it's a hell of a combination.
So we have that.
We talked about our predictions.
I wanted to briefly, and again,
I apologize today.
I have to be,
I have to have a short show.
I've got to get back to work by
one o'clock today.
There's been,
there's been some drama in the space and
I just wanted to get your take on
it.
And the drama is that there's all these
no rep videos.
If you watch the Froning podcast,
Scott Vandersloot loses his mind saying
that he understands the no rep piece if
you're an elite athlete or in the public
space or whatever,
and that you deserve some criticism of
your standards and whatnot.
But when you're going down to a fifty
five year old grandmother, it's too much.
And so I just I wanted I wanted
to hear your take on this because you
definitely have two camps in this one that
it is completely appropriate and it should
be done.
And another camp that is let's leave some
people alone.
They're out there doing their best and
trying hard to get up and move and
get off the couch.
Did you sign up for the open?
Because if you signed up for the open,
you asked to be judged.
You just asked to be judged.
If you put a video out,
let me tell you something.
Unless you're in the top,
whatever the number is,
you don't have to upload a video right
now unless you're not an affiliate.
In that case, you do.
But if you do,
you are asking to be judged.
Guess what?
I am a certified judge.
I can go and look at the leaderboard.
And if somebody's got a video up,
I can go review it.
I can press good video, needs review,
or unviewable.
If I put needs review,
there's a comment section I have to fill
out that says,
what's wrong with this video?
You can't just randomly go on there and
just no good, no good, no good,
no good, and go on about your business.
If you put a video out,
if you signed up for the open,
you are asking to be judged.
And do I think it's right that people
are getting called out?
Absolutely.
Hey, at CrossFit Virtus,
the place that I coach at and work
at, we got standards.
You will see,
you come to Friday Night Lights,
you will see all kinds of no reps,
left, right, forward, center.
I got four or five of them myself
last Friday night.
Well-deserved, too,
because I was getting tired and my wall
ball was not hitting the target.
Period.
Yes, it's deserved.
I don't care if it's a fifty five
year old grandma,
fifty five year old grandma signed up for
the open and asked to be judged.
If you're going to get judged,
if you're going to get if you're going
to get signed,
if you're going to go to a competition.
Right.
You're going to get judged there.
This is the worldwide competition and it
matters.
It matters to folks.
It would matter to me if I wasn't
as fit as I am,
if I saw somebody that I knew had
a BS score in front of me,
because I could see what they did.
They need to be called out.
Absolutely.
Um, I am well,
well off into that camp.
It matters.
It, one hundred matters.
So.
I'm going to take a slight variation on
what you said.
Because for the most part,
I pretty much agree with what you're
saying.
I do.
But fundamentally,
this is where CrossFit has always had a
problem.
Yep.
And that problem is that you want this
fully participating event that shows that
you are growing because it's really the
only public numbers that we know is open
registrations,
open signups and open participation,
right?
So you're pushing everybody in the
community to do this thing.
And I would say a good chunk of
them are not competitive, right?
You're just trying to get those numbers in
there so they take a yearly test and
they do this thing.
You also have this side that's a sport
where this is the first round of the
sport where people are signing up,
trying to move forward,
trying to qualify for events and they want
to see and they need to get certain
numbers to get those things.
And they have goals and they have
ambitions.
Maybe it's not the games this year,
but maybe it's quarterfinals.
And you're in the seventy-fourth
percentile and people ahead of you are not
doing full reps.
That sucks.
Sucks hard.
So my point is, though,
because you can't differentiate the two,
we get this blob of stuff in the
middle
that people are getting hammered for depth
that may not have the mobility to do
it.
And that should be done by a coach.
It should be done by their affiliate.
And I would hope we could trust CrossFit
L-One trainers to do that in their gym.
But the problem is we don't have that
differentiation.
So it's all stuck together and it all
gets combined together and it creates this
mess every single year.
I understand what you're saying,
but the L one that's judging them,
the coach that's judging them is not the
person that's putting their video out on
the internet for everybody to see.
You have to do that yourself.
Okay.
As soon as what Dan says right there,
integrity, got to have it.
So as soon as you put your video
out,
And you put it out there for everybody
to see.
The internet is forever.
We already had that discussion.
Boom.
Now everybody can see it.
Everybody gets to judge it.
And if you want to get called out,
you're going to get called out,
especially if you have a score that
already looks like it's nonsense.
And then people can go ahead and look
at your video and go, okay, well, yeah,
that is nonsense because they're not going
below parallel.
They're not hitting the target.
They're not nine feet tall.
Why is this target so low?
Like there's a lot of that going on.
a whole lot of it.
And that's just the videos we can see.
That's not the videos that the scores that
people just input.
Right.
I think Jenny actually hits it on the
head.
Foundations and scale have such a stigma
and they shouldn't.
They shouldn't.
That is where some people just are at
this point.
If you're not hitting the RX button, then,
okay, now you're saying,
I can't do the RX version of this.
And then you're pulled out of competition
with those people trying to compete for
goals.
But when you hit that RX button,
you're right.
You are subject to criticism.
Yeah.
Then maybe that's the differentiator that
people aren't using that they should.
And coaches should be saying, listen,
you're not reaching full depth.
You need to hit scale.
Or you need to hit foundations.
Come to my gym.
I guarantee you,
you will be held to the standard because
that's what we do.
I will brag on my gym every day
for that.
Because that's what we do.
I tell people in coaching classes, hey,
if we're doing dumbbell snatches,
both heads are touching the ground before
it goes back up.
Why?
Because we have standards here at CrossFit
Virtus.
And we're not going to get caught out.
We're going to do stuff like it's supposed
to be done.
John George said something I wanted to
show.
His rant was stupid and hypocritical.
His rant was personal.
He said, Hiller only cares about views.
This coming from a guy who gets paid
to generate views.
And that is kind of right.
It is right.
Halston says, unfortunately,
it all starts with affiliate owners and
judges.
They don't hold their member accountable.
Mine doesn't.
So when Hiller exposes them,
I don't mind at all.
Some don't.
We do.
And I'm glad we do.
I'm glad I'm somewhere where the standard
is the standard.
Like our owner Cecil will tell you flat
out the standard is the standard.
If you're not hitting a standard,
then you're not hitting a standard period.
He was nowhere up in my son that
he was judging right there in front of
me and everyone Brody deserved and he
knows he deserved and everybody was good
with it.
Like just moving right along, you know,
Hey man, be better.
Yeah.
Gotcha.
Um, I, um,
I'm going to share this real quick.
So Vicki, um,
Vicky was talking about how she yelled no
rep at her husband so much that this
is what happened.
I love it.
Anyway,
I just wanted to get your thoughts on
that because I do think it's a big,
it happens every single year.
We complain about the exact same thing.
I've been doing the open since twenty
thirteen.
We complained about it back then and we're
still complaining about the exact same
thing today.
And I think that is.
I think it's wild.
But anyway, and it's probably accurate.
That's why I think this Xenon thing is
interesting because it isn't about who you
beat.
It's about your score based on a standard.
Right.
Right.
It's not that you finished one rep ahead
of me.
It's that you on this chart finished here.
I think when it comes down to it,
there's two very distinct camps.
There's a people like us who are saying,
hey, man, the standard is the standard.
Hold me to it because I'm going to
hold you to it.
If you are in my presence,
you're going to have to move like it
is because my score to me means something
when it gets on the board.
And then there's a group that's like, oh,
I'm just here having fun and I'm just
going to whatever.
And those two people do not cohabitate,
generally speaking.
And what ends up happening is that those
people input their scores,
what they either think they actually got
or they put a video out and they're
like, oh, no, I'm doing fine.
Like, no, dude, that's not what that is.
And then we end up where we are
now.
And it happens every single year.
And when I think it is,
it's a peek in at a bigger problem
for CrossFit as a whole.
You have this sports side and you have
this affiliate side.
And there are often times where they do
not mesh.
We talked about a long time ago,
if you were to ever split it off,
like Dave said briefly in his week in
review, like three weeks ago,
it's like a Siamese twin where the open
is the heart and it shares it.
And it makes it impossible to split them.
Very difficult at the very least.
Right.
here's the thing though especially so like
last week's workout is a perfect example
is that yes there are people in there
they're just they're doing the best that
they can that's fine they should be doing
the scaled version but even the scaled
version as far as i know or the
the the foundations version you still got
to squat below parallel because that's
what we do if i'm wrong i am
willing to be
I will happily because I did not look.
I didn't get to judge anybody last week.
But you still need to squad below
parallel.
That's just part of a wall ball.
That's part of a wall ball standard.
I will coach everybody to that standard.
And if we can't do it yet,
then we don't need to be doing whatever
it is that that is because we need
to be working on that.
And we're certainly not inputting our
score as RX if we cannot hold it
to the standard,
which the minimum standard is below
parallel and then hit the targets.
So my first gym is Shred CrossFit.
If you didn't meet standards in a class,
the coach would say, no rep.
Like literally in the middle of a class.
All the time.
Like to the point where we would go
to local comps and we would reach...
full extension,
full depth and everybody else is cutting
it.
And you feel like, well,
how the hell am I supposed to compete
with these guys?
I totally get it.
I totally get it at a competition.
It makes more sense to me though,
because you signed up,
you paid and you went to this thing.
It wasn't like an affiliate or gym thing.
kind of family event.
Right.
No.
And that's where it gets confused in the
open.
There are people there just doing it to
hang out with friends and not to compete.
And because of that,
we will have this argument until the end
of time.
But the biggest thing is that they're
hitting RX instead of hitting what they
should hit.
Correct.
Foundations.
That is the biggest thing.
Check your ego at the door, people.
That's all you have to do.
Well, I had the twenty pound ball.
That's great.
Your knees,
your hips never got below your knees.
You can throw a twenty pound ball all
you want.
Vicki says,
how many people video themselves in
workouts and actually look at what they're
doing?
I'd argue more people should be doing that
on the regular.
I used to do it all the time.
I have not done that in five years,
six years, whatever.
I do it pretty much every week.
I want to get back to that place.
I just.
Yeah.
Yes.
Forget the open.
I want to squat below parallel because
humans should be able to barring injury or
disability.
Amen.
Amen.
Mark.
Amen.
Mark Phillips.
Good job, brother.
We can't lie to ourselves if it's on
video.
You can find the right angle to lie
to yourself if you want to.
So we had a girl in class,
this happened about three,
four months ago,
who got mad at one of the coaches
for telling her in a wall ball workout
that she was not hitting depth, right?
And got mad at her.
The next week,
somebody videoed her and showed it to her
and she went and apologized to the coach.
Because, oh, I actually wasn't.
No, you weren't.
And we're just trying to make you move
better.
That's it.
Nobody's attacking you personally.
We're just trying to make you better.
That's all there is to it.
All right, we'll finish up with this.
And then plus,
if you're paying two hundred dollars a
membership for a CrossFit gym,
the coaches should be coaching you the
proper way, coaching you how to move,
not only being cheerleaders.
And Ed says,
I do the open so I can live
a strong,
healthy life and hopefully live to over a
hundred years old.
And Ken Walters, of course, only videos,
PRs.
Love Ken.
Love it.
Love it.
Last thing I wanted to talk about is
I did something last night.
Oh.
I sponsored an athlete.
Get out of here.
I did.
I sponsored an athlete in the grid league.
A grid league athlete, no less.
I did.
I know this athlete.
Her name is Lauren Olsen.
Oh, I do know that athlete.
Lauren's awesome.
She's awesome.
She's a maniac, dude.
She is fantastic.
She is on the Houston Bandits.
She is one of their lifting specialists.
She's strong as an ox, dude.
It's ridiculous.
But I met her like early on when
I started this podcast.
She's one of the first listeners we ever
had.
And she was on Team Believe a couple
years ago that went to the games.
One of their members smashed his face
working out right before the games and
they couldn't compete.
And if you ever watch a grid league
match, Lauren dances the entire time.
She's the female version of Corey.
It's fantastic.
Yeah.
And so Clydesdale media sponsored Lauren
Olson for the twenty twenty six grid
league season.
She's the best.
So I'm super stoked.
Oh,
it's only the second time I've sponsored
an athlete in an event or whatever.
But the Clydesdale media logo will be on
her jersey.
She's number two.
Oh.
So if you want to go follow her,
it's CFOlson on Instagram.
Yeah.
She's hilarious.
She's doing the open.
She does CrossFit.
She just.
She's at Legends this year.
Yeah.
I think she's a master's athlete now.
And she is one of the lifting specialists
for the Houston Bandits.
And she actually got on the floor a
lot last year.
A lot.
She's great.
And so super stoked to be sponsoring her
this year.
And you can go sponsor a grid athlete
too.
It's not even that expensive.
And last year I watched a lot because,
honestly,
because John Young signed up and I wanted
to see
the train wreck if it was going to
be a train wreck or if it was
going to be a success and it turned
out that i actually enjoyed some of it
i enjoyed a lot of it actually the
announcers are great the announcers are
great they and it they did a good
job presenting it all within like an hour
So the whole competition beginning to end
is an hour long.
Oh, yeah.
And even though some of the movements are
way wild for me,
a little bit over the top,
it is watchable because it's a bite size
of a competition.
The biggest train wreck for John Young was
his shirt size.
That was the biggest...
John Young, Houston bandit, train wreck,
was that they gave him a shirt that
was just about big enough for my
eight-year-old daughter.
And they were like, here you go.
Go ahead and put that on.
One,
NAI wants to know how much to sponsor
J.Y.,
but make it say something funny on his
shirt all season.
So it's like four-fifty to get a jersey
spot.
Yeah.
But there are other sponsorships lower
than that.
And then Mark Phillips argues with you,
it wasn't the shirt.
Did you see his shorts?
Dude, I saw his shorts, but, like,
that's one thing.
I'm not paying that much attention to John
Young's ass,
but his shirt was six sizes too small.
Ramirez says it's at least a four-T size
shirt.
Roughly.
For a toddler.
Yeah.
He was shopping at the Baby Gap.
A hundred percent.
It was fantastic.
Yeah.
Anyway, fun stuff.
I know we've had the owners of the
Fight for the Fittest that goes on on
Long Island every year.
They started a new team called the New
York Wolves.
They're going to be in the league this
year.
It's growing.
It has a little niche, and they grow,
and they don't try to be more than
they are.
and uh love about it i forget which
team one of the florida teams just
actually reached out to one of my training
partners uh blair at the gym uh smoky
the blair go ahead and follow her on
instagram they asking her to join their
team but she's like i
tactical games dude like tactical games
pays her to show up and win they
ain't doing that or her sponsors i should
say pay her to show up at the
tactical games and win so she ain't doing
that but it was nice to be asked
she was like that's pretty cool she'd have
been a strength specialist too blair's
absurdly strong it's ridiculous yeah
awesome um yeah there's a lot going on
in the chat right now i missed some
of that but um again i got to
get back to work today
We're about two hours away from the open
announcement.
Tomorrow,
we will be back on the air to
talk about what the workout is,
what it means,
what we think is going to happen,
all that kind of stuff.
And I hope you guys have a great
rest of your Thursday.
We'll see everybody tomorrow on Lunch with
the Clydesdale.
Bye, guys.