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It is Sunday night CrossFit talk on a
Tuesday.
Welcome to the show, it's time to ignite.
That silky smooth voice keeps the vibes
just right.
Caroline on the mic,
wants a star on the ice.
Games athletes so strong,
keeps the balance precise.
And Jamie's in the house,
the engine full of grip.
Never backing down, down, doesn't
Welcome to Sunday, Sunday,
Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
Welcome to Sunday, Sunday,
Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
Welcome to Sunday, Sunday.
What is going on, everyone?
Welcome to Sunday, Sunday,
Sunday Night CrossFit Talk on a Tuesday.
Damn, we're all jacked up.
It's been a wild weekend.
Like, the competition,
I'm not even an athlete.
I'm just there watching, observing,
talking, doing all the stuff.
It wore me out.
I cannot even imagine being Carolyn
Prevost
doing all the stuff she did,
flying to Canada, another country,
and living.
It's not that bad.
To be fair,
the spectating I think is harder.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
I always feel worse after these media or
just spectating.
If I go to MFC and watch...
Is it your sleep that's off?
No.
I think it's standing like on the
concrete.
I, I, I like,
I need to move through.
I mean, I got to like work out,
so it wasn't the worst,
but I always feel worse after spectating.
I have to pull this up.
My wife from the table.
What kind of hip hop are you listening
to?
The best kind.
Yeah.
That's what you tell her.
KDL.
She was jamming.
You know it.
Aren't we all?
Yes.
The one thing I will say for WFP,
the nicest part of the weekend is all
the turf.
When you're standing on the turf,
it is like pure relief on your body.
That concrete is brutal.
It was a nice facility this weekend.
nice facility very big lots of things in
like the middle area for like the fans
or where like the vendor village was yeah
yes yeah is that where they did like
workouts too for people some of the
workouts were on that um heart of america
stage up there and then some we did
two on the europe the pro floor
Fergie, question of the week for Jamie.
Does Scott wear Chicago Bear jammies?
I don't know the answer to that,
but I never saw him in Chicago Bears
stuff before bedtime.
I don't think I wore anything Chicago
Bears all weekend.
Yeah, I don't think you did either.
I was in the Clydesdale Media uniform.
I said I should have put on Tyson's
jersey.
You should have.
I did because I didn't know he was
going to throw a ninety seven yard
touchdown on the first play of the game.
Exactly.
Hip hop with the Clydesdale.
So for people don't know,
before we get into Carolyn and her
experience,
the venue was set up in like three
squares.
Yeah.
So the way you came in to the
front door was.
you had to do like a little loop
around a wall.
And then when you made that loop around
the wall,
athletes went right into their square for
like an athlete lounge and an athlete
warm-up area.
And it is massive.
Like it is the size of a football
field.
Yeah,
it's the biggest warm-up area that we'll
have probably.
And then in the center square,
right where you come in was Vendor
Village.
And just in front of that was all
the stuff Jamie and I talked about with
the lawn pong, the corn hole,
the football throws with the nets,
and beanbag chairs to just pop a squat,
hang out, do all that stuff.
Right in front of that was the stage
for the desk show.
Right.
And they would go live during the weekend
between every event.
So if you wanted to see the desk
show live, speaking of which,
Seth Joseph's in the house,
star of the desk show.
And then behind that was where they held
the combine on day one, event one.
Then if you walked further to the right,
like you had to go up midway in
that middle square,
walk through a Red Bull arch,
and it took you into the pro floor.
And right in front of you were the
big stands,
and you had staircases up the back to
get into.
And then you could go around a curtain
that covered the back of the rig and
go behind that and then come out on
the other side of the floor where there
were other stands.
And every square,
and it wasn't a perfect square.
It was more of a rectangle,
three rectangles.
But every one was the size of a
football field.
All three.
It was very, very impressive.
How is it possible I never ran into
you guys once?
I was hiding.
I actually wanted to say hi to Seth.
And I saw him.
I mean, clearly you're super busy, Seth.
I saw you twice.
Not up on stage,
but you seemed to be going somewhere.
So I didn't want to stop you.
Yeah.
I actually,
I actually told Jamie on the way in
that you were one of the people I
wanted to meet because I've seen you on
all these shows.
You've been in the chat occasionally.
I wanted to say hi and meet you.
And I don't know how it,
every time I was in that area,
Seth was on the air.
Right.
So.
So that I just wanted to give people
a picture of what it was like in
there.
The sports complex was massive outside of
the arena.
Like there were a hundred softball fields
and soccer fields and the Indiana Pacers
facility and the Colts facility.
And like everything sports in Indianapolis
was happening on these grounds.
It seemed like.
And apparently home of live golf.
What did you say?
Home of what?
live golf.
If it, if it has a home anymore,
but there's a sign when you come into
Westfield that says,
welcome to Westfield home of live golf.
Is that why Travis and Bailey played golf
there?
So I heard Jay.
I don't know why they did.
I did hear James say he played the
Indianapolis five hundred course and four
of the holes are inside the track.
So I think he said like seven, eight,
nine, and ten,
you have to go under a tunnel.
You pop up on the inside of the
track,
and there was a race going on while
they were golfing.
Oh, I would have hit a car.
That's scary.
Someone asked James that on Boys
Interrupted, and he said,
there's one hole you could hit a car,
but you would have to be like,
that is your objective because you'd have
to turn around and hit it backwards to
get it out there.
I thought Jamie said homeless golf.
If the stuff that's happening at Live
keeps going,
it's going to be homeless golf.
uh seth is great on the death show
he is he just has been around so
long and has so much depth of knowledge
um that he's perfect for that role he
really is just like i would say pat
velner is perfect to be a color analyst
you got to listen to him i i
still at the venue
The amazing thing about Pat was he had
a story for every person that came up
in the chat.
Oh, that's awesome.
Every single one,
whether it was someone that I like,
let's be honest, fifty athletes.
I knew a lot of them.
There were a couple that I and he
seemed to know every single one of them.
Lex texted me at one point.
She's like Pat on the commentary is so
good.
So I haven't gone back to listen to
it,
but she also said the same thing that
he was really good with it.
When I want, when,
when I'm listening to a color guy in
any sport, I want story time.
Yeah.
Like you are there to,
to fill the gaps with things that are
interesting and it doesn't necessarily
have to be,
this is how I would lift this or
blah, blah.
And he filled it with,
he made a comment about how people who
had a bad start to the weekend were
coming up to him and asking for advice,
and he didn't know why.
Because he has a bad start at every
competition.
It was so relatable.
And to go through what he did this
weekend and then to pop into the booth
and be that charming and that energetic,
and seemed like joyful about what he was
doing was awesome.
Maybe he'll come around and do some more
of it.
So Jeremy Austin said, hey,
we'd love to have you in Copenhagen.
And he said, I'd love to be there.
That's awesome.
Now,
I don't know if Jeremy Austin has the
ability to hire Pat to do that role
or not.
I'm sure other people might have to get
involved to make sure that happens,
but I'm hopeful.
I mean, technically he's, well,
did he finish in top thirty?
He did not.
I'm sure some sponsors and stuff could
find ways to maybe get him there and
get them to at least get on the
desk maybe a few times.
They probably had them budgeted for travel
arrangements there, right?
So at least get them there still.
I'd lost my whole train of thought.
Oh,
I thought it was a great ending for
Pat.
If this is the last time we see
him on a floor,
last time we see him in a booth,
even if that doesn't come to fruition,
it was cool to see the reception he
got and the feedback that he's getting in
the booth.
He hasn't had the best the last three
years.
And the fact that he was embraced again
at the end...
It felt good to me,
and I hope it felt good to him
because he's done a lot for the sport
over his time.
Seth says,
I have a strong feeling he's got an
invite to join media at the finals.
Good to hear.
um so that's that's that um i wanted
to do this show tonight we did a
wrap up show for night one wrap up
show for night two and then we were
all on the road for night three um
so that's why we decided to jump on
tonight and finish up uh the wfp
experience with day three
And so I first,
before we get to day three,
which Jamie and I haven't even talked
about,
I want to give Carolyn the opportunity to
talk about day one and two and her
experience at the WFP.
Yeah.
Great experience.
Just, just like I had in London,
we had seven very different tests.
Four of them,
I would kind of say like our
single modality, even though they're like,
they weren't all single modality.
Like they felt like a specialist type
workout and then three more traditional
crossfit workouts.
Uh, going into the weekend,
I had circled three that I would do
okay on or well on.
And then four that were going to be
a little bit more damage control.
Um,
so honestly the weekend went about as I
planned,
maybe the last workout I was hoping to
get a few more snatches.
there but other than that it was as
expected um i love the combine if i
like the combine the ten k is a
little bit harder uh my bench press is
probably my worst lift um so that got
exposed there swimming and echo bike like
in that workout is that day three so
i guess we'll all wait for that one
um yes that one wasn't great but yeah
i like the combine so
let's talk about the combine.
First of all,
it was amazing watching you out there.
Um, we were,
we were up high watching from above.
Um,
cause that was the best place to see
all three of the,
of the events and the, the, the, the,
the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,
watching how fast some of you ran was,
was unreal.
Cause you don't get to see that all
out sprint very often.
in a CrossFit competition.
So what was your experience like on the
floor with that?
Tell us like how the format went.
It seemed like you could go whenever you
wanted within the twenty minute window.
How many attempts did you have?
So we had two attempts in each twenty
minute window for each of the three tests.
I certainly didn't want to be the first
one of any of them.
I just wanted
kind of see people move a little bit
even though like it's very personal test
it still kind of helps to see people
see a couple numbers and then go get
your number and be like okay this is
where i am i have to do a
little bit better here um so it started
with the four yard dash we had done
a warm-up that one was the one i
was the most scared of of the three
on paper i thought it was going to
be
my second best after the five, ten.
But I just haven't sprinted because I got
injured about a month ago.
And I just,
my three-point stance is not something
that I've worked on really growing up.
So both of my attempts,
I popped up way too fast and lost
a good amount of time there.
I felt like once I was out of
my stance and more in my straightaway,
I felt like I felt fast,
not as fast as I used to be,
but like
felt like myself with no restriction on my
hamstring.
But I was scared because that was the
first day I was going to actually run
full because exactly one month before then
I heard it on a forty on my
very last rep.
And it's always a very last rep of
the training.
So then, yes,
I was nervous going into that one,
just kind of seeing where it was going
to be, if it was going to go.
It didn't, thankfully.
So the first attempt felt a little bit
slow out of the gates.
And then once I got my score,
it was like, I don't know, maybe top.
But like, for me, I was pissed.
I looked at that score and I honestly
felt defeated.
I was like, man, I've gotten slow.
Like just to see the number.
And I was like,
this is not what I used to run.
Um,
took off my shirt for like the first
time in a comp thought, okay,
I'm either slow and older.
or this shirt's weighing me down and just
getting some right.
So I took off my shirt,
felt very uncomfortable out there.
Got a little bit faster on the second
attempt, but still that test,
I was disappointed in my time.
I wanted to go sub five.
I used to go sub five.
So that was disappointing,
but it just is what it is.
The agility test after that,
I felt on paper that would be my
best test just from the amount of
crossovers I do in training.
Before you jump into that,
I do want to make two comments about
your Forty.
And one is,
Jamie and I were both shocked when you
took the shirt off in the Forty.
We could not believe.
I could not believe it.
In fact,
I had pictures of it and I sent
you to them.
I did not post that.
I know.
And I was not going to post them
either.
I was letting you have full control over
those.
Actually,
me and Lydia looked at each other because
we're both t-shirt girls, right?
Yeah.
And she's like,
are you going to take your shirt off?
And I was like, am I?
Are you going to do it?
And she's like,
I'll do it if you do it.
So then we both did it for our
second attempt.
So that was funny.
And the second comment I want to make
is one thing I observed and you just
said that you haven't done a three point
stance very much.
You seem to be in it for a
long time.
And as a former offensive lineman who used
to get in them a lot,
it just felt like a really long time
to me.
Well,
it wasn't like in the top position as
long,
but I was trying to dig in my
feet and like kind of create blocks from
that.
Like I didn't grow up doing like,
I ran track like at school,
but honestly school sports here aren't
very big.
Like, like I just,
I ran the a hundred and like the
four by one and stuff like that.
But,
I never really used blocks, um,
like in middle school and high school.
So I didn't use them.
I just was always fast.
So that, that position was just, wasn't,
wasn't that good for me.
So, um, definitely shave off,
definitely could shave off time there,
but a lot of people could just, yeah.
A lot of people stood right up.
Yeah.
If you look at geeky,
just stood right up right away.
Um,
so it's a very technical thing and I
wish I got a little bit more reps
or just some coaching on that position.
general like i tried watching a lot of
youtube video but even in youtube like
there were videos i liked i didn't like
that wasn't working for my body type um
just like my levers and stuff like that
so yeah so yeah i the only the
only people i saw come out of the
the stance low were quinn and chandler
and then Chandler pulled his hamstring on
that first attempt,
and we didn't really get to see.
I think Chandler would have podiumed this
weekend if he was healthy.
Before the pool, his .
Forty was flying.
Well,
his whole combine would have been great.
His .
TenK would have been one of the best
ones there.
Even some of the other ones that he
has held back.
Yeah,
I think he would have done really well
this weekend.
These are great events for him.
So then we moved to the five, ten,
five agility test.
Yeah, that one,
my first attempt was better than my
second.
So every time I practiced,
I had this bad tendency to hit on
the one side.
I would hit the line with my right
hand,
but my left hand always wanted to touch
the ground at the same time as I
was leaning.
So if you think about skaters a lot
of times,
like that one hand sometimes hits the ice.
And it was like almost like a natural
position for me to hit.
that left hand at the same time.
So I, the first attempt that I did,
I went a little bit slower and I
wanted a clean run to not put my
hand on the ground.
Cause I didn't want to get no rep.
That one ended up being my faster,
my fastest of the two.
But I, yeah,
I just went a little bit slower,
took my time.
And then my second attempt,
I kind of got my,
I just stuck a little bit.
So my turns weren't as efficient there.
So both of my attempts,
I wasn't as happy with.
And just so people know,
Carolyn took third in the forty.
Tied for fourth.
I believe.
Yes.
It had you as third.
I think it was tied for fourth and
then second on the agility test.
But yeah, so that, so the five, ten,
five, that's the, that,
like I knew it was going to be
slower on the forty than I used to
be.
So I'm like, okay.
But the five, ten, five, I'm like, man,
I should have gotten that one.
That one should have been a win.
Like that, that was like no excuse.
Should have.
What does it matter?
You still.
No, no, no.
I know.
But in my mind,
I wanted to win on three.
Yeah.
Like that's just.
If only those points would have.
Sure.
But the five, ten, five.
frustrated me to just kind of stick a
little bit and had to be cautious with
my bad tendency of my one arm.
The broad jump I thought was going to
be the worst of my three because while
I'm a good jumper, I'm not tall.
So if you're tall and explosive,
you should jump longer.
Like by the nine foot, I think,
I thought.
And like in a field of fifty,
I'm like, someone's going to out jump me.
I'm going to finish like fifteenth or
tenth.
there and then i was shocked when i
started seeing all the broad jumps that
not that many even were above the eight
foot like i thought for sure there would
be someone around the nine so that that
one that one surprised me i did not
expect to win that one yeah i thought
it was gonna i thought my best was
gonna be the five pen then the run
and then the broad jump and
That just wasn't fun.
You beat a lot of men.
Which is embarrassing.
You should not be out jumping these six
foot tall men.
That's not good.
That's horrible.
That shouldn't happen.
I have a quick question about the five,
ten, five.
Because Jamie and I sat there and watched
so many of these.
When you took off in your first turn,
you stayed almost horizontal.
You should.
On the second one,
you started to turn before you got there,
hit, and then came back.
Was that intentional?
So I wanted to do three steps to
the left, about five,
then start like a little shovel step to
turn to hit the other side and then
sprint out.
Okay.
so on the second one my foot's a
little bit behind me so i had to
almost go around my leg and because of
that i'm kind of going i'm not going
directly lateral i kind of move diagonal
instead and that's a costly error on the
five ten five so just like my hip
so it's like a hip flip but you
have to do a little bit there as
you turn so the first one's almost like
a crossover kind of shuffle
And then the second one,
you can kind of run a little bit,
but that hip flip needs to need it
to be a little bit more so I
could face the, the middle more.
So I wasn't as turn there and I
stuck in that.
I just kind of took a little detour.
So that's what I was frustrated with of
my, the lack of precision I had there.
The hip flip on that second turn was
smooth.
A lot of people like they were so
slow in the turn.
It was like they were facing this
direction and had to stop and turn
completely then come back.
Like you were turning before you got there
and then boom, you were planted and gone.
Um,
so it wasn't like a criticism in any
stretch.
It just was,
I just wanted to know your thought process
through that.
I just felt like I had a lack
of execution there.
Like I'll still be fast.
Cause I do that.
And she took second all the time,
but I just a couple little,
but like in those types of races,
like a little bit of stick or a
little detour,
just it was like point something seconds.
And that's, that's the difference.
like still happy with it,
but I definitely wanted to do better
there.
Eric Mackey,
you showed visible frustration after your
second five, ten, five attempt.
You knew it right away.
Yeah, I knew right away.
I stuck and I did a,
I tried to be more reckless on the
second one because of,
I already had a good score in the
book and I was like, okay,
my hand didn't touch the ground.
Now let's see what happens.
And I just
almost like went to free and didn't focus.
So my last question with the broad jump,
and again, you took second in the five,
ten, five.
So the broad jump,
there were the hashes on the on the
ground.
You were landing with toes beyond the
fourth hash.
The third one.
The third one.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah,
I thought Guy went over five and you
went over four, but I could be wrong.
Um, uh,
like basically I'm like looking at that
hash the whole time and like reaching for
that nine foot.
That, so that was my question.
Was that hash mark like your,
your sight line for the job?
Yeah,
that I'm looking at that the whole time
read and then.
I know exactly like where the eight foot
and the nine foot is.
And I'm just like looking just a little
bit ahead of the nine foot and like
focusing on a good hip explosion.
So what you're seeing a lot of the
athletes do is some of them had good
hip, like hip extension,
but then there was no bend again in
their knee.
And a lot of them were scared to
miss forward.
And if you're scared to miss forward,
you're not like,
you're not talking,
you're not being aggressive enough on your
hips.
And you should be almost landing on your
butt because you're reaching so much.
And a lot of the athletes were falling
forward.
And that's like, you should,
you should never like be almost going,
like you should be reached like hip
extension, bend your knees,
reach with your heels.
Basically.
Normally when you jump,
you're not like doing it with your heels.
You're landing more like toe or mid foot,
but on the max broad jump,
But so many of them were stepping forward.
So I think they were like scared to
miss, but they weren't, I don't know.
They weren't planting.
What was the standard on the land?
You can't shuffle your feet.
You can't put your hands forward or
backwards.
So you had to stick it.
So I think some people were conservative,
but with cleats,
like you should be able to stick pretty
good on turf.
At least on that turf.
I thought it was very sticky.
Like if anything,
you fall on your butt from being in
a low,
mobility position cleats are going to be a
topic later in this discussion yeah so um
i've so messed up here um so you
finished that with a win overall one of
the comments jamie and i had made is
you won the combine by sixty some points
and you got a five point win um
Originally, when the workout came out,
I'm like, ooh,
how are they going to score this?
Because I like all three of these.
I knew I would be good at all
three, but I was like,
that should be good.
And when they said, like,
one hundred point, I was like, ah,
I would love it to be more.
But I get it this first time that
they're doing it.
I do have a story about this, Terry,
where all the girls asking you for
pointers.
So when I first got there on Friday
morning, I walked in.
I was welcomed by Brian Friend and Tommy
Marquez.
And we were chatting.
And Tommy says, you know,
your girl was showing everybody how to do
the broad jump last night.
And I said, really?
And he said, yeah.
Everybody was like trying to figure out
how to do it.
And Carolyn is giving them pointers.
And she's out jumping all of them.
I don't know why she would do that.
And I said, because it's Carolyn.
And that's who she is.
I helped them in the five.
A lot of them wanted help more in
the five-ten.
A lot of them had the wrong hand
down,
were touching the line with the wrong
hand,
were completely turning and not staying
sideways for the first time.
five yards so i had a lot of
people ask me um on that and i
think it would be different if i see
i think i think if if i didn't
feel like i could take it it's different
then i'm probably not helping as much i
said she's gonna win even with but in
my mind it wasn't gonna matter if i'm
being honest uh she's a natural coach
teacher and like some of them are my
friends and like
If I felt like they were like not
in the right position, I'm like,
switch hands or like reach more like,
you know,
but they were both telling me how amazed
they were at your broad jump because you
were truly out jumping everybody the night
before, which is, I just,
I did not expect that at all.
Like I thought for sure,
you do all that jumping.
I know, but I'm not tall.
I'm one of the shortest athletes out
there.
Which,
Ronica and I were talking about that a
little bit,
because Colton got last in that.
And, like,
that dude is extremely explosive.
I mean,
he jumps those super tall box jumps just
fine.
But you could tell, like,
the height definitely played a factor for
the men.
Oh, yeah.
So I'm just one tall.
Yeah.
So just to help test out,
cause it's driving your nuts.
Do you have a lower setting on your
ring light?
Let me see.
Cause it's the pitch black room here.
Let me see.
That's better.
Yeah.
It's off.
Yeah.
You're, you're really,
you're washed out with the white.
It looks like a ghost Carol.
There we go.
There we go.
So, yeah, I don't know.
Everybody got a preview of the Plyo
program.
A lot of them did talk to me
about that this weekend.
They're like,
I think we're going to jump on your
program.
I saw a few comments like that.
I mean,
the pictures they got of you and the
combine and like you have all the
marketing materials you need.
I made sure to wear my shirt too.
Like this weekend, I was like, oh,
I'm wearing this.
It was perfect for you.
Did you think twenty minutes was too long?
Did you feel like you wanted it?
You just don't know with the heat of
I don't even know how many.
You don't need probably as much time,
but it is a max effort.
I wish we had three broad jumps.
I would have taken three of each test.
People probably don't want three of the
forty.
Yeah.
uh like i mean i suppose you wouldn't
have to take three no you didn't have
to it's they said you could take up
to two so like some people just jogged
or did one and done i think um
so you don't have to but yeah the
only comment was a lot like but the
thing is the first one wasn't that much
because we got from the back
then we arrived there and I think people
wanted to warm up a little bit for
the forties.
So they went behind the curtain and
started, you know, warming up.
I think like Laura was one of the
last ones to run.
And like, she did both of hers, like,
I think like almost in the last five
minutes,
she kind of used that first bit to
warm up,
but you were just kind of seeing people
eye each other's scores a little bit, um,
or technique.
So there was a lot of looking around,
studying people, stuff like that.
The only comment I made in a negative
fashion,
and it's not really negative because I
really enjoyed the event,
and I told Patrick this in person and
in the chat earlier today or this weekend,
is that the NFL Combine is a single-file
line.
It's one track, and people just go.
You just get up and you go.
whatever times you're going to run it with
twenty minutes and it only being ten
seconds tops to get done I think they
could have gotten through everybody in
each heat pretty easily in the twenty
minutes and it would have been better for
as a spectator event because like a single
spotlight you would want
yes so you could see everybody some people
were wanting to go with people and then
i noticed that kind of race you kind
of you saw that a little bit but
it it hurt them because they were looking
to the side when running instead of
worrying about finishing yeah i think it
was like oda at one point was looking
at her friend one of the norwegians with
her and maybe it was matilda and starts
running with her which i mean probably was
fun you know it was like a school
playground race
But I do agree.
I think that would be cool to do
more of a single spotlight and then go
through the line.
And then the second time you go through,
you can either move to the side and
pass.
And then that time is given to the
next person.
Then it would be easier to flash a
time for each person real quick so the
people watching could see.
Because Jamie and I had no clue what
the times were.
We were trying to listen to the desk
show.
Sometimes if Seth was talking,
we could hear.
But pretty much everybody else where we
had to stand, we couldn't hear the times.
And like we only as athlete knew our
own.
And then unless you went to other athletes
and they told you,
but on the screen on some of them,
you could go and like look in other
people's lane and try.
Like, I mean, I was doing that,
trying to see other scores.
I don't know that that many people were
doing that,
but I certainly was trying to figure out
where I stood.
And,
and Patrick said that they knew that that
was a shortcoming, but the,
the amount of wires that would have taken
to put what would have made it difficult
to get the floor set up for the
events.
So, all right.
So event two was Friday night and that
was.
Four rounds per time,
twelve parallel handstand pushups,
twenty-four GHG setups,
twelve block jumpovers, six flip sleds.
And we talked about that this weekend
about like,
it was cool to see a long chipper
in a fitness event.
I liked that workout.
I thought it was fun to do.
There was different areas that different
athletes could kind of shine and maybe
pick up some speed.
Some people were really good on the
parallel handstand pushups and are able to
go on broken each round.
Some people have so fast GHDs.
For me, I made up,
a lot of time on the box jump
overs.
Like I wanted twenty four box jump overs.
And then some people were moving the sled
better and taking a couple of deep breaths
and then going and then other people were
resting a lot more.
So they're like each I felt each movement
mattered on that event.
I thought it was really well programmed.
It was fun to do.
Minus Pat's Achilles.
Everything else, I think it went well.
It was a good test.
I don't know how it was for you
guys to watch,
but I enjoyed it as an athlete.
I enjoyed watching it.
Really enjoyed it.
Each element was fun to watch as its
own.
And in the pit,
I could move down the floor with
everybody.
And so it was really cool because I
could watch the handstand pushups into the
GHDs,
the box jump overs into the flip sleds
or vice versa, whatever the order was.
I'm terrible at workout memory.
I loved it.
Jamie and I talked about this a lot
on Sunday.
There's this narrative around this event
that so many people were injured.
And at the end of the day,
I talked to medical on Sunday.
It was a torn pec, a torn Achilles,
cramps were the three withdraws on the
men's side.
Some other people drew from hamstring
pools, but they weren't major injuries.
They were tweaks.
And Jamie pointed this out to me,
the fifty out of fifty women finished.
There were some injuries.
Like I think Ella came in injured.
Matilda came in with a little bit of
an injury to like from the games.
Um,
one girl injured her hamstring on the
sprint.
Yes.
But I don't think it's a bad test
though.
Like I don't think doing the combine is
a bad test.
I I've been saying it forever.
Like I think it's needed.
We've ignored this part of our fitness for
way too long.
Um,
And it can happen to anyone.
It happens to sprinters all the time that
they can do and they practice all the
time.
I've been saying all week,
Rogue had two torn Achilles in the same
event at the same location.
Nobody's bashing Rogue for what they do,
right?
So I think it's just a narrative that
people want to put out there and I
just wanted to squash it.
That there really weren't any more
injuries at this event than any other.
I still think it's part of sports too.
It's going to happen.
If people start training this and start
training a little bit more laterally and
add pure sprints,
would the injuries go down a little bit
more or go down more with time?
I think
Will gave fifteen weeks, maybe,
notice on this test for people.
He told me ten.
A lot of the ones that got injured
with the hamstrings are the older
athletes.
Right.
You know, Yona Chandler, Sam Konawaye,
like me a month ago.
Right.
It was a lot of the older ones.
And athletes that, you know,
compete a lot or went to
to the games and could be still a
little bit fatigued there.
Um,
but I just think that if people train
it more consistently and from a younger
age, I think it would be better.
I, I,
I do not think that we should, um,
not program it.
Like, I think it's important.
Like people sprint at recess grown up.
You want to see who the fastest is.
You want to see who can go from
point A to point B the fastest,
not under fatigue and,
For too long,
we only test things under fatigue or
longer, mid to long distance.
So I'm happy that they're willing to do
it.
Even if it was a one yard in
front, I think it's a start.
And I am very happy that he programmed
that clearly,
but I hope that we can see it
down the road.
And like,
who knows the type of athletes that we
might get at the games if you start
programming this kind of stuff.
It could change.
I did talk to Will Friday night and
I asked him flat out,
was he concerned about hamstring pools in
the forty?
And his answer was awesome.
He said,
there's a reason we gave ten weeks notice.
for that event he they consulted with um
nfl trainers and people associated with
the nfl on how to set it up
on what they thought about the whole thing
there was a lot of research done and
it was not just a willy-nilly throw it
out there um and so no pun intended
But anyway, I just want to say,
I was really impressed with his answer.
I thought he was really well prepared for
that.
And I just think a lot of the
tests this week,
like we're tests that people can go back
home and do and compare.
And these are numbers that people know,
like a ten K run,
a backs bench press, the combine test.
Like these are like,
straight up test that you can compare
minus the forty with the,
it's called the fast forty.
I guess you could compare to Apex because
they do it that way, I'm pretty sure.
They might do a two point stance though.
Grant says he wants to sprint Carolyn and
no you don't and you're going to lose.
There's no need.
I don't think he wants to race her.
I just think he wants to sprint.
He does want to sprint Carolyn.
Bring it, let's go.
He didn't say against Carolyn.
I know grant.
I know.
Again.
He said he's talking to Carolyn.
He's saying he was old.
He was comma, comma, comma, right?
I want to sprint comma.
Carolyn is comma Italian for backpedal
backpedal backpedal.
I'm just kidding.
I'm just giving him shit.
You need hours and hours of training and
while fatigued.
That's a question mark.
What is it?
For what?
The forty?
Yeah.
Why were they fatigued?
This is the first event.
He's asking,
do you need to do hours of training
while fatigued?
Oh.
I mean,
there's some benefit for certain parts of
CrossFit,
but anytime you're doing like a max
sprint, it shouldn't be under fatigue.
Okay.
Then we go to day two,
where we started with the ten K.
And my big question to you on this
was,
I know you hate the long distance running,
but it's necessary.
I've had to do it all these years.
I finished almost last all these years.
It's okay.
It's part of it.
But you didn't.
Did you do as bad as you thought?
basically as expected i don't know where
it was like thirty-fifth out of fifty
something like that i cannot find you
anywhere on my eyes or just i think
the thirty-fifth is um but i i don't
think that's either like i think that's
needed like you have to like in a
test of fitness you got to go short
you got to go long you got to
go mid you got to swim you got
to do crossfit like it's a little bit
of everything
And if there's something that I really,
really like,
I probably have a weakness somewhere else.
And this is a weakness that I have
that I need to work on.
I also haven't ran like I,
I hadn't run more than ran more than
three K going into this comp because of
my hamstring.
Like I didn't run at all leading up
to here.
So I didn't practice it.
So I was as expected.
And even if I did maybe I get
somewhere between and not much more than
that.
Um,
Lauren Smith posted notes from the weekend
today.
And one of the notes was that Amanda
had done this without a watch to pace
herself.
Do you think that that is impressive?
Jamie, just their eyes tell the story,
I guess.
I mean, I usually know my pace anyway,
so I just, I,
I almost feel like she should have just
run with whoever was second.
Like, I don't know,
was she going for a PR?
What was the goal there?
I don't know.
Whatever the goal was, it was fast.
I guess.
She had her home runs,
and she had her clearly not home runs.
So, like, I guess you just take it.
But in this type of competition with fifty
athletes,
it is so important to go get that
home run, like,
and go get that hundred points.
Because a fifteenth place,
which is a great finish,
is forty-eight points.
And then after that,
like you're basically getting like barely
any points.
So anytime anyone gets like a wheelhouse
event and they get like a hundred points,
they could basically finish last the rest
of the weekend and accumulate more than
someone that was way more well-rounded
than them.
Just because of the way that the scoring
was.
So like, to me,
that makes no sense just because I think
it defeats the well-roundedness.
Like it, it,
puts too much emphasis on being a
specialist of something.
And in these sort of tests,
it definitely rewarded that.
Winter is looking for Carolyn sprinting
for old folks track.
So then we move to the bench press.
And as a spectator,
this is one I was really looking forward
to.
And as a spectator,
it was a real tough watch.
There were way too many cameras on the
floor, way too many judges,
way too many spotters.
I know why the spotters are there and
they need to be there.
But I don't know why we need eight
different angles of a crotch shot with
someone benching.
I find it half perverted and half
unneeded.
Holding a camera at the floor,
doing an upshot of someone laying on a
bench is wrong.
And I'm just going to say it.
And it was happening way too much at
this event.
I didn't get any pictures like that.
No, I agree.
Yeah, I mean,
very impressive how strong people are.
I think like the average person,
For the females, I get two, ten,
which is just crazy.
I tied my PR at one eighty five.
I'm not a good venture.
I think I was like forty something on
that, maybe forty first.
I had my mind on that event.
Which I thought I was going to finish
last, but people are just strong.
Yeah, I've never been a good presser,
like a strict presser or just any type
of pressing, so.
Wasn't too surprised there,
but also surprised at how strong people
are.
Yeah.
And Dana's two.
And she missed two.
Yeah.
Um, and like just talking to her,
like that's a number two,
that she used to always hit.
So she lifts a lot less and barely
even lifts now because she's just so
strong from her power lifting days and
Olympic lifting days.
So she's still able to, you know,
win events like this.
Um, but she was mad that like,
she didn't have the two fifties still in
her.
And I was like, I feel that,
but that's an athlete that like in these
tours, you know,
first place in the deadlift first place in
this one,
probably first place in the back squat,
possibly in the next one,
like can just get these hundred point
events and in large fields like that is
huge, huge, huge, huge.
I want to make it clear that my
crotch shot comment is not exclusive to
WFP.
That is a problem at all events.
I don't know why we have to be
that close and why we need eight.
There was a point where Ariel was in
lane ten right in front of me and
there were six people around the GHD
filming her.
Why is that necessary?
I just don't get it.
But it's not exclusive to WFP.
It happens at every event I go to.
I think it was Nick Matthew in the
handstand walk kicked the camera guy.
Because once again,
they're just too close to the athletes.
And what happens if that's a no rep?
Well, I know.
He was lucky that it wasn't.
You have to just let him go from
where he was.
Like if they interfere at all, you can't.
It can't be a no rep.
But I just, as spectators,
we've complained so much about those
close-up shots.
Just get them off the floor.
Like,
they don't need to follow a single
athlete.
Nobody wants to see that.
We want to see the race on the
floor.
Back up, show all the links.
And here's the deal.
The WFP floor was set up beautifully to
have people around.
There was a gap between the barricade and
the floor.
Media could,
they could have taken all the media from
that area and had clear shots.
And then the people sitting up high would
see over them.
Right.
Now I see KDL saying at home on
the broadcast, it wasn't so bad,
just busy on the screen.
But I think because those cameras that
were so close were giving you the
broadcast.
If you were there live, your,
your view of everything was really,
really hampered a ton.
Yeah.
This weekend,
was there any live scoring on, like,
the rig?
Because, like,
I remember in London they had that.
Okay,
so you guys didn't get to see that.
No.
That was really cool, the London stuff.
Now,
the Jumbotron did have the NASCAR or the
F-One scoring.
So if you could see the numbers,
you could follow along.
And what was nice is they always had
the time to beat up there.
They had everybody score whether you're
first or tenth.
And I like the numbers going down towards
the zero to see how much,
like how many more reps they have left
in workouts that are like for reps.
And then we had the final event of
the day,
which was probably the most controversial.
And that was the sled push.
Now I heard, I heard a comment that,
and you can confirm or deny this,
that there were people that were upset and
wanted to appeal the sled because they
were in a sticky lane,
and that Jason Ainsley met with all those
athletes and discussed it with them,
saying that while he understands how they
feel and he understands that that may be
a possibility,
there was no way for them to uniformly
correct that.
and because he met with the athletes the
athletes seemed to be okay with it and
actually appreciated him being upfront and
honest about it um i did see a
lot of complaints specifically for lane
five um i remember watching it because i
went um back to like the house between
the events to just chill and i'm watching
it on my phone and every single heat
of the men of the lane five
Like sometimes they'd be in the lead and
all of a sudden they get to the
sled and like nothing.
You had this one guy,
I think in heat three was like throwing
his arms.
Like what the hell's happening?
Um, and I'm like, well, this sucks.
I'm in lane five later.
Um,
so I wouldn't be surprised that you had
a lot of people complain specifically for
that lane.
That's the one thing that sleds that's
tough is sometimes it can be different
from one side.
of the field to the next.
Um, and then on top of that,
I think it was clear that the sled
weight for that particular turf was not,
um, the appropriate stimulus,
but once the event had started,
you can't change the weight for the men,
um, for different heats.
So you kind of had to go with
it.
So for the men's race, it really, really,
really came down to.
people's shoes if they brought cleats to
begin with,
because a lot of them didn't bring cleats.
So thankfully I was at home because I
wasn't going to bring cleats.
And once I started seeing how much the
workout was about the sled,
I packed my cleats up.
So it became who had the right shoes
and, uh, who,
who could move the sled the best.
And in some cases,
which lane were you in?
Um, I was happy to see that, uh,
Will was, um,
what's the word?
Like had enough humility to change the
weights for the female right from the
get-go, knowing that like,
you don't want the entire field to get
capped.
And he lowered it by twenty pounds from
one seventy to one fifty.
Now the sled still was, I think,
a major factor for a lot of the
athletes regardless.
And there were still a lot of people
that capped.
But I certainly think that that was the
right call to make it a little bit
more where each
part of the workout mattered um so I
was I was happy with that switch I
liked that event it was tough um yeah
I brought my soccer cleats and I didn't
think it like it didn't really bother me
for the sandbag as much as I thought
it would to be on cleats it was
fine but made a big difference on the
sled I still feel like I have a
bruised forehead like my forehead was in
that
You were pushing on the post.
Was leaning on it the whole time.
So it's still sensitive here for the last
couple of days,
just from leaning on that thing.
But my lane was fine and I was
in lane five.
Each length,
I never stopped in the middle.
I went full lengths every time.
Yeah, I liked that event.
It was fun.
Just finished it under that time cap.
I like pushed the sled to like,
I don't know,
it was like twelve fifty five.
And I do like five seconds left to
like
job to the finish line and that was
a hard waddle walk to the finish line
but just made it a second before um
yeah it was good so that that event
caused the biggest fight between jamie and
i over the weekend why uh because she
said lane five was sticky and i'm tired
of the narrative of whenever we have a
sled push it's always the lane's fault not
anybody else so i watched very closely the
men there was really poor technique in
lane five
Like really poor technique.
And part of this thing that everybody does
here is adaptability.
And a lot of those men just threw
their arms up like, oh,
I can't do it.
Instead of changing the technique and
looking at the other lanes and seeing how
the other people were pushing the sled.
I don't know.
That looked bad.
That lane five looked bad to me.
But because Jamie and I were fighting
about it,
I was watching all of those heats.
And they were holding high,
and they were fully extended trying to
push the slip.
Some of them were lifting it too much.
There were a lot of different techniques.
like yellow who was pushing it very easily
had his shoulders against the posts his
hands were on the weights like he was
leaning forward so much that the the front
of the sled couldn't come up or couldn't
like couldn't get stuck and lift the back
you couldn't pick up the back because he
was leaning on it um
And so while it could have been a
little bit sticky, sure,
but also the men in there did nothing
to try to change their situation.
And I think that that is the modern
CrossFit athlete is not as adaptable as
the OGs.
They practice it one way,
and if it doesn't go right,
it's throw my hands up in the air.
Now, that is not universal,
but that is a generalization of a lot
of the newer athletes.
Yeah.
When it got to the female weight,
I felt it was fine.
And that was my argument back to Jamie.
The women weren't having trouble in lane
five.
But I didn't know if it was because
they lowered the weights and because I had
sock cleats on.
Some of the men had cleats, I believe.
Yeah, some did.
Yona definitely had cleats.
Because Yona is the one that told Bergeros
to go get cleats.
I was texting Lex because she was watching
the stream.
And I was like,
I don't know if I should be wearing
my soccer cleats for this one or this.
She goes,
Burgos has soccer cleats on right now.
Wear your soccer cleats.
That's the text I get from her.
So then I put mine on and I
started warming up with them.
I was like, thank God I did.
So you finish that day and then go
back and then we come back in the
morning and you're at the local YMCA.
Beautiful pool at a YMCA.
I swam my whole life and I've never
been in a YMCA that beautiful.
Yeah, it was really nice.
Um,
I got to tell my story real quick
is I was sitting with Ty Jenkins parents
for this event and it made that experience
really, really fun.
They knew who to look out for.
in each heat in whose time and Ty's
dad is taking splits of everything to know
where they are at every point.
And then when Ty came up,
Oh my gosh, he's,
he's five seconds behind.
Oh, like,
and I'm getting to experience all this
throughout the event.
And then eventually Ty actually wins the
event.
So shout out,
shout out to John and Heather.
They are awesome people.
And, uh,
And they gave me a great experience in
watching that event.
Yeah, I got to meet John, too.
He introduced himself.
And so then he watches the show.
Yep.
Heather told me that she sees our face
on the TV screen all the time.
Yeah, that event,
I knew it wasn't going to be great.
I mean,
I think I've swam three times in the
last two and a half years.
And it was this summer.
But I felt like the echo bike mattered
a lot because I wasn't the worst swimmer.
Okay.
I'm not a great swimmer,
but I wasn't the worst swimmer.
Okay.
Thankfully.
But let's say I'm, you know,
five to ten seconds faster than some of
the bad swimmers, even more than that.
They would make up that time on the
echo bike.
Like some of them could make up almost
thirty seconds on the echo bike by just
sprinting so much
better so i thought it was like a
pretty good balance of both whereas the
swim mattered but i actually think the
echo bike mattered more so like i wasn't
the last to the echo bike but i
think the two people that were there
basically at the same time as me beat
me by like twenty seconds on the echo
light and i and i was swimming swimming
just as good or faster than them so
Yeah,
I think both of those weren't great for
me,
and I think I paid – that was
my worst finish of the whole weekend was
that event.
Ty went all out on the echo bike.
Yeah,
he even surprised his parents because they
thought that's where James and Yellow were
going to get him.
And he actually – I think he finished
the last one in twenty-five seconds.
Crazy.
That's fast.
But it goes to someone who has swam
a lot,
and when he gets out of the pool,
he is more equipped to then go all
out on the echo bike.
So I think it did play.
I like the mix of the two.
Yeah.
He got right on the bike.
James, like,
fumbled getting in his shoes and getting
on.
It was, like, good.
And kudos to all the people that just
went barefoot on that thing.
Yeah.
That was crazy.
Laura got on there barefoot.
Like Hannah here is one of the best
swimmers.
I think she got top five on this,
maybe third or fourth.
And she held eighty to eighty five RPM.
But like if I did that, you know,
I'm making it maybe fifteen yards and I
got it and I got to go hold
on to that.
So there was someone that had to do
that.
You could have backstroked.
Yeah, I mean.
But again,
if you're able to do that and swim
and recover on your swim,
like that's different.
But some people were slow and then could
do that at the end.
Whereas like I didn't even have that power
at the end because I was so winded
from the swim.
So both are bad for me.
So yeah, it wasn't great.
Clock,
I hear YMCA pool or swimming at the
Y and my eyes start burning.
I believe it's one part chlorine,
two parts water is their formula,
I believe.
Yeah,
YMCA pools are notorious for being
over-chlorinated.
I've swum at a lot of them.
It is brutal.
High school pools,
college pools are way better than that,
way, way better.
Yeah, Hannah was awesome this weekend.
It was fun watching her.
I like this event.
I kind of wish,
and I was going to do this before
we got on the show to see if
it even would have mattered,
but I kind of wish that this would
have been maybe scored like the Combine
was in that each section was scored.
Because there were people who, like, did,
like, two-thirty and then, like, went,
like, three-oh-five.
And some people went, like,
two-thirty and two-fifty.
And I would have liked to seen that
recover.
But, like, there were still races.
Don't get me wrong.
Still a hundred point event.
Just, like, taking an average, like,
where you are.
Yep.
But, like, you may have gotten, like,
you could have pulled a Newberry, right?
You could have been like,
I'm going ham on the first one,
and maybe I'm going to get last in
the second one.
Or I'm going to try to be average.
Or I'm going to start a little slower,
and I'm going to beat everyone on the
last one because I know everyone else is
going to go out hot.
I just,
I think I've looked at it a little
bit,
and I think there's some pretty
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I think there's also supposed to be a
swim in Denmark.
I think Will said that on a podcast
before.
So this is probably just to make sure
that people can at least survive the swim.
And I'm going to assume it's going to
be a longer swim in Denmark.
I'm just going to guess.
We'll talk about that in a second.
Hannah is jumping on Carolyn's program for
Apex next month.
think you're gonna do your apex before i
launch mine so i don't know if it'll
work maybe she's looking for a little
backdoor deal yeah it'd be the beta test
of your of your program my first one
is like uh i'm doing like a fundamentals
so i won't have as much as of
the super advanced drills it'll
Progress.
I think it's important for people.
I think too many people jump into more
advanced things and their basics aren't as
good with their arms and just landing and
stuff.
So hopefully they'll do this one first.
And then if it goes well,
then I'll launch a more monthly one that
is a higher performing one.
Give me early access, she says.
um the dr phillips ymca in orlando is
bougie i don't know i i i went
to orlando for nationals one year um i
don't know if it was a ymca pool
or not but it was a a pool
where the roof like just like the uh
rca dome like the roof slid down and
it could be an outdoor pool or indoor
pool so whatever it was it was bougie
And it had like a full diving.
Well, Judy Reed, um,
with ten meter platform and down.
Uh, so last, last workout was four times,
thirty five, twenty five calorie row,
twenty five bar muscle ups,
hundred fifty foot handstand walk.
And that's where this is where everything
came to a crawl.
And we had five squat snatches heavy.
This almost felt like a different workout
for the females than the men.
Like the men, for whatever reason,
had no problem with the two forty five
or most of them were all finishing.
And on the female side,
there were big differences.
Like there were levels to it.
Oh, yeah.
I think I could push the front half,
rest a little bit and then slowly start
moving through their singles.
And then athletes that would finish start
stretching on the ground.
relaxing knowing that maybe they could do
one but maybe not like it just felt
like a completely different workout for
whatever reason and it's not that one
seventy is like overly heavy but i don't
know what happened there i mean i think
i mean i i only got one rep
there i was hoping to get a few
more um missed quite a bit in front
It was difficult for me.
It's a heavy weight,
but it's a heavy weight after not lifting
for about twenty,
twenty five minutes of barbell.
So you go and warm up,
then you get corralled fifteen minutes
before then you get to your event.
You've got to do all this buy in
under fatigue and you haven't touched the
barbell in a very long time.
So like it just felt super heavy.
And like my first one,
I just did a nice high pull and
I was like, oh,
I'm not getting underneath that.
So I kind of Kyle Rolf said it
was impressive.
It was really high.
And then, yeah, after that,
I think I missed one or two more
times before I finally got one.
I was like, okay,
I can do it like I can get
in the groove of it.
And I just kept missing forward a little
bit.
And I think that happened with a few
people that they're missing.
But yeah,
I think a lot of females capped.
versus the men.
Oh yeah.
There was.
Thirteen women who got zero snatches.
And I think there was two or three
men and there was like,
there's big gaps in, in strength there.
Twenty four women that finished the
workout and like four,
I mean, it was,
it seemed to me like one of those
workouts, I say this every time,
every time we see workouts like this,
like people are like,
we gotta raise the women's weight.
The women, it's gotta be heavier.
It seemed to me like it was tested
by men and they just tried to use
that like,
percentage or try to make it heavier
because women can lift so much more
nowadays that they keep saying but i just
it happens in these workouts a lot i
just think it's over programmed there's
Like Berggross is still only seventy
percent.
So I don't know what it was.
You guys did the exact same number of
bar muscle ups.
That's way easier on men.
They're better.
They're just their shoulder stamina with
the handstand walk right for it.
It needed to be lighter.
Like Berggross is still going to win,
even if it's one sixty.
It's like she's just going to it's going
to.
But other women would be able to do
the workouts.
As a layman spectator,
I was frustrated by this workout because,
one, it was long for a final.
I'm just not used to that.
And, two, it was like, hurry, hurry,
hurry, hurry, stop.
Even the strongest men had to stop,
belt up, stretch out their arms.
Even some of the strongest men missed.
Right.
He and Tudor both missed,
to wrap you up.
Chandler, I think, missed,
and he's probably one of the strongest,
too.
And so it was kind of anticlimactic as
a final.
I loved the entire weekend.
I had a blast there.
I'm not here to dog on WFP,
but that event of all of them just
left me a little kind of like, ugh.
Wish it was a little more exciting to
finish off.
But I have to remember,
WFP is not a solo show up kind
of weekend.
It is a season long event.
So having a finale may not make sense
because...
I think making it squat snatch also was
a big factor versus like people could
power it because that squat snatch under
fatigue,
you miss like your shoulders are just
fatiguing.
It's so easy to just...
crumble.
So I think that was a factor of
all the misses.
But yeah, I agree with the season long.
Each event matters.
Each event is worth like the same amount
in the whole picture this year versus like
double points for the finals.
No, I really like the season format.
And while each event is worth the same,
it's not technically now worth the same
because the field is now down to thirty.
So the spread now finally between
in the finals between placing is going to
matter.
Like it's,
you're going to be able to separate a
little bit more versus like a, a, a,
a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a,
a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a,
a,
kind of workouts that we see you had
people at the bottom making noise amanda
jobs making noise right she i don't think
she's qualified for the finals but she
sure messed up the leaderboard this
weekend she may have i don't know um
And that's kind of the beauty.
Once you can get your head wrapped around
that this is a season-long event,
not a weekend, it makes way more sense.
And it's really just about hitting your
home runs where you can.
It's just like the PGA Tour, right?
Scotty Scheffler does not play every tour
event, right?
He picks and chooses his spots,
wins those events so he can get in
the points to get to the end for
the competition.
And once my head wrapped around that,
this whole thing made way more sense.
But it's kind of like what I've been
asking for CrossFit to do in terms of
like every test matters equally.
And we've all taken the same test.
So why do these ones get erased halfway
through?
Like, you know,
just to make it to the next one.
Like, I like it that...
It all counts as one season.
We all took, let's say, I don't know,
twenty something tests.
Who's the fittest with all of these like
this broad test that we've had,
these specialized tests,
these CrossFit tests.
At the end of the year,
who did the best?
I think that's awesome.
T-Bird said,
congrats on making the finals, Carolyn.
Can't wait to watch you from a proud
Canadian.
On that last event,
I said this to you and Kyle in
the back.
I thought it was rude that they put
all the Canadians in that outside three
lanes.
You, Sydney,
and Emily all had to be shunned to
the outside for the final event.
And for the overall,
we have four Canadians back-to-back at the
cut line.
We have me, Sydney, Emily, and Chevrie.
All four of us are back-to-back Canadians
fighting for the spots.
I'm on the outside looking in.
Amanda Jobs is sitting right behind you.
Oh, wow.
I mean,
she got almost two hundred points just off
of the run and then also was,
I think, a top three on the swim.
You're almost getting two hundred points
there.
Just with that,
she could basically take the last for
every other event and she's
make it through that you're just not
getting those points like it's rare to win
an event.
So if you get to like that,
you're you're you're set.
The one the one comment I made to
Patrick yesterday was, you know,
they did that Red Bull leader lane.
If your focus is the season and not
the weekend,
then that should go to the tour leader,
not the weekend leader.
you have to stop confusing the narrative
with, because you can't be both.
You can't be a weekend.
But they give money for both.
The PGA Tour does that for each thing,
but you still understand that there's like
a bigger competition.
And because they're so different than what
CrossFit is,
I think they need to accentuate the season
standings at the end of the event as
opposed to – it doesn't mean you don't
pay out the people who won the event
or give them a trophy or whatever for
winning this tour stop.
but you should highlight like who the tour
podium is at this point and these are
their points going into the final they i
mean they did the top thirty they
announced all that which is important like
that was right but it didn't have the
emphasis i'm saying it should that's all
if that's what your your goal is is
to get people to focus on the season
then stop being crossfit or stop being
wadapalooza and doing a podium for that
weekend so still pay it out still the
sign pros that didn't show up to the
first one they don't they only got like
entry into one and two they don't get
entry into Copenhagen right that's correct
exactly so I think that's a change from
last year good last year they
automatically got entered into the finals
and every two or stop this year they
had to at least accumulate enough points
to qualify for the finals which I like
because there's a couple that didn't do
the season I think Danny and Annika didn't
end up doing any of them on the
female side maybe there's someone else I
think but so they don't go to the
finals it's the
like Colton missed out because he didn't
go to the first event.
I'm pumped for him, but I mean,
it makes perfect sense.
Like same with, uh, Leahy just missed,
just missed out, but you know,
with injuries and sometimes people last
year, like didn't do WFP at the finals.
Like you never know,
you may as well continue to get ready.
Um,
I think people are missing my point.
It's not that they didn't say it.
They were very good about saying the tour
standings.
I think that if that's what you want
your customer to focus on,
you need to treat it like it's the
main thing.
Yeah.
That's all.
I think Leahy will go because Quinn is
sitting fifth.
Go ahead, Quinn.
Yeah.
We don't know the damage on Quinn yet.
He was just getting imaging, you know,
and apparently if you follow his
Instagram, they found a dog in him.
Um, so he said,
he said he needs to see a specialist
now.
Okay.
At least he can laugh at his own
situation, which is pretty cool.
was the scariest the the pat thing was
more of an unknown for me because it
was clear across the floor the quinn thing
when the one spotter couldn't lift his her
side of the the barbell that freaked me
out but jason ainsley was pretty damn
quick to get over there and get it
up off of him i mean it never
was on him and regardless the straps were
there if it's just a bad look with
a spotter going
It was almost like a double spotting.
You had the people and you had the
strap.
Jason Ainsley did the old-fashioned up
over the top and just lifted it off
himself.
It was pretty impressive since he's not an
athlete.
He's the president of the company.
I'm not only the president, I'm a member.
Um, but yeah, it was a great weekend.
Any overall thoughts you guys have before
we shut her down?
I hope more spectators come enjoy the show
and enjoy the amenities and experience it.
It's cool to see the lights.
Um, it's just exciting.
Yeah.
I thought that, you know,
we get treated very well there.
We get like free PT when we're there,
they had ten tables, I think,
or even more.
of people to work on us at any
point in the day, uh,
that you can make appointments with them.
They had snacks for us.
Super well organized.
Um, the floor looks great.
Everything is communication.
Everything is awesome.
Just need the fans there to support,
to continue to support.
Um, yeah,
I think they're doing a good job.
I just hope that they're able to sustain
that.
It has got to be the best in-person
fan experience.
other than maybe wadapalooza miami and i
and well and they're wadapalooza miami you
weren't guaranteed a place to sit um but
they had workouts for the spectators all
weekend long multiple options every day
they had the cornhole they had the
Throw the football.
They had all that kind of stuff.
It was very fan friendly.
And in addition to that,
it felt like a big deal.
The lights, the smoke,
everything made it feel like you were at
a major competition.
Yeah, the media, the pictures.
I got so many pictures this weekend.
Like at the Masters CrossFit Games,
I got one picture, I think.
I didn't even know that like people didn't
even know that I think that I competed.
I got like all these pictures sent to
me this weekend.
I got the post.
I got zero besides what Scott took.
So at least somebody took a picture of
you.
I have pictures of you.
I just am.
I've been so busy since we got home
from the games that I have had no
edit time at all.
I've learned that if I want to get
stuff out,
I need to do it while I'm there.
Yeah.
If I wait till I get home,
like life just hits you as soon as
you get in the door.
so i'll i'll send you some over for
the game from the game scanner uh next
up is what socal oh i got all
my videos uh from rogue approved and i
know that emma tall and jennifer muir as
well had all of theirs but we're just
waiting if anyone else gets penalties
I can get bumped out of the third
position because if it's so close at the
top and if it's in between me and
Kyra, for instance, she wins a tiebreaker.
So I am waiting on that.
I'm hoping to hear this week of the
leaderboard being finalized.
I don't know how long,
but I'm assuming it'll be by the end
of this week.
So.
I do want to pull this up real
quick.
Final thoughts.
Carolyn was very impressive as always.
Jamie is next for WFP.
There is talk about adding some masters to
this.
They have masters.
Right.
But I think that that's just dipping their
toe in the water and maybe moving to
a bigger thing.
We just don't know any details about that.
I would have made it last year if
I would have weighed my weight.
To what?
To the main field.
They do it like Rogue.
Yes.
It just wasn't clear to me.
Gotta read the rules.
I hope everyone has the rules for Rogue.
It wasn't on the page that I print
for the workout.
It was on a front page.
I need to move to Lansing,
Michigan and just be her reader.
also i was leaving that week for spring
break for my that was last year when
my son was a senior or well i
guess it would have been more than last
year right i don't know yeah i just
didn't i was rough i had a blast
this weekend i saw a wolf and uh
in our backyard at the airbnb which was
the first time in my fifty six years
i've seen a wolf in the wild
And it will forever be a wolf now.
And I loved hanging out with my little
sister, Jamie,
and fighting with her all weekend.
Always fighting.
But that's what sports is about.
And good-natured,
fun fighting over what you see on a
sports floor is what it's all about.
It makes it more exciting.
The funniest part is on Sunday,
Jamie comes up to me and says,
this is a good one for Kyra.
And then Kyra.
I said it should be.
I said this should be.
And then she bombed it,
and I was like, oh, my gosh.
Last event.
I thought the squat snatches would be good
for her.
That should be good for her.
She missed a bunch, though.
I mean, she finished.
She still finished the workout,
but it was just not.
I'm saying bombed in good-natured humor
here because Jamie walked over and said,
oh,
so Kyra's going to be good at this.
And she was like,
I guess I was wrong.
yeah under the shoulder fatigue making it
be a squat snatch like i think that
played a factor especially for the females
i don't know the point is jamie said
i was wrong i don't think i've ever
heard her utter those words before in my
life and i was you admit you're wrong
i didn't listen i said it should be
a good event for her and then after
you said i guess i was wrong i
did not say i guess i mean she's
still yes you know i'm recording it if
you ever say it again
And then every time anything comes up on
the show, it's just a recording.
It's just going to pop up.
I said I thought she'd do better.
That's what I said.
We fought so hard about the lane five
stickiness on Saturday night.
We got to the pool,
and the first couple heats,
lane two won every heat.
And I text her and go, oh,
so is lane two faster than the rest
of the heats?
And she wrote back, yeah,
it's got a stronger current.
oh gosh and we we separated at the
pool like so we weren't we needed some
time apart you went up and sat up
top i just took the front the front
lane but you need to see up over
the thing it was a very i kept
like trying to get under the and then
you had media people still blocking the
view occasionally all right
Well,
I was glad I got to see you
guys this weekend.
I know.
It was great.
It was.
My only disappointment is the three of us
didn't get a picture together.
I know.
So we'd have it for like promotional
stuff.
And I tried wearing my Clydesdale from my
bench to get that strength from you guys.
It made me,
I got so excited when I saw you
wear it on the floor.
I got to say, it was really cool.
I sold a handful of shirts at the
event too.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
so that was cool yeah lots of lots
of listeners were at the wfp that was
really cool in fact uplift coffee who has
been sharing uh they listened to the show
they were the coffee provider for wfp and
i they were awesome oh that was really
good much needed
yeah um all right guys with that i'm
debating on whether having a show this
week because it is a holiday here in
the states um sammy i'm going i'm going
home to visit my family i have to
go back to work tomorrow so i'll get
with jamie and carolyn in the chat
tomorrow and we'll determine what we want
to do this week maybe we just take
a week off or do tuesday again with
that okay
All right, guys, have a great night.
I'll be back tomorrow with Lunch with
Clydesdale,
and hopefully it doesn't go off the rails.
Well, it will.
Never mind.
Wax on.
Carolyn was in the chat today.
Now you know.
Bye.
I wouldn't wait to get to the editing
room to jazz.
In for being with us today.