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We cover the sport of CrossFit from all angles. We talk with athletes, coaches and celebrities that compete and surround in the sport of CrossFit at all levels. We also bring you Breaking News, Human Interest Stories and report on the Methodology of CrossFit. We also use the methodology to make ourselves the fittest we can be.
What's going on, everybody?
Welcome to Lunch with the Clydesdale.
My name's Scott.
I'm the Clydesdale.
Doing lunch right now.
I'm just doing some coffee
in between two meetings.
So, man, what a day.
The other chore I always
have is I have to do
laundry because the laundry
room is right back there.
So every time I come down to do a podcast,
like I get a basket of laundry.
And so I was trying to flip my loads.
Sounded weird.
So I was trying to get the
washer to the dryer.
New washer load started
before the show started and
made it here with about
three seconds to spare.
So here we are.
Here we are.
Yeah, Corey,
I have no control over the ads.
I think it's on you.
It's your algorithm that
tells them what to advertise to.
So if they are random,
it's because you are messing with them.
What's going on, Jay Birch?
Another fun day.
Yeah, man, meeting after meeting.
I hate those.
I'm with you, Jay Burch.
So my Clydesdale media account is premium.
My personal account is not.
And it gets so frustrating
watching the non-premium version.
so yeah so I almost now
always watch just on the
anything if I'm watching
anything I watched on the
Clydesdale media account um
which mostly it's CrossFit
stuff anyway so I guess it
is like my business um but
it is the premium account
so I don't have to deal
with the commercials um and
they just randomly pop in
whenever they want which is
so bizarre so bizarre
When we first had this podcast,
when we first went to YouTube,
we didn't go live.
We taped and then you could actually pick.
Once you could monetize on YouTube,
you could pick whether you
wanted the ads to insert likely.
So if it meant made more
sense to go like in this
spot or that spot.
And I used to be so meticulous about like,
Ooh, there was a little break here.
I'll insert the ad here.
So on and so forth, man,
that got to be cumbersome.
the best thing we ever did
ever did was start going live.
Um, one, it's just,
it's way more authentic.
Um, we are who we are.
There is no edit button going live.
Uh, we get to interact with all of you,
which is the best.
Um,
And the editing process is way, way,
way better because there is none.
All I do after this show is
I download the audio version of this,
and then I upload that
audio version straight to Spotify.
Well,
it's actually a software that then
distributes it to all of
the big platforms like
Spotify and iTunes and you name it.
It distributes it to it.
So, yeah.
A little behind the scenes there.
But going live has been the
best thing ever.
And it allows me to do this
show with you guys.
Just chatting.
Shooting the breeze.
You are correct, Jay Birch.
It's so much better with live chat.
The only time, like...
The only time it can get a
little distracting is when
I'm doing a conversation
with an athlete or a coach
and the chat's getting
really active and I have to
just ignore it to get
through the stuff that I'm
doing with that person to
give them my full attention.
When we first did that,
it was really hard to
ignore the chat and just
focus on the person.
Now it's pretty easy.
That's just...
I just have to shut you guys
out for a couple of seconds
while we're talking.
Um,
and then I can come back and look
through and see if there's
anything that I want to pull over, uh,
for that guest, but it can get a little,
little bit cumbersome at that point.
But other than that,
I wouldn't change it for the world.
Uh, when we first did it,
some of the guests, um,
some of the guests did not
like the idea of going live.
They liked that we could, um, edit.
Um,
now I only had like two people ever
asked me to edit out a piece.
Um,
but they liked the fact that they could,
uh,
Jay Bert says, do you ask,
tell them to ignore the chat?
I really don't.
If they want to pay attention to it,
that's, that's up to them.
Most of them, most of them,
I don't even think have the
chat up unless they're like
an experienced podcaster.
I think like Ariel does.
But like,
I think Emily does hers on her phone.
If you do it on your phone,
there's no chance you're
reading the chat.
unless you have like super, super eyes.
Text me who those two people are.
I'm curious.
You know what, I don't even remember, like,
dude,
we've done well over a thousand episodes.
To remember, they were early on.
I mean,
I haven't done a taped show in like
three years.
I haven't done a tape show in three years.
I do know the one that I had
a lawyer contact me and I
had to remove from my site
because of a lawsuit
between this individual and... Yeah.
Yeah, that one was fun.
That one was fun.
And usually it's just like
one little thing where they...
Yeah.
I can tell you one, Corey,
once we're off the air that
I know for sure.
And then I know there was a couple others.
But they were just minor.
It was silly stuff that I
think they took too seriously.
Anyway.
Okay.
I think people think they
have to be perfect when
they're on the air.
And I think that more
important than perfect is authentic.
That fans,
if you're an athlete or the audience here,
respond better to
authenticity than they do to perfection.
Yeah.
And I think that's true just
about everywhere in life.
When I used to train
trainers for the state,
the ones that stumbled a
lot tried to be perfect.
And I said, it's okay to mess up.
It's okay to mess up and
then just admit your mistake and move on.
Sometimes it actually
loosens the audience up
because it shows they can
make mistakes too.
And so I've always been a
big proponent of be yourself,
be authentic.
It's more important than being perfect.
You don't have to say every
word perfectly.
Just talk with the people
you're training or talk to
the people you're podcasting with.
and um and let the rest come
out in the wash right so
there's that and if I mess
up real bad he'll make a
video of it and it'll get
way more likes and clicks
anyway so like there you go
although I don't I don't
know if he's ever made one
on me he's made one he's
made a few on people I've
had on but I don't think
he's ever made one on me specifically
Anyway,
so yesterday we talked a little bit
about the Academy Awards,
and does that make you want
to go out and then watch those movies?
I did get one comment on the
YouTube side that...
it does actually still to
this day when they see the
Academy Awards that gives
them a list of movies that
they want to go watch and I
think that's cool that it
still does that for some
people it's lost it for me
a little bit and but I'm
glad to see that it does
still help some people pick
out what movies they want
to go see and check out and
different things like that
so so that was kind of cool
The other thing I wanted to talk about is,
uh,
twenty four twenty five point one is
officially in the books and
we have a leaderboard and
we have scores and I think
for me the most the most
important thing for me was
we needed to get past
yesterday to today to know
who's in who's out and be
able to move on with this
season and then you can
follow your favorites
either through the game
season or through the wfp
or through both whatever
you choose to do and so a
couple people that I I
personally had in question
as to whether they were
going to sign up for the
crossfit game season
that actually have signed up
and posted a score were Ariel Owen,
Danielle Brandon, Danny Spiegel,
Fisa Goffey, and Jeff Adler.
One that I find really
interesting is I wanted to
see what Noah would do
And Noah on his Instagram
posted a reel of him doing
fifteen point one,
saying that he's still here,
but I cannot find him on the leaderboard.
So I don't know if he did
the workout and then didn't
post it or what,
but I cannot find it on the leaderboard.
But he did it.
He showed the video of him doing it,
didn't post a score, just said,
I'm still here.
one person that's not on the
leaderboard that we
expected is laura horvat
she is not on she did not
post a score so that's one
person that we knew was
probably not going to do
that and she did not
The other thing we talked
about yesterday was that
Tia had posted a score of
like two twenty nine.
And when you went and looked at the video,
she actually had given
Shane a three minute head
start in that workout and
got to twenty nine and posted it.
She did redo it.
I think she got to seventy nine.
I want to say I'll look real quick here.
to me she posted a score of
two eighty seven two eighty
seven which actually puts
her in five hundred and
twenty fifth place
yesterday she was like three thousand
And you have to be top
twelve hundred to make it
to the next to the semifinal level.
And so just redoing it and
getting those fifty sixty
more reps got got her all
the way up to five twenty five.
So about middle in of the
qualifying positions.
I don't know what the final
registration numbers are.
It looks like on the women's side,
we did not get over a hundred thousand.
It was close, but not quite.
And then on the men's side, I see a Shay.
I'll come up with that a little bit.
men's side looks like we got
about almost two hundred
and two I'm sorry hundred
and twenty thousand
somewhere in there hundred
twenty something um so
overall a little over two
hundred thousand two ten
two twenty somewhere in
that area uh of
participants in in the open this year
Dave said on his week in review,
he's just happy for those
who did it and had a good time doing it.
So there we are.
Jay Birch,
if you're talking about overall
registrants, that is everybody.
That is a two hundred and
ten to twenty thousand.
Last year we had, I want to say,
three sixty or three eighty
somewhere in that vein.
So definitely a big decrease this year.
So Shay asks, why is her score so low?
Speculation that she's pregnant.
I think she just is focusing
in other directions right now.
And once the opens over,
she doesn't really have to
compete until May for anything.
April,
if she chooses to do... I don't know
when the... She did
announce that she is doing the...
torian pro I think yesterday
and so that would be her
first in-person semi-final
and that's a lot of time
between now and then she
just has to get through
this to the next level
she's doing all this high
rock stuff she moved back
to australia she's got all
the proven people down
there that they're coaching
I don't know if she's pregnant or not.
If she's doing touring and announcing it,
but she did that last time
she was pregnant.
So I don't know.
I don't know if she's pregnant or not.
uh yeah seems unlikely uh
shay but I don't know
because last time last time
she was pregnant she
actually announced she was
doing uh I think it might
have been torian then or
their off-season
competition the australian
throwdown one of those uh
and then backed out like
the week before so uh so yeah
And then Andrew says she
knows she doesn't have to
try very hard to make it to
the next stage.
I agree with this part wholeheartedly.
I think she learned last
year with the wrist injury,
just get through this one,
get through it unscathed,
and then move on to where
you have to be competitive.
And Jay Birch says
apparently Carrie Pierce is pregnant.
Yeah.
We talked about that on the Sunday show.
There are actually three
people in the CrossFit
space that announced
pregnancies in the last week or so.
And that is Carrie Pierce, Amanda Barnhart,
and Joanne Olson, Noah's wife, uh,
announced she's pregnant as well.
So those three in the
CrossFit space are with child, uh,
and congratulations to all them.
Uh,
happy for all of them
they're all great people I
think they'll all make
great uh parents can't wait
to see how that turns out
um for all of them so yeah
congratulations to all them
so um let's take a quick
look at the leaderboard uh
since we're here I have the men's up now
will share our screen and uh
at the top of the men's
division I don't think to
anybody's surprise
everybody predicted him to
win and that's colton
mertens um and he won with
three hundred and sixty one
reps three reps better than
colin bossard uh dylan
pepper took third uh
jeffrey adler fourth george
sterner fifth uh nicholas bedden sixth
right yep uh oldest openix
seventh austin hatfield
eighth benoit boulanger
ninth and ricky gerard
tenth or they're all tied
it looks like yeah and then
reese mitchell tied um so
that's your top ten it
looks like both austin and
roman redid it um
I want to talk about that a
little bit after we get,
if we go to the women and
everybody's pick to win the women's side,
one, the women's side, uh,
Mirjam Von Rohr, uh,
Three hundred and fifty nine
reps took first.
Allison, Allison, he just took second.
Caroline Dardini, third,
tied with Fisa Goffey.
Mano Anganese took fifth.
Our very own Carolyn Prevost took sixth.
Kristen Holt, she took seventh.
Oda Lundekvam took eighth.
Leah Storen tied.
And Carly Stote took tenth.
Lucy Campbell right there
outside the top ten at eleventh.
Carolyn did kill it.
What's funny about getting
to know Carolyn is she does
the workout early in the weekend.
She then stews on it all weekend.
She wakes up Monday morning and thinks,
I could do way better,
and then redoes the workout.
It is almost like clockwork
every single week now that
I've gotten to know her much better.
And she improved by twenty
reps on her repeat on Monday,
which vaulted her into the top six,
which is pretty awesome.
Um,
our other cohost on Sunday night is
Jamie Latimer.
She got three Oh three, um,
which beat a lot of the big
names in the sport.
Um, we got to fit women on Sunday nights.
Um,
They are both incredible
athletes and so proud of
both of them for what they did.
And then to not take
anything away from Amy and
Kat and Charlie, who all did it.
Kat pretty much did it one
armed as she's having surgery tomorrow.
and uh charlie and amy both
did well as as well uh
they're really fit
individuals so so proud of
them as well that all of us
signed up got workout one
in um cat is probably out
from here on uh with that
surgery tomorrow uh but
we'll see so uh good job to
everybody involved
It's funny because I'll look
up Jamie on the board here,
and when you see the names around her,
Jamie is forty-two years old.
Forty-one.
Oh, she'll get mad at me.
I made her older.
This search thing is so bad this year.
oh my goodness I hate it so
much there we go um when
you look around her and you
see brooke wells olivia
kerstetter sydney wells
She beat all of them.
She beat Tia.
Uh,
she was right there with Lexi Neely
tied her.
Um, there's Sydney McAlishan.
Good to see her again.
Um, for a forty one years old,
she is so fit and it's awesome to see, uh,
who who's around her in that workout.
Um, but yeah.
Proud of my team and my co-hosts.
They are awesome, awesome athletes.
So the other thing I wanted
to talk about is if you did
not watch Hiller's recap of his Instagram,
no reps,
almost all the athletes went back
and redid their workout,
which I found was really, really cool.
Like Mano Angones was fourth in the world
Did her workout.
Hiller posts it and shows
that she did not reach full
extension on her right arm.
She goes back and redoes the
workout and scores almost
identical while meeting standard.
And now she's in the clear,
which is pretty, pretty awesome.
Uh, the same for,
I think Austin went back and redid his,
uh, so now he meets the standard.
So that's pretty cool.
Uh, and you are right.
Corey,
you're a hundred and sixty-fourth in
the world.
Ain't no joke.
Jamie's fit, man.
That it's just cool to see that.
Uh, Sydney.
Yep.
Sydney McAlishan is one of
my favorite people in the space.
And I'm hoping that she can
get back this year.
Um,
I just think the world of her.
She's awesome.
So can't wait to see what
she does this year.
But what are your thoughts on that?
If you post your video early
and Hiller gets a hold of it and he says,
these are why these reps aren't right,
and you go back and you redo it,
instead of it being this, like,
I hate athletes and, um,
I'm making fun of athletes
or whatever the narrative
has been in the past,
they're now using it as a
tool to go back and correct
the wrongs and make it
right so that they are not penalized, um,
with their workout.
I think that is a really
cool shift in narrative, um,
with all of that and uh
really cool that that he is
doing that and taking the
time to do that and not
just for his own clicks but
for them to fix the problem
um is awesome and I like
I'm a big fan of mano
anganese to watch her the
second time hit the
extension was so cool
because it showed she still
could do it she could still
hit the time and she could
meet all the standards and still do it
Shay loved all her interviews.
Yeah, Sydney's just awesome.
I got to meet her dad at Wadapalooza too.
Just a great family.
Got to meet her sister after
an interview once when we
were trying to convert
metric or English to metric
or metric to English.
One of those things.
She's really funny too.
Corey says,
all you need to know about Jamie,
I learned at MFC two years ago.
She got done with the same
workout I had just did,
and in the process of me
telling her good job, told me,
I beat you.
Love it.
Yeah, she's a little competitive.
A little bit competitive.
The thing that kills me
about Jamie is when she
finishes these like go dark workouts,
she collapses at the,
at the finish line in like a heap,
like all scrunched up and
then like tries to kick her shoes off and,
and then just keeps in this
like ball at the finish line.
Most people lay out so they get more air,
and they're trying to
expand their lungs and do all this stuff.
And there's Jamie in the
fetal position every time at the end,
all balled up in this
little five-foot-two ball
at the finish line.
It's crazy.
So any surprises for you
guys on the leaderboard
that you saw that you didn't expect?
Anybody that you thought
would be there and isn't or
is there and didn't think would be there.
Just curious your thoughts.
And I'm just going to leave
the last couple minutes
here for any questions you
guys have for me.
Because I got a hectic day.
Got to finish more laundry.
Got a couple more meetings this afternoon.
And then tomorrow,
I have not had a haircut
since before Thanksgiving.
Tomorrow, getting her done.
Tomorrow after the show,
I am going to my girl
Stephanie and have her do the do.
Because this long hair,
without the amount of
product I have to make it
even lay down at all,
usually I look like Dr. Emmett Brown.
It's about yay high going all,
all like everywhere.
One point twenty one gigawatts.
Oh, Corey, Corey, Corey.
Corey is still on his rant.
Scott has his riffs.
That's me.
And Corey has his rants that
he is continuing on.
No real surprises, I think,
other than the rampant BS
scores in the old folks division.
Yeah.
We are going to have BS
scores when there's not a
lot of video review in the open.
Just the way it's going to be.
You're going to have to
figure out a way to get
around it and then make it
to semis where the truth will be told,
hopefully.
And I know that sucks.
I wish it was better,
but that's just where we are.
It's just where we are.
What's up, Jake?
I'm just biding my time until semis.
Good.
Good.
You will make semis, and then from there,
put the gas pedal down,
show them who's who.
And just know that these BS scores,
you're going to obliterate in semis.
Obliterate.
Any other questions for me before we,
we head off Jake, Jake, Jake, Jake,
I bide my time with a semi.
Come on, dude.
I'm old.
That takes medication for me.
Um, yeah.
Yeah.
Trying to plan out the season this year,
trying to figure out what
we're going to do.
I have a plan.
Find out tomorrow when my
wife's second knee surgery is.
I've just got to work stuff around that.
I want to do things a little
bit differently this year.
We're still going to do live
shows the weekends of the big events.
We're still going to try to
catch everybody up on everything.
But I think we're going to
try to follow a storyline
for part of the season
instead of multiple
storylines and see how that goes.
I just can't afford to get
to everything everywhere
now that there's five
billion in-person semis or ten,
whichever is less.
And then you have the WFP events,
which I want to see how it goes.
I want to see what it looks like.
And Indianapolis is only two
and a half hours away.
So I want to be able to
drive over there and do
that and get some media
credentials for that.
But I want to get like a single...
single storyline that I can
kind of follow through all
of it and I think I have it
now I just have to get with
the person see if they'll
let me do it and that I
have the time with my wife surgery
five billion plus ten it's
actually five billion or
ten whichever is less
that's really how many
in-person semis there are
um but it's one of those
things but I'm excited for
the season to start I'm
excited uh that some of my
favorite people have
decided to sign up for the open um
to do it and to post scores
and maybe we can start some
conversations with them as
to what's going on with
them this season um really
excited about all that and
with that guys if there's
no further questions for me
it feels like five billion plus ten
It does.
It does right now.
And I really don't like this
season structure.
I wish they would do one or the other,
not both.
But that's where we are.
That's what we have.
And I do like that the CAC...
did put in the
recommendation that we need
to get more consistent
season structure um and
pick something and stick
with it for a few years I
agree with that I hope the
crossfit hears that and
does that because honestly
the wfp structure makes way more sense
So we'll see how that goes.
I do like the fact that the
CrossFit has the connection
to the community in the
open and all of that stuff.
And I think that's going to
be tough to beat.
But I do like the WFP structure.
So with that, I'm trying to figure out.
Yeah.
Okay.
Um, yeah.
Cool.
Well, with that, guys,
I've got a one o'clock meeting,
so I am going to head up for that.
Holly says that's pretty logical.
Yeah,
and logic has never been a strong suit,
but we'll see.
There's been some change this year.
Let's see if that keeps continuing.
Corey, you know she is.
She's killing it.
Um, with that guys,
it is time to get back to work.
You hooligans till next time tomorrow.
We'll see you tomorrow on
lunch with the Clydesdale.
Bye.